Ero Guro – The Japanese “Horror Gore” Aesthetic
Ero Guro (エ ロ グ ロ) is an aesthetic movement or sub-genre, still poorly defined, that has emerged in many schools of Japanese art and…
Most Nightmarish Horror Manga of 2021
There's something about Japanese horror that you simply won't find elsewhere. It's not just creepy atmospheres, and jump scares, no mere ghost stories nor serial…
Junji Ito – The Enigma of Amigara Fault
Junji Ito's finest example of psychological horror is also one of his most popular short stories, The Enigma of Amigara Fault. The plot revolves around…
Yoshitaka Amano’s whimsical character portraits are a door to a dream world
Yoshitaka Amano is a very popular illustrator who is famous for designing many of the character portraits and cover arts of the Final Fantasy video…
Junji Ito’s Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror
Uzumaki (Japanese for "spiral") is undoubtedly Junji Ito's most famous horror story, first published between 1998 and 1999 as a serial in the weekly manga…
Junji Ito’s disturbing visual narratives
Junji Ito is a Japanese manga illustrator specialised in horror and guro (gore). He was born in 1963 in an old country town in the…
The sheer absurdism of Shintaro Kago
Shintaro Kago is one of the few Japanese fucked up artists who gained a large amount of following in the western world. Born in Tokyo in…
Horror and erotism in Takato Yamamoto’s dark aesthetism
Takato Yamamoto's Heisei Aestheticism is dark and sensual at the same time.
