![]() ![]() At a young age, he recognizes a futility in trying to amount to anything grand so why even try. If he can be a clown, it’s all that he needs to be. He finds that role to be easy but also to be free of responsibility so it fits him. At a young age, Yozu Oba tries to be the clown of his school. In this book, Ito casts us into a pit of our own ridiculously shallow view of our own worth. ![]() So where his horrors have been something other than human before (even Tomie was a supernatural terror,) No Longer Human focuses on the horrors of being human. ![]() That may be why so many of his stories are about obsession on some level or another. His stories act as carriers of an idea that he just can’t keep to himself. Those images are hooks into our imaginations, an entry into our souls where Ito plants these horrors and watches them grow. These visual motifs are practically their own stories (spirals, beautiful women, horrific sea creatures) but he doesn’t just stop there. In some of his most known books- Uzumaki, Gyo, and Tomie- he finds images that are shocking, disturbing, and maddening and shapes the stories around them. ![]() In most of his work, Junji Ito explores the things that terrify us. ![]()
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