Junji Ito
author profile
born
July 01, 1963
gender
male
place of birth
Gifu Prefecture, Japan
genre
Comics & Graphic Novels, Horror, Mystery & Thrillers
influences
H.P. Lovecraft, Kazuo Umezu
about this author
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga.
The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder e...more
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avg rating: 4.10
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| 13 distinct works
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Uzumaki (Volume 1) by Junji Ito avg rating 4.23 — 201 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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Uzumaki (Volume 2) by Junji Ito avg rating 4.18 — 153 ratings — published 2002 4 editions |
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Uzumaki (Volume 3) by Junji Ito avg rating 4.19 — 147 ratings — published 2002 3 editions |
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Gyo, Volume 1 by Junji Ito avg rating 3.82 — 83 ratings — published 2003 4 editions |
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Gyo, Volume 2 by Junji Ito avg rating 3.94 — 69 ratings — published 2004 3 editions |
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Museum of Terror (Volume 1) by Junji Ito avg rating 4.04 — 47 ratings — published 2006 |
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Tomie, Volume 1 by Junji Ito avg rating 4.03 — 29 ratings — published 2001 3 editions |
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Museum of Terror, Volume 3 by Junji Ito avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 2006 |
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Flesh Colored Horror by Junji Ito avg rating 3.77 — 30 ratings — published 2001 |
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Museum of Terror (Volume 2) by Junji Ito avg rating 4.00 — 26 ratings — published 2006 |
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