Unsettling reflections
A mirror to society's shadows
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Fuchi is introduced as a fashion model, someone who ostensibly embodies the industry’s most prized traits. She is exceptionally tall, thin, and possesses a striking facial structure, the features typically celebrated in high fashion. However, Ito distorts each of these attributes just enough to expose their underlying instability. Her height is no longer statuesque but…
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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…
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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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