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No Longer Human

Junji Ito,

Osamu Dazai (Creator)

3.89 · Rating details · 9 ratings · 4 reviews

Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.

Mine has been a life of much shame.

I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for th/>Mine ...more

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Expected publication: December 17th 2019 by VIZ Media LLC

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Oct 29, 2019 destiny ♡⚔♡ [howling libraries] marked it as dnf

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DNF

I can't even tell you what page I dropped this on, because it would require me to open the file back up and scroll through for the page number, and I can't stomach that.

*** MAJOR CONTENT WARNINGS for on-page child sexual assault. ***

I had no idea this was going to feature child abuse and it came legitimately out of nowhere, twice within a couple of pages of each other — maybe more, I don't know. I got really sick to my stomach and upset and had to close it. Obviously, that's ...more

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Nov 01, 2019 Y.S. Stephen rated it really liked it

Though it doesn't position itself as such, I would still love to describe No Longer Human as a moral tale of some sorts. The work here lays bare some of the less-trodden (at least in fiction) paths on the nature of human interaction - with the world and within ourselves.

Not many fictional works espoused the demerits of self-subjugation and false humility. No Longer Human, through its protagonist, lays bare the downfall of raising other people's opinions above yours, not following yo ...more

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Oct 19, 2019 Harry Jahnke rated it it was amazing

I feel like you could teach an entire college course on this book. This was...good. Good and sad and horrifying and terrible and just so damn good. I want to make this a book club pick just so I can have a group to discuss it with. I loved the rawness of this book, the unforgiving sharp edges of it. Highly recommend.

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Oct 08, 2019 Giarrettiera rated it it was ok

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Brother Junji Ito overdid it. I read this before switching to Furuya's adaptation and found it hella boring.

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About Junji Ito

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Junji Itō (伊藤潤二) 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 succes Junji Itō (伊藤潤二) 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 each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.

Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.

His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.

Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.

In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema. ...more