Unpopular Opinion:
As a bigender person, I really didn't mind the story Nanakuse Kyokumi/Magami. I found the antagonist to be a really fun character, and that the protagonist got karmic retribution for going overboard on insulting the antagonist.
Neither character is 100% nice (protag is a bigot and antag built up her whole career on making fun of people for being "quirky"), but it's unique from the protagonists being blank slates for self insertion purposes.
Overall, I understand what the story seems to imply at the surface, and I admit it's more flawed than other stories, but I would love to explore a sequel story where Nanakuse is the protagonist, or maybe the concept of an author exploiting a gimmick in their writing for the sake of profit in general.
...That, and I find her attractive.
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Fragments of Horror ("Magami Nanakuse") // Junji Ito
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I love this girl so inexplicably
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Is the antagonist of Junji Ito’s Magami Nanakuse a transmisogynistic caricature or am I tripping
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I got another junji ito manga and I really liked it! The only exception Is the Magami nanakuse part, that one was very boring and I don't like stories how shows ticks and cross dressing as strange but is not a story I would say is incredible offensive, But it sure was discernable in my opinion.
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Question, which of Junji Ito’s works are your favorite?
Okay so uh
I've only read Fragments of Horror so far (DON'T WORRY, I PLAN TO READ MORE VERY SOON)
Fragments of Horror is a collection of short stories, and my favourite stories from it are "Wooden Spirit," "Tomio - Red Turtleneck" and "Magami Nanakuse."
What about you? Do you have any favourites?
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My blorbo is very terfy but very disturbing junji ito story Magami Nanakuse (definitely the story not the character).
uh huh... i aint reading all that 3/10
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05 - Fragments of Horror (ma no kakera - Fragmentos do Horror) - Part Two
Fragments of Horror (Ma no Kakera) is a Japanese horror anthology manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito, it was serialized between April 2013 and February 2014 as seven separate short stories serialized in Nemuki Magazine, with eighth being added for the tankōbon release published by The Asahi Shimbun Company.
The Brazilian edition it was published by Drakside Books in 2020.
List of Chapters -
Futon (布団, Futon);
Wooden Spirit (木造の怪, Mokuzō no Kai);
Tomio: Red Turtleneck (富夫・赤いハイネック, Tomio • Akai Hainekku);
Gentle Goodbye" (緩やかな別れ, Yuruyakana Wakare);
Dissection Girl (解剖ちゃん, Kaibō-chan);
Black Bird (黒い鳥, Kuroi Tori);
Magami Nanakuse (七癖曲美, Nanakuse Magami);
Whispering Woman (耳擦りする女, Mimikosuri Suru Onna).
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Reading diary.
- Fragments of horror.Junji Ito.
Eight horror tales from a master of the genre, Ito. Published after an eight-year period in which his manga had shifted to other genres (comedy; social critique), and staged as a powerful, triumphant return to his scary roots.
Perhaps for that reason the stories as a whole are somewhat experimental. From subtle, melancholy chills (“Gentle goodbye”) to sex-fueled gore-soaked comedies (“Dissection Girl”, “Magami Nanakuse”, “Wooden spirit”), to traditional folk tales with a twist —and more!!!
Because the stories aim for different kinds of horror, some readers found it uneven. Or rather, found some tales below average. But on a whole it’s a collection as strong as Ito’s general oeuvre. A celebration of the weird, the grotesque and the uncanny in every sense.
All in all, recommended.
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New Fiction 2021 - July
"Revisited, Part One" by Anonymous (2003)
You can hear the same story a hundred times and find a different telling.
"Ha'mara" by Kevin G. Summers (2003)
If the song is of a genuine soul.
"The Orb of Opportunity" by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels (2003)
The end result can’t be known.
"Broken Oaths" by Keith R. A. DeCandido (2003)
Festering is in poor taste, but satisfying nonetheless.
"... Loved I Not Honor More" by Christopher L. Bennett (2003)
Do not forget yourself.
"Three Sides to Every Story" by Terri Osborne (2003)
The world is replete with tragic ends.
"The Devil You Know" by Heather Jarman (2003)
Is the price the only penance?
"Foundlings" by Jeffrey Lang (2003)
A flow chart’s inevitable path.
"Chiaroscuro" by Geoffrey Thorne (2003)
The center cannot hold behind a locked door.
"Face Value" by Una McCormack (2003)
The enemy of my enemy is my necessity.
