JUNJI ITO - A Comprehensive Guide to the Horror Master's Manga Catalogue 

I read Uzumaki in a tent while camping, finished it at night during a pretty intense storm. I'll forever be chasing that feeling while reading horror.

Uzumaki was my introduction to Junji Ito and utterly blew me away

no longer human is a pure masterpiece, I'd say if anything it is the scariest of the Ito works because it shows the horrors of anxiety and social isolation. Showing that the true horror is within our own lives.

I literally went on youtube to search junji ito, only to find out that it was at the top of my recommended. Swear to God you read my mind

here’s a resume that he listed : (already released) 1. Uzumaki 2. Tomie 3. Gyo 4. Fragments of horror 5. Dissolving Classroom 6. Yon & Mu 7. Shiver 8. Franskenstein 9. Smashed 10. Lovesickness 11. No Longer Human 12. Venus in the blind spot 13. Remina 14. Sensor

One thing I noticed about Ito's page layout is it's well placed. I don't know if it's Ito himself but it seems he sets up a feeling of suspense and you turn the page and the shocking image is one the opposite page. It's like you hesitate to turn the page to see it.

UPDATE: LOVESICKNESS As mentioned in the video this new hardcover includes the five chapters of the Lovesickness (The Lovesick Dead) story as well as five additional stories. Those stories, and the Japanese volumes they come from are as follows; - The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: Narumi's Boyfriend - Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection Vol. 13: The Circus is Here - The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance - Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection Vol. 13: The Circus is Here - The Mansion of Phantom Pain - Museum of Terror Vol. 10: The Lovesick Dead - The Rib Woman - Museum of Terror Vol. 10: The Lovesick Dead - Memories of Real Poop - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 16: Frankenstein (this volume is now completely available in English) -- UPDATE: DESERTER This upcoming hardcover should be a direct English translation of the Masterpiece Collection: House of the Deserter, which itself collects everything from the long out of print English volume Long Hair in the Attic. The collected stories, and the Japanese volumes they come from should be as follows; - Bio-House - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 7: Slug Girl - The Face Burglar - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 4: The Face Burglar - Den of the Sleep Demon - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 10: House of the Marionettes - The Devil's Logic - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes - The Long Hair in the Attic - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 3: Flesh Colored Horror - Love as Scripted - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully - Sword of the Reanimator - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes - Heart of a Father - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully - Unbearable Maze - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes - The Village of Sirens - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 11: The Town Without Streets - The Bully - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully - House of the Deserter - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully Update: Kodansha is re-releasing Cat Diary in a hardcover volume with extra supplemental content. Update: Kodansha is re-releasing Dissolving Classroom in a hardcover volume as well.

I love how the dust cover when looked through the light makes Venus blurry like she's in the blind spot

you can already preorder junji itos next books: Lovesickness, Sensor, Deserter. all releasing until the end of 2021. So i think we got 4 Junji ito books this year! (im counting Remina too because in my region it arrived in January instead of the american release, which was before in December)

This channel is a gem

They can't stop printing his stuff in English until it's all out! I think this should be enshined in law somehow. Then somehow we need to invest all our technological progress in keeping Junji as healthy as possible for as long as possible so he can write tons more stuff, lol. I also desperately want to have a full Souichi book.

Those omnibus hardcovers are so nice, the colored artwork is so nice especially in venus in the blind spot. Such nice artwork

i've only read no longer human by him. jesus christ most incredible piece of art i have ever consumed, loved everything about it and left me depressed.

Can we talk about how great your intro is 😭✋

I was inspired here and picked up Gyo, Tomie and Uzumaki. Thanks.

I went out today and got Uzumaki from Barns&Noble I can't wait to read this horror manga by Junji Ito.

Thanks for doing this. I’m trying to get into manga. I’ve read Alita, Berserk, and Omni 1 of Gantz.

Uzumaki takes the cake when it comes to overall story-telling, and imagery. He absolutely out-did himself on that one, and it will forever be my favorite Junji Ito/horror manga also mainly since it was my introduction to being a manga reader in general. Always loved anime, but took me until only about a year ago to start reading manga.

