Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu Collector's Edition: 2

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Lieberman, Marissa (16 December 2015). "Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu". No Flying, No Tights. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019 . Retrieved 14 December 2019. Ito is a strong enough writer to make this sort of story stand on its own. His ability to manipulate reader’s emotions is by no means limited to inducing terror. He’s also able to play with feelings of love and affection, succinctly conveying the rapid change and growth in his feelings for the titular Yon and Mu. And as good as all of that is, it honestly isn’t where the magic in this story comes from.

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu” is a collection of strips chronicling the artist’s first experiences living with feline friends. Readers witness Ito’s anxiety over his fiancé’s desire to bring two cats into their home, which is only compounded by the ‘cat proofing’ that precedes their arrival. From there, anxiety gives way to acceptance and, eventually, a deep bond between the artist and his new companions. Dark Is Not Evil: In spite of constantly making weird facial expressions, J-kun is perfectly nice and mild-mannered... relative to most characters in Junji Ito's oeuvre, anyways. Ito, Junji (2015). "Question 5". Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. Kodansha Comics USA. p.89. ISBN 978-1-63236-197-4.

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In "Yon is a Weird Cat," J-kun, while finishing his manga on a tight deadline one night, imagines that Yon transforms into various beings, including a slug, the supernatural snake-like creature tsuchinoko, and an elderly man. To J-kun's surprise, this leads to an encounter that he hopes isn't a hallucination. Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu" (in Italian). Panini Comics. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019 . Retrieved 29 July 2019. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.

Author Avatar: J-kun is clearly a stand-in for Junji Ito himself, while A-ko is a stand-in for his wife Ayako. relate to – trying to get the cat’s affections, when cats do weird things, when cats run away. The cats themselves definitely have their own personalities and honestly, I think Junji wasn’t entirely serious on doing this manga in the first place. It says what it is right on the tin: a cat diary. No.2 ２月号 2008年12月26日 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. Junji Ito's Cat Diary". Kodansha USA. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019 . Retrieved 2 August 2019. Nov 25 i☆Ris the Movie - Full Energy!! - Anime Film Teaser Visual Revealed at i☆Ris Live Stage in Anime NYC & i☆Ris First Performance in New York Successfully Completed

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It's bizarre but completely realistic. I've never been a cat owner. Unfortunately, I'm highly allergic. But based on the experiences of my friends, this is accurate to their cat-owner-history. But how can a horror artist tell the story of two cats coming to live in his house? As if the cats were monsters, of course, out to destroy him, and so on. It's pretty adorable stuff, facetious and tongue-in-cheek and all. He does it to look like a horror comic, as if this is how he can't help but see the world, but in fact he falls in love with kitties, aw. Ito becomes a cat person! Not such a creepy scary guy, after all.