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wow what a wild ride... this
was a truly haunting tale tw: rape, bullying, suicide, murder, alcoholism, addiction, cheating
‘The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them.’ Junji Ito has created quite the impressive and haunting visual feat with his massive manga adaptation of No Longer Human,
Osamu Dazai’s fairly autobiographical novel about the dark impulses that lurk within us. Known for his horror manga-ka artwork,Junji Ito is the perfect artist to helm such a work of darkly introspective intensity, transforming Dazai’s prose of searing anxiety into visceral, surrea Junji Ito has created quite the impressive and haunting visual feat with his massive manga adaptation of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s fairly
autobiographical novel about the dark impulses that lurk within us. Known for his horror manga-ka artwork,Junji Ito is the perfect artist to helm such a work of darkly introspective intensity, transforming Dazai’s prose of searing anxiety into visceral, surreal and hallucinogenic visual storytelling. At over 600pgs long, this is quite the dense and emotionally arresting work but Ito’s signature art and the seamless storytelling propel the book along as you feel yourself pulled deeper into the
unraveling mind of Oba Yozo, the fictional narrator of Dazai’s story who draws much inspiration from the author himself. While Ito has taken a few liberties with the plot, this manga adaptation remains largely faithful to Dazai’s original and explores darkness, guilt and self-degradation in a viscerally chilling new angle through Ito’s incredible
artwork. 4/5 ...more
"Hell is other people"--Sartre I just happened to read this profound and depressing book during the Covid 19 crisis, with tens of thousands of people already dead. What is sometimes described as Osamu Dazai's suicide note, this autobiographical novel, seen as one of the great Japanese literary feats, No Longer Human (1948) is the story of Oba Yozo, a literary doppleganger of the author; the manga, over
600 pages long, is a terrific feat in itself, what I have read to be a pretty faithful adaptati I just happened to read this profound and depressing book during the Covid 19 crisis, with tens of thousands of people already dead. What is sometimes described as Osamu Dazai's suicide note, this autobiographical novel, seen as one of the great Japanese literary feats, No Longer Human (1948) is the story of Oba Yozo, a
literary doppleganger of the author; the manga, over 600 pages long, is a terrific feat in itself, what I have read to be a pretty faithful adaptation of the original by horror manga-ka Junji Ito. I never read the original, so can't say for myself who Dasai is in this work, but the story is of Yozo, an artist, rendering his soul on canvas such as other tortured artists like Van Gogh or Munch, though most of the time Oba draws manga. He plays the clown but is profoundly depressed. He is
handsome and popular with many women, but he has fears and social anxiety about people. Oba, like Dasai, was sexually assaulted by male and female servants. He had a childhood friend commit suicide that seems to have haunted him all his life. Oba is himself haunted by ghosts in his daily life, so he draws mostly ghosts, so you can see the attraction to the supernatural for Ito. Oba/Dasai was derided by his father throughout his life. He was told he was a failure for doing manga and told
the honorable thing he should do would be to commit suicide, which in fact he/Dasai attempted a few times. Early on, a young man and his lover commit suicide by drowning themselves in a river, something Dasai himself did five days after completing this book. Ito is a man driven to creating horror comics, and he here is attracted to every day psychic horror. The books are in translation, too. How are we expected to find the heart and soul of Dasai, or Ito, or ourselves in this hall of
mirrors about a man who people find to be a clown, a man wearing a mask of humor as he heads daily into greater and greater darkness? Who is Oba/Sadai/Ito, really?! I am not recommending that in a time of profound mental health challenges that one should read this book. I'm a fan of Ito, I like probing psychological portraits, and this one seems in a family of Kafka's "Metamorphosis," Melville's "Bartelby the Scivener," Hamlet, all manner of tortured, (male) suicidal souls. Not easy to
read. Not for young people. Sexually explicit. Yet beautifully, masterfully rendered by one of the world's greatest artists of an anguished literary classic. A great adaptation of a great book about the complexity of the human soul.
