Junji Itō

Junji Itō (jap. 伊藤 潤 二, Itō Junji, July 31, 1963 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He is known for his horror comics, including Uzumaki and Tomie (富 江). He has already published over 30 books.

Itō was as a child of Kazuo Umezus thrilled horror manga and later called this Mangaka its main influence. In 1987, when he was employed as a dental technician, he participated in a contest of the Gekkan Halloween Magazine, a horror manga magazine for teenage girls, and won the Umezu Prize, a horror playmaker's prize. In the same year, he started his manga series Tomie about a girl who is immortal and drives the men mad by her beauty. Tomie was later continued and includes several books. There followed further work for the horror magazines of the Asahi-Sonorama publisher, Gekkan Halloween and Nemuki. These, however, did not reach the length of Tomie and were mostly short stories or short series.

Towards the end of the 1990s he began to write for the first time also for the mainstream magazines of Shōgakukan, one of the largest manga publishers. For the magazine Big Comic Spirits he created one of his most famous works from 1998 to 1999 with the approximately 570 pages in three collection volumes Uzumaki series. This is about a teenager who lives in a city whose inhabitants develop an unnatural affinity to spirals. The inhabitants are obsessed with the spirals and become crazy. From 2001 to 2002 appeared Gyo (ギ ョ), in which running fish a love couple pursue.

The artist continues to publish with Asahi Sonorama. From 2002 to 2003 he created the series Yami no Koe (闇 の 声) for Nemuki. He regularly writes short stories for this magazine.

His work is translated into English, Italian, Portuguese and French. Since 1999 several of his manga have been realized as real films; especially the seven film adaptations of Tomie as well as the Uzumaki film were successful.

In addition to Kazuo Umezu, Itō is the manga artist Hideshi Hino and Shinichi Koga as well as the writers Yasutaka Tsutsui and H. P. Lovecraft among his influences. Masanao Amano judged that his works were "beautifully drawn" and the atmosphere was "nightmare unbearable". He pointed out that he had "a very special style in which, in the midst of the horror, comedy can be found somewhere." Single-level Edit source text Standard data (person): LCCN: no2007123944 | NDL: 00313917 VIAF: 49017823 | Wikipedia People Search

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