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Hallucinations; 首幻想; Kubi gensō
Toru Oshikiri habite une maison étrange où il voit des choses anormales se produire. A-t-il vraiment enterré son meilleur ami ? D'où sortent ces monstres qui menacent de le tuer et exploser devant lui ? Qu'est-il arrivé à son amie disparue alors qu'elle passait le pas de sa porte ? L'obscurité et l'angoisse peuvent parfois jouer des tours à notre esprit et alors que la folie s'empare de nous, plus rien ne nous permet de faire la distinction entre réalité et hallucination...
194 pages, Comic
First published June 1, 1998
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Junji Ito
226 books14.9k followersJunji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
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December 24, 2022
Hallucinations :- 2.5 stars
Bog of living dead :- 2.5 stars
Penpal :- 2.5 stars
Intrider :- 3.5 stars
Further takes of Oshikiri + Walls :- 3 stars
Overall :- 3 stars 🌟🌟🌟
Bog of living dead :- 2.5 stars
Penpal :- 2.5 stars
Intrider :- 3.5 stars
Further takes of Oshikiri + Walls :- 3 stars
Overall :- 3 stars 🌟🌟🌟
November 24, 2025
An ok collection once again. There's not enough time to develop the stories or the characters and it falls flat every time, and sadly, in this one there was not enough mystery and if there was it didn't make any sense whatsoever.
September 27, 2017
Another solid set of tales. I particularly liked Penpal and the Oshikiri stories here.
April 8, 2022
• Chapter 1: Hallucinations ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 2: Bog of the Living Dead ⭐⭐
• Chapter 3: Penpal ⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 4: Intruder ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 5: Further Tales of Oshikiri ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 6: Further Tales of Oshikiri - Walls ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A story about Oshikiri, a boy who lived in a big mansion alone. There is a secret where his mansion is a place of clash between dimensions. Good concept and it feels like an inter-dimensional adventure with strong horror elements. Many said this story inspired one of Rick and Morty's episode.
• Chapter 2: Bog of the Living Dead ⭐⭐
• Chapter 3: Penpal ⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 4: Intruder ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 5: Further Tales of Oshikiri ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Chapter 6: Further Tales of Oshikiri - Walls ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A story about Oshikiri, a boy who lived in a big mansion alone. There is a secret where his mansion is a place of clash between dimensions. Good concept and it feels like an inter-dimensional adventure with strong horror elements. Many said this story inspired one of Rick and Morty's episode.
August 14, 2022
3.0 stars
I'd already read everything in this volume through his more modern collections featuring these older stories. I remember really enjoying Oshikiri's stories when I read them but the rest were just okay. his was one of the more original ones though and it took a more sci-fi, parallel dimensions turn but unlike Black Paradox that was almost more of a sci-fi than a horror.
I'd already read everything in this volume through his more modern collections featuring these older stories. I remember really enjoying Oshikiri's stories when I read them but the rest were just okay. his was one of the more original ones though and it took a more sci-fi, parallel dimensions turn but unlike Black Paradox that was almost more of a sci-fi than a horror.
April 21, 2021
Cuello largo... cuello largo..😩😩😩, necesito asegurame que el mio no crecera de esa forma
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January 22, 2022
The Junji Ito Horror Manga Collection #9
A chilling collection of short horror stories. It centers around a recurring protagonist named Toru Oshikiri, who gets himself wrapped up in one bizarre happening after another. These events mainly occur in his mansion, where he is living alone.
I love the concept of the mansion being a gateway to countless alternate dimensions.
I've first read this collection way back year 2015. Looking back, the iconic part where Toru Oshikiri buries himself became one of the many things that was imprinted on my mind.
There's a scene in the series Rick and Morty — Season 1 - Episode 16 to be exact — where they also did the same thing. They buried alternate dimension versions of themselves. Sad and messed up that one. I'd like to think that this work hugely influences that.
"My head is shrouded in chaos." — Toru Oshikiri
* * *
Chapters:
• Hallucinations
• Bog of the Living Dead
• Penpal = I ship him with Kazuko Satomi.
• Trespassers / Intruder
• Further Tales of Oshikiri (押切異談)
• Further Tales of Oshikiri: The Wall (押切異談 壁)
A chilling collection of short horror stories. It centers around a recurring protagonist named Toru Oshikiri, who gets himself wrapped up in one bizarre happening after another. These events mainly occur in his mansion, where he is living alone.
