Social Commentary, Horror Manga and the Left: From Ero-Guro to Junji Ito
Communism is when I write horror manga. This fact has generally been unrecognized in discussions on the subject.
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Demonesses and the Men Who Abuse Them: The real tragedy of Junji Ito’s Tomie
Tomie is just one version of a story we’ve heard about women over and over about the cruel, conniving woman who “gets what she deserves” after her manipulation of a man blows up in her face. This is how the stories justify and disguise their displays of male misogynistic violence: as uncontrollable supernatural urges in response to an unknowable, distinctly female evil.
