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Cat Eyed Boy #1
Cat Eyed Boy, Vol. 1
Cat-Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child who mostly resembles a human, and therefore cannot live in the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by both demons and humans. But wherever he goes, awful events occur. Humans interact with demons, but for the most part it is the humans that appear to act more evil than the monsters. Cat-Eyed Boy acts like Trickster, saving the innocent and helping the wicked receive the punishment that fate metes out. The stories are mostly tales of revenge and retribution for the evil acts people do. The series is broken into 11 individual stories, full of extremely grotesque and disturbing images.
532 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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Kazuo Umezu
131 books307 followersKazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz was a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of horror manga and has been vital for its development, considered the "god of horror manga". In 1960s shōjo manga like Reptilia, he broke the industry's conventions by combining the aesthetics of the commercial manga industry with gruesome visual imagery inspired by Japanese folktales, which created a boom of horror manga and influenced manga artists of following generations. He created successful manga series such as The Drifting Classroom, Makoto-chan and My Name Is Shingo, until he retired from drawing manga in the mid 1990s. He was a public figure in Japan, known for wearing red-and-white-striped shirts and doing his signature "Gwash" hand gesture.
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February 5, 2025
Es un manga extraño dirigido a los niños japoneses de los años 60, así que hay muchas diferencias culturales que el público occidental no va a entender. Si el lector está familiarizado con el folclore de allí y con los cuentos infantiles macabros en general, podrá descifrar mejor la naturaleza de los monstruos que pueblan estas páginas. En el fondo, lo que subyace es una lección acerca de las falsas apariencias y de los prejuicios, pero aquí no suele haber finales felices y tampoco hay momentos en los que la gente se redima, a los personajes les suceden tragedias causadas por fuerzas sobrenaturales y punto, tanto a los que son culpables como a los inocentes. El chico gato se dedica a ser un espectador de estos fenómenos y cuando interviene para salvar vidas él también es perseguido y es malinterpretado por la sociedad. Lo mejor son los dibujos de los yokai, Kazuo Umezo debió de nutrirse de muchas ilustraciones antiguas y dejó volar su creatividad, porque consigue crear figuras deformadas muy inquietantes.
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It's a strange manga aimed at Japanese kids in the '60s, so there are a lot of cultural differences that Western audiences won't understand. If the reader is familiar with the folklore there and with macabre children's stories in general, they will be able to better decipher the nature of the monsters that populate these pages. Deep down, what underlies it is a lesson about false appearances and prejudices, but here there are usually no happy endings and there are no moments in which people redeem themselves, tragedies happen to the characters caused by supernatural forces and that's it, both to those who are guilty and to the innocent. The cat boy is dedicated to being a spectator of these phenomena and when he intervenes to save lives he is also persecuted and is misinterpreted by society. The best are the yokai drawings, Kazuo Umezo must have drawn on many old illustrations and let his creativity fly, because he creates very disturbing deformed figures.
ENGLISH
It's a strange manga aimed at Japanese kids in the '60s, so there are a lot of cultural differences that Western audiences won't understand. If the reader is familiar with the folklore there and with macabre children's stories in general, they will be able to better decipher the nature of the monsters that populate these pages. Deep down, what underlies it is a lesson about false appearances and prejudices, but here there are usually no happy endings and there are no moments in which people redeem themselves, tragedies happen to the characters caused by supernatural forces and that's it, both to those who are guilty and to the innocent. The cat boy is dedicated to being a spectator of these phenomena and when he intervenes to save lives he is also persecuted and is misinterpreted by society. The best are the yokai drawings, Kazuo Umezo must have drawn on many old illustrations and let his creativity fly, because he creates very disturbing deformed figures.
April 9, 2017
My first encounter with the works of Kazuo Umezu occurred with The Drifting Classroom. In that series, a massive earthquake struck a school and the entire building disappeared leaving only a massive whole in its wake. The entire staff and all of the students became trapped in a dangerous alternate reality where they began to turn on each other in their fight to survive. The series was broken up into various situations that the children had to overcome and the brutality they had to face from the teachers who began loosing their minds.
Cat Eyed Boy is a series of short stories about a goblin/human child rejected by both groups and forced to live as an orphan hiding in the attics of humans. Wherever he goes, terrifying situations occur involving humans and demons. Cat Eyed Boy tries to help the humans and fights against the demons plaguing their world. As a show of thanks, they hurl insults and rocks at him and attempt to kill him. They blame all the evil that befalls them on his presence.
