the kicker is he was being asked if his work was coming from the approach of man vs. nature akaΒ βTHE ENVIRONMENT STRIKES BACKβ but no. his literal words were along the lines of βsharks are not very scary if you are never in the water so i had to make them scarier, and now they have legs.β
Junji Ito has the best fucking take on horror, which isΒ βwouldnβt that be weirdβ and then he draws it into the most terrifying thing possible.
One of his strangest stories is about a cursed type of honey that, when ingested, is guaranteed to be the best thing youβve ever tasted. But, if you consume it, you have a 25% of being flattened like a pancake by a giant tree demon. Characters eat it, get addicted, and that addiction forces them to risk it over and over again until they eventually get turned into a gory puddle by this ghost tree thing.Β
Itβs a weird story, but the funny part is that Ito wrote it because he thought it would suck to be a mosquito.
