Junji Ito – The Cultural Gutter

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Junji Ito in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

By Guttersnipe on July 10, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Check out this Animal Crossing: New Horizons island dedicated to the horror works of Junji Ito! (The creator shared some video on Reddit here).

Junji Ito at TCAF

By Guttersnipe on May 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Minovsky livetweets the Junji Ito event at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. “Junji Ito did not realize that people considered his work to be body horror until he read his own Wikipedia page. ‘Yeah, I guess that fits.’”

Ring a Ding Ding

By Keith on October 25, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

I know this should be the thrilling conclusion to the “American Cool” trilogy, but…come on! It’s Halloween. And when the barrier is thinnest between the worlds, I like to poke through the veil and explore the places where science fiction and horror mingle in an unholy coupling. And […]

Demon Girl Walking

By Angela Englert on December 15, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

You will always know schoolgirl Tomie Kawakami by her preternatural beauty, the mole under her left eye, and her smiling cruelty. The changeless villainess of Junji Ito’s shoujo manga series Tomie, and the film and TV series based on same, cannot be killed, although she will be butchered, […]