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

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The cats scratch things, make messes, bite, make him feel unworthy, all the things that cats do and he's documented it here for our absolute enjoyment. I don't like it as much as the truly masterful horror stuff he does, but it's kinda cute, pretty funny. This manga is a diary of the author's life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends. 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. This cat diary is drawn in his typical horror style and has similar pacing to a horror manga but it laugh out loud hilarious.

Style [ edit ] J-kun attempts to play with the cats, to no avail; his mouth becomes more horrific as he fails to capture their interest. 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. He is not the sort of manga creator I can recommend to most of my friends, as I genuinely think his work often goes a step beyond uncomfortable (though if you do like horror, check him out. 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. But he soon finds himself lured in by the cuteness and wants the cat to love him as much as it does his wife.Upon publication, the manga received a favorable critical and commercial response, debuting in The New York Times 's weekly list of the ten best-selling manga volumes. Children's librarian Marissa Lieberman wrote that, because of the overlap in the importance of narrative pacing and timing in both comedy and horror, Ito's previous work in horror and gag manga helped to make Junji Ito's Cat Diary unique among other cat-centered manga. This is Juni Ito of horror manga like Uzumaki (you know, where a town is consumed by spirals in three volumes) doing diary comics about his pet cats, so you can probably already guess whether this would ever appeal to you. Wonderful, deadpan humour pervades Junji Ito’s tongue-in-cheek, autobiographical manga based on a reluctant conversion from dog person to cat person. But cat lovers should be warned there is a bittersweet sting here, as Ito’s story extends to Yon’s final days.

Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his fiancée, A-ko, to live with him. Ito used two main artistic styles throughout the manga: a realistic one and a horror-tinged one of exaggeration. Alongside authors such as Maruo Suehiro and Kazuo Umezu, Junji Ito is well-known as one of Japan's greatest in the genre of horror manga. This manga is a diary of the author's life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends, and is drawn in Junji Ito's horror comic style featuring intricate and finely drawn images.Appearing as a serial in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from November 2007 to December 2008, it follows the adventures of J-kun, a horror manga artist as he adjusts to life with cats: Yon, whom his fiancėe brings along to their new house, and Mu, a Norwegian Forest cat whom the couple adopts as a kitten.