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Dissolving Classroom: Das schmelzende Klassenzimmer
Wenn der Schlangendämon zuschlägt – Horror trifft Klassenzimmer!
Ein Schultag wie jeder andere, bis der Fluch des Schlangendämons alles verändert. Als Gehirne zu schmelzen beginnen und das Chaos ausbricht, kämpfen die Schüler verzweifelt um ihr Überleben. In diesem packenden Horror-Manga von Junji Ito zeigt sich die Zerbrechlichkeit der Gesellschaft und die ewige Konfrontation von Gut und Böse. Ein kosmischer Albtraum, der alle Grenzen sprengt und die Schule in ein Schlachtfeld verwandelt.
Ein Schultag wie jeder andere, bis der Fluch des Schlangendämons alles verändert. Als Gehirne zu schmelzen beginnen und das Chaos ausbricht, kämpfen die Schüler verzweifelt um ihr Überleben. In diesem packenden Horror-Manga von Junji Ito zeigt sich die Zerbrechlichkeit der Gesellschaft und die ewige Konfrontation von Gut und Böse. Ein kosmischer Albtraum, der alle Grenzen sprengt und die Schule in ein Schlachtfeld verwandelt.
178 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2013
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Junji Ito
258 books14.6k 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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March 18, 2017
I'v been reading a growing collection of manga horror set in schools, where terrible things happen. I mean schools are terrible for people, kids get bullied, teachers traumatize, and so on. And in these books these terrible things spin out of control. It's almost as if you might imagine any bored kid in the back row, fantasizing the destruction of the school. But it's not Columbine, it's cartoon horror, it's for yuks. There's usually a tinge of comedy to the school-based horror, too, a comic revenge theme, and this is true of this one. Gross-out horror, over-the-top to the point of laughter.
The author is the manga horror manga-ka Ito, whose Uzumaki is a masterpiece. Gyo and Museum of Terror might also fit that category. This falls short of that, though it features great drawing and is often creepy. Yuuma is new to the school, coming in apologizing. For what? It turns out, for his sister, Chizumi who apparently is a demon possessed by a snake, devoted to devil worship. Born of a human woman and the devil. So Chizumi makes student after student dissolve, melt, into puddles of ooze. It reminded me of Carrie (with Sissy Spacek) a bit, because some of the mayhem is revenge, but some of it is just random.
So brother and sister go from school to school, again and again, her dissolving everyone and he apologizing as they go. Obsessive repetition is Ito's way, in book after book, but here it doesn't work quite so well for some reason. It doesn't seem to really go anywhere. But it is Ito, so reading at least some of it is interesting. But if you want to read him, don't start here. If you are going to read just one, read Uzumaki.
The author is the manga horror manga-ka Ito, whose Uzumaki is a masterpiece. Gyo and Museum of Terror might also fit that category. This falls short of that, though it features great drawing and is often creepy. Yuuma is new to the school, coming in apologizing. For what? It turns out, for his sister, Chizumi who apparently is a demon possessed by a snake, devoted to devil worship. Born of a human woman and the devil. So Chizumi makes student after student dissolve, melt, into puddles of ooze. It reminded me of Carrie (with Sissy Spacek) a bit, because some of the mayhem is revenge, but some of it is just random.
So brother and sister go from school to school, again and again, her dissolving everyone and he apologizing as they go. Obsessive repetition is Ito's way, in book after book, but here it doesn't work quite so well for some reason. It doesn't seem to really go anywhere. But it is Ito, so reading at least some of it is interesting. But if you want to read him, don't start here. If you are going to read just one, read Uzumaki.
January 15, 2025
A Junji Ito work that made me laugh. Some say this is one of his weakest mangas, but its anti-apology message delivers one of his most direct criticisms of Japanese customs.
February 11, 2017
A strange highschooler can’t stop apologising for his little sister with the crazy smile who stalks people. And then everyone starts melting...?! Yup, it’s a Junji Ito horror manga, alright!