"The Calling" by Andrew J. Robinson (2003)
Touring farm houses in a tornado.
"Revisited, Part Two" by Anonymous (2003)
After all, you knew.
"Dissection-chan" by Junji Ito (2015)
The soil is purest where we cannot see.
"Blackbird" by Junji Ito (2015)
It’s anchored to the middle.
"Magami Nanakuse" by Junji Ito (2015)
Follow, like, and stay home.
"Whispering Woman" by Junji Ito (2015)
Trust the stranger to provide a whisper.
"Security Booth" dev. Kyle Horwood (2021)
I cannot abandon the sense of place.
Simply Mindy dev. Sexums (2016)
If fucking is the objective, what is the journey?
Zola dir. Janicza Bravo (2021)
Perhaps a respite from the utter seriousness of the pursuers.
A Quiet Place Part II dir. John Krasinski (2021)
The hero is always going to find themselves alone.
Black Widow dir. Cate Shortland (2021)
Circle around to the time warp.
F9 dir. Justin Lin (2021)
The bloat of certainty.
Pig dir. Michael Sarnoski (2021)
The sheen of asphalt has never been so inviting.
Old dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2021)
You could’ve left us wanting.
Snake Eyes dir. Robert Schwentke (2021)
A missed connection.
Jungle Cruise dir. Jaume Collet-Serra (2021)
The rope sags most in the middle.
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Fragments of Horror Impressions
Okay, so went to the bookstore last week and among the books I got, a relation who wanted to gift-buy me some Junji Ito bought me a book I’d selected. He’d given me Uzumaki as a gift and got me hooked. I was looking for Gyo but Barnes and Noble didn’t have it. I was tempted by the Junji Ito Coloring Book, but I hadn’t read the stories featured in it yet and I knew that I would just scan and print pages out of it for actual coloring as I wouldn’t have wanted to mess up the book by using it for its intended purpose. (Besides, the guy I watch on Youtube who corrupts children’s coloring books into horror-art who is the reason why I got interested in checking out Ito’s work in the first place shows us that it’s a lot more fun to corrupt something innocent than to just start with a horror coloring book).
Anyway, I got Fragments of Horror, a short-manga collection. I just finished reading it.
My initial, first-reading impressions (and I will try to keep it as spoiler-free as possible).
1. Futon - Meh. The art is super-cool, as always, that detailed style, but I found the story lackluster. Kind of a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane thing going on. According to the Afterword in the back, Ito seems a bit iffy on that one, too.
2. Wooden Spirit - I was delighted to find this in the collection, as I’d heard about this story, or at least one aspect of it. You know how there are some science fiction stories where someone gets it on with a robot (that’s not humanoid?) or a spaceship or something? Well, the Mr. Zwinky / Edna ship that I make into a canon ship whenever I play Fallout 4 and “Did Entrapta really do things to Darla the spaceship in She-Ra?” sort of make sense now after I saw a woman have sex with a house. I don’t think there’s any person / object ship that’s not going to make some kind of sense to me now after... that. And we saw how she did it. Yeah. The house seemed to be into it, too. That was some fucked up shit. I loved it.
3. Tomio / Red Turtleneck - Same guy as in Futon? Dude, you have got to stop cheating on your girlfriend. It just goes so badly for you. Cockroaches... are my phobia-animal, but I appreciate how well-drawn that one was.
4. Gentle Goodbye - I loved this one. The twist was fairly predictable for a ghost story / ghost-adjacent story (since they’re technically “afterimages”), but I liked the melancholy of it. It wasn’t a scary story so much as a sad one. I really enjoyed the soft sadness of this piece.
5. Dissection-chan - With a title like this, you know it’s going to be good. Technically, it’s vivisection when you’re doing it to creatures that are alive...but... Very creepy, fairly gory, but not excessively so. Really gets under the skin (no pun intended) for exploring a kind of psychosis, a medical-kink gone way wrong and perhaps a bit of guilt inherent in certain kinds of science. And plenty of WTF weird. Yes, this one was very good.
6. Blackbird - Somehow, as the story unfolded, I saw what was coming, but it’s still... just creepy and bizarre. Gives one a fear of nature with the idea that maybe some mysterious spirits still haunt the mountains. Once targeted, you will not escape a grisly cycle. Just terrifying. Unnerving.
