Thus ensues a long journey of a man trying desperately to make two moody cats adore him while also upholding the facade of not caring if they do or don't. This manga is a diary of the author’s life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends. His wife was generally fine with her depiction in the manga, but disliked that Ito drew her stand-in with very small pupils and striped pants. Junji Ito's Cat Diary appeared as an intermittent serial in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from 26 November 2007 [10] to 26 December 2008. What I'll say is that, personally, there was a LOT of interviews with Junji Ito rather than manga panels.

Horror comics author Junji Ito has recently purchased a new house and has decided to invite his girlfriend to move in with him. Josiah Stoup of Otaku USA suggested that Ito's art caricatured "the intense emotions that a pet owner feels," with both the cats and J-kun alternatively being frightened by the other. Maybe that was exacerbated by how much of the volume was taken up by interviews, but it still felt too small to be a complete story. Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon and Mu is the true enough story of what happened when Ito’s fiance moved into his house and brought two cats with her. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.Ito's sister asked that her own longhair cat, Ran-chan, be included in the manga, but he did not have the space for it. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who enjoyed it as a cat-centered manga whose humor was derived from the emphasis on the behavior of the cat caretaker, rather than the cat. It's amazing how Junji Ito can take a rather mundane book about his new family getting two cats and turn it into horror. Visuals that could be alarming in other works are played for comedy (for example an extended mouth with over large teeth moving towards a cat and a panel saying “I’m going to gobble you up” then the next frame showing kissing/cuddling the cat).

His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito had never considered himself a cat person before and found her first cat to have a bad vibe about him. This manga is a diary of the author's life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends. You may have run into the little bit where Yon almost eats Junji Ito's dinner back when we were all waiting for this to get translated already. This cat diary is drawn in his typical horror style and has similar pacing to a horror manga but it is laugh out loud hilarious.Kodansha Comics USA published an English-language translation of Junji Ito's Cat Diary in October 2015, which also included the contributions of Ito and his wife to the 2011 collection Teach Me, Michael!

Previously, Ito had drawn cats as frightening but had recently drawn a "very cute" cat in a way that appeared to capture the "essence" of cats, thus convincing the editor. The English-language edition also included the pieces contributed by Ito and his wife for Teach Me, Michael!In "The Events of One Late Night," J-kun tries to bribe the cats to sleep on his bed, rather than A-ko's, to no avail. Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself purr-suaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain the affection of his new feline friends. Ito's two styles of artwork were generally seen as complementing the narrative nicely, [4] [5] with highlights being the characters of Mu and Yon, [5] the range of character facial expressions, [16] and the timing and content of the gags.

Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. Anime News Network's Rebecca Silverman wrote that Ito's realistic art worked to make the cats endearing, while the moments of horrific art served as comedy. Here he deploys his trademark style, with intricate, black-and-white artwork, to compose an account of everyday life with two cats. Skonstruowana z luźnych scenek, które przedstawiają codzienne życie z perspektywy kogoś, kto pierwszy raz ma stały kontakt z mruczkami i zaaatraaaca się w miłości do nich. I feel that without prior knowledge of his works, this will come off as just a bizarre little book and many won’t get the joke.However, when she moves in, she comes with two cats, Yon, a strange-looking white cat with a ghastly fur pattern on its back that resembles a skull, and Mu, Yon's cute counterpart and playmate. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his fiancée, A-ko, to live with him. I found myself smiling or laughing more than I was wincing and cringing at the horror or scare tactics.