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One of Japan’s most famous horror manga artists, Junji Ito is responsible for creating some of the scariest, scariest creatures ever created. Renowned scribe and painter known for his work in the following precious works Fuji, Joe, And eddy Most recently won the 2019 Eisner Prize for its adaptation of a novel by Mary Shelley Frankenstein.
Later this year, the popular manga series by Ito eddy Coming soon as a black and white animated series from Adult Swim’s Toonami programming division. Junji Ito’s scariest killer work to date is ranked by how unsettling it is, offering a multitude of options to help prepare die-hard fans as well as casual readers.
hanging balloons
According to Grapee.jp, Ito got the inspiration for the “hanging balloon” from a childhood dream. The deadly creatures in the story of the same name include severed heads that hover like balloons and haunt their real-life creatures.
In the story, each living person has a dangling balloon that reflects their own face. Attached to long ropes, these balloons were used to hunt down and attempt to kill their likeness. If a person kills one of the floating balloons, they will also die horribly.
Hell O’Dollies – Hell O’Dollies
In addition to posing a direct danger to children, Ito’s repulsive doll disease in the short story “Scent from Hell” becomes more and more terrifying with each page. The cause is this disease gradually turns innocent and cute children into grotesque monsters.
A mysterious illness that begins by turning young Maria into a wooden doll and slowly transforms into a mutant creature characterized by cracked skin, large and sharp fangs, and swollen eyeballs. , gaunt appendages, shaggy fur, and a tentacle tongue protruding from its sinister mouth.
Attic Long Hair – Attic Long Hair
While “Peeping Tom” and “The Woman at the Window” deserve mention, Ito’s long hair in “Long Hair in the Attic” is even scarier.
The story is about a young girl with long black hair that grows wild and uncontrollably, cruel to everyone. After she died, the lifeless, invisible, spider-haired zombie head glided across the ceiling and walls like a predatory web. The thought itself was as humble as the creature’s appearance.
dreamer – long dream
One of the most disturbing things about the dreamer in Ito’s “Long Dream” is the terrible things that happen to him during the protagonist’s most innocent and vulnerable moments of respite. The story is about a man who slept for hours while his brain aged 10 years in the process.
In his sleep, the man had no idea that his body was constantly transforming into a strange otherworldly creature with a swollen, rectangular head, worm-shaped neck, sunken eyeballs, and Strange lumps on the skin. Worse yet, the longer he dreams, the more mutant he is.
My Dear Ancestor – My Dear Ancestor
Similar to the giant sea beetle in Out of its Element, the ancestral caterpillar in My Dear Ancestors takes the fear of insects to a whole new level. Very disturbing visuals that match the way the monster is controlled
This creature includes all the monstrous heads of Japan’s wisest ancestors, forming a long, centipede-like monster. Humans end up in caterpillars, slithering like snakes, while ancestral heads are capable of transferring knowledge from one end to another.
Tomie Mutant – Tomie
One of Ito’s most notorious monster creations, Tomie is a fearsome elf in her own right. However, the hatred for mutant Fujie caused by the science experiment increased the fear stat tenfold.
The experiments began when the doctors decided to test Tomie’s ability to regenerate. It backfired, and Tomie became a giant amorphous blob with more than 10 heads, rearranged limbs, and a hideous larval-like tail resembling a mutant insect.
Conjoined Twins – Town Without Streets
In the “Town Without Streets” story, Ito embarrasses readers by introducing the “Conjoined Twins” – an incredibly unsettling creature seemingly made up of an army of eel-like tentacles. scared. A patient in a hospital linked together, tentacles ending in spikes used to stab the victim.
This creature is a sentient monster, the hive mind is connected by a series of nerve fibers to kill victims and suck their blood. If the nerves of one of the strange white-eyed female patients were severed, they would die.
Gyo . – Gyo
Given that phobia (fear of sharks) is one of the most common fears in human history, Ito in ALRIGHT is the stuff of legal nightmares. As its name suggests, the great white killer can walk on all fours and stalk human victims on land and at sea.
Walking on artificial legs resembling four spiders, this merciless killing machine and unstoppable alpha predator combines menacing images of ancient sea creatures with eerie spider webs. , a combination that leaves the reader feeling unrelenting horror.
Cannibal Boy – Haunted House
The cannibal boy’s ferocious and frantic giggling face are two of Ito’s scariest creatures to date. Like Babadook’s ferocious zombie children, childhood innocence is subverted for morbid and sinister purposes.
Left alone in a terrifying abandoned farm, the cannibal boy will devour any brave or gullible intruder. It is characterized by a long row of sharp fangs, protruding eyeballs, an amazingly long triangular tongue, and sharp and dirty claws.
Fuchi – fashion model
As Ito himself admitted in an interview Comics networkThe Fuchi in the Mannequin is the famous manga artist’s most disturbing creature to date.
Fuchi is the main antagonist in Gossip and Mannequin, a cannibal serial killer seducer with a maniacal smile, bloodied face, claws, razor-sharp fangs, and razor-sharp fangs. insatiable appetite for blood. Her tall, thin build and bony cheeks make her appear weak, which she often preys on her victims.