Dissolving Classroom is a series of vignettes featuring a young chap called Yuuma and his weird sister Chizumi as they flee one town after another, causing havoc in each one. They go to a school, weird shit goes down, people melt; Yuuma dates a girl whose face melts; more melting ensues in an apartment complex… sigh. It’s pretty boring and repetitive stuff.
It doesn’t help that characters’ motivations revolve around corny old devil worship which is so stereotypical for a horror comic. I think Ito may be attempting some kind of social commentary here but I have no idea what he’s trying to say – people these days are obsessed with public apologies because of some innate voyeuristic impulse? Ah, who cares.
The stories’ body horror is disturbing enough to hold the attention and some of the artwork, particularly around Chizumi, is genuinely creepy as hell. But mostly I found Dissolving Classroom to be a collection of weak, eye-rollingly silly horror stories that are more comedic than scary.
Dissolving Classroom is a series of vignettes featuring a young chap called Yuuma and his weird sister Chizumi as they flee one town after another, causing havoc in each one. They go to a school, weird shit goes down, people melt; Yuuma dates a girl whose face melts; more melting ensues in an apartment complex… sigh. It’s pretty boring and repetitive stuff.
It doesn’t help that characters’ motivations revolve around corny old devil worship which is so stereotypical for a horror comic. I think Ito may be attempting some kind of social commentary here but I have no idea what he’s trying to say – people these days are obsessed with public apologies because of some innate voyeuristic impulse? Ah, who cares.
The stories’ body horror is disturbing enough to hold the attention and some of the artwork, particularly around Chizumi, is genuinely creepy as hell. But mostly I found Dissolving Classroom to be a collection of weak, eye-rollingly silly horror stories that are more comedic than scary.
January 26, 2022
I've resolved to read every Junji Ito manga, but I've realised that I've already read his best works, leaving only the more recent ones till anything fresh comes out.
Dissolving Classroom is a collection of stories about two siblings, Yuuma and Chizumi, who are both insane in their own ways and have a strange fixation. They have the most horrifying effects on the humans they come into contact with, melting them into mushy flesh.
Although this isn't his best work, some of the images was both horrible and beautiful ( beautiful in a way we all know).
The plot was somewhat poor, but the art, as expected, was outstanding..
Dissolving Classroom is a collection of stories about two siblings, Yuuma and Chizumi, who are both insane in their own ways and have a strange fixation. They have the most horrifying effects on the humans they come into contact with, melting them into mushy flesh.
Although this isn't his best work, some of the images was both horrible and beautiful ( beautiful in a way we all know).
The plot was somewhat poor, but the art, as expected, was outstanding..
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May 18, 2022
3.5 stars. This was an interesting place to start for my first Junji Ito
Dissolving Classroom is a collection of short stories by mangaka Junji Ito that follows brother and sister duo Chizumi and Yuuma. Wherever they go, evil seems to follow. Each story is narrated by a character that encounters Chizumi and Yuuma and witnesses how they destroy every community they move to. While I thought that the stories were both disgusting and creepy, the repetitive nature of the stories didn't work that well. I didn't think much was gained as I progressed through each story. The one that did catch my attention was the final story "The Demon's Conference" because I did not see that ending coming. I know that this isn't a favorite for a lot of people who faithfully read Ito so I'll be sure to pick up some of his other works. The artwork in this was astounding and I know that it will be the same in everything else that he has worked on.
Dissolving Classroom is a collection of short stories by mangaka Junji Ito that follows brother and sister duo Chizumi and Yuuma. Wherever they go, evil seems to follow. Each story is narrated by a character that encounters Chizumi and Yuuma and witnesses how they destroy every community they move to. While I thought that the stories were both disgusting and creepy, the repetitive nature of the stories didn't work that well. I didn't think much was gained as I progressed through each story. The one that did catch my attention was the final story "The Demon's Conference" because I did not see that ending coming. I know that this isn't a favorite for a lot of people who faithfully read Ito so I'll be sure to pick up some of his other works. The artwork in this was astounding and I know that it will be the same in everything else that he has worked on.