I love the concept of the mansion being a gateway to countless alternate dimensions.
I've first read this collection way back year 2015. Looking back, the iconic part where Toru Oshikiri buries himself became one of the many things that was imprinted on my mind.
There's a scene in the series Rick and Morty — Season 1 - Episode 16 to be exact — where they also did the same thing. They buried alternate dimension versions of themselves. Sad and messed up that one. I'd like to think that this work hugely influences that.
"My head is shrouded in chaos." — Toru Oshikiri
* * *
Chapters:
• Hallucinations
• Bog of the Living Dead
• Penpal = I ship him with Kazuko Satomi.
• Trespassers / Intruder
• Further Tales of Oshikiri (押切異談)
• Further Tales of Oshikiri: The Wall (押切異談 壁)
January 31, 2024
জুনজি ইতোর কালেকশনগুলো বেশ এলোমেলো এবং রিপিটেটিভ৷ একই গল্প কয়েকটা কালেকশনে রয়েছে এবং কোনটাতে কি রয়েছে তা গুছিয়ে জানার কোনো উপায় নেই। যেমন এই বইটা পড়তে গিয়ে দেখলাম প্রায় সবগুলো গল্পই আগে পড়েছি।
এটার গল্পগুলো খুব একটা ভালো লাগে নি, যদিও তার গল্প বার বার রি-রিড দেয়া যায় কারণ আর্টওয়ার্কগুলো দেখতে ভালো লাগে আর অনেকদিন পরপর পড়লে খানিকটা মনেও হয় যে হয়তো নতুন কিছুই পড়ছি কিন্তু সত্যিকার অর্থে নতুন কিছু পড়তে পারলে ভালো লাগতো।
এটার গল্পগুলো খুব একটা ভালো লাগে নি, যদিও তার গল্প বার বার রি-রিড দেয়া যায় কারণ আর্টওয়ার্কগুলো দেখতে ভালো লাগে আর অনেকদিন পরপর পড়লে খানিকটা মনেও হয় যে হয়তো নতুন কিছুই পড়ছি কিন্তু সত্যিকার অর্থে নতুন কিছু পড়তে পারলে ভালো লাগতো।
December 30, 2018
I didn't expect the whole volume to revolve around Oshikiri, but I am so glad it did. It made every short story seem like a whole, not a given random. Of course, the premises are slightly different from each other, but over all they connect in the weirdest ways. And such ways are enough to make you wonder – Who should we put the blame on? Where did this particular event actually take place? Is this the real world or just a mere mirror of one alternate dimension?
Hallucinations - Our protagonist is jealous and thinks that the ultimate solution for his problem is to murder his best friend, Nakajima. Although he is still bitter about his buddy's strong point – his sudden growth spurt – he soon begins feeling the guilt of his actions weigh on him, allowing horrible hallucinations to seep into both his subconscious and the reality he lives in. When he tries to rebury Nakajima's corpse, he finds that his friend's neck has abnormally elongated, causing him to freak out. Next day at school, everyone finds out about Nakajima's disappearance, while our protagonist experiences severe hallucinations of necks stretching out and coming to haunt him. In the end, If you ask me, Nakajima was going to end up like this whether dead or alive. It has been mentioned that he has grown 20 centimetres in the course of one year, and the coroners said, regarding his corpse, that it looked as if 'it wanted to keep growing'.
Bog of the Living Dead - Beautification comittee loves doing good deeds, so, to Oshikiri's suggestion, they decide to go and clean up the mess from the haunted swamp behind their highschool. Oshikiri's friend, Kojima, who has had enough of his tormenting groupies, makes an escape plan with the help of our protagonist. Everything goes downhill at the swamp, and students go rampage. The sudden disappearance of Kojima is blamed on the spirit of a woman that haunts over the bog, and Oshikiri barely escapes a near death experience.
Penpal - Oshikiri is feeling lonelier than ever, so he starts looking for a girlfriend. One day after school, as he was running to retrieve his forgotten muffler, he stumbles over a quiet girl painting a picture of herself. She tells him of her amazing penpals, and soon they become friends. But this disturbance in her loneliness drives her penpals to incredulous acts of cruelty, which end up . Oshikiri finds out he has an unwanted penpal as well.
