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Terroriser - La méthode de Junji Ito
Pour la première fois, le maître de l'horreur Junji Ito se confie sur ses cheminements intérieurs et les inspirations qui ont fait de lui le génie de l'épouvante.
Laissez-vous guider dans les méandres de son cerveau, à travers ses souvenirs, ses croquis préparatoires et de nombreuses esquisses.
Laissez-vous guider dans les méandres de son cerveau, à travers ses souvenirs, ses croquis préparatoires et de nombreuses esquisses.
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Published July 2, 2025
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Junji Ito
228 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 30, 2025
The Backstage
A treasure trove of information about the mangaka's influences, inspirations, techniques and personal life story.
It shouldn't come as a surprise: Junji Ito often starts his creative process with a striking image, around which a story is articulated. The author insists on a realist background and neutral characters to make the weird and horrific elements stand out. As for the original ideas for his strange creatures and locales, these usually sprout from observing animals, from a disquieting interrogation or from trying to flip a convention on its head: what if a town was built within a single building, thereby abolishing intimacy? What if someone could duplicate from parts of their bodies? What if fish could walk?...
Once the springs of his works are accounted for, following parts are dedicated to his most famous characters and stories, associated with a few sketches and reflections about their creation.
Ultimately, Junji Ito shares some of his deep-rooted fears – the fragility of life, how other people view him, incommunicability between people at a deep level, radial forms... to name a few – and how they allowed him to design his monsters accordingly. How the evolution of his technique fashioned the evolution in tone and themes in his fiction.
I have been looking forward to reading this highly personal work from a Japanese master of horror, and I was not a jot disappointed. Possibly there has been a couple of repetitions here and there but they were mostly reformulations to elaborate on previous themes. A fine autobiographical work in my book!
See also:
Uzumaki
Tomie
Gyo
Remina
Sensor
Lovesickness
A treasure trove of information about the mangaka's influences, inspirations, techniques and personal life story.
It shouldn't come as a surprise: Junji Ito often starts his creative process with a striking image, around which a story is articulated. The author insists on a realist background and neutral characters to make the weird and horrific elements stand out. As for the original ideas for his strange creatures and locales, these usually sprout from observing animals, from a disquieting interrogation or from trying to flip a convention on its head: what if a town was built within a single building, thereby abolishing intimacy? What if someone could duplicate from parts of their bodies? What if fish could walk?...
Once the springs of his works are accounted for, following parts are dedicated to his most famous characters and stories, associated with a few sketches and reflections about their creation.
Ultimately, Junji Ito shares some of his deep-rooted fears – the fragility of life, how other people view him, incommunicability between people at a deep level, radial forms... to name a few – and how they allowed him to design his monsters accordingly. How the evolution of his technique fashioned the evolution in tone and themes in his fiction.
I have been looking forward to reading this highly personal work from a Japanese master of horror, and I was not a jot disappointed. Possibly there has been a couple of repetitions here and there but they were mostly reformulations to elaborate on previous themes. A fine autobiographical work in my book!
See also:
Uzumaki
Tomie
Gyo
Remina
Sensor
Lovesickness
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