Thank you! This is an amazing compilation of Junji Ito's work.

Thank you! This was so comprehensive and I really appreciate it as some one who just got into reading Ito's work and I want more!

I discovered your channel tonight and ive honestly been glued to your catalog of videos for the last 5 hours. You’ve shot immediately to my favorite manga RU-vidr, and I’ll be coming to your channel first and foremost for news, reviews, pickups, and ranking videos from now on. Keep up the fantastic work!! PS amazing collection, I have about 400 volumes rn and even that is overwhelming to keep up with, I couldn’t imagine reading a libraries worth. Legend.

Wow, there's a lot that haven't been published yet - nice! Fantastic video once again, very informative and enjoyable. I have only bought Uzumaki, Tomie and Shiver thus far but I'm planning on picking all of them up over some years.

I’m a huuuuge fan of all his work and this video was VERY handful. Immediately purchased like 4 of these books online. Thank you so much!

My manga collection consists basically of Monster by Naoki Urasawa, all Junji Ito work available in english and the adaptation of The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo lol

I love Junji Ito, I have every one of the Viz editions of his works and one art book. I knew about Lovesickness but I had no idea that there were two more scheduled after and I am so excited, thank you for pointing these out! I hope that Viz keeps up with the Ito collections and is able to release most if not all in English, I would buy every single one to complete my collection.

omg thank you for this! just earlier i decided to invest in junji ito’s work and was looking for a video with good information & this was at the top of my recommended!!

Amazing explantation/review! Immediately made me buy another one of Junji Ito's works

i watched this video right after finishing no longer human a couple months ago, which is my favorite piece of work of all time (the novel and the adaptation). Thank you so much for making such an amazing video about him. At the time of writing this I have read Uzumaki, Gyo, Dissolving Classroom, and Lovesickness and I can definitely say I am a HUGE fan of Ito's work. Keep up the amazing content specially with the stuff you've been doing on TikTok!

Super helpful guide, I was able to learn about a few of Ito's books that i was missing, thanks a lot, just subscribed💯

I love your videos like this! It’s so interesting to hear about all the different things a single mangaka does. I’m not into horror manga personally but this gave me the names of the ito volumes my boyfriend doesn’t have yet :)

super informative, thank you so much! I'm trying to collect all the junji ito works and this helps. new subscriber

Yes! Love it, gave me exactly the info needed

Great video ! I'm sitting on Gyo need to read that soon. Gonna be a march break treat I think !

I read Uzumaki back in middle school at the public library. Saw it on the shelf and was super curious. Ever since then it's been in my mind. I could forget about the book completely but then out of nowhere a few years later my brain is like "remember that horror book about spirals?" And I'm like "Uzumaki! I should read that again!"

I think this is the only complete and comprehensive guide to Junji Ito's works I've ever watched. I'm new to Junji Ito, bought Uzumaki a few months ago, blew me away, and now planning to collect all of those beautiful collections. This video helped a lot. Nice work!

I'm looking forward to collecting more of Itos work! Thank you for making this! ^_^

This is my first video from you and guess what? I'm now binging on all the rest 🥰 so glad I stumbled upon this vid. I'm an Ito fan myself and this is really helpful

Awesome guide to Ito! Also Viz published an Ito artbook last year that is amazing. I highly recommend it because his artwork is so amazing :)

Just to mention: there is a line of 5 Junji Ito Funko Pops coming out this month. I’m not really into Funko Pops, but the Tomie figure is kind of irresistible.

Really informative video. Just got into his work and enjoying them immensely

I've started collecting these myself now, so this was quite the helpful guide!

This was super comprehensive. Thanks so much! I didn't know about Deserter so I put it on my wishlist

I really hope viz media brings more of souichi’s stories the ones in smashed were very good

U really love these kind of video. Keep it up!

Thank you very much for this! I feel so overwhelmed by all the editions and work of Junji Ito there is! I started collecting the hard covers of Uzumaki, Tomie and Gyo, and had no idea about the other three which I sure will get soon! I also collected some of the editions ECC has launched. ECC is in Spanish, but they've got an 18 volume collection of Ito's short stories. Sadly, it's very difficult to find the box set and some of the volumes, because they're super slow with printing. I hope we could get something similar in English, so I can ordered them much easily.

