Junji Ito Reveals Origins of New Horror Manga Sensor

Junji Ito Reveals Origins of New Horror Manga ‘Sensor’

Body horror/absurdist mastermind Junji Ito reveals the urban legends that gave rise to his newest manga and shares his love of folklore.

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Junji Ito Reveals Origins of New Horror Manga Sensor

Legendary mangaka Junji Ito is at it again with his nightmarish creations, and, coming August 17, will share his newest terror with the English-speaking world: Sensor. The renowned master of body-horror known for such hair-raising spectacles as Uzumaki, Tomie, and “The Hanging Balloons,” will deliver another soul-shattering vision, with the plot of Sensor surrounding a mysterious village covered in gold, hair-like volcanic glass. While this seems superficially innocuous, solicitations report that this is simply “an opening act for the terror about to occur.”

Ito, long renowned for his surreal storytelling and viscerally gruesome, exquisitely bewildering illustrations, will release his newest book next month hot on the heels of having won two Eisner Awards, including Best Writer/Artist for his 2020 anthology Venus in a Blind Spot. Always a cerebral creator, Ito’s work often hinges upon the unknown and unknowable, most famously evident in his character Tomie, a schoolgirl who possesses horrifying supernatural powers and seeming immortality.

In an interview with Urian Brown as part of Comic-Con International, Ito said that his story for Sensor, originally published in his native Japan in 2019, was inspired partly by stories about UFOs he had read as a child involving the phenomena known as “angel hair” (which he later clarified had nothing to do with the similarly named pasta). He reflected:

Ever since I was little, I liked UFOs. When I was reading a book on UFOs, there was a thing called angel hair and there was an accompanying photo. It’s a phenomenon where a bundle of golden hair rains down from the sky. The theory was that it was dropped by a UFO and I thought it was interesting

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It appears the real identity of angel hair is Pele’s hair which occurs when a volcano erupts and the lava in the air cools rapidly and solidifies into a hair-like substance and rains down. So I wanted to create a manga based on that including the volcano and that’s where it started.

Ito also said in the interview that local folklore continues to be an inspiration for him, such as the legend of the giant of Noh in Gifu Prefecture where he grew up. According to the local tales, a giant used to live in the province, and his presence can still be seen in two massive foot-shaped imprints in the land astride the banks of a well-known river in the area. A cruel giant, Ito said the stories involved the sacrifice of a young girl to placate the monster, and further mused one of his own future stories might adapt a dreadful episode.

What foul, yet fanciful phantasmagoria will Junji Ito depict in this newest tome of terror? Sensor is out from Viz Media on August 17, wherever books are sold.

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