History NightmareFuel / JunjiIto

[[caption-width-right:314:A typical example from Ito.]]

* [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Banette]] is scary on its own. Banette as drawn by Junji Ito? [[http://www.cnet.com/news/pokemon-teams-up-with-manga-author-junji-ito-to-ruin-your-childhood/ Terrifying.]] Gengar's [[http://www.pokemon.jp/special/kowapoke/collaboration/ even more terrifying.]]

* ''NightmareFuel/MimisGhostStories''

[[caption-width-right:314:A typical example from Ito]]

[[caption-width-right:350:A typical work from Ito]]

Junji Ito's so very ''good'' at this he warrants a page for all of his works and even needs this one for the miscellany.

** The mother also is in belief that she too is afflicted by the curse, and thinks she can return to a younger age and rebirth her daughter. She is not cursed, and ends up just ''[[TearYourFaceOff cutting off her face]]''.
** The accident towards the beginning of the story. We see part of the sister’s face hanging off the side of the sign that cut her.
** The ending. The mother now lives in seclusion, cutting herself off from the rest of the world with bandages wrapped around her face. The younger sister’s skin is regrowing, but according to the protagonist, [[https://i.imgur.com/DW4FGjy_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium the horrible peeling gave her a new base, and she isn't growing back the same way. And she still seems be of her two-year-old mind, thus indicating that her old self, her entire personhood, has been completely destroyed.]]

* In "Slug Girl", a girl's tongue transforms into a big, fat, ugly slug. When she tries to cut it off, it just grows back. She becomes thinner and thinner because she can't eat anything with her slug tongue. Finally, her desperate parents fill the bathtub with salt and immerse her in it. She doesn't come up by herself, and her father reaches in and pulls her out, only to discover that her body has shrunken to minuscule size, but not her head. The slug emerges from her mouth, carrying her head on its back like a snail's shell, and crawls away. To this day, the slug still lives in the family's backyard, [[AndIMustScream with the girl's head looking sadly at anyone who passes by]].

* ''Human Chair'' is '''''peak''''' ParanoiaFuel. A young writer is interested in buying a new chair to work in, and the clerk shows her a special chair and tells her a very creepy story tied to it, about an ugly carpenter who would live in his chairs to become intimately acquainted with the users. Imagine someone living ''inside'' your favorite chair, and even walking around your house at night when you're asleep!

* ''Human Chair'' is '''''peak''''' ParanoiaFuel. A young writer is interested in buying a new chair to work in, and the clerk shows her a special chair and tells her a story tied to it. The chair's original owner, a renowned writer from the Taisho Era, received a strange letter one day. It was a vividly-detailed manuscript about an ugly carpenter who had a sick obsession with hiding ''inside'' the chairs he made for customers, living there for large periods of time, becoming intimately "acquainted" with the sitters. At first she shrugged it off, but started noticing just ''how'' detailed it was in describing ''her own'' chair. Even though a second letter arrived telling her the first was just a made up story, she remained unnerved by it. One night she hears someone walking through the halls. Immediately she can tell it's not one of her servants, so she and her husband inspect the source. When they arrive to the study, all seems fine, until she notices a ''face pressing the chair fabric from inside''. After the husband whacks it a few times, she gets a letter the next day in familiar handwriting detailing how it hurts that he hit him and how she doesn't sit in the chair anymore, claiming that it's only his warmth that comforts her. Needless to say, she's totally freaked out and swears off ever sitting in the chair again. When her husband comes home and angrily dismisses her fears and goes to sit in the chair himself, she tries to apologize, but notices he's oddly still, before he slumps lifelessly on the ground, and a knife sticking through the fabric slowly retracts into the chair. After the police inspect the chair the next day, they cut it open and find a large indentation clearly made to fit an adult human body as well as a bottle of water and some open food cans. The author's story wasn't believed by everyone, her career collapsed, and she suffered a mental breakdown before disappearing from society. Then the young carpenter telling the story offers to show the young writer his recreation of the fabled chair, opening the back and revealing two long desiccated corpses of the old author and the obsessed carpenter in the same human indentation. After revealing himself to be their descendent, the young carpenter offers to make her a special chair to help with her work, which of course she declines. Then one day she receives a large chair of her own, and the final frame is of the chair moving like before.

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** The mother also is in belief that she too is afflicted by the curse, and thinks she can return to a younger age and rebirth her daughter. She is not cursed, and ends up just ''cutting off her face''.

** Thanks to a curse, a young woman is revealed to have layers of her previous skin under her normal skin, structured in layers like a nesting doll. This appeals to her creepy mother, obsessed with babying her daughter and yearning for the old days of parenting a helpess child. Hoping she can peel off the layers and get her baby daughter back after calling her out of the past layers' consciousnesses, she begins to cut away. Sure enough, her two-year-old face is there... [[https://i.imgur.com/ddVJPyD_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium but due to the alterations of natural growth, not her two-year-old body.]]
** The protagonist is also affected by this curse, [[https://i.imgur.com/uF1sBAV_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium having several layers of teeth.]]

** The ending. The mother now lives in seclusion, cutting herself off from the rest of the world with bandages wrapped around her face. The younger sister’s skin is regrowing, but according to the protagonist, [[https://i.imgur.com/wYDcafU_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium the horrible peeling gave her a new base, and she isn't growing back the same way. And she still seems be of her two-year-old mind, thus indicating that her old self, her entire personhood, has been completely destroyed.]]

** ''NightmareFuel/LovesickDead''

* If you were to look at the chained monstrosity in "Mystery Pavillion", you would think it was the hideous offspring between a bird and an EldritchAbomination. The reality will make you wish this was the case. It's actually a hideous genetically modified now-extinct pelican in the future. If that's not bad enough, the monster eats two onlookers. The man running the pavilion orders the beast to spit them out, which it does, but it's too late for the victims; as soon as they hit the ground, they start MELTING. And they're still alive.

** The story is about people that are apparently murdered (without a single evidence of the perpetrator) and then sewed. From only two people being sewn together, it went to six, twelve, around fifty, then around one hundred, and then the record was topped gloriously with ''FIVE FREAKING HUNDRED CORPSES SEWN TOGETHER''. Just imagine waking up one morning, waiting to enjoy the holiday, only to find parts of the city furnished with hundreds of naked corpses sewn together to look like different kinds of Christmas decorations. There are even a few of them sewn on the Christmas trees.

** The story is about people that are apparently murdered (without a single evidence of the perpetrator) and then sewed. From only two people being sewed, it went to six, twelve, around fifty, then around one hundred, and then the record was topped gloriously with ''FIVE FREAKING HUNDRED CORPSES SEWN TOGETHER''. Just imagine waking up one morning, waiting to enjoy the holiday, only to find parts of the city furnished with hundreds of naked corpses sewn together to look like different kinds of Christmas decorations. There are even a few of them sewn on the Christmas trees.

* ''NightmareFuel/HellstarRemina''

* In ''Earthbound'', the narrator's friend Chief asks her on a date. She declines and explains she's actually moving to a new apartment which Chief finds strange as she just moved a short time ago. Later on she reveals to Chief that the reason she moves between apartments so often is because she was raped in an apartment so she is trying to be on the move constantly so the attacker can't find her a second time. Eventually she learns that [[EvilAllAlong Chief was the man who raped her]]. He ends up [[TakenForGranite petrified by the Earthbound curse]].