The Eisner Awards are a big deal in the North American comic book and manga world that arrives from the East, and the recent awards ceremony has many Eisners dedicated to creators from both mediums. Having won a number of Eisners in the past, it seems that horror master Junji Ito has once again taken the gold and won another award for a recent anthology series that is one of the most scary series created by the manga artist. With two new anime series on the horizon, Ito has a bright and frightening future ahead.
Ito the lovean anthology series that featured stories involving, but not limited to, a mysterious woman stalking the misty streets of Japan, won the award for “Best American Release for International Materials”, and considering whom the horror mangaka was up against, it’s a real achievement. Other nominees in this category include the likes of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man and Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8, Toranosuke Shimada’s Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow, Tatsuya Endo Spy x Family, and Haro Aso’s Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead.
Viz Media used its official Twitter account to congratulate the master of horror on his latest Eisner Award:
congratulations for Tweet embed For winning the Eisner Award for Best American Publication for International Materials—Asia Prize!
“It is a great honor to receive the Eisner Award for Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection. I am so thrilled, it feels like a dream.” pic.twitter.com/8FIV96SVLo
– VIZ (VIZMedia) 23 July 2022
This isn’t the first time Junji Ito has won an Eisner Award, however, and the manga artist has claimed his first award for his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein He started receiving his two additional awards for both Venus in the blind spot and Rimina.
As mentioned earlier, there are two new anime adaptations in the works of Junji Ito’s material, with Adult Swim’s Toonami continuing to work on the anime series. Uzumaki And Netflix is getting into the horror with a new anthology series called Running Crazy Genji Ito: Japanese Tales of the Horror, which will revive a number of short stories for the first time. With Uzumaki postponed indefinitely, it will be interesting to see which of these two scary anime series will arrive first.
What is your favorite scary story from Junji Ito? What scary tale would you like to see come to life in an anime? Feel free to tell us in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk about all things comedy, anime and the Junji Ito universe.
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