August 21, 2021
En aula demoníaca las diferentes historias/escenarios están desarrolladas en base a dos personajes, Yuuma y su hermanita Chizumi, quienes tienen unas extrañas costumbres, a él le encanta pedir disculpas, continuamente se está disculpando por todo, todo el tiempo, y por otro lado, Chizuma es una niña muy extraña y perturbadora, con una característica tan inusual y asquerosa como perturbadora.
Ambos hermanos desatan el caos en cada parte que están, primero por la manía de Azeri que produce un efecto letal y escalofriante, en las personas, efecto del cual Chizumi se aprovecha para saciar su hambre, su obsesión.
Una historia entretenida, con un trasfondo oscuro y demoníaco, desarrollado a través de un humor negro, y un arte que me encantó, en especial lo que transmite Chizumi en cada escena, su personificación, el dibujo que Junji realizó de ella me atrapó, esos ojos y expresiones son completamente oscuras y escalofriantes, en especial en los momento donde aparece de la nada, muy buenos.
El Manga en general es bueno, pero si a ciertos momentos un poco reiterativo, y quizás menos llamativo que otros del autor.
Aún así, queda recomendadísimo, entretiene y eso es indiscutible, además, el arte grotesco y repugnante que tiene es fascinante.
Una sátira de la clásica costumbre japonesa, abordada desde otra perspectiva, llena de satanismo, demonios y obsesión.
Ambos hermanos desatan el caos en cada parte que están, primero por la manía de Azeri que produce un efecto letal y escalofriante, en las personas, efecto del cual Chizumi se aprovecha para saciar su hambre, su obsesión.
Una historia entretenida, con un trasfondo oscuro y demoníaco, desarrollado a través de un humor negro, y un arte que me encantó, en especial lo que transmite Chizumi en cada escena, su personificación, el dibujo que Junji realizó de ella me atrapó, esos ojos y expresiones son completamente oscuras y escalofriantes, en especial en los momento donde aparece de la nada, muy buenos.
El Manga en general es bueno, pero si a ciertos momentos un poco reiterativo, y quizás menos llamativo que otros del autor.
Aún así, queda recomendadísimo, entretiene y eso es indiscutible, además, el arte grotesco y repugnante que tiene es fascinante.
Una sátira de la clásica costumbre japonesa, abordada desde otra perspectiva, llena de satanismo, demonios y obsesión.
October 7, 2019
Pretty gross but not the grossest storyline that Ito has come up with ... but maybe the weakest? Can't stand Yuuma or Chizumi and there really wasn't much going on besides Yuuma apologizing, Chizumi being weird and annoying, and people dissolving.
February 11, 2017
Junji Ito has a knack for making mundane things into really creepy stuff. Though not as good as Uzumaki and Gyo, Dissolving Classroom makes the act of excessive apologizing into an incredibly unbelievable yet entertaining piece of horror.
Disturbing imagery.
Dissolving Classroom is a collection of stories which evolve around siblings Yuuma and Chizumi, both crazy in their own ways and attached to some crazy weird fetish. They affect the people they encounter in the most horrific ways - dissolving them into gooey flesh. Junji Ito even has a pseudo-scientific explanation to why such happens.
Dissolving Classroom may not be the best horror manga out there, far from it really, yet it still has some disturbing imagery that will leave a stain in your mind.
Disturbing imagery.
Dissolving Classroom is a collection of stories which evolve around siblings Yuuma and Chizumi, both crazy in their own ways and attached to some crazy weird fetish. They affect the people they encounter in the most horrific ways - dissolving them into gooey flesh. Junji Ito even has a pseudo-scientific explanation to why such happens.