7. Magami Nanakuse - I really liked this one as a bookworm and a writer because I just had the thought “Yeah...writers just be like that sometimes.” Bizarre, evil. You know, writers! Comes with a warning for tumblr, though - this story isn’t entirely woke on transgender issues... there’s a couple of misgenderings, even though the character is correctly gendered in narration at the end, but I just feel like a little warning is in order. I didn’t take the trans part as being part of the evil or the curse, though, since so many other things were going on - like I said “Yeah, writers be like that.”
8. Whispering Woman - I saw the conclusion a mile away, but it was still satisfying. Unnerved me a bit - not for the supernatual element so much for that poor girl’s psychiatric condition. I have no idea what would cause someone with a loving and non-controlling parent to need to be guided in every little thing. I have heard of people who are like this - but they were raised in religious fundamentalist households and convinced that every bit of independence was sin, and that’s just not a factor in this story. It seems to be a random brain-thing for this girl. The caretaker’s situation made sense - she was in an abusive situation and kind of had this whole transfer of her agency to the girl. It’s one of those stories that is disturbing because it does have some real life subtext, yet confusing because of some of the specifics of the story in-universe (as in, it would have made more sense to me if the girl was adopted and being rehabbed from an abusive household rather than having a loving parent the whole time).
Anyway, overall, I loved the collection. A couple of the stories were a little meh for me, but most of them were perfect. Copious amounts of WTF with amazingly detailed drawings. I might just become a Karou Koketsu to your Magami Nanakuse, Mr. Ito (but please don’t lock me in a dungeon until I start developing tics).
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The Junji Ito Index (for Currently Available English Translations)
A preexisting index I’ve found on Tumblr lists all Ito stories and links to where you could purchase his work on Amazon or read on scanlation sites.
The following list has no links. The purpose of this is a list where you can keep track of which stories have already been collected and published in America by VIZ or other imprints. Previous publishings from Dark Horse are no longer in print and are ignored.
I was pretty bored.
COLLECTED VOLUMES
Volumes and series that have been translated to English in their entirety
[✎] Uzumaki Collection
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects Uzumaki Vol. 1, 2, & 3
20 Chapters
[✎] Gyo Collection
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects GYO vol. 1 and GYO vol.2
19 Chapters
Bonus chapters:
-The Sad Tale of the Principal Post
- Enigma of Amigara Fault
[✎] Tomie Collection
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects every Tomie story: The Horror World of Junji Ito Vol 1 & 2 and Tomie Again (Vol. 3)
20 Chapters
[✎] Junji Ito’s Cat Diary
[ ★ Kodansha ★ ]
Collects the Japanese release of Junji Ito’s Cat Diary
10 chapters
[✎] Dissolving Classroom
[ ★ Vertical ★ ]
Collects the Japanese release of Dissolving Classroom
5 Chapters
Bonus chapters:
- Children of the Earth
- Meet Again
[✎] Fragments of Horror
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects the Japanese release of Shards of Evil, a new short story collection.
01. Futon
02. Wooden Spirit
03. Tomio: Red Turtleneck
04. Gentle Goodbye
05. Dissection
06. Blackbird
07. Magami Nanakuse
08. Whispering Woman
[✎] Shiver [Junji Ito Selected Stories]
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects the Japanese Release of Junji Ito’s Selected Masterpieces, which contains various stories from THWOJI and others (As noted below)
01. Used Record (orig. in THWOJI Vol 10)
02. Shiver (orig. in THWOJI Vol 7)
03. Fashion Model (orig. in THWOJI Vol 6)
04. Hanging Blimp (orig. in THWOJI Vol 4)
05. Marionette Mansion (orig. in THWOJI Vol 10)
06. Painter (orig. in THWOJI Vol 2 [Also collected in Tomie Collection])
07. The Long Dream (orig. in THWOJI Vol 14)
08. Honored Ancestors (orig. in THWOJI Vol 4)
09. Greased (orig. in Voices in the Dark)
Bonus chapter:
- Fashion Model: Cursed Frame (previously unreleased)
[✎] Frankenstein [Junji Ito Collection]
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects THWOJI Vol. 16 and THWOJI Vol. 9
01. Frankenstein
02. Hallucinations
03. Bog of the Living Dead
04. Penpal
05. Intruder
06. Further Tales of Oshikiri
07. Further Tales of Oshikiri: Walls
08. A Doll’s Hellish Burial
09. Fixed Face
Bonus chapter:
- Ito Junji's Dog Diary
[✎] Smashed [Junji Ito Collection]
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects the remaining unpublished stories from Voices in the Dark and all stories from New Voices in the Dark (omits Greased, which appeared in Shiver Story Collection)
01. Bloodsucking Darkness
02. The Ghosts of Primetime
03. Roar
04. The Earthbound
05. Death Row Doorbell
06. The Secret of the Haunted Mansion
07. The Secret of the Haunted Mansion: Souichi’s Version
08. Souichi's Beloved Pet
09. In Mirror Valley
10. I Don’t Want to Be a Ghost
11. Library Vision
12. Splendid Shadow Song
13. Smashed
[✎] No Longer Human
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s semi-autobiographical novel.
