Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu Collector's Edition: 2

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Alongside authors such as Maruo Suehiro and Kazuo Umezu, Junji Ito is well-known as one of Japan's greatest in the genre of horror manga.

She names the kitten Mu, since he will be the sixth cat her family has kept, with her mother's cat, Goro, being the fifth. A Textbook in Support of Feline Disaster Victims (2011), a book which was intended to raise support for cat shelters after the Great Tohoku Earthquake. Junji Ito's Cat Diary appeared as an intermittent serial in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from 26 November 2007 [10] to 26 December 2008. This story is about cat loving, it's about becoming a cat person - a true one, believe me, and about how these little furry assholes change everything when they arrive in our lives. Junji Ito is a horror manga artist known best for exceptionally creative and terrifying works such as Uzumaki and Tomie.Previously, Ito had drawn cats as frightening but had recently drawn a "very cute" cat in a way that appeared to capture the "essence" of cats, thus convincing the editor. Of course the cat needs a friend so they get a second cat and Ito does not think it has an accursed face and wants to love it more than the first one. In "Tread Not on Poop, Snot, or Cat," J-kun pranks A-ko with fake cat excrement, only to accidentally pick up real cat vomit thinking that it was A-ko's revenge. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It's very funny and it's actually authentic, because you will also get a bonus gallery of Ito's real life cats, who look exactly like Yon and Muu.

it's a pretty adorable, and very accurate account of the monsters that inhabit those little scraps of fur we spend all day feeding and catering to. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Cats really are odd creatures and Ito uses that to his advantage taking these normal scenes and putting a horror spin on them. this is a comedic-horror manga, and it speaks to those of us who have invited these little devils into our hearts and homes, and the everyday horrors we endure as a result.I found myself smiling or laughing more than I was wincing and cringing at the horror or scare tactics.

Other than that, this is perfect and if you want to explore more of Junji Ito's work, but you're finding the horror hard to get into, this is the book for you! J, a dog person, was convinced into adopting two cats by his fiancee A-ko: Muu, a foreign cat, and Yun who has an accused face. I'm giving 4 stars because I think some ink may not have dried properly, leaving a mark on some of the text where it was hard to read. But when both cats arrive, he swiftly descends into a breakdown because the cats don't love him as much as he discovers he loves them.

His wife was generally fine with her depiction in the manga, but disliked that Ito drew her stand-in with very small pupils and striped pants. This is Juni Ito of horror manga like Uzumaki (you know, where a town is consumed by spirals in three volumes) doing diary comics about his pet cats, so you can probably already guess whether this would ever appeal to you. For example, one scene in which J-kun attempts to play with the cats starts within Ito's realistic style, only to have J-kun quickly devolve visually into a monster as he becomes more upset that the cats respond to his wife's attempts at playing with them but not his; his features become exaggerated and horrific, while the cats, however, lose their sense of motion and activity from earlier and become "stiffly realistic" at his failed attempts to play with them.

While J-kun wrestles with his apprehension over living with Yon, A-ko adopts a kitten to keep Yon company. The English-language edition also included the pieces contributed by Ito and his wife for Teach Me, Michael! Thus ensues a long journey of a man trying desperately to make two moody cats adore him while also upholding the facade of not caring if they do or don't. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. Wonderful, deadpan humour pervades Junji Ito’s tongue-in-cheek, autobiographical manga based on a reluctant conversion from dog person to cat person.Children's librarian Marissa Lieberman wrote that, because of the overlap in the importance of narrative pacing and timing in both comedy and horror, Ito's previous work in horror and gag manga helped to make Junji Ito's Cat Diary unique among other cat-centered manga.