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Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito's legendary sci-fi thriller is finally available in English!
Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face.
They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny...
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Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. His titles include
Tomie and
Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films;
Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his books
Deserter,
Fragments of Horror,
Frankenstein,
Lovesickness,
No Longer Human,
Remina,
Sensor,
Shiver,
Smashed, and
Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media.
He is a three-time Eisner Award winner. In 2019 his collection
Frankenstein won in the “Best Adaptation from Another Medium” category, and in 2021 he was awarded “Best Writer/Artist,” while
Remina received the award for “Best U.S. Edition of International Material (Asia).”
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Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito’s legendary sci-fi thriller
is finally available in English!
Four people intent on killing themselves
meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs
about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an
engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a girl who agonizes about the
birthmark on her face.
They wander together in search of the perfect
death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre
destiny...
