Junji Ito is a master of coming up with great concepts of horror, but his main weakness is uninteresting characters. This is normally not a problem, since short stories of 20 length dont require alot of personality in the cast. But in this collection, the cast remains the same from story to story, and that really makes it obvious that the cast is just not that interesting, with the exception of Souchi. His art is also at its best when drawing really weird and horrifying shit, which the more grounded stories in this collection dont really feature.
TLDR: If youre a Junji Ito fanatic, this is
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Fun Summer Vacation, Fun Winter Vacation, Souichi's Diary of Delights, Souichi's Home Tutor, Cloth Teachers, Souichi's Birthday Japanese: 双一の楽しい日記 InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 6
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 1991 to Apr 1993
Theme:
Psychological
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
Hontou ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Authors:
Itou, Junji (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #41942 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #1708
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Dec 3, 2023
This manga collection take the same formula as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd manga which is a continuous story in one volume. In here we follow a boy named Souichi who may or may not have a supranatural power. Its fun to see the story unfold and guess if the stuff happening is really because ghost or not. The horror aspect isn't that big because they're more focusing to building the characters. I mean the author need to somehow make a good characters just in the span of 6 chapters. And the result is... not that good. For me personally, I kind of dislike this
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Dec 18, 2017
This volume was a brief departure from the one-shots present in the preceding volumes. Instead, there was a constant cast of characters, with each story revolving around the occult-themed antics of Souichi, a troubled boy.
Story, 7: The stories were sorted in chronological order, and though they were mostly self-contained, there was definitely a passage of time. Most of them involved voodoo or other occult themes (curses, premonitions, etc.), which was good for establishing a creepy feeling without being overtly supernatural (aside from the middle chapters). Art, 7: Given the more subdued nature of the stories, there weren't as many chances for Ito's artistry to shine. ... 
Dec 11, 2022
Well, it's becoming increasingly obvious that I'm reading the Ito collection completely out of order but I am not to be stopped. This is more of the same as Souichi's Diary Of Curses, what I said about that book also applies here.
I will add that I'm amazed at how much free reign Souichi's parents give him. They're incredibly fine with his interests and lifestyle, like, I wish my parents were like that. Kid is out there spitting nails and going into the woods at night to play with voodoo dolls and they literally don't care and treat him just as well as his siblings. Another ... |