Cat Eyed Boy is more grotesque than horror. I felt more compassion for the boy than the humans in this book with the possible exception of Mimi, the young woman who tried to protect him and raise him as her own child. She was pretty much the only decent human being within the pages. Everyone else seems to react so violently to things that are different and that frighten them. In one instance a father actually strikes his son and starts to choke him because he had the nerve to speak out against his family's greed.
Kazuo Umezu has a unique art style that works well with this genre. His goblin/demon creatures are creative and grotesque but sometimes the humans in his works, especially the children, tend to look very similar to each other. Cat Eyed Boy was an interesting character. In The Tsunami Summoners, my favorite story in this volume, we get to see the backstory of the boy and how he came to be an orphan on the streets.
Cat Eyed Boy's story continues in volume two which I do not currently own but will eventually pick up. If you are looking to try this mangaka's work I would suggest beginning with The Drifting Classroom.
Cat Eyed Boy is a series of short stories about a goblin/human child rejected by both groups and forced to live as an orphan hiding in the attics of humans. Wherever he goes, terrifying situations occur involving humans and demons. Cat Eyed Boy tries to help the humans and fights against the demons plaguing their world. As a show of thanks, they hurl insults and rocks at him and attempt to kill him. They blame all the evil that befalls them on his presence.
Cat Eyed Boy is more grotesque than horror. I felt more compassion for the boy than the humans in this book with the possible exception of Mimi, the young woman who tried to protect him and raise him as her own child. She was pretty much the only decent human being within the pages. Everyone else seems to react so violently to things that are different and that frighten them. In one instance a father actually strikes his son and starts to choke him because he had the nerve to speak out against his family's greed.
Kazuo Umezu has a unique art style that works well with this genre. His goblin/demon creatures are creative and grotesque but sometimes the humans in his works, especially the children, tend to look very similar to each other. Cat Eyed Boy was an interesting character. In The Tsunami Summoners, my favorite story in this volume, we get to see the backstory of the boy and how he came to be an orphan on the streets.
Cat Eyed Boy's story continues in volume two which I do not currently own but will eventually pick up. If you are looking to try this mangaka's work I would suggest beginning with The Drifting Classroom.
July 13, 2025
Second half of this got more interesting, guess I have to grab the second volume
March 12, 2022
A donde vaya el niño de los ojos de gato pasan cosas terribles, es como si tras de él caminara el terror, el misterio y la desgracia.
Condenado a estar sólo, a caminar sin rumbo y sin destino, el chico con los ojos de gato va dejando a su paso un velo de misterio.
Este manga es un desfile de Yokais, una muestra de ese inmenso mundo sobrenatural japonés.
Condenado a estar sólo, a caminar sin rumbo y sin destino, el chico con los ojos de gato va dejando a su paso un velo de misterio.
Este manga es un desfile de Yokais, una muestra de ese inmenso mundo sobrenatural japonés.
June 5, 2020
Tiene páginas y diseños muy interesantes, pero a nivel narrativo ha envejecido bastante mal. Se hace muy repetitivo y cuesta terminarlo. Una pena, es del tipo de bizarradas que me gustan.
Me parecería injusto, eso sí, no mencionar la magnífica edición de Satori. Así da gusto leer cualquier cosa, incluso las que no te encandilan.
Me parecería injusto, eso sí, no mencionar la magnífica edición de Satori. Así da gusto leer cualquier cosa, incluso las que no te encandilan.
March 16, 2012
After the ten volumes of zany, vicious, fevered violence in Umezu's The Drifting Classroom, I found this collection of stories a bit tame. The Cat Eyed Boy joins the ranks of Japanese manga characters who hide out in people's homes. Hideshi Hino has Oninbo, the tiny fellow who builds his cocoon in people's attics while he waits for the bug from hell infecting one of the family member's to mature to a size worth devouring. He's a good guy. In Umezu's Orochi: Blood there is the little girl who lives behind the curtains and in the empty rooms of a mansion whose residents she watches over. Her only problem is that if she falls asleep, it could be for fifteen minutes or fifteen years.