Dissolving Classroom may not be the best horror manga out there, far from it really, yet it still has some disturbing imagery that will leave a stain in your mind.
December 16, 2021
Just as bizarre as you expect Junji Ito to be. Also, I know I'm reviewing a ton of Junji Ito in a row but it's because these books are Hailey's xmas present and I have to test them first, right?
OF COURSE I DO.
OF COURSE I DO.
March 10, 2023
Not my fav Ito by any means (story itself was kinda corny), but I just love his style so much. So outlandishly gross and creative.
April 8, 2025
I better not see anyone apologising to me after this one.
Well what can I say, I grow more and more fond of Junji Ito the more I read about his works. This time around the main story ended like a murder mystery where detectives tried to find out what happened (If I remember correctly this also happened with Tomie at some point). I love whodunit stories and was interested to see if someone actually finds out what happened as the testimonies of the victims sounded too bizarre for any investigator to believe it.
After the main story ended there were two short stories, I didn't like the first one that much, as it wasn't that scary and maybe should have been longer, but the last one was eerie again.
I was a bit disappointed that my favourite story was the first 'chapter' of the main story. It immediately started with the story ‘Dissolving Classroom’ and it was actually my favourite, so that was kinda sad to get the best first and not last, but well I didn't decide the order and I enjoyed the main story nevertheless.
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October 21, 2024
Aaaaahhhh
I have it physically I could cry 😭
Well what can I say, I grow more and more fond of Junji Ito the more I read about his works. This time around the main story ended like a murder mystery where detectives tried to find out what happened (If I remember correctly this also happened with Tomie at some point). I love whodunit stories and was interested to see if someone actually finds out what happened as the testimonies of the victims sounded too bizarre for any investigator to believe it.
After the main story ended there were two short stories, I didn't like the first one that much, as it wasn't that scary and maybe should have been longer, but the last one was eerie again.
I was a bit disappointed that my favourite story was the first 'chapter' of the main story. It immediately started with the story ‘Dissolving Classroom’ and it was actually my favourite, so that was kinda sad to get the best first and not last, but well I didn't decide the order and I enjoyed the main story nevertheless.
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October 21, 2024
Aaaaahhhh
I have it physically I could cry 😭
March 26, 2017
A fun little splatter story about melting teenagers and satanism. And look at that cover! I love this dude’s art. I showed a few panels to my girlfriend and her only response was ‘ew.’
May 25, 2022
What did I just get into? I can say that I've never read a story like this. It was very disgusting.
A few years ago, I read the book Ukumaki and it was very good. On list, that book and Junji Ito were 2 talked about authors, so I decided to give this a go. I got the cover from the library and I knew this was going to be different.
I did think the story telling was decent and shocking. It uses religion and the devil to pull this off. Lots of devil stuff in here. Junji is doing something with apologies - are they too easy - maybe that is something he is exploring.
I was thankful the illustrations were in black and white as I didn't need to see this in color. Well, now I've read something from Ito and I don't know that I need to read more like this. It's my least favorite read of the year so far. I still can't give it a worse star rating. It accomplished what it set out to do which is gross out the read with plenty of shock value. So, even though I'm not crazy about it, it is successful at what it does. Still 3 stars is the most I can give it.
A few years ago, I read the book Ukumaki and it was very good. On list, that book and Junji Ito were 2 talked about authors, so I decided to give this a go. I got the cover from the library and I knew this was going to be different.
I did think the story telling was decent and shocking. It uses religion and the devil to pull this off. Lots of devil stuff in here. Junji is doing something with apologies - are they too easy - maybe that is something he is exploring.
I was thankful the illustrations were in black and white as I didn't need to see this in color. Well, now I've read something from Ito and I don't know that I need to read more like this. It's my least favorite read of the year so far. I still can't give it a worse star rating. It accomplished what it set out to do which is gross out the read with plenty of shock value. So, even though I'm not crazy about it, it is successful at what it does. Still 3 stars is the most I can give it.