What a bizarre and boring book! Horror manga artist Junji Ito adapts Osamu Dazai’s 1948 novel No Longer Human into comic form with mixed results. Ito’s art is fantastic as
always but the story, etc.? Yeah, all of that is utter rubbish! Apparently Dazai’s style was autobiographical fiction and I’ve never read the original book (nor ever will) so I can’t say how much of this is directly taken from the book or whether Ito added in biographical elements from Dazai’s life. But the book opens with an Apparently Dazai’s style was autobiographical fiction and I’ve never read the original book (nor ever will) so I can’t say how much of this is directly taken from the book or whether Ito added in biographical elements from Dazai’s life. But the book opens with an alcoholic writer and his young girlfriend committing suicide by drowning, which is really how Dazai died. So the story as far as I can tell is that a boy from a wealthy family called Yozo Oba doesn’t feel like he’s human, for no reason, and that causes him great anxiety. Being sexually abused by male and female servants probably also has something to do with it! Anyway, tragedy follows him as an extremely ugly school friend kills himself and a girl he knocks up kills her sister after he has an affair with her. He’s slightly responsible for both so he’s a bit of a shitty guy but still their
actions are absurdly over the top! Later on he gets involved with the communists, continues to jump from woman to woman, becomes an alcoholic, attempts suicide, and that’s it. I’ve no clue what the point was - all I saw was gratuitously gloomy people being sad over their depressing lives. I didn’t understand why Oba doesn’t feel human or what we were meant to think about that. It didn’t help that almost nothing that happened was remotely interesting. In addition to being tedious, some episodes were simply baffling. Like when Oba, as a defence mechanism, becomes the class clown, purposely making an ass of himself for the amusement of his classmates. But the grotesque friend Takeichi says that he knows Oba is making a fool of himself on purpose, which is apparently a terrible secret that sends Oba on a mental spiral where he contemplates murdering Takeichi to protect this “secret” - what?!? Yeah, he’s being an ass on purpose - so what?! Maybe it’s a cultural thing or has something to do with the era but I totally failed to grasp the significance of this. Ito’s art though is wonderfully gruesome. I may never have understood what Oba’s problem was but I definitely felt his fear with Ito’s parade of bloated talking corpses, vengeful ghosts and insect people. The nightmare imagery from the suicide attempt on the beach in Chapter 7 (which also really happened to Dazai) was really terrifying. It’s worth flicking through No Longer Human for the art but don’t torture yourself reading the dull, go-nowhere, overlong story. As far as I can tell it’s about a wretched, cowardly failure, who happens to be blessed with good looks, wandering through a directionless life, being miserable for the sake of being miserable until he finally makes a suicide attempt work. If this is the best thing Osamu Dazai wrote, it’s no wonder he’s unknown outside of Japan. ...more
tbh I had mixed feelings for the original book as well and for the exactly same reasons, I think I haven't grasped the true meaning of the book yet so I am gonna switch to the movie version. I hope I finally understand everything. What a boring book honestly, it breaks my heart to say this. But I didn't like this one. What a boring book honestly, it breaks my heart to say this. But I didn't like this one.
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Oddly, this is not the only manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai's novel. It is the only adaptation you will need, but it is not necessarily easier to read than the original. It is 600 pages of interrelated
scenes, and masterful, atmospheric artwork, which require just as much concentration as any piece of Japanese literature. Junji Ito tackled heavy, mature themes for this one, and departed from his usual scare tactics to introduce us to the deep storytelling and psychological strain characteristic Oddly, this is not the only manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai's novel. It is the only adaptation you will need, but it is not necessarily easier to read than
the original. It is 600 pages of interrelated scenes, and masterful, atmospheric artwork, which require just as much concentration as any piece of Japanese literature. Junji Ito tackled heavy, mature themes for this one, and departed from his usual scare tactics to introduce us to the deep storytelling and psychological strain characteristic of the important novelist. Far denser and more consistent than Ito's other long works (Tomie, Uzumaki, and Gyo) it resembles his adaptation of
Frankenstein in some ways. It is of course dark and somber, creepy and lurid, demented and nightmarish. Only by reading thousands of pages of his work was I able to come to a decision on how I felt about Junji Ito's method. In short, I grew to love it over time. The subject matter of No Longer Human is some of the most difficult imaginable. We are faced with the demons of the human heart over and over, through the reprehensible actions of one of the least likable main characters of all time.
