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Mar 30, 2015 12:48:35 GMT
Post by Kaiju Koi on Mar 30, 2015 12:48:35 GMT
For a while a dream of mine has been to host a panel on the masters of horror Manga. I'm just not sure where to begin!
I definitely want to cover Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezzu. But I'd also Le to include a few others. I'd love to get some ideas here! Who should be include, what it should cover, etc.
If anyone knows about Japanese urban legends or other ideas that come up in some of these works I'm curious about that too!
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Names included- junji ito, kazuo umezu, hideshi hino, nakayama masaaki, kago shintaro, suehiro maruo, Shigeru Mizuki
Recent horror manga recs-
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Mar 30, 2015 13:40:10 GMT
Post by Perynne on Mar 30, 2015 13:40:10 GMT
Hideshi Hino should be included in the masters of horror manga, since he's one of the artists who has heavily influenced the japanese horror scene. Along with Hell Baby, he's done lots of short horror stories that have been collected into volumes. He's also worked on horror movies based on his own manga stories. As for urban legends, a lot of manga seems to get ideas from vague tales, japanese cultural ideals and fears (like Hell Baby, which was about an abandoned baby growing up to become a monster), not necessarily full blown legends. Japanese horror storytellers (manga, books, movies, etc) like to take a normal, everyday thing and make it creepy, and they don't always even explain why these scary things are happening. That's very different from modern western horror stories, where you eventually find a reason for all of the creepy stuff. Having a story that's more about the mood and events, rather than explaining every small detail to bits, fits in with old japanese storytelling methods. If you want actual legends, nterpretations of kuchisake onna, vengeful ghosts or some other creepy yokai seem to be the most popular tales to draw influence from. My suggestion is to look up yokai and yuurei stories, since they're the horror stories japanese people told even before manga became a thing.  Good luck with your panel! |
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Mar 30, 2015 14:17:14 GMT
Post by Kaiju Koi on Mar 30, 2015 14:17:14 GMT
Thanks so much! !
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Apr 1, 2015 2:17:27 GMT
Post by Abstraction on Apr 1, 2015 2:17:27 GMT
First of all, I will post a bunch of links with general information, in which the authors have nicely articulated their points. I would wager you missed Shigeru Mizuki, particularly his influence in Japanese culture in general and the general public familiarity with the concept of yokai. He was influenced by American comics and I believe some other authors as well, but I can't recall their names or maybe I'm just mistaken. Mizuki Shigeru and American Horror Comics: hyakumonogatari.com/2014/01/28/mizuki-shigeru-and-american-horror-comics/Shigeru Mizuki’s The Dunwich Horror: hyakumonogatari.com/2014/05/01/shigeru-mizukis-the-dunwich-horror/General article about japanese Horror: www.dreamdawn.com/sh/features/japanese_horror.phpJapanese monsters comedy article: www.cracked.com/funny-223-japanese-monsters/When it comes to urban legends, one of my favorite manga deals with it Hanako To Guuwa No Tera, aka Hanako and the Teller of Allegory, aka Hanako and the Terror of Allegory. I may have read some other manga that also dealt primarily with urban legends but I can't recall its name. You have probably read Fuan no Tane Seeds of anxiety, which has a format that consists sort of snippets of pseudo urban legends or supernatural events that may have ocurred to someone, not having much of a structure, rhyme or reason, most of the time. Kind of like someone telling you some abandoned house is haunted because he saw a shadow standing near some window, without anymore details specified or available. |
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