Unsettling reflections

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Hi, My name is Priyanka Vedasharan. This blog is where I explore the worlds that haunt me-both imagined and real. My fascination with Junji Ito comes from how he transforms ordinary life into something unrecognizably eerie, a mirror of how our inner fears take shape. I’ve lived and worked between India and Japan and these experiences shaped how I see identity, silence and resilience. Here I write to connect these dots: Horror, healing and Human nature.

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  • Junji Ito’s “Gentle goodbye”

    Junji Ito’s ‘Gentle Goodbye’ presents death not as an abrupt rupture, but as a liminal process—a gradual dissolution in which the deceased linger briefly before fading into white fog. This conceptualization of death establishes the story’s central ethical and emotional tension: if departure is slow and gentle, at what point does love become an obstacle rather than…

  • Junji Ito:When Horror Becomes a Mirror

    When most people think of Junji Ito, they think of grotesque faces, body horror, and nightmarish images that stick in your mind long after the page is closed. But for me, Ito isn’t just about shock or scares. He’s holding up a mirror — not to monsters outside of us, but to dysfunctions within society…

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