![]() ![]() Del Toro has tweeted about Ito’s work, calling him an “undisputed master of horror in Japan,” and he furthermore discussed it in an interview with IGN, noting how Ito takes “taboos of the Japanese society” and “articulates them through pure horror.” Ito and del Toro have even sung karaoke together, and they collaborated on Konami’s Silent Hills video game before the project was canceled. This is something we see Ito doing in his manga work as well. ![]() When VIZ Media asked Ito in 2020 who was making the best horror content across all mediums, he cited del Toro for “how he creates his own unique world” in his films. Ito and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (who is also influenced by Lovecraft and has an At the Mountains of Madness adaptation stuck in development hell in Hollywood) have developed a mutual admiration society, artistically. Here, they encounter inexplicable human-shaped holes that stretch a person’s body the deeper one goes into the mountainside. 'Fish: Ghastly Squirming') in Japan, is a horror seinen manga written and illustrated by Junji Ito, appearing as a serial in the weekly manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2001 to 2002. Similar to Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, characters in this story embark on a mountain expedition. Gyo (, 'Fish'), fully titled Gyo Ugomeku Bukimi (, lit. ![]() ![]() Lovecraftian cosmic horror, the sheer hopelessness in the face of monstrosities that surpass all human understanding, is a hallmark of Ito’s work, as seen in stories like “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” (collected in the English edition of Gyo). ![]()
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