Eassy part 3

Junji Ito

Junji Ito is one of the top leading mangakas in the horror genre. His style of comic is characteristic and has a strong feeling of depression and oppression. It creates a real  imaginary world. He uses his works to look for darkness of human beings. When he was still a child in the kindergarten, he read a horror book named Mummy Teacher. He began to be interested in the horror comic books and at the same time his sister often give his little brother Junji Ito horror books to be birthday gifts. Then his sister began to learn to draw comic. Because of this, Junji Ito also began to learn to draw comic in the primary school. The sister of Junji Ito’s habits really have an important influence during his childhood.

For the original time, drawing comic is always be Junji Ito’s break time’s interest. He studied dental science and technology in his daily school time and be a dental technician. Because a accidental chance, the sonorama published a Halloween monthly and asked people to contribute comic. Junji Ito contribute his comic and won the first award (1986). This comic named Tomie which is his representative work. The next year, Anime began to be publish on this magazine and Junji Ito began to walik into the comic field (1987).

From 1987 to 1997, there are 10 years, Junji Ito have to draw comic and keep his job of the dental technician. It is too tired for him. Interest or job? Finally, he gave up his stable job and make the comic to be his main job.

After this career choice, Junji Ito began to draw many popular comic. Such as Lovesick Dead (also know as Love Ghost), Gyo and so on.

Junji Ito’s style of drawing and the plot of comic really has a big influence on me. I can’t remember when i watch his comic, because it had so many years ago. His horror comic is not like other horror books, he creates a different setting which based on the normal world. This different setting, maybe is one strange phenomenon or one strange person. I remember one story is about one cook. He accidentally find human’s oil is good than the animal and vegetable’s oil after he killing his wife. His cook business become better, but there will be no oil soon. His children find they become fatter and fatter, and begin to have many pimples on their faces. One night, they found father pulled oil into their mouth when they fall sleep. They ask father stop this, the father have to give up this crazy things and cut one of his leg. He cook it to be the oil. The children are scared about that. If you have read my TV series book which named Mr W, you will find i try to write the story like this style. A strange plot and horror ending.