Dude, thanks for the summarization of these releases. I didn’t know where to start when it came to his work released in the u.s.a.

This is such a helpful video, you should do more of these kinda videos for different manga series!

You are undoubtedly my favorite youtuber of all time. Your videos are very informative and definitely help me out when i don't know what to read.

Been waiting on this video!

Dude, just found your channel. Great content and awesome collection. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

love your reviews man keep it up

Amazing video as always. Keep doing this excelente work towards the manga “universe”.

The art is all over thr place and I love it. Super detailed that you had to pause reading to admire the lineart.

You reading the Question in the opening=instant subscribe. You clearly have excellent taste.

I didn't even know there was that much physical books from him lol.

this is my favorite video ever thank you so much

I’ve been looking for a guide like this!! The Wikipedia does a terrible job of delivering this information, thank you! I first learned about Junji Ito through a Reddit comment linking to the enigma of amigara fault in imgur. A long time after that I read the Smashed short story. Recently my girlfriend and I decided to start collecting the physical Junji Ito books, and so far we’ve gotten Gyo, Remina, Uzumaki, Smashed and No Longer Human. I’ve only read the first two fully and I’m a little ways into Uzumaki now.

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS REALLY HELPED ALOT

Started off with his cat diary and now I own 5 so far. Right now I am reading Remina. Can't wait to finish them all!!

Seen the art and absolutely fell in love with it. I have Uzumaki showing up tomorrow. Excited to dive into this world.

Awesome video. Learned about a lot of stuff I didn't know about despite having most of his American collection of books. How had I NOT heard of Rasputin, his longest work?! I hope that comes here soon. I've saving this video! Thanks!

Thanks for this. I'm currently collecting junji ito's books and im not familiar with all of his books that has been translated in English. So thanks to this i am looking forward to purchasing sensor and desserter as they are yet to be released by viz. This was very informative. The 101 to junji ito.

Thanks, this was very helpful, I got the hard copy omnibus volume and your description was right on point. Many of these are also available as E-books, though I have to admit I prefer the hard copy version.

Thank you for this! I also wanted to make that list! I hope we get the short story 'She's a Slow Walker' in a future book. It is set in the same universe of the 'I Am A Hero' manga series.

The manga shelves in the background look really amazing

Iv never read any of Junji Ito stories before but Iv known about his work for a long time and after this video, I think I’m about to go buy some of them now lol

Thank you for guiding me, now I understand clearly than ever!

This video was so helpful!!!! Thank you!!!

I’m hoping we get Black Paradox. Read it online a while back and it’s one of my favs of his I’d love in my collection. Great video man 👍

Love your manga videos

Thanks for this. I am just getting into Ito and got Tomie, but I may hold off on reading and look for Uzumaki. :)

I was gonna call out that you left out the other stories included in Gyo but you mentioned them 👍🏻

I started with Uzumaki, and haven't looked back. Lovesickness was awesome. I really loved the title story, I highly recommend it. Can't wait for more Ito to come out in the near future!

I really enjoyed this video. I know you mentioned making one for Hirohiko Araki. I’d love to see one for Osamu Tezuka too.

great rundown. I own a nice chunk of these but I never realized the collected anthologies had the different color covers compared to the ones pulled directly from Japanese language collections.

I currently have Uzumaki, Tomie, Gyo, No Longer Human and newest to my collection, Remina. Thanks for this guide since I'm going to collect every one of his works eventually. Edit: a week later and now I have added Smashed, Shiver and Loveless to the collection!

Uzumaki was my introduction to Junji Ito and I loved it! Mostly the ending. It was so beautifully done and it's very open-ended as well.

