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recenserade Frankenstein av Junji Itō (Viz signature)

Junji Itō: Frankenstein (Hardcover, 2018, VIZ Media)

"Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into …

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My first Ito that I can recall. The title story is pretty disappointing; a rushed, one-dimensional read-through of the basics of Shelley's story, crammed with speech bubbles and sound effects that leave the story with no room to breathe, and towards the end Ito just seems bored with it and wraps up the last third in a couple of quick panels.

The Oshikiri cycle is a lot better - high school Lovecraftiana with a plot that slowly starts developing with each new iteration, and some pretty neat artwork - and leaves me curious to read more of Ito's stuff. But maybe his original works rather than his covers.