#Uzumaki kissmanga for free

We expect the universe to follow rules houses are safe, friends are nice, fish can't walk. He'll start with something familiar, ordinary, but then calls our trust into question. The last piece of the puzzle is how he blurs the line between truth and uncertainty. I feel like I can relate deeply to his characters even though I shouldn't, and that makes me deeply uncomfortable. Society pressures us to hide these flaws, and judge them in others. Ito also deserves praise for how his characters' flaws are so well expressed. That's one of the things I think Ito does really well, keeping you rooting for the hero despite knowing they're doomed, it makes me feel like I can't escape. The characters are so afraid of death, yet they can't escape. Not the noodle body of course, but the inevitability of the holes. If I had to pick any of his stories that scares me the most, it's Amigara Faults. If you don't like his other stuff, it's relatively mild, and heavy on the silliness.

It's like a jalapeno popper, not too spicy to stomach, and with a gooey, comedic undertone. If people are interested, I can elaborate why I dislike each of these stories in individual posts, as I have a lot to say about most of them.ĩ0% of Junji Ito is absurd body horror.

#Uzumaki kissmanga for free

I've been trying to search for a good week now, but the most I could find was one article that was semi-critical and actually raised few of the same flaws I saw in his stories.Īm I just broken? Is there something I don't see with his work that scares everyone else?įor reference, these are all the Junji Ito stories I've read (in no particular order):īefore you say 'Oh, just read Uzumaki, it's his greatest work!' I would if I could, but I wasn't able to find it anywhere online for free and I'm not about to spend my money on a manga I'm 99.9% sure I'm not going to enjoy either way. I honestly don't think anything ever in a Junji Ito manga made me as much as squirm (with the exception of ONE single panel in Glyceride, those of you who read it know which one I mean).Ĭall me crazy, but I just don't see the appeal, and I don't know how anyone else can, and it absolutely baffles me that there's nearly nobody else sharing this sentiment on the internet. More often than not I find his stories infuriating or simply dumb, rather than fear-inducing.

In Junji Ito's works however, I feel like 9 times out of 10, the story is at the very MOST 'meh' and usually doesn't make any fucking sense with it's characters or plot. Anyone can slap weird filters or photoshop disturbing creatures and cursed images in 5 minutes or less, making scary imigaes is just half the job, to me it's the story that's important. Yes, his art is great, yes, it's eerie and even disturbing, but that alone doesn't make a great horror story. The title says it all, I just don't see the appeal.