January 23, 2022
There's nothing bad about this but I thought it was weak compared to the other Junji Ito books I've read. The hook of a kid whose apologies eventually make people's brains dissolve and his creepy ass sister had potential but didn't live up to it in my opinion.
December 20, 2021
"Let me suck out your soft juicy brains."
Junji Ito is one person that I would love to have lunch with and pick his brain. I mean, not in the way where I want that sweet brain nectar and to watch it drip out of his eyes and nose. More as in I find him fascinating as hell and I want to find out where his creativity comes from.
Horror manga is my thing and nothing compares to Ito. His work is so disturbing and downright creepy, I love it. The artwork for this manga is terrifying and nauseating and then paired with the story, it makes for one hell of a nightmare. I couldn't get enough of this story and Chizumi is one freaky child.
Beware of the people who apologize for everything.
Junji Ito is one person that I would love to have lunch with and pick his brain. I mean, not in the way where I want that sweet brain nectar and to watch it drip out of his eyes and nose. More as in I find him fascinating as hell and I want to find out where his creativity comes from.
Horror manga is my thing and nothing compares to Ito. His work is so disturbing and downright creepy, I love it. The artwork for this manga is terrifying and nauseating and then paired with the story, it makes for one hell of a nightmare. I couldn't get enough of this story and Chizumi is one freaky child.
Beware of the people who apologize for everything.
November 1, 2024
I feel that Dissolving Classroom is better than Junji Ito’s other works.
The story is more horrifying than his other works because it includes an element of devil worship. I live in Indonesia, where belief in mysticism is very strong, and imagining it in the context of this comic makes it truly terrifying.
Good job, Ito, this time you’ve succeeded in scaring me!
The story is more horrifying than his other works because it includes an element of devil worship. I live in Indonesia, where belief in mysticism is very strong, and imagining it in the context of this comic makes it truly terrifying.
Good job, Ito, this time you’ve succeeded in scaring me!
September 27, 2017
A bit of a mess not dissimilar to the goo oozing out of the eyes and noses of many characters in the book. Occasionally compelling illustrations are undercut by goofy over-the-top storytelling.
February 28, 2017
"Apologizing is how you communicate with the Devil."
This isn't top-shelf Junji Ito, but it is pretty undistilled, nevertheless, and we will take what we can get. Nice to see some of his more recent stuff getting translated here in the States. Great production and presentation, looks good alongside the Viz hardcovers, even though it's by a different publisher.
This isn't top-shelf Junji Ito, but it is pretty undistilled, nevertheless, and we will take what we can get. Nice to see some of his more recent stuff getting translated here in the States. Great production and presentation, looks good alongside the Viz hardcovers, even though it's by a different publisher.
July 28, 2019
If just a couple of these stories showed up in a more varied collection of Ito stories, they would have been more interesting. I mean, there are some interesting things going on in this collection, as is. While the "bad" little sister character is sort of just... girl-Soichi++ with little to do besides to explain the plot while acting creepy, the older brother is a pleasant (well, as pleasant as a devil worshiper who melts people can be) twist. He is a cute, polite teenage male who has been bound to the devil, and his apologies melt folks brains (and the rest of them).
According to the afterword (a short comic, itself), he is a reference to Sincere Apology(tm) culture, where some such-and-such does something bad and then makes a big public apology (Sincere Apologies do not need to be sincere, though they might be). I suppose this makes this something like social satire, but also not really. Sincere Apology culture has gotten louder, if anything, since Ito wrote these, and watching legions of Youtube commenters and Redditors implore you to remember the good that their favorite publicly maligned Let's Play-er did (and by "good", it sometimes comes down to being funny while playing Minecraft, basically) can very nearly equal a real-world version of these stories.* Perhaps that's what Ito was talking about, precursors to these. I don't know. Maybe he just liked the idea of a handsome young man being too polite, upholding society ideals a little too much, and it melting people into goo (I mean, his little sister's favorite snack is melted brains, so you could even argue that he is just being a good provider, like some weird perverse version of Grave of the Fireflies).
