Updated on March 22nd, 2021 by Bailey Jo Josie: It's been almost a year since this article was first published, and in that time horror manga fans are still waiting for the premiere of the Adult Swim anime adaptation of Junji Ito's Uzumaki, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing production to shut down. But sometimes, his stories linger in the back of readers' minds as they're trying to sleep at night or enter a dark room. He takes ideas from normal, everyday life and exaggerates them, crafting jumpscares as readers flip the page from horror to horror. Most of it is unexplainable and borders on the line of "weird and unexplainable" rather than actually scary. Junji's work is different from most horror media. RELATED: 5 Junji Ito Short Stories You Must Read (& 5 To Skip) Junji Ito has become a horror icon and can scare anyone with his unruly plotlines and horrific panels. He started in the mid-80s with Tomie being his first published work. Junji Ito, the master of horror, has made terrifying horror manga over the last three and a half decades.
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