{"product_id":"no-longer-human-junji-ito","title":"No Longer Human (Junji Ito)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMine has been a life of much shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMine has been a life of much shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VIZ Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461132337364,"sku":"9781974707096","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/1635\/3492\/files\/9781974707096.jpg?v=1768873657","url":"https:\/\/theinkrunners.com\/products\/no-longer-human-junji-ito","provider":"The Inkrunners","version":"1.0","type":"link"}