The Cat Eyed Boy, rejected by society because of his scary appearance, wanders the city, looking for a place to hide out. The attics he finds invariably turn out to be in houses where strange things begin to occur. Events are strange but not very interesting, with the exception of The Tsunami Summoners. These are rocks washed up on the shore that turn into hairy, screeching monsters that bring disaster wherever they appear.
Monsters are the visual strong point in these stories. The Drifting Classroom was an almost monster-free tale, with the visual excitement coming from scenes of elementary-age children going at one another with clubs and homemade spears, reverting to cannibalism, or dying in ways that ranged from bubonic plague to exposure. For The Cat Eyed Boy Umezu lets his monster-making talents run rampant. They hop, they scream, they travel in packs of one hundred. But the narratives remain bland, and the hero is not particularly engaging.
The Cat Eyed Boy, rejected by society because of his scary appearance, wanders the city, looking for a place to hide out. The attics he finds invariably turn out to be in houses where strange things begin to occur. Events are strange but not very interesting, with the exception of The Tsunami Summoners. These are rocks washed up on the shore that turn into hairy, screeching monsters that bring disaster wherever they appear.
Monsters are the visual strong point in these stories. The Drifting Classroom was an almost monster-free tale, with the visual excitement coming from scenes of elementary-age children going at one another with clubs and homemade spears, reverting to cannibalism, or dying in ways that ranged from bubonic plague to exposure. For The Cat Eyed Boy Umezu lets his monster-making talents run rampant. They hop, they scream, they travel in packs of one hundred. But the narratives remain bland, and the hero is not particularly engaging.
August 14, 2021
Stumbled upon this at the local library. Thought it was a Junji Ito related thing, and now I see (some of) my ignorance. Umezu-san, still alive at this point, predates Ito-san....and indeed was a live during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So that's some serious horror right there. Also I now see there is a Classroom connection between the two, what was once Drifting ultimately becomes Dissolving. So I'm surrendering myself here as an acolyte.
Anyways in volume 1, the Cat Eyed-Boy is like a homeless, orphan residing in either unsuspecting people's attics, or maybe just their subconscious. This collection has doppelgangers (think Face-Off but with cat eyes) as well as a couple of interesting mirrors, both the one the CE Boy seems himself in, as well as the legendary manga artist tale.
There still is a sense that as monstrous as we become, we are still humans. Maybe even moreso, and that might tie to the landscape Umezu grew up in. And I stand by the notion that in Japanese comics/manga misdeeds are meted out punishment in some more supernatural, karmic manner...even though Cat Eyed-Boy may be involved, he is role is more as witness than as avenger.
So that's some serious horror right there. Also I now see there is a Classroom connection between the two, what was once Drifting ultimately becomes Dissolving. So I'm surrendering myself here as an acolyte.
Anyways in volume 1, the Cat Eyed-Boy is like a homeless, orphan residing in either unsuspecting people's attics, or maybe just their subconscious. This collection has doppelgangers (think Face-Off but with cat eyes) as well as a couple of interesting mirrors, both the one the CE Boy seems himself in, as well as the legendary manga artist tale.
There still is a sense that as monstrous as we become, we are still humans. Maybe even moreso, and that might tie to the landscape Umezu grew up in. And I stand by the notion that in Japanese comics/manga misdeeds are meted out punishment in some more supernatural, karmic manner...even though Cat Eyed-Boy may be involved, he is role is more as witness than as avenger.
October 13, 2014
This is the second manga I've read from Kazuo Umezu and I just didn't care for it. It was like little kid horror and yet it wasn't because it had cat eyed boy peeing on a dead guy. I don't know. Nothing in here was scary.
Cat Eyed Boy is a goblin. In the first story you find out that when he was born he looked too much like a human to pass for a goblin so the goblin people wanted to kill him. He was whisked out of the forest and placed on a spinster's doorstep. She pledged to care for the boy, but the village people thought it a monster and harassed the lady and the boy.
This manga is made up of 5 stories. All involving some kind of monster and cat eyed boy as the "hero" he claims he doesn't care one bit about the victims but wants to help anyways. It was all very bland.
I didn't like that all of illustrations were practically the same. Every story had a boy in it that looked just like the main character boy from each story. The boy even looked identical to the other manga I read from the same author.
I'm not sure if I'll be continuing these manga series.
