Junji Ito

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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We conclude SpoOoOky October by exploring the terrifying work of horror manga artist Junji Ito. Get $5 off your first order of $15 or more when you download the DoorDash app and enter promo code Wizard. Sure, October has been pretty spooky, but nothing compares to the horror of our student loans! Support us on Patreon and get bonus weekly episodes, discord chats and more! Moonlight Hall, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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0:00.0	Hey,
0:07.0	Hey everybody, it's your spiral-shaped bruiser, Holden McNeely.
0:23.9	And it's me, your fish with gross spider legs, Jake Young.
0:27.6	Kissing, kissing, kissing, kissing, kissing, kissing, kissing, kissing.
0:30.1	Oh, my God, he's eating a baby.
0:35.5	Um, I loved this episode prep.
0:39.8	Holy shit.
0:41.3	Let's talk about it.
0:42.2	Let's just get right in there.
0:43.7	We're doing Junji Ito.
0:45.4	Junji Ito we should definitely set up just in case people don't know.
0:48.3	He is the master of horror manga.
0:52.0	He has, I feel like, no equal, in my opinion, in terms of Japanese horror manga. He has, I feel like, no equal, in my opinion, in terms of Japanese horror manga.
0:58.7	I'm sure he does. I'm sure he does. Right. We just don't know yet. We just haven't seen it yet.
1:03.3	It's the weird thing where, like, which manga authors get noticed in the West and which ones don't.
1:11.1	But it's so good, Jake.
1:13.0	It's so good.
1:14.0	Also, the fact that, like, he's become popular pretty much exclusively through, like, memes.
1:23.3	Yeah, which is weird.
1:25.0	Like, yeah, you see, like, a shark opening a door door and you're like, what the fuck is this bad shit craziness?
1:32.1	And then you realize way later, oh, that's Junjiito.
1:34.9	And it is funny, like, until this week, I never really sat down and dove in.
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