Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu 01

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His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Despite the imagery (and maybe even because of it) the comedy works even better as these monstrous creatures slowly win over his dog loving heart.

Faustine Lillaz of Planete BD, in contrast, wrote that the humor of the manga would have a wide appeal.Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. Upon publication, the manga received a favorable critical and commercial response, debuting in The New York Times 's weekly list of the ten best-selling manga volumes.

A-ko's appearance, with her almost entirely white eyes, has also been noted to share similarities with yokai, supernatural Japanese entities. I don't like it as much as the truly masterful horror stuff he does, but it's kinda cute, pretty funny. While J-kun wrestles with his apprehension over living with Yon, A-ko adopts a kitten to keep Yon company.Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam [16] and Italian by Panini Comics. The cats scratch things, make messes, bite, make him feel unworthy, all the things that cats do and he’s documented it here for our absolute enjoyment. He is not the sort of manga creator I can recommend to most of my friends, as I genuinely think his work often goes a step beyond uncomfortable (though if you do like horror, check him out. his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow - Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu an adorable Norwegian forest cat.

J-kun (Ito) and his fiancé A-ko (Ito’s later wife Ayako Ishiguro) have just moved in together, their new house is pristine and sparkling. J-kun is instantly terrified by Yon’s ‘accursed face’ and evil glare, fascinated by the possible significance of the sinister, skull-like markings on Yon’s back. Ito used two main artistic styles throughout the manga: a realistic one and a horror-tinged one of exaggeration. However, when she moves in, she comes with two cats, Yon, a strange-looking white cat with a ghastly fur pattern on its back that resembles a skull, and Mu, Yon’s cute counterpart and playmate. Ito rysuje jak Ito, więc miałam wrażenie, że zaraz stanie się coś złego/niepokojącego, ale to zabawna, urocza historia o kotach i ludziach.Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. This cat diary is drawn in his typical horror style and has similar pacing to a horror manga but it laugh out loud hilarious.

Ito captures that strange part of human nature where we will see something so cute that we just want to… destroy it. Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself purr-suaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain the affection of his new feline friends. Includes two pages of cat photographs of the real life cats, if you haven't already seen enough cat pictures from your friends on Facebook. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon and Mu is the true enough story of what happened when Ito’s fiance moved into his house and brought two cats with her.Wonderful, deadpan humour pervades Junji Ito’s tongue-in-cheek, autobiographical manga based on a reluctant conversion from dog person to cat person. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his financée, A-ko, to live with him.