The chief drawback of this collection is that it is a collection, albeit short, of this one storyline, over and over. Putting much the same plot on loop dampens the punch a bit (oh, these heady days where a room full of human proto-flesh rotting away fails to sustain its own surreal horror after the third samey page). Much like the Tomie collection, there are variations on the theme, but where Tomie took years to grow and develop, these feel much more "all at once" (though I assume there is some gap between them). After you get through "Dissolving Apartment" (the third of five "Dissolving" stories) it goes through the basic Ito motions that he has done before. By repeating the idea, it makes the whole thing seem a bit simple without much room to grow (the fairly different second tale, "Dissolving Beauty," being the respite).
It is gross and grody and weird and very Ito, it just doesn't feel like it hits its full potential at any point.
It includes two fairly short and very different bonus shorts. The first is just strange and inexplicable, about a missing person and a meteorite. The second involves missing kids in a forest and the weirdness that happens when they are found. Neither go into any explanation, into anything like sense, and that makes them kind of neat, despite their slight length. Why two stories about missing folks and the "weird" of finding them were included in this collection, I have no idea.
* A subreddit I frequent, as much as any, recently came to the defense of a particular streamer with such arguments as, "It's not like he knew she was underage when he did it." There were a lot of these kinds of apologetics. Brain melting, indeed.
According to the afterword (a short comic, itself), he is a reference to Sincere Apology(tm) culture, where some such-and-such does something bad and then makes a big public apology (Sincere Apologies do not need to be sincere, though they might be). I suppose this makes this something like social satire, but also not really. Sincere Apology culture has gotten louder, if anything, since Ito wrote these, and watching legions of Youtube commenters and Redditors implore you to remember the good that their favorite publicly maligned Let's Play-er did (and by "good", it sometimes comes down to being funny while playing Minecraft, basically) can very nearly equal a real-world version of these stories.* Perhaps that's what Ito was talking about, precursors to these. I don't know. Maybe he just liked the idea of a handsome young man being too polite, upholding society ideals a little too much, and it melting people into goo (I mean, his little sister's favorite snack is melted brains, so you could even argue that he is just being a good provider, like some weird perverse version of Grave of the Fireflies).
The chief drawback of this collection is that it is a collection, albeit short, of this one storyline, over and over. Putting much the same plot on loop dampens the punch a bit (oh, these heady days where a room full of human proto-flesh rotting away fails to sustain its own surreal horror after the third samey page). Much like the Tomie collection, there are variations on the theme, but where Tomie took years to grow and develop, these feel much more "all at once" (though I assume there is some gap between them). After you get through "Dissolving Apartment" (the third of five "Dissolving" stories) it goes through the basic Ito motions that he has done before. By repeating the idea, it makes the whole thing seem a bit simple without much room to grow (the fairly different second tale, "Dissolving Beauty," being the respite).
It is gross and grody and weird and very Ito, it just doesn't feel like it hits its full potential at any point.
It includes two fairly short and very different bonus shorts. The first is just strange and inexplicable, about a missing person and a meteorite. The second involves missing kids in a forest and the weirdness that happens when they are found. Neither go into any explanation, into anything like sense, and that makes them kind of neat, despite their slight length. Why two stories about missing folks and the "weird" of finding them were included in this collection, I have no idea.
* A subreddit I frequent, as much as any, recently came to the defense of a particular streamer with such arguments as, "It's not like he knew she was underage when he did it." There were a lot of these kinds of apologetics. Brain melting, indeed.