I've read other Dazai works, and from what I can tell, his themes are not always quite this pessimistic. It is about the loss of what makes us human - our compassion for others. Only by subsuming the selfish urge to constantly fulfill our unreasonable desires can we become truly human. It takes effort to look past the horrid behavior of the characters and see the underlying message. Using the text from the translation of the novel by Donald Richie, this is a fairly faithful adaptation.
And a literary one. Junji Ito appears to have taken the subject seriously and set out to craft a nuanced, complex portrait of a man, surrounded by the mostly well-meaning women, through which he discovers the appetites and weaknesses in himself, that lead to his ruin. It is a painful story at times, but human weakness, death, anger and jealousy are all profoundly important aspects of our species. Dazai posits that humans cannot define themselves except in relation to other people. Many of his
views might be considered old-fashioned today, but the deep understanding of some of the fundamental aspects of humanity can still be widely appreciated. This is not a work for children, and perhaps young adults will also have to struggle to detach themselves from the surface level lust, grit and angst of the graphic novel. Being an adult offers experience, in my opinion, which at least in my case, allows me to regard a work of art as a product of a life lived and transposed. It wasn't until I
aged that I felt experience entering into art. Talent is one thing, experience is another. There is a wide range of experience here, even if the emotions verge on the animalistic.
I feel like you could teach an entire college course on this book. This was...good. Good and sad and horrifying and terrible and just so damn good. I want to make this a book club pick just so I can have a group to discuss it with. I loved the rawness of this book, the unforgiving sharp edges of it. Highly recommend.
4/5stars Same rating as I gave the original novel, but for VERY different reasons. This was an incredibly interesting adaptation, where Ito was not only transforming the original literature into a new medium (manga aka a visual medium) but also into a new literary genre (from lit fic to horror). I thought Ito did a wonderful job of both adaptations, EXCEPT that I found the pacing very odd. The entirety of the novel was almost completely
done in the first half of this manga, and then Ito zeroed in Same rating as I gave the original novel, but for VERY different reasons. This was an incredibly interesting adaptation, where Ito was not only transforming the original literature into a new medium (manga aka a visual medium) but also into a new literary genre (from lit fic to horror). I thought Ito did a wonderful job of both adaptations, EXCEPT that I found the
pacing very odd. The entirety of the novel was almost completely done in the first half of this manga, and then Ito zeroed in on a specific plot arc that lasted barely 10 pages in the original novel, and dragged it out for 300+ pages. I LOVED what he did with the ending, I found it super interesting and unique. But overall, I didn't LOVE this and had a lot of issues of the portrayal of women and the use of women as "demons" and the cause of all men's woes and troubles.
2.5 Stars
Well then. Once there was a horrible man. Growing up in an oppressive household, experiencing sexual trauma at a young age, a boy becomes a clown as a means of hiding all that is within him. This becomes a shield but a sword too, for his incessant hiding evolves into compulsive lying. He never wants to rock the boat, but he instead punctures the hull. This trait, this defense mechanism becomes his driving
force, leading to a life of choiceless indecision. There is a purpose inside him, but he nev Once there was a horrible man. Growing up in an oppressive household, experiencing sexual trauma at a young age, a boy becomes a clown as a means of hiding all that is within him. This becomes a shield but a sword too, for his incessant hiding evolves into compulsive lying. He never wants to rock the boat, but he instead punctures the hull.
