JR’S DESIGN APPRECIATION POST

i feel like seriously describing junji ito's horror works as simply "wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened" is dumb because it's such a vague description that most other horror works can also be described as that. For example:

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if your house suddenly started creating new rooms and changed its dimensions on you?" (House of Leaves, specifically The Navidson Record)

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if the doors, windows, and your parents suddenly disappeared out of nowhere?" (Skinamarink)

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if a clown in a sewer started killing kids?" (It)

among others.

Not to mention, most of Ito's works do have deeper meaning to them, specifically targetting japanese culture. This video touches on his shorter works, but even his larger works have metaphorical meaning.

Junji Ito describing his mindset on writing Gyo as "man it would suck if sharks had legs" is real funny, but it's also critiquing Japan's war crimes in WWII; the origin of the "legs" being from World War II when the Imperial Japanese Army was trying to create biochemical weapons cannot be a coincidence. Hellstar Remina is about a hostile alien planet, but it's also an allegory of fans turning on a girl because of something beyond her control, reminiscent of idol culture. Hell, even Uzumaki, probably one of his greatest "WTF" horror works, is also about a pair of teenagers being unable to escape their hometown, unable to expand their horizons in the outside world. they just keep going in circles, unable to escape.

I don't know, at this point describing Ito's works only being "wouldnt it be fucked up if this thing happened" is starting to feel like "the curtains are blue because the author likes the color blue" but like. for horror

Draytons elbows off the table; teacup on a little saucer; fork and knife at either side of the nicely arranged plate.

Meanwhile nubbins food has been cut into weird sizes and is literally on the table.

Eat The Gods

Animated that one scene from Prey but with Trapper

random thought; is Magnificus inspired by the Great Wizard in Fran Bow? They’re both pine tree/fern Wizard people. Tho appearance-wise the Great Wizard is more reminiscent of Leshy

Since there’s an ARG for finding Amber’s name, could there also be one for the woodsmen? Or The Lonely Wizard? Or P03’s workers? (Ik they’re robots and he wouldn’t bother naming them but it has a name so why can’t they)

Friday the 13th (1980) dir. Sean S. Cunningham

So if Anna’s cannibalism is canon how far do you think she took it? Like did she only eat soldiers that came into the forest or did she drag bodies back to her cabin after raiding villages? And what’s worse, did she eat the families of the little girls she took captive? And what’s worse, did she try and feed them to aforementioned little girls? (It could explain why so many girls died in her care, assuming they knew it was their families and refused until they starved) And what’s worse, did Anna bury the little girls after they died or did she eat them too cuz she doesn’t wanna waste meat? And what’s worse, if she did then what did she do with her mother’s corpse? Like did she just leave her in the woods? Did she dislodge her from that elk? If she buried her then did she dislodge her and then bury her or just bury her with the elk? Or is she just that desperate not to waste anything and ate her mom and that elk? Fucked up thoughts but I’ve been thinking about this shit for weeks

it is still there, but to be fair Act II is the game going back to what it was before the Old Data in Leshy’s takeover, so the meat was probably always a game mechanic

Fun Inscryption fact

it’s implied that the meat pile Leshy gives you when you win a campaign in Act I is actually ground from Grimora’s corpse. It’s in the safe that you find the Stinkbug card in and Grimora’s corpse isn’t in the storage room with PO3 and Magnificus

posting some real shit w the op's permission