FRAGMENTS OF HORROR HC JUNJI ITO: Volume 1

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Make no mistake, though: Itō has more to say about fathers and daughters. And for those like me who prefer this artist in the mode of Gyo -- which, you'll recall, concerns the sudden and gaseous emergence of all the fish in the ocean to smother humanity with the wriggling mass of their putrefying flesh -- it's “Wooden Spirit” that will emerge as the best goddamned thing in Fragments of Horror by an empty ocean's length. 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. Tatsuro Kamata is a medical student taking dissection training. On the first day, one of the cadavers is discovered to in fact be alive, and begs to be dissected, before fleeing the lab. Tatsuro recognizes her as Ruriko Tamiya, who he knew as a child, and who had an unnatural fixation on vivisection, forcing him to participate in her experiments and at one point even threatening to dissect him. After she accosts him on the street, he rushes home, only to find her waiting for him with a scalpel, begging to be dissected. Horrified, he flees as her stomach begins to deform, trying to convince himself that it is a dream. Over the next few days, the media reports the occurrence of incidents of a similar nature, such as a man stabbing a woman in her stomach, followed by the surgeons who operated on her going insane. Twenty years later, Tatsuro has gone on to become a senior doctor, and is in the process of training his own class of medical students in dissection. One of the cadavers supplied is that of Ruriko, this time clearly dead. However, when the students cut her open, they find her insides to be a bizarre and unnerving amalgamation of the animals she dissected during her life.

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Zainab Akhtar of Comics & Cola also noted the focus on stories of women betrayed by men and empowered female villains. However, she felt that collection was a poorer imitation of his earlier works, "Ito trying to do Ito, and not quite succeeding." She attributed this to the fact that, while his art maintained its signature horror, the stories failed to connect with the reader on an emotional level. [26]

A pretty decent collection from Junji Ito with consistently good art but not so consistent stories. So overall rating ( because who doesn't like numbers and averages ) :- 3.5 (well now that's difficult , should I rate it 3 or 4)

Fragments of Horror - The Comics Journal

In an optimistic attempt to be one step ahead of looters, the inter-departmental national project was launched in 2017 to survey Judean Desert caves. A few promising caves were subsequently excavated at some colorfully named locations, including the Cave of Horror — where over 40 skeletons have thus far been uncovered — and the Cave of Skulls. About 20 more promising caves could be excavated in the next stage of the operation, provided the budget is allocated.

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In his typically self-deprecating author’s note at the end of the book, Ito wonders whether his horror instincts have returned, but it doesn’t take much reading to find out that they have. In fact, Fragments of Horror reads very much like what it is: a return to form. In this volume, you’ll find a cross-section of just about everything you can expect from Ito’s work, from the sublime to the grotesque, and from the serious to the silly. There’s a poignant tale right next door to a ludicrous one. Almost all of them contain Ito’s trademark talent for a perfectly-timed panel, the equivalent of the jump-scare reveal in a movie at just the right moment but all the more impressive because Ito allows it to linger.

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De resto me ha parecido una parodia con un tono demasiado absurdo y con aspectos que no me han gustado nada como están tratados.Nos vuelve a perturbar y deleitar con unas historias cargadas de leyendas locales y con giros interesantes. Even a fragment is frightening.Marking a return to horror manga for the first time in eight years, Fragments of Horror is Junji Ito's fourth anthology of assorted short stories, closely following in the footsteps of the Voices in the Dark serials.