No Longer Human
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Average rating4.2
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Ratings6
Average rating4.2
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. -- VIZ Media
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so grim. knowing this is adapted off a partly autobiographical novel is so haunting, just showing the reach of human despair. not having read the original novel, I already feel that Junji Ito was perfect for this, and might be his most horrifying work for me. it’s a shift from his more supernatural works into a more spiritual one, which just makes it seem more ‘real’. And Ito just lets loose when given the opportunity to delve into the anguishing mind of one character, there’s just such amazing artistry in visualising Oba’s anguishing convictions.
