I looked at a lot of pictures and other things for the work. I actually did a lot of research on the kind of bars and nightlife of the time, what the shops look like. So that would be the early Showa era, around 1925-ish. It's set in the exact same period as the original. Ito: Actually, no, I didn't do anything to modernize it. Newsarama: Was there anything you changed when exploring the story through your adaptation, since the novel was originally written in 1948? And so, to have that character who was similar to me in that way, it really stimulated me creatively. My first kind of inclination was “That's very similar to myself.”Īnd in doing manga, that's also a way of expressing myself. He's frightened of human beings, he has a phobia of people. Junji Ito: No Longer Human is a story by Osamu Dazai, and the protagonist - Yozo Oba - is really quite modeled after Dazai, in a way.
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