This trait, this defense mechanism becomes his driving force, leading to a life of choiceless indecision. There is a purpose inside him, but he never realizes it because he never lets himself... be. He is too easily swayed by others. Too easily caught up in mischief. Too easily seduced. This story chronicles this sad man's life. His spineless nature leads him from one tragedy to another. As the title suggests, the ultimate realization of all of this is that he is no longer human. My
interpretation is that he lacks humanity because he lacks that which makes humans human. I've heard it argued (I believe it was Sartre) that what differentiates humans from the animals is that we humans have direct agency over ourselves. We can will ourselves to accomplish things, both large and small. Animals, on the other hand, are forever driven by base survival instincts. They do not create for the sake of creation. They do not purposefully plan. They don't set goals. They exist purely in
the moment, feeding whatever base desire is the most pressing. That is Yozo Oba in this story. He is tragic because he lacks agency over himself. There is a conversation in the book about whether human life is comic or tragic. They decide that it is ultimately comedy. If he were truly human, then his misfortunes could be seen as a collection of mishaps, of accidents, and comedy could be one means of understanding such a life of misfortune. But instead, our protagonist lacks humanity. He is
tragic through and through. Nothing is accidental, but it is instead directly caused by his lack of direction and agency. If he had only made choices, if he had only followed through with anything, so much of his troubled life would have been better, and those moments of misfortune could be reflected upon through a lens of comedy. But no. Not here. Not for this man. I didn't like the character. I despised him. I felt sorry for him, though. I continuously hoped he would change, but
eventually I realized he couldn't. There is a lot to take away from a book like this.
This is a massive manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. I mean it is chunky. And I feel so guilty that this adaptation is… getting 5 stars, while the original got 4. Seriously, Junji Ito has this way of
capturing sheer terror in one or two drawings, in his characters’ eyes – they remain with you when you turn the lights off right before you take the five or six steps to your bed. Why did I enjoy this more? More visceral, for one. One of my “complaints” about Japanese literature (and Why did I enjoy this more? More visceral, for one. One of my “complaints” about Japanese literature (and I put complaints in quotes because I don’t believe it’s a flaw with the actual books) has always been that the emotion is too subtle. Yeah,
not here. I have been poking away at this since I finished the original a couple of weeks ago, reading a bit every day. One or two scenes I think about quite literally every single day. What a gut punch. There is also the liberty that Ito takes with the story, adding to it in just the right places. My oh my, it flourishes. I would recommend reading this right after Dazai’s. The experience is second to none.
This was my first experience with Osamu Dazai's novel No Longer Human, which has been considered his suicide note and which is, at least in this form, a haunting and painful tale of, well, lots of things, but perhaps mostly misery and the ways in which our own misery leads us to inflict misery on others. This is not a pleasant story. It is about heartbreak and depression, sexual abuse and
addiction, and a whole range of topics that are more raw and human and, sometimes, more grotesque than the te This is not a pleasant
story. It is about heartbreak and depression, sexual abuse and addiction, and a whole range of topics that are more raw and human and, sometimes, more grotesque than the terrors conjured by horror fiction. It's a naturalistic and "literary" story compared to Junji Ito's usual supernatural horror fare - painful and sad where those stories are often shocking and funny and, yes, sometimes painful and sad. What's fascinating about this book is watching Ito adapt his signature style - which is,
if anything, just as weird and terrifying and beautiful here as in his horror tales - to this different mode. But then, one of the themes of No Longer Human is that every story is a ghost story, after all.
While I appreciated Ito's ability to make this spooky without any monsters, I found that this reflected the source material a little too closely, so to speak - my god, the misogyny! Why take responsibility when you can blame a
woman, right? On top of that, I couldn't help but have flashbacks to the first time I read The Great Gatsby and reeled at how deeply unlikable the main character was, how little I could identify with his struggles when most of them were made by his own hand and were easily On top of that, I couldn't help but have flashbacks to the first time I read The Great Gatsby and reeled at how deeply unlikable the main character was, how little I could identify with his struggles when most of them were made by his own hand and were easily fixable, given that he's from a rich, influential family. It wasn't bad, but I wasn't enthralled like I have been by Ito's original works.
