Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection

A collection of Junji Ito‘s horror comics.

Another Junji Ito collection from VIZ. It’s good but I think I prefer the overall group of stories in Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories more. This book contains a lot of comics revolving around one of Ito’s reoccurring characters, Soichi. These stories are tonally comedic and more irreverent compared to Ito’s more horrific works. They seem heavily inspired by Kazuo Umezz‘s works like The Drifting Classroom that are targeted for younger readers, and in that sense they don’t appeal to me compared to Ito’s other works.

~dakazu