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M&C! Licenses Junji Ito Short Story Collection Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher M&C! released The Best of Junji Ito Short Story Collection manga omnibus under its Akasha label on Wednesday.
Shogakukan Asia previously released the manga in English in Southeast Asia, and it describes the book:
2019 Eisner award winner Junji Ito completes the horror lineup with [The Best of Junji Ito Short Story Collection]. This volume includes ten of the acclaimed author's short stories, selected exclusively from the Shogakukan publisher catalogue, presented and accompanied with a gallery of six colour illustrations. Presented in its original form for the first time in English, this lavish large format anthology comes with full colour sections for your enjoyment. Aimed at mature readers, this series promises to thrill audiences with Junji Ito's macabre storytelling.
Ito is a prolific horror manga writer. His Uzumaki and Tomie manga have inspired live-action adaptations, and his GYO manga inspired an OVA. M&C! previously released the GYO manga in Indonesia. Uzumaki is inspiring a new television anime adaptation that will air in North America first on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block.
The Junji Ito "Collection" 2017 anime adapted some stories from the Itō Junji Kessaku-shū (Junji Ito Masterpiece Collection) and Fragments of Horror manga.
Source: Gramedia's website via Kaori Nusantara