24 Chapters
[✎] Venus in the Blind Spot
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects the Japanese release of “The Best of Junji Ito: Short Story Collection” which consists of a cover gallery, various short stories previously left uncollected, AND select bonus stories from Gyo, Remina, and Black Paradox.
01. Color Gallery -
02. Billions Alone (orig. from Hellstar Remina)
03. The Human Chair - Original Story by Edogawa Ranpo
04. An Unearthly Love - Original Story by Edogawa Ranpo
05. Venus in the Blind Spot
06. The Licking Woman (orig. from Black Paradox)
07. Master Umezz and Me
08. How Love Came to Professor Kirida - Original Story by Robert Hichens
09. The Enigma of Amigara Fault (orig. from Gyo)
10. The Sad Tale of the Principal Post (orig. from Gyo)
11. Keepsake
FUTURE RELEASES
Announced titles (Accuracy adequate until release)
[✎] REMINA
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects the entirety of Hellstar Remina, with possible short bonus stories
6 chapters
Bonus chapter:
- Army of One (appears in Venus In the Blind Spot as “Billions Alone”)
[✎] Lovesickness [Junji Ito Collection]
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects THWOJI vol.15
01. The Beautiful Youth of the Intersections
02. The Anxious Woman
03. Shadows
04. Screams in the Night
Sequel: The White-Clothed Pretty Boy
Bonus chapters:
- Ribs Woman
- Phantom Mansion
[✎] SENSOR
[ ★ VIZ ★ ]
Collects the Japanese release of Sensor
UNRELEASED WORKS
What it sounds like. These titles are not currently available, besides THWOJI’s old Dark Horse publications. Any stories that have already been collected or are anticipated to be in the VIZ omnibuses will be noted.
[✎] STAND ALONE CHAPTERS
These stories are one-shots published in various magazines
[✎] Demon's Voice
[✎] Fixed Face
[✎] Mountain of Gods: Precipice of the Unknown
[✎] She is a Slow Walker
[✎] Snow White
[✎] The Summer Graduation Trip
[✎] Layers of Fear
[✎] BLACK PARADOX
01. Group Suicide
02. Strange Tale of the Pylorus
03. Paradoxical Night
04. Dr. Suka's Village
05. The Spirit World Project
06. To the Dazzling Future
Bonus chapters:
- The Licking Woman (appears in Venus in the Blind Spot)
- Mystery Pavilion
[✎] KAIKI KANZUME [Bizarre Canned Food]
[ This volume contains select chapters from THWOJI; no new stories.]
01. Clubhouse
02. Slug Girl
03. The Window Next Door
04. The Thing that Drifted Ashore
05. My Dear Ancestors
06. Near Miss!
07. TBHS: The Second Daughter's Lover
08. TBHS: Seance
[✎] The Horror World of Junji Ito
Note: The Horror World of Junji Ito collection (aka THWOJI or Kyoufu Collection) is a 16 volume series. Volumes 1 and 2 are Tomie stories. Volumes 5 and 6 are Souichi stories. The rest are stand-alone short stories collected from various magazine publications. I will be striking thru any story in the collection currently already available translated in some form. Stars on any volume without any stories in current english publication.