October 6, 2022
TW: Abuse, gory scenes, blood, murder, bullying
*****SPOILERS*****
About the book:
A pair of twisted siblings—Yuuma, a young man obsessed with the devil, and Chizumi, the worst little sister in recorded history—cause all sorts of terrifying and tragic things to happen wherever they go. These scary short stories will shock you with a literal interpretation of the ills that plague modern society.
Chapters:
1. Dissolving Classroom
2. Meet Again
3. Children of the Earth
4. Worshipping Beauty (Dissolving Beauty)
5. Dissolving Apartment
6. Chizumi's Dissolving Love
7. The Demon's Conference
Release Date: December 19th, 2014
Genre: Horror graphic novel
Pages: 181
Rating: ⭐ ⭐
What I Liked:
1. The art
What I Didn't Like:
1. Too repetitive
2. Not a good story
Overall Thoughts:
Started off good and I was interested in knowing what was happening BUT it just got so repetitive that it made it boring.
The story behind the gory scenes felt lackluster and not good. So much of the story felt surface level and generic.
I hated the storyline that Yuuma murdered in the name of the Devil because what's the point? So he prayed & worshipped the devil and now he can melt people? But why? How does melting people's faces do anything for the devil? Is it to show The devil that he'll kill for him?
Like I said it just felt more like the art came first and the author rushed to throw a story into it.
Final Thoughts: Just okay. I liked the gory scenes because he does gory scenes to perfection, but the story just wasn't there for me.
Recommend For:
• Graphic novels
• Gory scenes
• Horror stories
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*****SPOILERS*****
About the book:
A pair of twisted siblings—Yuuma, a young man obsessed with the devil, and Chizumi, the worst little sister in recorded history—cause all sorts of terrifying and tragic things to happen wherever they go. These scary short stories will shock you with a literal interpretation of the ills that plague modern society.
Chapters:
1. Dissolving Classroom
2. Meet Again
3. Children of the Earth
4. Worshipping Beauty (Dissolving Beauty)
5. Dissolving Apartment
6. Chizumi's Dissolving Love
7. The Demon's Conference
Release Date: December 19th, 2014
Genre: Horror graphic novel
Pages: 181
Rating: ⭐ ⭐
What I Liked:
1. The art
What I Didn't Like:
1. Too repetitive
2. Not a good story
Overall Thoughts:
Started off good and I was interested in knowing what was happening BUT it just got so repetitive that it made it boring.
The story behind the gory scenes felt lackluster and not good. So much of the story felt surface level and generic.
I hated the storyline that Yuuma murdered in the name of the Devil because what's the point? So he prayed & worshipped the devil and now he can melt people? But why? How does melting people's faces do anything for the devil? Is it to show The devil that he'll kill for him?
Like I said it just felt more like the art came first and the author rushed to throw a story into it.
Final Thoughts: Just okay. I liked the gory scenes because he does gory scenes to perfection, but the story just wasn't there for me.
Recommend For:
• Graphic novels
• Gory scenes
• Horror stories
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December 18, 2022
4.5. Now I’m scared of apologies 😳
May 5, 2019
3.5 Stars
I am a huge fan of Junji Ito’s graphic works so I have been reading through his entire translated collection this year. Unfortunately, this was one of his weaker stories. The manga was weird, dark and gruesome, as I have come to expect from this author. However, the story was overly simple and underdeveloped. This was a still a decent horror graphic work, but I would personally recommend reading Junji Ito’s more popular mangas first.
I am a huge fan of Junji Ito’s graphic works so I have been reading through his entire translated collection this year. Unfortunately, this was one of his weaker stories. The manga was weird, dark and gruesome, as I have come to expect from this author. However, the story was overly simple and underdeveloped. This was a still a decent horror graphic work, but I would personally recommend reading Junji Ito’s more popular mangas first.