I'm a fan of Ito's previous works but this adaption just felt so obtuse and strange for him. The content was completely gross sometimes (and not in his usual horror way!). It prominently features child sexual abuse. The main character is an awful person who made me want to shut the book and walk away from it. I would not suggest this work to others. I'm a fan of Ito's previous works but this adaption just felt so obtuse and strange for him. The content was completely gross sometimes (and not in his usual horror way!). It prominently features child sexual abuse. The main character is an awful person who made me want to shut the book and walk away from it. I would not suggest this work to others. ...more
This graphic novel is a departure from Ito's trademark narratives, interpreting as it does a Dazai classic that stands as one of the best-ever selling books in Japan. While the original seems to have focused on the sadness and pathos that marked the existential crisis that our lead (who seems to have been patterned after Dazai himself) labored under, true to Ito's style this book lets the horrors and
absurdities of his experiences take the limelight. I can't help but feel for Yozo. As a kid, he h I can't help but feel for Yozo. As a kid, he had an uneasy, pessimistic streak that he tried to hide under a buffoonish exterior, a mask that he soon regarded as tiresome but which he felt he can never take off. The abuse he suffered from lecherous servants must have cemented in his mind how untrustworthy and scary people generally are. It's a good thing he didn't end up a twisted
sociopath, though there were instances when he was teetering on the edge of that abyss. He did become dissipated, profligate, and keen to keep bad company - vices that only worsened as time went by. He inadvertently(?) caused the demise of a few people, whose ghosts haunt him at the most inopportune times. It seemed like death and the love of women came to him easily, like a song that broke the monotonous buzz of despair and dread that continually consumed him. With such a fair face, he
can't help being a lady's man. It may have served his women better if they took a more critical peek at his art, if only to see the demons he was harboring within. This is one of the exceedingly few works I've read that deal with a Grade A homme fatal. Still I can't help but root for him. If you've undergone a spiritual malaise just like our lead, you'd understand the prodigious effort it takes to rise from all that weakness and pain. There's one point where it seems like he really had a
chance. Question is - will his Beatrice be able to save her Dante? That final image though - it's just so apt. Somehow it seems absolutely, painfully inevitable. This all spurred my interest in the Dazai novel, which I shall be reading soon. I'm rating this 8/10 or 4 stars out of 5.
This was a very dark, very hard read. Junji Ito's illustrations are brilliant as always. This is going to be another one that I have trouble recommending but it really is great. This was a very dark, very hard read. Junji Ito's illustrations are brilliant as always. This is going to be another one that I have trouble recommending but it really is great. ...more
An unpleasant and unappealing semi-autobiographical iteration of the artist as a tortured soul is adapted into a
quasi-horror manga by Junji Ito filled with dread and supernatural flourishes. I haven't read the original novel, but my understanding is that Ito has taken many liberties, including the insertion of original author Osamu Dazai as an actual character. Dazai's stand-in, Yozo Oba, seems to suffer from trauma and impostor syndrome due to childhood molestation and daddy issues. To compensa Dazai's stand-in, Yozo Oba, seems to suffer from trauma and impostor syndrome due to childhood molestation and daddy issues. To compensate he becomes a class clown and womanizer in
attempts fit in with other people -- from whom he feels separate and whom he hates and fears. He carves his way through the lives of others leaving suicide and murder in his wake, periodically attempting suicide himself. He alternates between living off a family allowance, being a kept man, and a life of poverty as a struggling manga artist and aspiring painter. He dabbles in Marxism and relationships but tends to betray everyone, really only committing to alcohol and drugs. Eventually the
narrative is reduced to hallucinations and an extended dream sequence as Oba becomes increasingly unhinged. But Junji Ito draws the hell out of it with his trademark gore, grossness, and phantasmagoria.