Cat Eyed Boy is a goblin. In the first story you find out that when he was born he looked too much like a human to pass for a goblin so the goblin people wanted to kill him. He was whisked out of the forest and placed on a spinster's doorstep. She pledged to care for the boy, but the village people thought it a monster and harassed the lady and the boy.
This manga is made up of 5 stories. All involving some kind of monster and cat eyed boy as the "hero" he claims he doesn't care one bit about the victims but wants to help anyways. It was all very bland.
I didn't like that all of illustrations were practically the same. Every story had a boy in it that looked just like the main character boy from each story. The boy even looked identical to the other manga I read from the same author.
I'm not sure if I'll be continuing these manga series.
April 3, 2021
Creo que las dos primeras historias, aunque con una buena trama (y profunda reflexión), tienen un estilo algo inmaduro del autor. Da demasiadas explicaciones al lector de todo lo que está ocurriendo a pesar de que es visible en las ilustraciones. Pasado un tercio del tomo, este detalle se suaviza y las historias se vuelven algo más complejas. Es llamativo que, a pesar de que las criaturas que aparecen en este manga son vengativas y dañinas, son los humanos los que hacen un uso exacerbado de violencia y estupidez. Al protagonista le falta algo más de personalidad y carisma. Aún así me ha parecido un personaje súper tierno y que quiero adoptar. Ojalá se meta en buhardilla a vivir :3
Por cierto, la edición de Satori es una hermosura 💖
Por cierto, la edición de Satori es una hermosura 💖
December 9, 2021
¡Qué maravilloso personaje el chico de los ojos de gato! Se quiere hacer el indiferente por momentos hasta que te das cuenta de que tiene una conciencia de la justicia mayor que muchos "humanos".
Si solo quieres pasarla bien, este manga te va a encantar, porque cada episodio cuenta con personajes distintos siempre metidos en líos y atacados por seres paranormales. Sin embargo, si quieres una lectura compleja que critique aspectos de la sociedad contemporánea, eso también lo vas a encontrar aquí.
Profundo cuando es necesario, divertido, con cuotas altas de misterio, este es un manga que me ha permitido ver la inteligencia de Kazuo Umezz ❤
¡Nos vamos por el volumen 2!!!
Si solo quieres pasarla bien, este manga te va a encantar, porque cada episodio cuenta con personajes distintos siempre metidos en líos y atacados por seres paranormales. Sin embargo, si quieres una lectura compleja que critique aspectos de la sociedad contemporánea, eso también lo vas a encontrar aquí.
Profundo cuando es necesario, divertido, con cuotas altas de misterio, este es un manga que me ha permitido ver la inteligencia de Kazuo Umezz ❤
¡Nos vamos por el volumen 2!!!
April 13, 2009
I love Kazuo Umezu's work. Even though I'm not traditionally a real manga person, his comics have the best mixture of horror and comedy ever. The imaginative demons he creates in these works are so fantastic and I love the folk tale style of the narrative, even if the writing has some weaknesses. I can't wait to see more of Umezu's work translated into English.
March 3, 2021
Lo he disfrutado más de lo que esperaba en un principio. En la línea de Kitaro de Mizuki o de algunos mangas de Hideshi Hino pero más loco. Tiene algo como de escritura automática, pareciera que dibujase lo primero que se le pasa por la cabeza, siempre dentro de lo escabroso, desborda imaginación.
June 7, 2020
No me convencieron demasiado las dos primeras historias, pero me han terminado ganando cuando le he visto la gracia a este Astro Boy macabro y gamberro atrapado entre la sartén de una sociedad repleta de prejuicios y el fuego de unos yokais que acechan desde sus márgenes. Al final son historietas un poco fórmula, pero las ocurrencias de Umezz para plantar a los monstruos son tan marcianas (yokais que inducen tsunamis; un sindicato de yokais que dicen ser humanos XD) como los dibujos.
July 18, 2011
While I wait for more Junji Ito manga to arrive, I had to feed my sudden horror manga addiction with something, so I picked up some stuff by Kazuo Umezu, who I had never previously heard of but who is apparently the godfather of horror manga and a big influence on Junji Ito. My local library had this and The Drifting Classroom, so I'll probably be reading that next.