I tried looking into this myself and it was so confusing, this is really helpful

Thank you for this vid I’m going to start with uzumaki since I’ve heard a lot about it and it’s getting a anime adaptation soon :)

As an Ito fan who's read most of his work (including the untranslated short stories), I'll give some advice. If you're new to Ito, without exception, Uzumaki should be your way-in. It's by far, the most well-known of his stories, and it's pretty good. If you're a bit more experienced with Ito, however, going so far as to read Gyo, and the entire Junji Ito collection fan translated; I highly recommend you check out "Black Paradox," which is one of Ito's medium-length stories, which lasts for a few chapters. EDIT: In the Deserter Volume, which will be released this Winter, I believe we will be getting most of the stories from the "Junji Ito Collection: The Bully," which coincidentally features "The Deserter," as well as some of Ito's earliest works. My guess as to the stories in this volume: (For anyone familiar with the Mueseum of Terror Vol 3 Release of Ito, which is currently $1,000s of dollars anywhere online, it will be featuring most the stories in that collection. This is my guess: -The Deserter (Confirmed) -The Bully (High-likelihood) -Heart of a Father (High-likelihood; also my favorite Ito story of all time) -The Will (Based on the line "A pair of girls look alike, but they aren't twins" ; good guess) -Sword of the Reanimator (Good guess) So that's potentially 5/12 of the stories in this Volume Now, let me talk about key differences and stories that belong to The Bully anthology, that won't be included: -Love as Scripted (Already in SHIVER's release) And that's pretty much it Despite having read practically all of his anthologies, this is what is giving me trouble: "A boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world." If anyone has some idea to which story this is referring to, comment it.

I didn't realize there was so much untranslated. I want ALL of it. Love Ito.

The second-hand record has already been released in Shiver. I believe they changed the title to Used Record. Great Video btw.

Whispering women got me I love that little story and when I read Tomie I fell in love with his creativity it’s incredible. Junji ito is amazing!!

Im new to the manga game, but yes also became a fan of Junji Ito by the memes of the Enigma of amigara, and Ive seen also drawings of uzumaki but never knew actually where they were from, but Ive been searching and searching for mangas down here in Mexico, and Panini wich is the number one publisher of mangas down here, published the short story collection you showed, and just yesterday I came across Gyo volume 2, they already have said they’re working on publishing Uzumaki, and I just can’t wait to get them for my collection, new suscriber here im really looking forward on seeing maybe more videos of Junji

Great video! Thanks.

Very informative video. It's also maybe worth mentioning that Viz put out a junji Ito artbook called twisted visions

I've been wanting to start reading Ito's work but while browsing I always felt kinda lost about where to begin. Thanks!

I learned of Junji Ito from Horror Show Mickey's YoutTube channel (great narrator!). I bought a few books after listening to his channel. This is great to learn the recent releases!

Yes, this is exactly the guide I need, heard good things about Junji Ito's work and I'm not sure where to start.

Great video, didn't waste my time and got straight to the point, you just earned a subscriber and I hope your channel gets the recognition it deserves

I read Uzumaki as I was 14, and then I was terrified of horrors, so I had awful nightmare afterwards. Now it's the feeling I crave for while reading/watching horrors

Thank you for introducing me to this

Your intro was amazing 😂😂😂

Just ordered Uzumaki. It’ll be my introduction to Junji Ito so I’m pretty excited

Love the vid. Where’d you get the shirt man? I need it!

Like the collection! 👍 can you talk about your favorite cyberpunk manga too??

Couldn't help but praise awesome t-shirt with "the enigma of amigara fault" short story's character ^^

First discovered junji ito in 2020,went into a comic shop with a friend who brought a junji artwork book while we were there. She showed me some of the art from the book and I fell in love. Went online and ordered uzumaki when I got home(the comic shop didn't have any junji books other than the art book) read it and I was hooked,now have all the books printed so far baring cat diary. Waiting for liminal zone to be released now.

Top job. So great video.

I discovered Junji Ito manga's about 2 months ago and I first purchased Fragments of Horror. After seeing that Horror Manga's exists (not just manga's like naruto, dragonball, jujutsu kaisen,parasyte etc...) I fell in love and bought all the collections and stand-alone available till now! Can't wait to get the last 3 appearing this year. This is my first time venturing into reading Manga. Usually I would just watch anime's. But I am glad I did. Now I want to have a huge shelf with all the manga's from all my favourite anime as well. MY FAV JUNJI ITO must be Dissolving Clasroom! (Uzumaki not counting it cuz it's a masterpiece of its own)