In this version, Yōzō meets Osamu Dazai himself during an asylum recovery, thus giving him permission to tell his story in his next book. The manga includes a retelling of Dazai's suicide from Ōba's perspective. Creator and invention, life and fiction, meld as Dazai and Yōzō cross paths in a lunatic asylum and commiserate over their mutual tragedies. Ressler, Karen (February 11, 2019). "Viz Licenses Junji Ito's No Longer Human Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021 . Retrieved December 25, 2021.

In February 2019, Viz Media announced they licensed the series for English publication. [5] They released the entire series in one hardcover book. [6] Volumes [ edit ] No. There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes... Painters who have had this mentality, after repeated wounds and intimidations at the hands of the apparitions called human beings, have often come to believe in phantasms — they plainly saw monsters in broad daylight, in the midst of nature...These, I thought, would be my friends in the future. I was so excited I could have wept." - Osamu Dazai, No Longer HumanI don't want to say that one piece is better than the other, if anything I think they should be read side by side. What Junji Ito gives to this piece, though, is visuals...and amazing visuals at that. He embellishes the darkness and grotesque within this piece and really adds an element to the sad story at hand. It is more vibrant when you see the artwork attached to the text, and I think that is why this is probably my favorite of all Junji Ito's pieces as well. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga.

Badman, Derik (January 29, 2020). "No Longer Human". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021 . Retrieved December 25, 2021. tbh I had mixed feelings for the original book as well and for the exactly same reasons, I think I haven't grasped the true meaning of the book yet so I am gonna switch to the movie version. I hope I finally understand everything. Then the cousins both fall in love with Oba and sleep with him. The younger one goes crazy upon seeing Oba with the older one (and you know someone has gone crazy in this manga because their face is draw in closeup with their often bloodshot eyes opened wide, their upper face is stroked with hatching), murders the older one, and then has Oba's baby. He later reconnects with that cousin in the mental hospital, where she is still crazy, but he goes to live with her and her son, who is drawn to look like Takeichi. a b Douresseaux, Leroy (December 18, 2019). "No Longer Human manga review". Comic Book Bin. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021 . Retrieved December 25, 2021. no longer human till this day resonated with so many people. its a story that exposed the weakness, self destruction, honesty to the point it hurts, no rationalization for all bad decision and actions and somehow we empathize with the character.I think it’s great as an adaptation not because it's a literal scene-by-scene rendering of the novel (though it is fairly accurate) but because it captures the bleak, nihilistic atmosphere of the original in its own medium. Whereas Dazai uses tortured internal monologues to express the protagonist's despair, Ito externalizes this despair through images. It's a good thing he didn't end up a twisted sociopath, though there were instances when he was teetering on the edge of that abyss. He did become dissipated, profligate, and keen to keep bad company - vices that only worsened as time went by. Junji Ito is an absolute master when it comes to his artwork and graphic novels. If you pair this with No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, you have the perfect piece.

Después de leer "Indigno de Ser Humano" de Osamu Dazai, no podía dejar de pasar la oportunidad de leerme la adaptación que hizo Junji Ito a novela gráfica, o en este caso concreto, manga. Junji Ito, un autor que me fascina retoma los elementos esenciales de la novela, y la reconvierte en una obra muy de su estilo. Pensándolo bien, "Indigno de Ser Humano" es una historia muy del estilo de Junji Ito: ese terror existencial por huir del mundo parece el campo donde mejor se pueda desenvolver un autor como él.

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. Later on he gets involved with the communists, continues to jump from woman to woman, becomes an alcoholic, attempts suicide, and that’s it. I’ve no clue what the point was - all I saw was gratuitously gloomy people being sad over their depressing lives. I didn’t understand why Oba doesn’t feel human or what we were meant to think about that. The "phantasms" haunting Yōzō become more and more concrete through the course of the story as his fate solidifies and he sinks to his doom. From images that seem fairly certainly to be Yōzō's hallucinations to presences that are uncannily actual, Yōzō's ghosts invade not only his psyche, but his physical environment as well, ultimately destroying him.