The artwork is impressive but the story is unpleasant and Oba's character is even more unpleasant. I have yet to read Dazai's novel, but this makes me not want to read it. I sort of wish I hadn't gotten involved at all. Can't rate, won't rate... The artwork is impressive but the story is unpleasant and Oba's character is even more unpleasant. I have yet to read Dazai's novel, but this makes me not want to read it. I sort of wish I hadn't gotten involved at all. Can't rate, won't rate... ...more
Well, I had the same reaction to this as I do to all Ito: why the fuck did I read that, NEVER AGAIN, thank god it's over and
simultaneously omg I love it I cannot WAIT to reread I need to own this and put it on a very tall shelf jk my Ito collection is front and center OMG it's brilliant MOAR PLZ. However! Let the record show that this is a book that demands some form of self-blitzing (read: weed) to be even bearable, especially if you're a queerdo with complicated lady feelings, because Ito lov However! Let the record show that this is a book that demands some form of self-blitzing (read: weed) to be even bearable, especially if you're a queerdo with complicated lady feelings, because Ito loves a booby and I do, too, but he also loves charring that booby and
drawing the emaciated toothy corpse or drowning it and drawing it bloated and tongue-slugged, so. Lots of sex. Women literally flinging themselves at our protagonist and misogyny abounds. Why? It reminded me of Neon Genesis Evangelion's finale, Shinji and Asuka's wildly fucked-up love-hate-envy-rage relationship. What's up with Japanese dudes?!?! Do I care or am I curious enough to read the novel and find out? Maybe. But then again, Yozo is so deplorable in an unfun way, I have no desire
to ever read about him again. OR DO I? The breaking fourth wall--meeting his author in the asylum--is intriguing, Complicated and gross in different ways. Ito's images are horrifying and beautiful, pristine nightmares, and I am stoked to read Tomie and Gyo for the first time this Spooktober.
Great art and a disturbing psychological journey! I am glad that I have read this.
Well this was a long, disturbing, and weird as shit book but I'm
kind of glad I read it as I learned a lot about a person I never knew about despite being extremely famous in Japan. This is about Yozo Oba, a young man who you grow with from his childhood to adult years. A weak person who always worries about others thinking of him as something, well, not human. And so he plays the part, acts a certain way, to make sure he is liked. But in doing so he alienates and destroys the people around him. This is about Yozo Oba, a young man who you grow with from his childhood to adult years. A weak person who always worries about others thinking of him as something, well, not human. And so he plays the part, acts a certain way, to make sure he is liked. But in doing so he alienates and destroys the people around him.
Suicided, murder, betrayal, so much this person Oba does to only end up hurting everyone around him. The idea of this book is great. There's moments that are horrifying. Not in the supernatural way you might be used to with Junji Ito but more realistic and horrible human nature horror. And in the end the opening few chapters are fantastic, heavy, and disturbing. As we get further into Oba's life, it starts to feel lost on what story it wants to tell. The plot feels halted without any
clear reason to drag on storylines. I get the drug storyline and why it's important but the needlessly endless pages of tripping just didn't work for me. The extra scenes of relationships to only barely be mentioned later felt pointless as well. Still, it is a very intriguing book. The art is fantastic, and when it IS good it's great. I just wish more of it fit the great part of it. A 3.5 out of 5.