Intruder - This is the turning point of this volume. This is where everything starts making sense, where things are slowly being put together. Oshikiri is just as lonely, but he happens to make friends in the library with some peculiar students interested in the supernatural. Our protagonist's huge mansion becomes more and more concerning, and with the discussion of spirits and alternate worlds, our group heads there to check for any paranormal presence. They soon realise that Oshikiri's house is, indeed, a portal to another realm, and that the boy has an evil doppleganger that murders their counterparts in the alternate dimension.
Further Tales of Oshikiri - This continues the premise of Intruder and dives deeper into the whole concept of alternate dimensions. Oshikiri spots his classmate, Fujimio, running around his house, but when he goes to touch her and ask her why is she there, she disappears entirely. However, he is still able to find her at school the following day, alive and well, and just as cheerful, unlike her terrified self from the day before. In this chapter, Oshikiri is able to travel into the alternate dimension, coming to the help of a kidnapped Fujimio, whom Oshikiri's evil doppleganger wants to test his experimental substances on. He is able to defeat his evil counterpart, but at what cost? Apparently there are several other dimensions, with several other, even more vile, Oshikiris...
Further Tales of Oshikiri: Walls - Another continuation to the plotline of alternate dimensions. It shows that Oshikiri will never escape the haunted horrorland that is his mansion. He is not able to find peace in his own home, and he is finally considering his cousin's offer to move in with him. His hallucinations become even more terrifying, and his contact with otherworldly beings is definitely not helping with his distress.
I have so much to say about this volume, but it's late and this review is already long enough. I'll probably edit it when I'll be sharing more insights about the whole concept of Hallucinations
Hallucinations - Our protagonist is jealous and thinks that the ultimate solution for his problem is to murder his best friend, Nakajima. Although he is still bitter about his buddy's strong point – his sudden growth spurt – he soon begins feeling the guilt of his actions weigh on him, allowing horrible hallucinations to seep into both his subconscious and the reality he lives in. When he tries to rebury Nakajima's corpse, he finds that his friend's neck has abnormally elongated, causing him to freak out. Next day at school, everyone finds out about Nakajima's disappearance, while our protagonist experiences severe hallucinations of necks stretching out and coming to haunt him. In the end, If you ask me, Nakajima was going to end up like this whether dead or alive. It has been mentioned that he has grown 20 centimetres in the course of one year, and the coroners said, regarding his corpse, that it looked as if 'it wanted to keep growing'.
Bog of the Living Dead - Beautification comittee loves doing good deeds, so, to Oshikiri's suggestion, they decide to go and clean up the mess from the haunted swamp behind their highschool. Oshikiri's friend, Kojima, who has had enough of his tormenting groupies, makes an escape plan with the help of our protagonist. Everything goes downhill at the swamp, and students go rampage. The sudden disappearance of Kojima is blamed on the spirit of a woman that haunts over the bog, and Oshikiri barely escapes a near death experience.
Penpal - Oshikiri is feeling lonelier than ever, so he starts looking for a girlfriend. One day after school, as he was running to retrieve his forgotten muffler, he stumbles over a quiet girl painting a picture of herself. She tells him of her amazing penpals, and soon they become friends. But this disturbance in her loneliness drives her penpals to incredulous acts of cruelty, which end up . Oshikiri finds out he has an unwanted penpal as well.
Intruder - This is the turning point of this volume. This is where everything starts making sense, where things are slowly being put together. Oshikiri is just as lonely, but he happens to make friends in the library with some peculiar students interested in the supernatural. Our protagonist's huge mansion becomes more and more concerning, and with the discussion of spirits and alternate worlds, our group heads there to check for any paranormal presence. They soon realise that Oshikiri's house is, indeed, a portal to another realm, and that the boy has an evil doppleganger that murders their counterparts in the alternate dimension.
Further Tales of Oshikiri - This continues the premise of Intruder and dives deeper into the whole concept of alternate dimensions. Oshikiri spots his classmate, Fujimio, running around his house, but when he goes to touch her and ask her why is she there, she disappears entirely. However, he is still able to find her at school the following day, alive and well, and just as cheerful, unlike her terrified self from the day before. In this chapter, Oshikiri is able to travel into the alternate dimension, coming to the help of a kidnapped Fujimio, whom Oshikiri's evil doppleganger wants to test his experimental substances on. He is able to defeat his evil counterpart, but at what cost? Apparently there are several other dimensions, with several other, even more vile, Oshikiris...
