Spooky Scary Spirals: A Junji Ito Podcast

Chris and Steve are finally joined by Jack aka Baptismonfire to dive into the creepy world of puppets & automatonophobia in Junji Ito's Marionette Mansion, aka House of the Marionettes. 

This episode, we also introduce a "Call From The Spiral" ft. a veteran fan of the show & answer a ton of backlog letters.

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This episode, Chris and Steve are joined by fan of the podcast and fellow Ito enthusiast, Rika Opio as she shares her experiences with finding Junji Ito and other spooky things. Together they explore and dive into Ito's hauntingly subliminal work, Army of One.

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Chris and Steve explore the paranoia of losing your head in Junji Ito's Red Turtleneck, taken from his Fragments of Horror compilation. 

We also read a bunch of your letters this week and answer a special fancomic dub request at the end. 

Write us a letter about your thoughts on Junji Ito's Red Turtleneck at [email protected] and we'll read it in the next episode!

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Chris and Steve explore the strangely addicting obsession with dissection and anatomy in Junji Ito's Dissection Girl (Dissection Chan in Fragments of Horror). 

This episode we also read two listener letters with oodles and boodles of insight into how we met as well as writing for a fictional character.

If you'd like to send in a letter with your insight, inquiry, or other to be read in a future episode, please send them to [email protected]

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Chris and Steve return to the wonderful world of Junji Ito with a dive into one of Ito's more cartoonish stories as well as another favorite, Hanging Balloons ("Hanging Blimp" in Shiver).

We also share our thoughts on the Hanging Balloon film from 2000, read a special letter from an Ito fan Steve met on the bus, and share a few bloopers and tangents at the end.

Happy Halloween! In this surprise bonus Halloween episode, we explore the treat of Uzumaki (2000)- the feature film directorial debut of Higuchinksy based on the graphic novel of the same name by Junji Ito.

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die”

We continue Halloween month with a look at Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft, a major pioneering figure in the world of weird fiction, horror, and sci-fi. Join us as we remember our introductions to Lovecraft, explore his influence on other horror legends including Junji Ito, and take a light dive through popular works like The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, and At The Mountains of Madness.

Cthulhu Fhtagn!

It's Halloween month! This week Chris and Steve dive into the legendary demo for Hideo Kojima's cancelled Silent Hills collaboration with Guillermo Del Toro, Playable Teaser- or how it's better simply known in the horror gaming zeitgeist, P.T.

Chris and Steve explore a short story about cohabitation with a significant other in the first chapter (and first chapter to feature Tomio from The Red Turtleneck) of Junji Ito's Fragments of Horror series, Futon.

In this appendix episode, Chris and Steve explore three bonus shorts from Junji Ito's Gyo and Dissolving Classroom: The Sad Tale of the Principal Post, Return, and Children of the Earth.