Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection

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Lovesick Dead ( 死びとの恋わずらい Shibito no koiwazurai ) is the fifteenth volume of the Horror World of Junji Ito series. The Mansion of Phantom Pain - A creative story that expands the idea of phantom pain to become an out of body experience. Ryuusuke, feeling responsible for this death, too, decides to start helping people playing the game.

The Rib Woman - A wonderful story that blended themes of body image with a wonderfully creepy narrative. There’s also a pair of manga about ‘the strange Hikizuri siblings’ – ‘Narumi’s Boyfriend’ and ‘The Séance’ – which have to rank among my least favourites of all the Ito I’ve read; this type of humour either works for you or really doesn’t, and I’m in the latter camp.

The Strange Hikizuri Siblings’ was incredibly creepy solely due to the character designs, and ‘The Mansion of Phantom Pain’ had an awesome concept where characters where less important. Another couple of stories fill out the book, including an especially weird one about a boy who is in constant pain, the pain being part of the house he lives in.

Reishi, confused, says that she thought he was ending his relationship with Midori, but he tells her that he still won't go out with her.I liked it, and the illustrations are, of course, great, but it’s not satisfying, nor is it the author’s most innovative work.

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. Most people who read my reviews aren't aficionados of horror manga and I'm hoping to convert some of you to the unique and compulsively creepy world of Junji Ito, and to convince you to give his work a try. Before it's official English release, it was completely scanlated by fans, with the title Undying Love. After reading this I now fully understand the Junji Ito hype, because this was creepy as heck, y'all. Like Ito's Frankenstein, the lion's share of this volume is given over to one multi-part story, in this case the eponymous "Lovesickness," which I originally read under its alternate title "Lovesick Dead.The loose ends left by ‘The Séance’ led me to assume there are further Hikizuri tales, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, making this another case of an oddly inconclusive ending. This story was unsettling, disturbing, and altogether really enjoyable, with an ending I didn't quite see coming. The story begins with a girl playing "Intersection Fortune Telling", the latest trend with schoolgirls in the area. Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection ( Japanese: 死びとの恋わずらい, Hepburn: Shibito no Koiwazurai ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. 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.