Do people actually think Junji Ito's work is scary? It's interesting no doubt, but it's so over the top it's ridiculous

do people actually think Junji Ito's work is scary? It's interesting no doubt, but it's so over the top it's ridiculous

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Most of his work is more surreal black comedy than strictly horror.

if your media can't blast me with a high decibel noise at any moment you're never gonna scare me. Horror is just thematic in books and manga, it's not a physiological experience like movies or to a lesser extent video games.

Horror is more than jump scares. One of my favorite horror movies is Dark Water, because it takes its time to set up an atmosphere of absolute dread and powerlessness. The "monster" only appears in the last 10 minutes, and when it does, the result is more tragic than scary. You could also pull that off with a book or manga.

Japan in general doesn't do horror well, most of the really popular ones people point to like franken fran rely too heavily on shock value, and others have suicide ghost girl narrators that are too fappable to be scary

I don't like it and Uzumaki was really bad

/lit/ has a thread on disturbing books: Reading some of the descriptions of the novels considered disturbing on the wikipedia site is kind of unnerving, especially since some of the novels are based on real incidents. Uzumaki has some of that unnerving elements and such, even the fact that the town is cursed and is an evil power that can't be successfully fought against is quite scary or horrific kind of the way that the Ingsoc party in 1984 is an evil power that is always regenerating itself with new members while crushing any dissidents.

Think of him more like a Japanese Lovecraft. The horror is all in the alienness of it all.

A lot of it his work is pretty ridiculous to the point of comedy, yes. But a lot of it isn't, either. Amagai Fault is the one people are most familiar with in the mainstream and it's probably the one that best balances his horror capabilities and his silly premises. The plot being a bunch of people shaped holes in a cliff side they feel compelled to insert themselves into is pretty amusing. But the story does a good job turning it into something horrific and the ending is pretty good in this regard. I like that Ito has this kind of attitude towards it, because it at least makes most of the stories more interesting if they're not as scary and often leads to something more creative than otherwise.

The Travelogue of the Succubus stories are also largely straight forward horror, there's not really anything as particularly goofy as in some of his other works.

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this. the best horror is well written psychological thrillers or subtle comedies like the return of the living dead. Fucking gorefags and jumpscare lovers ruined horror forever.

Most of them aren't, but the babies in uzumaki is the one thing of his I found scary.

>Fucking gorefags and jumpscare lovers ruined horror forever.
But those are fun, and having fun with horror movies is a blast.
God I hate people who get pretentious about horror when the genre is super trashy 99% of the time.

you gotta forget who you are and immerse yourself like you're having a nightmare. imagine the textures. imagine the smells. imagine the bites of adrenaline and the taste of bile and the sound of bones creaking like an old wooden ship as they twist into unnatural shapes.
you gotta imagine actually experiencing what you're reading without tryingvto be clever "oh, but I would just do this and everything would be fine" because you're in a nightmare and you don't think clearly in a nightmare

>the genre is super trashy 99% of the time
because most of it is pandered to troglodytes such as yourself

Dude spirals lmao

we all know about sturgeon's law.
if you're looking for gore and jump scares you should be looking for the top percent if thriller movies, not horror movies

Remina’s a lot scarier to me than the adult swim meme

I only like Souchi, he speaks to me on a spiritual level

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I have NEVER heard or read anyone describing Junji Ito's work as "scary".

Is mostly unsettling or weird but never truly scary. But I find his stories really entertaining

Hell star remina is fucking great, but after reading it, I realized Ito can't help but end most stories on a positive or humorous note.

That fucking lighthouse chapter was fucking disturbing. I feel its more of this sense of dread. The boyfriend knows he is fucked and the girl wants to stay. So he might as well get laid before the end.

>the result is more tragic than scary
I was asked if it was scary

>One of my favorite horror movies is Dark Water
Which one? The japanese or the american remake?

This

Is this Parasyte?
Higurashi is the only truly scary thing I've read (as a visual novel, and the first 4 eps are good in the anime too). The sound is amazing.
Saiya no Uta was too fappable but kinda disturbing at times, not really scary.
And that's it. Junji Ito doesn't do it for me

God I hated that spiral shit. The people in it acted so fucking retarded and had literally 0 characterization. People going completely insane, killing themselves, 6 hurricanes in a row, getting attacked by a maniac who’s entire body is filled with spirals. The fucking worst is when the protagonist girl decided to not leave the hospital even after she found out all the preggo mosquito women were draining people’s blood, even though she was pretty much fine and could have left at any time. Pure retardation

I didn't find it scary. Creepy in some parts sure but not scary. Nowadays it's really hard to make things scary. That being said it was a great read, couldn't stop until I finished it.

Same. I just think it’s hilarious and retarded that after all the shit the main girl went through in the first volume alone she still decided to not GTFO. And her boyfriend wanted to leave before anything actually crazy happened

it's like cosmic horror
The way his characters react so nonchalantly to stuff is ridiculous

>my slow burn bone chilling atmospheric movie!!!
Not scary, faggot.

>he doesn't think ssj schoolgirls are terrifying
Get a load of Mr.fearless over here

Not at all.
A lot of the time it's just "And the person's agency was taken away and then they got compelled to be spooked/spooky". It's just silly.

The characters are devoid of any personality. It feels like they're just soulless vehicles to showcase some spooky concepts Ito came up with. For Uzamaki it's basically just this retarded girl running around for ages looking at weird spiral stuff and her bf who is slightly less of a retard just sitting around and waiting for the latest spooky spiral thing to happen to them

Kirie was lucky she was cute or Shuichi would have left her ass to get spiraled fucking ages ago. It was stupid how she would call him crazy after some of the shit they saw. I still love it but damn.

>a cute.

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