May 14, 2019
*7*
Mucho mejor de lo que me esperaba! Hacía bastante que no leía nada de Ito y este tomo único me ha recordado porque me gusta tanto el autor💙
El tomo consta de muchas historias cortas relacionadas entre sí y tres mini mini historietas de un par de páginas como mucho. No me ha provocado el terror y la ansiedad de Uzumaki ni de la maldita historia corta de los agujeros que nunca superaré. Sin embargo me ha hecho dejar de mirar en muchas viñetas por asco y repelús.
Recomiendo el tomo a toda persona que quiera iniciarse con el autor porque creo que lo posiciona muy bien, engancha muchísimo y no se hace para nada largo o pesado.
La edición de Tomodomo es una pasada, con bastantes páginas a color, tapas como si fuera un libro satánico y como regalito una mascarilla super chula😍
Mil gracias a mi queridísimo Curripipi por regalarme el tomo por el amigo invisible porque acertó de pleno!!!💞
Mucho mejor de lo que me esperaba! Hacía bastante que no leía nada de Ito y este tomo único me ha recordado porque me gusta tanto el autor💙
El tomo consta de muchas historias cortas relacionadas entre sí y tres mini mini historietas de un par de páginas como mucho. No me ha provocado el terror y la ansiedad de Uzumaki ni de la maldita historia corta de los agujeros que nunca superaré. Sin embargo me ha hecho dejar de mirar en muchas viñetas por asco y repelús.
Recomiendo el tomo a toda persona que quiera iniciarse con el autor porque creo que lo posiciona muy bien, engancha muchísimo y no se hace para nada largo o pesado.
La edición de Tomodomo es una pasada, con bastantes páginas a color, tapas como si fuera un libro satánico y como regalito una mascarilla super chula😍
Mil gracias a mi queridísimo Curripipi por regalarme el tomo por el amigo invisible porque acertó de pleno!!!💞
March 18, 2017
Reading this was almost like reading Tomie, in the sense that a character (in this case two characters) go around ruining people's' lives and causing their deaths. Also like Tomie, this manga was kind of funny, in a very dark and creepy way. Chizumi was a very entertaining character and Yuuma was somewhat annoying with the way he apologizes all the time and causes people to melt. They were also thought-provoking, for example the way people all over the world put so much emphasis on beauty and apologizing too much. Overall I was very entertained with this creepy duo, even if it was never fully explained who was telling the truth, but that is to be expected from Junji Ito.
February 7, 2017
Not as good as Uzumaki and Tomie but still an enjoyable disgusting read
December 11, 2022
First of all, I'M SORRY—don't worry I don't have previous relations with the big D, so you're safe. Calm down.
Anyway, I don't know if it was the hype that pushed my expectations to something unreachable, but I was really satisfied with the poetic ending of Uzumaki; the reason why I started adoring Junji Ito... but with this one, I just couldn't. It was predictable, with a kind of anti-climactic moment [for me.] It felt incomplete with fill-in-the-blank moments and was so half-baked. Nonetheless, I did enjoy this one. I just thought there was more to it than "regular people hearing apologies and melting away for the devil's entertainment."
Anyway, I don't know if it was the hype that pushed my expectations to something unreachable, but I was really satisfied with the poetic ending of Uzumaki; the reason why I started adoring Junji Ito... but with this one, I just couldn't. It was predictable, with a kind of anti-climactic moment [for me.] It felt incomplete with fill-in-the-blank moments and was so half-baked. Nonetheless, I did enjoy this one. I just thought there was more to it than "regular people hearing apologies and melting away for the devil's entertainment."
July 2, 2023
3.5⭐️ This is my first Junji Ito book. It won't be my last, but I was a little disappointed. Yuuma and Chizumi are ALL kinds of wrong (just the right level of gory horror I was looking for), but this did get repetitive towards the end.
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January 15, 2019
Was interesting at first, but got a bit repetitive.
June 17, 2023
"I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW I TRULY REGRET THIS, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. I'M SO SORRY! I'M SO SORRY! I'M SO VERY SORRY!"
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