Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2019

The digital urban legends of Junji Ito, and the games they've inspired

I first encountered Junji Ito’s comics when I was a teen lurking on imageboards. “Storytime!” someone would announce, and we would all gather around the digital campfire to read some badly translated manga scans. Comics lasting only a handful of pages, quick to read and quick to share in those times when the internet was slower and darker.

Perhaps you read some of them too. Remember the one about the mountain filled with human-shaped holes? The giant human heads who float in the sky like balloons? The man whose dreams got longer and longer, a single night lasting a whole century in his mind? Spooky tales that felt like urban legends.

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