Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection

Junji Ito‘s manga adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein.

We’ve discussed this on an older episode.

I personally really enjoyed this book. Junji Ito is such a master of horrific visuals they work so well with the classic Frankenstein story. There are some amazing pages that show how disgusting Victor Frankenstein’s grave robbing was. This even gave birth to the classic Frankenstein fairy meme!

I will say that since I am not that familiar with the Shelley’s original novel I wasn’t effected by many of the artistic changes Ito did for his version. Seamus was not pleased during our Retrospective on this manga and ultimately felt Ito did a disservice to the original book. So if you’re a big fan of the novel you may not enjoy this manga as much as I did.

~dakazu