No Longer Human, by Junji Ito, is a manga adaptation of a classic book of the same title by Osamu Dazai. The story follows Yoza Oba, a man who has never felt connected to humanity. He plays the clown to downplay interactions with others, always suffering anxiety from other people, and a sense that he is an imposter or fake. This leads him down a path of pain, shame and suffering, as he jolts from place to
place, woman to woman, and drowns himself in drink, drugs and illicit affairs. Naturally at No Longer Human, by Junji Ito, is a manga adaptation of a classic book of the same title by Osamu Dazai. The story follows Yoza Oba, a man who has never felt connected to humanity. He plays the clown to downplay interactions with others, always suffering anxiety from other people, and a sense that he is an imposter or fake. This leads him down a path of pain,
shame and suffering, as he jolts from place to place, woman to woman, and drowns himself in drink, drugs and illicit affairs. Naturally attractive, he catches the eye of women around him, and his ability to pretend to please others makes him a person that others care for. Even so, internally, he is haunted by the ghosts of the past. His actions have also caused the suffering and death of many around him, as he constantly grapples with lust and alcoholism to try and numb his internal pain. These
ghosts haunt him throughout his life, taunting his every move, and always lurking in the background. This book was disturbing and interesting. It has a deep rooted psychological underpinning, as our main character grapples with concepts of humanity, and the pain and suffering he causes others. His lust leads to tragedy, as jealousy cause death by suicide and murder. His partners often grapple with pain, and some cheat on him or consume drugs just as he does. He as a person seems to lead to
tragic outcomes. The illustrations are interesting, and often horrifying and macabre. There are elements of black comedy here, as well as plays on illustrations - women and demons, children and horror etc. Alliterations, antonyms and language and philosophy play a key role, as Yoza pursues a career in literature, manga artistry and painting - a tragic artist through and through. This story comes from an age of angst in post WWII Japan, and it certainly shines through - an iconoclasm that
challenges societal norms, conventions and ideas. This book is highly graphic, from both a sexual and violence standpoint, and truly has an element of horror to it that transcends the cheap monster movies we see today. This is a deeply unsettling story, and makes it all the more interesting for it. A very good adaptation of this classic novel, and one to check out for fans of graphic novels, manga or classic Japanese literature.
4.5 stars TW: sexual abuse, rape, graphic mature scenes and violence, suicide, depression, alcoholism, substance abuse, parental neglect, domestic cheating you are probably tired of hearing me talk about dazai but hear me out This is a hard read. I have an immense affection for the original novel by Dazai particularly for how it made me feel. Junji Ito really shined here with his interpretations of
Yozo Oba's demons and fears. They were potrayed in these vivid, cruel horrible, disgusting and distur TW: sexual abuse, rape, graphic mature scenes and violence, suicide, depression, alcoholism, substance abuse, parental neglect, domestic cheating you are probably tired of hearing me talk about dazai but hear me out This is a hard read. I have an immense affection for the original novel by Dazai particularly for how it
made me feel. Junji Ito really shined here with his interpretations of Yozo Oba's demons and fears. They were potrayed in these vivid, cruel horrible, disgusting and disturbing images that came to life so extravagantly. I felt dread creeping all over my body, I was very much uncomfortable with all of the horrific and traumatising visuals. it showed the rawness of human. Rather than the grim, bleak and depressing prose by Dazai, Ito made the story seems more horror than sad. In a way, the
focus lies on horror and visually disturbing images and I like it but sometimes it get exaggerated. There are tons of really graphic scenes that I found overwhelming. I hated Yozo Oba in here more than the novel. In the novel, I felt deep sympathy to him even if i hate him, i still felt so much for him because of his traumas and the way he was treated. In here, he seema terrible from womanizing and his manipulation but that was him, he was not a good man, he was deceptive. It was troubling and
sad to see him. But Yozo was the embodiment of human's fear, desires, horrible, weakness and cowardice, that you may relate or hate for how similar he is to us. he is almost a reflection of ourselves we dont want to admit deep down in our heart. The latter part was different from the novel with the appearance of Dazai as a character, I think its unique. It gave me sadness as i read this part, i was emotional because of it. no longer human till this day resonated with so many
people. its a story that exposed the weakness, self destruction, honesty to the point it hurts, no rationalization for all bad decision and actions and somehow we empathize with the character. I think its time to have a reread of No longer human the novel.
