It was not until the publishing of Uzumaki, his phenomenal horror series that he would come into his own. He would soon decide to pursue a comically bland career as a dental technician. While it was quite a successful series of novels, Tomie did not propel him into the halls of famous artists and writers immediately. The writer made his writing debut with “Tomie,” when he was just twenty four and has never stopped writing since. Ito has been called a mangaka with his stories drawn and written with an off kilter, surreal and otherworldly eeriness. Born in 1963 in the Gifu Prefecture, he is a unique storyteller as he is not a short story writer or novelist in the conventional sense. Junji Ito is Japan’s most lauded and successful horror writer.
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