[✎] THWOJI: vol.1: TOMIE (Collected in the Tomie Collection)
01. Tomie
02. Photograph
03. Kiss
04. Mansion
05. Revenge
06. The Basin of the Waterfall
[✎] THWOJI: vol.2: TOMIE (Collected in the Tomie Collection)
07. Tomie Part 2
08. Basement
09. Painter
10. Murder
11. Hair
12. Orphan Girl
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.3: FLESH COLORED HORROR ★
01. Long Hair in the Attic
02. Permission/Approval
03. Beehive
04. Dying Young
05. Headless Statues
06. Flesh Colored Horror
[✎] THWOJI vol.4: THE FACE BURGLAR
01. The Face Burglar
02. Scarecrows
03. Falling
04. The Red String
05. My Dear Ancestors
06. Hanging Balloons
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.5: SOUICHI'S DIARY OF DELIGHTS ★
01. Fun Summer Vacation
02. Fun Winter Vacation
03. Souichi's Diary of Delights
04. Souichi's Home Tutor
05. Mannequin Teacher
06. Souichi's Birthday
[✎] THWOJI vol.6: SOUICHI'S DIARY OF CURSES
01. Souichi's Selfish Curse
02. The Silent Room (Room With Four Walls)
03. Coffin
04. Rumors
05. Fashion Model
[✎] THWOJI vol.7: SLUG GIRL
01. Slug Girl
02. The Thing that Drifted Ashore
03. Mold
04. Coldness/The Chill
05. Ryokan
06. The Groaning Drain
07. Biohouse
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.8: BLOOD-BUBBLE BUSHES ★
01. Blood-Bubble Bushes
02. Unbearable Labyrinth
03. Sword of the Re-Animator
04. The Will
05. The Bridge
06. Demonology (The Devil's Logic)
07. The Conversation Room
[✎] THWOJI vol.9: HALLUCINATIONS (Collected in Frankenstein Collection)
01. Hallucinations
02. Bog of the Living Dead
03. Penpal
04. Intruder
05. Further Tales of Oshikiri
06. Further Tales of Oshikiri: Walls
Bonus chapters: Junji Ito's Dog Diary
[✎] THWOJI vol.10: HOUSE OF THE MARIONETTES
01. Ice Cream Bus
02. Clubhouse
03. The Smoking Club
04. Second-hand Record
05. The Sleeping Room (Den of the Sleep Demon)
06. The Gift Bearer
07. House of the Marionettes
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.11: THE TOWN WITHOUT STREETS ★
01. The Town Without Streets
02. Near Miss!
03. Maptown
04. Village of the Siren
05. The Supernatural Transfer Student
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.12: THE BULLY ★
01. The Bully
02. House of the Deserter
03. Heart of a Father
04. Memory
05. The Back Alley
06. Love as Scripted
07. In the Soil
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.13: THE CIRCUS IS HERE ★
01. The Circus is Here
02. Gravetown
03. The Window Next Door
04. TBHS: The Second Daughter's Lover
05. TBHS: Seance (Assembly of the Fallen Ghost)
[✎] THWOJI vol.14: THE STORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS TUNNEL
01. Long Dream
02. The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel
03. The Bronze Statue
04. Drifting Spores
05. Blood Sickness of the White Sands Village
[✎] ★ THWOJI vol.15: LOVESICK DEAD (UNDYING LOVE) ★
01. The Beautiful Youth of the Intersections
02. The Anxious Woman
03. Shadows
04. Screams in the Night
Sequel: The White-Clothed Pretty Boy
Bonus chapters:
- Ribs Woman
- Phantom Mansion
[✎] THWOJI vol.16: FRANKENSTEIN
01. Frankenstein
02. A Doll's Hellish Burial
03. Fixed Face
[✎] MIMI NO KAIDAN (MIMI'S GHOST STORIES)
01. The Woman Next Door
02. Sound of Grass
03. Graveman
04. The Seashore
05. Just the Two of Us/Alone With You
06. The Scarlet Circle
[✎] SIREN
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DAY TWENTY: FRAGMENTS OF HORROR
Back at it again with my man Junji Ito. I was visiting friends yesterday and was delighted to see they had a copy of Fragments of Horror on their bookshelf. Now having read it I can give it two thumbs way up. This is one of his anthologies of short horror manga and there’s quite a wide variety of stories on display. Many of them follow the basic premise of a Junji Ito story: answering the question, “Hey, you know what would be fucked up?” “Gentle Goodbye” surprised me by being both sad and relatively subtle; it’s almost a traditional ghost story. “Dissection-Chan” was the strongest overall chapter in terms of comedic horror. There was one story that disappointed me—“Magami Nanakuse,” which has a lazy and crude depiction of a crossdresser as the villain—but the other seven are so good I think it balances out.
If you have a bug phobia, beware. There’s a page involving a cockroach in “Red Turtleneck” that’s so grotesque and horrifying I almost launched the book across the room.
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