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is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include ''Tomie'', a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness, ''Uzumaki'', a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals, and ''Gyo'', a two-volume story where fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called "the death stench." His other works are ''Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection'', a collection of different short stories with the occasional appearance of a certain character named Souichiro and his family, and ''Itou Junji No Neko Nikki: Yon and Mu'', a light-hearted story about moving in a new house with his cats. ==Biography== Junji Ito was born in the Gifu prefecture of Japan in 1963. He was inspired from a young age by both his older sister's drawings and the work of Kazuo Umezu. Ito first began writing and drawing manga as a hobby while working as a dental technician in the early 90's.〔Ito 2007: 207〕 In 1987, he submitted a short story to Gekkan Halloween that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize (with Umezu himself as one of the judges). In addition to Kazuo Umezu, Ito has cited Hideshi Hino, Koga Shinsaku, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and H.P. Lovecraft as being major influences on his work.〔Ito 2007: 207〕 Some of the recurring themes of Ito's work include body horror, seemingly ordinary characters who begin to act out of irrational compulsion, the breakdown of society, deep sea organisms, and the inevitability of one's demise. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Junji Ito」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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