This wasn't as much my bag as the Junji Ito stuff, but it was still frequently pretty great. Definitely incredibly weird. The art is old-school manga style, so it looks a lot like, say, Astro Boy or something like that, but in spite of that and the kid-aged protagonists, its incredibly gruesome.
I really liked some of the monsters, and I liked the conceit of having Cat-Eyed Boy be sort of both protagonist and narrator, like an old horror comic host who sometimes got caught up in the action. My favorite story in the book might be the first one "The Immortal Man," but there were some great monsters and grotesques in later installments. I'm a little sad that they split one of the stories (which was obviously very long) having the first part of it take up about half this volume, and the second part of it conclude in the next volume. Seems like they could have put all the standalone stories together in a volume, and then made the long story a volume on its own or something.
Anyway, aside from The Drifting Classroom I've got some other Kazuo Umezu stuff coming, and I'll also read the second volume of this, because I am certainly intrigued.
I really love the layout of this book. From the crazy poster-design cover art to the weird monster house art on the inside of the covers, this book definitely looks spectacular.
This wasn't as much my bag as the Junji Ito stuff, but it was still frequently pretty great. Definitely incredibly weird. The art is old-school manga style, so it looks a lot like, say, Astro Boy or something like that, but in spite of that and the kid-aged protagonists, its incredibly gruesome.
I really liked some of the monsters, and I liked the conceit of having Cat-Eyed Boy be sort of both protagonist and narrator, like an old horror comic host who sometimes got caught up in the action. My favorite story in the book might be the first one "The Immortal Man," but there were some great monsters and grotesques in later installments. I'm a little sad that they split one of the stories (which was obviously very long) having the first part of it take up about half this volume, and the second part of it conclude in the next volume. Seems like they could have put all the standalone stories together in a volume, and then made the long story a volume on its own or something.
Anyway, aside from The Drifting Classroom I've got some other Kazuo Umezu stuff coming, and I'll also read the second volume of this, because I am certainly intrigued.
I really love the layout of this book. From the crazy poster-design cover art to the weird monster house art on the inside of the covers, this book definitely looks spectacular.
August 22, 2020
A frightening (yet also kind of charming and, at times, cute) anthology of increasingly interconnected horror stories. Each story follows the titular Cat Eyed Boy and the many monstrous beings he meets along his journeys as he travels from one attic hideaway to the next.
Interestingly, though he meets some truly disturbing and disgusting monsters, often, the most monstrous characters are the humans who shun the Cat Eyed Boy who is more often than not just trying to intervene on behalf of the people. Because the Cat Eyed Boy looks like a monster, he is treated like one. This subversion makes reading through this story collection a more complex experience than its deceivingly simple style would imply at first glance.
Interestingly, though he meets some truly disturbing and disgusting monsters, often, the most monstrous characters are the humans who shun the Cat Eyed Boy who is more often than not just trying to intervene on behalf of the people. Because the Cat Eyed Boy looks like a monster, he is treated like one. This subversion makes reading through this story collection a more complex experience than its deceivingly simple style would imply at first glance.
May 2, 2022
Simply delightful! Way weirder and much more my speed compared to Umezu’s “Drifting Classroom”. It’s a monster of the week sort of setup with a variety of yokai ghoulie guys. The cat-eyed boy himself is fun, too. He goes around getting into mischief because he’s part butthead kid and part demon, and he permanently has that goofy Neko Arc “:3”-style cat face. Also there’s something about the aesthetic of ‘60s/‘70s manga that’s really charming. It reminds me of watching old Ultraman episodes in middle school.
December 23, 2009
Ok so the first 2 chapters were kinda dull. Seemed like this Cat-Eyed Boy basically hid in people's attacks that were being attacked by ugly-ass demons and got beat up and bit a lot by the demons.
Once they explained what the hell it was, it made a little more sense. I do have to read Volume 2 now. It kinda got me hooked.
Once they explained what the hell it was, it made a little more sense. I do have to read Volume 2 now. It kinda got me hooked.
November 14, 2020
One of the more laid back Umezu reads out there focusing more on folk lore than utterly messed up, somnambulist dream horror. Still completely delivers on all the discomfort you'd expect for him and some of the art rivals anything in Ito's bestiary of the bizarre.
Shoutout to the Rampo Edogawa...erm...shoutout too!
Shoutout to the Rampo Edogawa...erm...shoutout too!
