Director Shinobu Tagashira understood my manga really well, and it was reflected in the completed anime. On the creative side, I supervised the screenplays and settings, and did some requests for the anime drawings. I especially recommended “The Long Dream” and “Used Records.” The former is my favourite short story, and the reason to choose the latter was that I wanted to listen to “Paula Bell’s Scat” in the story. I joined the meetings to select the episodes that I really wanted to see in the anime adaptations. In my case, however, I intentionally add gags into my horror manga, rather than comical elements.ĭid you have much creative input in the anime series? Did you help select which stories would be adapted? It is often said that there is only a fine line between fear and laughter, and I believe this as well. ![]() I love Japanese comedians and comedy films made by Chaplin and others. Do you see your horror manga as also being comedic in some way? Several segments of the new JUNJI ITO COLLECTION anime series are lighthearted and funny. I am very intrigued by the mysterious connection between negatives and positives in an object. I heard that the human statues at the Pompeii Ruins were made by casting plaster into the cavities of the dead people buried in the volcanic ash. A human form tunnel and a neck-hanging balloon are also a type of cavity. I have often used the image of the mold cavity as a motif. A dental technician makes a tooth wax pattern, buries it in a mold, heats the mold base to melt the wax, and then casts a metal in the cavity of the mold. If there is something, it’s the image of a hollow. ![]() Even if it is just an ordinary thing, it can be turned into something interesting in my head.ĭoes your background as a dental technician ever inform your creative process? I get inspiration from the things that I see and hear in my daily life. Your ideas are very unique to say the least. Rue Morgue caught up with the elusive Junji Ito in the hopes he would cast a little light into his bizarre imagination… but only a little. ![]() The collection, which brings together 13 of Ito’s strangest stories, will be released as three separate sets on DVD, on March 30, April 27, and May 25, 2018. In many cases too extreme for the visual medium, Ito has nevertheless had this soul shattering creations translated onto the screen, notably in the feature films Uzumaki (2000), Gyo (2012), the Tomie series of films and, most recently, the JUNJI ITO COLLECTION, a new anthology series based on Ito’s works, animated by Studio Deen and co-produced by Crunchyroll. Ito’s nightmares of ink and paper have pushed the boundaries of where horror can go which, in his case, is usually into the most fucked up places imaginable. We’ve sung the praises of Japanese manga artist JUNJI ITO many times over the past two decades, singling him out as one of the most fearlessly fertile imaginations currently operating in the genre.
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