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No Longer Human
by Junji Ito
Horrible! A great pickup from the library. It's been a long time since I've read Dazai's original novel, but I knew right away that Ito was not intending to draw a straightforward adaptation -- this comic is intensely grotesque in ways the original seemed more often to hint at.
As a horror story, this is superb, and deeply disturbing in ways that are faithful to the original while being new. As a substitute to the original, this is wholly inadequate, because it is too grotesque to really take seriously after a point. I really enjoyed the feeling of finishing this book and thinking about how much less morbid I am now, in my late 20s, than I was 5 years ago. Refreshing.
I recommend both the novel and the manga to any lover of misery.
In this one, you get a lot more Buddhist horror and sludgy eroticism. I'd love to see Ito do Notes from Underground next.
As a horror story, this is superb, and deeply disturbing in ways that are faithful to the original while being new. As a substitute to the original, this is wholly inadequate, because it is too grotesque to really take seriously after a point. I really enjoyed the feeling of finishing this book and thinking about how much less morbid I am now, in my late 20s, than I was 5 years ago. Refreshing.
I recommend both the novel and the manga to any lover of misery.
In this one, you get a lot more Buddhist horror and sludgy eroticism. I'd love to see Ito do Notes from Underground next.