April 9, 2021
Can a book be ghoulish and cute at the same time?? Well this manga is. A collection of creepy stories with the focus of a strange cat eyed boy somehow involved or witnessing the events.
Very original! Great artwork. Unfortunately, it is out of print, so buying this would be expensive. I was able to borrow it thru an interlibrary loan.
Very original! Great artwork. Unfortunately, it is out of print, so buying this would be expensive. I was able to borrow it thru an interlibrary loan.
December 22, 2021
3 1/2 stars--While not a fan of manga (the way the panels have to be read disorients me and kills some of the joy--but that's on me!), this series is so surreal and the monsters so inventively designed, that I ended up digging it quite a bit.
August 16, 2020
3.5 ★
March 2, 2020
I don't know what was I expecting from this manga but it wasn't this, definitely. The stories featured here aren't a bit scary, I would describe them more like "gross". The monsters - goblins are pretty much despited as something disgusting in most cases since the majority were born with an ugly face or with distorted facial features, which made them the neighborhood's target to bully them. At the start of some stories you would even empathize with them, they are just being bullied because they're ugly and seen as monsters but in the end they would just show that not only they are ugly outside but inside too. What really made them ugly is the way they think about everyone else deep in their hearts and they try to take "revenge" on people who treated them bad. Others just try to ruin someone's else life because in the end that person was also bad and ugly in their hearts. So, what does the cat eyed boy, the main character, has to do with this? I still don't know. The second or third chapter tell the background story on for why is he like that and how was his life before starting roaming the street and taking shelter in different houses but the only thing he does most of the time is watch from afar other people suffering with the goblins. The stories are enjoyable, but it seems that every place he goes he brings chaos too. Sometimes he tries to medle and do something to help them to just being rejected by everyone because he resembles the goblins and he is "scary". But I feel like the stories would be almost the same without him.
May 27, 2025
Realmente no había leído nada de Kazuo Umezz antes, pero me enteré que era un maestro del terror del manga y decidí darle una oportunidad.
En este primer tomo conoceremos al chico de los ojos de gato, mitad humano y mitad gato, es rechazado allá donde va y se refugia en los desvanes de casas o donde pueda estar oculto de las personas en general. En su camino será testigo de cosas muy extrañas, horrores bizarros y hechos sin explicación.
El trazo de las ilustraciones en ocasiones me recordó a otro maestro del manga del terror: Junji Ito, al igual que las situaciones poco usuales. Hace que te enganches bastante y no puedas parar de leer. Las historias se supone que son autoconclusivas pero van como separadas en partes, y a pesar de que el manga tiene más de 500 páginas se lee rápido, yo me lo tomé con calma para ver con detalles las ilustraciones.
Si os gustan los mangas de este tipo con demonios, sangre, desmembramientos y demás, os lo recomiendo.
En este primer tomo conoceremos al chico de los ojos de gato, mitad humano y mitad gato, es rechazado allá donde va y se refugia en los desvanes de casas o donde pueda estar oculto de las personas en general. En su camino será testigo de cosas muy extrañas, horrores bizarros y hechos sin explicación.
El trazo de las ilustraciones en ocasiones me recordó a otro maestro del manga del terror: Junji Ito, al igual que las situaciones poco usuales. Hace que te enganches bastante y no puedas parar de leer. Las historias se supone que son autoconclusivas pero van como separadas en partes, y a pesar de que el manga tiene más de 500 páginas se lee rápido, yo me lo tomé con calma para ver con detalles las ilustraciones.
Si os gustan los mangas de este tipo con demonios, sangre, desmembramientos y demás, os lo recomiendo.
November 30, 2024
This wasn't a bad horror manga, but Junji Ito has spoiled me as I expect all horror manga to be as good as his work. This was somewhat similar, but I didn't enjoy it as much. The Cat Eyed Boy appears in all of the stories, and at first I thought he would be more of a Rod Serling type character used to introduce the stories. However, he's actually the main character of most of the stories, and that changes the entire dynamic.
I still like the series, but the artwork is more "cartoony" than I'm used to for horror. Kazuo Umezu is considered a master of the genre, and his work predates Junji Ito's and I think Ito considers him an influence. Overall, good horror manga but not my favorite. I will be reading volume two, however, as this volume ends on a cliffhanger.
