In "Dissolving Classroom", Yuuma says that his parents were cruelly strict with him when he was young, and that he relieved the stress from this by killing small animals.

He may also feel this way about his victims, although it's a lot more ambiguous and complicated in that case. The melting parts are very detailed and he doesn’t shy away from using smart shading and busy line-work to really make the gross parts pop. Beginning release in 2013, [2] Dissolving Classroom is greatly different to many of Junji Ito's previous works, departing from Junji Ito's more frequent style of Lovecraftian horror. Keiko doesn't believe this so Chizumi opens a cupboard to reveal the severed heads of the Azawa parents.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Much like Ito’s other work, this comic doesn’t simply go for scares, but enjoys pushing the boundaries of visual horror. Yuuma claims that she was not always like this, and that her current appearance is the result of being possessed by the spirits of the animals that he killed as a child. I mean, not in the way where I want that sweet brain nectar and to watch it drip out of his eyes and nose. En aula demoníaca las diferentes historias/escenarios están desarrolladas en base a dos personajes, Yuuma y su hermanita Chizumi, quienes tienen unas extrañas costumbres, a él le encanta pedir disculpas, continuamente se está disculpando por todo, todo el tiempo, y por otro lado, Chizuma es una niña muy extraña y perturbadora, con una característica tan inusual y asquerosa como perturbadora.

Keiko's parents: Keiko's parents are present for the first chapter, taking care of Keiko in the hospital after Chizumi scares her into traffic. As I previously discussed in my post on his semi-autobiographical work depicting his troubled relationship with fiancée’s cats, Junji Ito is one of the most unique creators working in the manga field today. Later on, Chizumi shows Keiko their severed heads and reveals that Yuuma killed them as a sacrifice to the devil. Una historia entretenida, con un trasfondo oscuro y demoníaco, desarrollado a través de un humor negro, y un arte que me encantó, en especial lo que transmite Chizumi en cada escena, su personificación, el dibujo que Junji realizó de ella me atrapó, esos ojos y expresiones son completamente oscuras y escalofriantes, en especial en los momento donde aparece de la nada, muy buenos.

Ultimately, Yuuma's apologies result in the brains of everyone at the high school, Keiko's parents, and even Keiko herself. He explains that the girl is his sister, Chizumi; whom he has raised alone since their parents died. The neighbors are concerned and try to confront the Azawa parents but are instead greeted by Chizumi who tells them that her parents have been dead for years. Brown Note: The dark energy produced by Yuuma's apologies causes people's brains to melt, and eventually dissolves their entire bodies into goop. Regardless, Yuuma ends up befriending Keiko, who becomes attached to Yuuma and, after a traumatizing encounter which is later explained by Yuuma, wants to help Chizumi.

Nonstandard Character Design: While everyone is relatively normal-looking (until they become disfigured by Yuuma, of course), Chizumi resembles a gremlin. Dissolving Classroom collects seven new short horror stories from Japan's master of horror comics Junji Ito. Reading this was almost like reading Tomie, in the sense that a character (in this case two characters) go around ruining people's' lives and causing their deaths.

If Chizumi is to be believed, he's addicted to apologizing because it feeds his obsession with the devil and gives him pleasure. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. I've resolved to read every Junji Ito manga, but I've realised that I've already read his best works, leaving only the more recent ones till anything fresh comes out.