I also really liked Black Paradox, and like, I get why other people feel very lukewarm about it but the sheer absurdity of the story after such a tame, albeit very macabre initial setup, is just so enjoyable
Wow, congrats on making your way through all of his works! I haven’t read any of his books just yet but I’m going to use your list to choose my first :)
Thanks! 😊 Yeah, it was a lot of reading…(I don’t recommend binging them all at once that’s for sure 🤣) but I hope you find one that intrigues you, and makes you want to check it out!! Hope you enjoy your first experience with Junji Ito 🖤
Even though Uzumaki was my first Ito read I can think of 5 works that still stick with me to this day(no particular order of favorite) 1.Uzumaki 2. Shiver short story collection 3. Tombs short story collection 4. Smashed short story collection 5. Deserter short story collection These are the 5 Ito works I can call each and every experience on how I felt when I read these. Even though I've read Lovesickness and Frankenstein and a few stories unmentioned, I've always enjoyed what Ito brings out in his works; they're so enjoyable to examine and observe from an artistic perspective. I haven't read all of Ito's work but I've read a decent chunk of it and enjoyed most of it. 🙂❤📚
Uzumaki was my first Junji Ito read too!! Thanks for sharing your top 5 reads! And, yeah even ones I wasn’t super a fan of his stories always are a fun, enjoyable crazy filled experience! His art really is so interesting and stands out, and keeps me excited to read more from him!! 😄📚
Great list! Love the ranking names too! You are much kinder to junjis titles than I am haha. Uzumaki is def my fav and the one I recommend to everyone who asked about Ito. Id have it alone on top and shift everything down one. Bring Frankenstein up 1 and then have Remina in its own mega trash can tier LOL. Great vid!!
Aww thanks so much!! Haha yeah I guess it’s hard for me to not enjoy a lot of Junji Ito’s work 😁 I get that, Uzumaki definitely is my favorite work of his, and will never stop recommending ppl read it! And, I’m glad I’m not the only one who wasn’t a fan of Remina…😂
A Junji Ito tier list is interesting because since he touches upon so many different types of fears, everyone is bound to have different opinions and which manga they would rank! I personally would rank Remina higher because the thought of the unknown from outer space being the cause of the world's demise does kind of freak me out. We're one tiny spec in an endless universe! And I agree I felt Sensor was real similar to it except the concept of pretty hair doesn't really do it for me so I would have ranked that at the bottom lol. Also, Black Paradox goes so hard, it's definitely the most underrated one. Loved how unique the characters were compared to his other works.
I totally understand the whole doom coming from the vast universe fear like I did like the concept just the way it kept going, the floating around without gravity like idk just felt like around the halfway point the planet should have just destroyed them the end…🤣☠️ It went past my suspension of disbelief barometer…but Black Paradox was SO GOOD definitely feel like it’s underrated, the characters do feel unique, and I’m so glad someone felt the same way about it!! 😆
@@MizzMangaChatz Black Paradox really is about a giant Ed, Edd, and Eddy scam when you really think of it! 😆 Darn it now my view of this manga is way off course 🤣
his best works to me: Uzumaki, Gyo, Tomie, Shiver, Remina, Lovesickness, No Longer Human. I don't rank them if they are the most creepy but best in terms of story, characters and overall mood.
Maybe I'm weird but I'm halfway through Uzumaki and I'm finding it funny instead of scary/creepy. That's not bad but the absurdity makes it more similar to black comedy rather than anything else 😅 So far my ranking would be S-tier: Cat Diary (I'm a cat parent so I'm biased, really loved the random creepy pannels contrasted with the cuteness), A-tier: Uzumaki and C-tier Tomie (too repetetive with not enough payoff).
I've read them all so far apart from Soichi and Mimi's terror which I'll probably read later in the year or early next. The ones I remember the most that I enjoyed because they are very hit and miss for me are Shiver, Tombs and Cat diary. I enjoyed the majority of lovesickness as well. I felt the same about No longer human as you did because I also read Furuyas version first.
Oh nice! You’ve basically read them all too then, so much Junji Ito! 😄 And, agreed they can be very hit or miss for me as well! I’m glad you felt the same about No Longer Human I was sure I’d be the minority on that one…😅
@@MizzMangaChatz Yeah fortunately my library gets them all in so I've read them over the years. Can't remember the first ones I started with apart from Tomie and Uzumaki since they left an impression. I read no longer human fairly recently like a month ago and read Furuyas version years back but I didn't feel much impact from Junji Ito's version where as I remember thinking Furuyas was very bleak.
@@ilvanime01 Oh wow that’s an awesome library it’s great they get all Junji Ito there! Mine is very small, and doesn’t have much manga at all sadly…😅 yeah idk if it’s because I read it second, but Junji Ito’s just didn’t have the same weight and bleakness I’d felt from the other…
I’ve never read Furuyas version but I have read Itos and the original. And junji itos very closely follows the original work, which is very dark and not so politically correct so maybe that’s why you didn’t like it
I think its kinda sad and disapointing how Viz removes the stories from Shiver on the other volume, ex Glyceride is from Smashed and they removed it from Smashed
You know, I read Smashed like a week ago when I came across the Soichi chapters my first impression was "Hmmm I feel like I'm reading his final chapters" and I almost skipped it because I figured they would be put in the Soichi collection, and surprisingly no!
Right?! It feels like it should have been in the Souchi Collection…and it seemed like a better couple final stories to end with I don’t know why they weren’t included…Just strange 🤷🏻♀️🤣
@@MizzMangaChatz Also, I'm not one to be phased by horror stuff but Gyo totally unnerved me! I love your mug by the way. My mom would never want to see me with that though, she's not even a fan of my Junji Ito refrigerator magnets 🤣 She keeps moving them to the side that nobody sees!
@@mangaroyale Gyo is definitely a more squeamish/unnerving read of his! Id easily have ranked it S tier bc of that alone, but the whole relationship with the main protagonist and his girl bugged me enough not to rank it higher. 😅 Aww thanks I love it I’m glad I splurged on yet another mug just for this video, and that’s funny I mean his art is pretty grotesque don’t really wanna see it when you’re preparing food probably hahaha 🤣
Yes, I’ve read it! I put it in the video description, but I went back and tried to make it more obvious that I had since updated it…Anyway, I put it in the Only Kinda Creepy tier! And, thank you for watching 😁
@@vincenzopasca7826 I haven't gotten that one yet! Eventually definitely can make an update tier list bc there's still so many that are being released!