I still like the series, but the artwork is more "cartoony" than I'm used to for horror. Kazuo Umezu is considered a master of the genre, and his work predates Junji Ito's and I think Ito considers him an influence. Overall, good horror manga but not my favorite. I will be reading volume two, however, as this volume ends on a cliffhanger.
March 5, 2024
I wish I had read this before I read Orochi. It’s a good reminder that I should probably focus on reading through Umezz’ work before I continue on with any Ito since he took A LOT of ‘creative liberty’ from him.
Cat Eyes Boy himself is just a harbinger of doom. He doesn’t realllly mean it, but also loves the chaos. I appreciate his antics.
These short stories are honestly just so gross. It’s refreshing to read scary stories that doesn’t feel cheesy, rather they make you think and the art makes your skin crawl. Umezz is too good at making the art do the talking. Thanks bro, I appreciate the nightmare fuel.
Cat Eyes Boy himself is just a harbinger of doom. He doesn’t realllly mean it, but also loves the chaos. I appreciate his antics.
These short stories are honestly just so gross. It’s refreshing to read scary stories that doesn’t feel cheesy, rather they make you think and the art makes your skin crawl. Umezz is too good at making the art do the talking. Thanks bro, I appreciate the nightmare fuel.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 9, 2026
Umezz es uno de mis placeres culpables: nunca hay que tomárselo muy en serio porque sus guiones son tramposos y absurdos, al servicio del puro entretenimiento.
Suelo disfrutarlo mucho, pero la verdad es que El chico de los ojos de gato se me ha hecho muy pesado porque ahí están sus mayores defectos pero no sus virtudes: el personaje protagonista no tiene la mala baba ni el carisma que encontramos en otras obras suyas como la genial Bautismo, y las historias tienen ese regusto a refrito mil veces vistos con más gracia en otros mangas bizarros (admito que muchos de ellos posteriores a esta obra, todo hay que decirlo) y con un tufillo demasiado infantil.
Recomendable para incondicionales de Umezz, pero desde luego no lo recomendaría como toma de contacto con el autor.
Suelo disfrutarlo mucho, pero la verdad es que El chico de los ojos de gato se me ha hecho muy pesado porque ahí están sus mayores defectos pero no sus virtudes: el personaje protagonista no tiene la mala baba ni el carisma que encontramos en otras obras suyas como la genial Bautismo, y las historias tienen ese regusto a refrito mil veces vistos con más gracia en otros mangas bizarros (admito que muchos de ellos posteriores a esta obra, todo hay que decirlo) y con un tufillo demasiado infantil.
Recomendable para incondicionales de Umezz, pero desde luego no lo recomendaría como toma de contacto con el autor.
October 26, 2022
Está entretenido.
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El protagonista es muy cuqui. Aunque más de una vez me ha hecho reír su gris moral. Me ha parecido súper interesante el hecho de que sea un Nekomata y vaya haciendo de las suyas, al final el bien, por las sociedades humanas.
La moral de las historias es contundente y no va hacia el buenismo, lo cual creo que inintencionadamente le da un toque salado divertido aofjjsjsj
Me gusta en ocasiones el estilo del autor. También me recordó a Soichi de Junji Ito... ¿Quizá este último cogió algunos elementos del chico de los ojos de Gato?
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Miau miau miau
El protagonista es muy cuqui. Aunque más de una vez me ha hecho reír su gris moral. Me ha parecido súper interesante el hecho de que sea un Nekomata y vaya haciendo de las suyas, al final el bien, por las sociedades humanas.
La moral de las historias es contundente y no va hacia el buenismo, lo cual creo que inintencionadamente le da un toque salado divertido aofjjsjsj
Me gusta en ocasiones el estilo del autor. También me recordó a Soichi de Junji Ito... ¿Quizá este último cogió algunos elementos del chico de los ojos de Gato?
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January 6, 2024
I think what kept me with Cat Eyed Boy was the art. It's horrific and spectacular. It has like some translation issues, a lot of the plots and writing are inconsistent and a lot of the background characters are recycled through for a lot of stories. Tone wise it picks up a more consistent rhythm towards the later stories. It's a fun time but the stories do have the habit of dragging on or ending abruptly. The best story I think is Cat Boy's origin but they're all pretty fun and have a gorey goosebumps vibe.
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