Further Tales of Oshikiri: Walls - Another continuation to the plotline of alternate dimensions. It shows that Oshikiri will never escape the haunted horrorland that is his mansion. He is not able to find peace in his own home, and he is finally considering his cousin's offer to move in with him. His hallucinations become even more terrifying, and his contact with otherworldly beings is definitely not helping with his distress.
I have so much to say about this volume, but it's late and this review is already long enough. I'll probably edit it when I'll be sharing more insights about the whole concept of Hallucinations
May 11, 2018
This was similar to the volumes about Souichi but with a main character that wasn’t an annoying piece of crap. I didn’t realize until the third/fourth story or so that the stories all revolved around the same boy, but once I did, I appreciated the overall arc that much more. My favorite chapter was the final one where Oshikiri’s parents decided to come back from their trip early. That part where freaked me out so bad. So well done! I knew what I was going to see when I went to the next panel, but it scared me all the same.
April 22, 2020
Sometimes Junji Ito tries to split the difference between an extended story and a series of shorts, and doesn't quite reconcile the two. The first story here, "Hallucinations," is one of Ito's best, with a series of twists that make this more than another grotesque body-horror story. But the more Ito revisits the half-abandoned mansion and lonely teenager who lives in it, the more his stories start to come up short. Nothing in the three-chapter "alternate universes" arc comes close to the queasy power of "Hallucinations" in chapter one.
December 8, 2019
Rating: 3 stars
The Itou Junji Kyoufu Collection 9 is a collection of horror short stories with various characters.
For those who are interested to start reading Ito's horror mangas, this is a good start.
The Itou Junji Kyoufu Collection 9 is a collection of horror short stories with various characters.
For those who are interested to start reading Ito's horror mangas, this is a good start.
November 16, 2018
Probably my second favorite Ito collection, following "Mimi's Ghost Stories." Each story is a stand alone that builds on an overarching mystery and narrative involving alternate dimensions.
May 29, 2020
Meh collection
Favorite story: Penpals
Favorite story: Penpals
October 21, 2020
Really enjoyed this volume, especially the 3 chapters about the alternate dimensions. Made me audibly gasp at the creepiness.
January 20, 2021
Favourite: Penpal.
June 16, 2021
I actually really enjoyed this collection, the Oshikiri series is creepy and suspenseful, definitely recommend!
September 2, 2021
Holy shit, the last three ones were especially so good. I love the concept in the Oshikiri stories!! Imagine if it had its own series!!
April 8, 2022
Loved this one even though it reminds me of a theme I have seen a lot in Ito's work. Basically like a version of the Tell Tale Heart but with the horror style of Junji Ito.
December 3, 2022
主要關於押切和異次元的故事，在這一系列中很一般，但還是有著濃厚的伊藤潤二怪奇味道。
January 22, 2023
Pretty solid, creepy stories.
February 12, 2024
It's always the connected Junji Ito stories that I never like, except Tomie. And just like that, I didn't enjoy Oshikiri's stories either.
August 16, 2024
I would pay anything to have junji Ito's mind fr..
February 23, 2023
Rating: 3.08
Individual Ratings:
Hallucinations ⭐⭐⭐
Bog of the Living Dead ⭐⭐
Penpal ⭐⭐⭐
Intruder ⭐⭐½
Further Tales of Oshikiri ⭐⭐½
Further Tales of Oshikiri: Walls ⭐⭐⭐½
Dog Diary ⭐
Individual Ratings:
Hallucinations ⭐⭐⭐
Bog of the Living Dead ⭐⭐
Penpal ⭐⭐⭐
Intruder ⭐⭐½
Further Tales of Oshikiri ⭐⭐½
Further Tales of Oshikiri: Walls ⭐⭐⭐½
Dog Diary ⭐
November 19, 2013
fabulous vizualisation artwork by junji ito not only terrify but can haunt yourself.
difficult artwork like this really different than another artwork ever made.unbelievable power of mind!xo
difficult artwork like this really different than another artwork ever made.unbelievable power of mind!xo
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