Collection of Junji Ito Books and Stories

 

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Welcome to the Ito-Verse

 

 

 

The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions

A first-ever collection of Junji Ito’s artworks, featuring over 130 images from his bestselling manga titles along with rare works. Includes an interview focused on Ito’s art technique as well as commentary from the artist on each work.

 

Junji Ito Collection: A Horror Coloring Book (Yes! A Coloring Book!!!)

A compendium featuring dozens of terrifying scenes from the Junji Ito Collection.

 

 

Black Paradox (6 chapters over one volume)

• • Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox.
  • Includes two bonus stories: The Licking Woman and Mystery Pavilion

 

A Diary of Embellished Patches (collection of three one-shots)

• • Collects: Pond, Conversation, and DIY Instructions

 

Dissolving Classroom (5 chapters over one volume)

• • A pair of twisted siblings—Yuuma, a young man obsessed with the devil, and Chizumi, the worst little sister in recorded history.
  • Includes two bonus stories: The Return and Children of the Earth

 

Fragments of Horror (a.k.a. The Shard of Evil) (collection of eight one-shots)

• • Collects: Futon, Haunted Wood Mansion, Tomio: Red Turtleneck, Lingering Farewell, Dissection Girl, Black Bird, Nanakuse Magami and Whispering Woman

 

Gyo: Ugomeku Bukimi (a.k.a. Fish: Ghastly Squirming) (19 chapters over two volumes)

• • The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene… 
  • Includes two bonus stories: The Sad Tale of the Principal Post and The Enigma of Amigara Fault

 

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu (10 chapters over one volume)

• • Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his fiancée, A-ko, to live with him. Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself persuaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain the affection of his new feline friends: Yon and Mu.

 

The Liminal Zone (collection of four one-shots)

• • Collects: Weeping Woman Way, Madonna, The Spirit Flow of Aokigahara, and Slumber

 

Mimi’s Tales of Terror (a.k.a. Mimi’s Ghost Stories)(collection of six one-shots, adapted from Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama’s Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro (怪談新耳袋))

• • Collects: The Woman Next Door, Sound of Grass, Graveman, The Seashore, Alone with You (a.k.a. Just the Two of Us), and The Scarlet Circle

 

No Longer Human (24 chapters over one volume)

• • Ito’s manga adaptation of the Osamu Dazai novel of the same name.

 

Rasputin the Patriot (26 chapters over six volumes)

• • Ito’s adaptation of ex-diplomat Sato Masaru’s autobiography, The Trap of the State.

 

Remina (a.k.a. Hellstar Remina) (six chapters over one volume)

• • This is a horror/sci-fi story about a giant planet-consuming creature from another dimension that a scientist discovers and mistakenly identifies as a planet. 
  • Includes bonus story: Billions Alone (a.k.a. Army of One)

 

Sensor (a.k.a. Travelogue of the Succubus) (seven chapters over one volume)

• • A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A 

 

Tomie (20 chapters over one volume)

• • Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair. 
  • Does not include Tomie: Takeover or (the Souichi/Tomie crossover one-shot) Souichi Possessed

 

Venus in the Blind Spot (collection of ten one-shots)

• • Collects: Billions Alone (a.k.a. Army of One), The Human Chair, An Unearthly Love (adapted from the Edogawa Ranpo stories of the same name), Venus in the Blind Spot, The Licking Woman, Umezz Kazuo and Me, How Love Came to Professor Kirida (adapted from Robert Hichen’s How Love Came to Professor Guildea), The Enigma of Amigara Fault, The Sad Tale of the Principal Post, and Keepsake

 

 

Uzumaki (a.k.a. Spiral) (19 chapters over one volume)

• • Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. 
  • Includes bonus story: Galaxies

 

Deserter (12 chapters over one volume)

• • Collects: Bio House, Face Burglar, Where the Sandman Lives, The Devil’s Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, Scripted Love, The Reanimator’s Sword, A Father’s Love, Unendurable Labyrinth, Village of the Siren, Bullied, Deserter

 

Tombs (8 chapters over one volume)

• • Collects: Tombs, Slug Girl, The Window Next Door, Wash Ashore, Strange Tale of the Tunnel, Bronze Statue, Floaters, The Bloody Story of Shirasuna 

 

Love Sickness (10 stories over one volume)

• • Collects: The Beautiful Boy at the Crossroads, A Woman in Distress, Shadow, Screams in the Night, The Boy in White, The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: Narumi’s Boyfriend,  The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance, The Mansion of Phantom Pain, The Rib Woman, Memories of Real Poop

 

Soichi (10 stories over one volume)

• • Collects: A Happy Summer Vacation, A Happy Winter Vacation, Soichi’s Happy Diary, Soichi’s Home Visit, Teacher of Cloth, Soichi’s Birthday, Soichi’s Petty Curses, Four-Layered Room, Coffin, Rumors

 

Frankenstein (adapted from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

 

 

Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories (10 stories over one volume and author commentary)

• • Collects: Used Record, Shiver, Fashion Model, Hanging Blimp, Marionette Mansion, Painter, The Long Dream, Honored Ancestors, Greased, and Fashion Model: Cursed Frame

 

Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection (13 stories over one volume)

• • Collects: Bloodsucking Darkness, Ghosts of Prime Time, Roar, Earthbound, Death Row Doorbell, The Mystery of the Haunted House, The Mystery of the Haunted House: Soichi’s Version, Soichi’s Beloved Pet, In Mirror Valley, I Don’t Want to Be a Ghost, Library Vision, Splendid Shadow Song, and Smashed

 

Note: Voices in the Dark and New Voices in the Dark were combined in the Smashed anthology…I literally just found this out.

Voices in the Dark (collection of seven one-shots)

• • Collects: Blood-Slurping Darkness, The Ghost of Golden Time, Roar of Ages, Secret of the Haunted Mansion, Glyceride (a.k.a. Greased), The Earthbound, and Dead Man Calling

New Voices in the Dark (collection of seven one-shots)

• • Collects: The Soichi Front, Soichi’s Beloved Pet, In the Valley of Mirrors, Anything but a Ghost, Library of Illusions, Songs in the Dark, and Splatter Film

 

Specials and Uncollected One-Shots

• Demon’s Voice
• Ghost Heights Management Association
• Junji Ito’s Snow White (adapted from Snow White)
• Layers of Fear
• Mountain of Gods: Precipice of the Unknown
• Mr. Inagawa’s Ghost Story Treasure Box
• Mystery Pavilion
• Return of the Hanging Balloons
• She is a Slow Walker (written for 8 Tales of the ZQN, the I Am a Hero spin-off anthology)
• Soichi Possessed
• The Summer Time Graduation Trip
• Tomie: Takeover