While J-kun wrestles with his apprehension over living with Yon, A-ko adopts a kitten to keep Yon company. 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. 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. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his fiancée, A-ko, to live with him. He bounces between being afraid of the cat and having an uncontrollable urge to smother it with affection.

Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself purrsuaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain the affection of his new feline friends.Ito’s chosen style is central to the hilarity of his stories: J-kun’s bulging, bloodshot eyes; A-ko’s pupil-less ones that make her seems more zombie than human. Kodansha USA announced that it had obtained the manga's license at the 2015 Anime Boston convention, [13] and published the English-language translation in North America on 27 October 2015. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Thus ensues a long journey of a man trying desperately to make two moody cats adore him while also upholding the facade of not caring if they do or don't. Wonderful, deadpan humour pervades Junji Ito’s tongue-in-cheek, autobiographical manga based on a reluctant conversion from dog person to cat person.

In "Yon is a Weird Cat," J-kun, while finishing his manga on a tight deadline one night, imagines that Yon transforms into various beings, including a slug, the supernatural snake-like creature tsuchinoko, and an elderly man.Is there anything spookier than a silent feline, eyes glinting, stalking you in the night…IN YOUR OWN HOME? Of course the cat needs a friend so they get a second cat and Ito does not think it has an accursed face and wants to love it more than the first one. Ito used the opportunity to draw on his anecdotes of living with the cats, [1] and his wife advised him on the manga's storyboards and depicting the personalities of the cats.

Master of horror Junji Ito turns his twisted eye on his own life in this comedic graphic memoir about becoming a cat owner, now reissued in a deluxe hardcover featuring an exclusive interivew with Ito and a NEW cover illustration by the author that GLOWS IN THE DARK!

Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam [16] and Italian by Panini Comics. But cat lovers should be warned there is a bittersweet sting here, as Ito’s story extends to Yon’s final days. 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. Ito rysuje jak Ito, więc miałam wrażenie, że zaraz stanie się coś złego/niepokojącego, ale to zabawna, urocza historia o kotach i ludziach. You see Ito is a Horror Artist, and I use capital letters there because he takes it a step beyond what most can pull off.

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.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. That said, people who are into his sort of horror might not like that when all is said and done, he just wrote a cute little book about his cats.