This version of No Longer Human has been adapted and illustrated by horror manga artist Junji Ito. The story was originally published
in 1948, written by Osamu Dazai. I have not read the original so I cannot speak to how this work functions as a remake only how it is based on its own merit. No Longer Human follows the life of Yozo Oba from his youth all the way to old age. In the beginning he is a class clown who has a literal fear of respect. It's almost a pathological phobia that causes him to No Longer Human follows the life of Yozo Oba from his youth all the way to old age. In the beginning he is a class clown who has a literal fear of respect. It's almost a pathological phobia that causes him to act out in class and around authority figures. This behavior may also have
something to do with him being molested by at least two of the adults in his life. The book is disturbingly casual about this part. to continue to the full review please visit https://amanjareads.com/2021/07/20/no...
LOADS of trigger warnings, including suicide, drug abuse, & rape. not my favorite of junji ito's works, and knowing it's an adaptation, you can tell that it's not all his doing, but it still gives those same messed up, disturbing feelings, and I still enjoyed my time reading it. LOADS of trigger warnings, including suicide, drug abuse, & rape. not my favorite of junji ito's works, and knowing it's an adaptation, you can tell that it's not all his doing, but it still gives those same messed up, disturbing feelings, and I still enjoyed my time reading it. ...more
i don't think i was supposed to be that bored while reading it
I just got into Ito’s work at the end of last year, in part because I kept seeing ads for this book. I decided to start with some cheaper collections that came highly recommended, and then bought this when I got a “spend 20 on
ebooks and get 5 in credit” deal from Amazon. Friends on Facebook were raving about this, saying it was “his darkest work to date!” What? This isn’t a bad book. I waded through a lot of stuff like this in undergrad, so I’m accustomed to this kind of literature. Not on manga Friends on Facebook were raving about this, saying it was “his darkest work to date!” What? This isn’t a bad book. I waded through a lot of stuff like this in undergrad, so I’m accustomed to this kind of literature. Not on manga form, of course, but still. I appreciated how Ito adapted the work, and there were definitely dark parts. It was bleak, but the
protagonist just seems like a self-important asshole, a Byronic hero who just fucks a bunch of women and then kills them either intentionally or inadvertently. I agree with another reviewer that the protagonist’s reaction to a classmate knowing his “clowning” is intentional is absurd. The protagonist goes as far as to contemplate killing his classmate because of this. I really couldn’t understand what the crisis was here. Half of the other people had probably figured it out as well.
Several times in the book he mentions this classmate as a fearsome or terrifying presence, all because he could see that the protagonist’s self-deprecating pranks were on purpose. Man, he must have had a pretty damned low opinion of people. Of course, the fact that he treated everyone as disposable trash already makes that pretty clear. Still, overall I liked the book. Unlikeable protagonists are kind of my jam. There is a literary flair to this, and the artwork is beautiful. There are
some really great themes explored throughout as well, like cuckoldry, fear of the past, etc l. All of these issues are explored quite tactfully as well. In sum, it wasn’t what I expected, but it certainly was worth checking out. I think some Ito fans might be disappointed, but I think from a literary perspective it was a refreshing read. Junji Itō (伊藤潤二) 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. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of
malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the
town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. 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. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method
they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema. Other books in the seriesRelated ArticlesThe glint of fangs in the dark, the sound of tap-tap-tapping at your window, the howling of wind (or is it just wind?) in the trees...that's... “I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink.” — 5 likes “...I was cursed by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.” — 4 likes More quotes…Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Is no longer human by Junji Ito based on the book?No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito; it is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Osamu Dazai. It was serialized in Big Comic Original from May 2017 to April 2018 and published in three volumes.
How long is no longer human Junji Ito?No Longer Human 5.0 out of 5 stars.
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Product Details.. Does Barnes and Nobles have Tomie?Tomie (Complete Deluxe Edition) by Junji Ito, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
Is Junji Ito's no longer human accurate?Ito's adaptation is a more faithful version of the story and setting of the original work, though Ito adds a new plot turn towards the end in which the actual Osamu Dazai meets his fictionalized surrogate, Yozo Oba.
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