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Content advisory: This article mentions child sex abuse and CSAM, please take care while reading. On February 21, anime producer Koichiro Ito was arrested in Japan concerning possible charges related to CSAM (Child Sex Abuse Material, commonly referred to as child pornography). The unfortunate news was released by The Mainichi, which shared details on the case allegedly involving Ito, the producer of some of the most acclaimed animated films hailing from Japan in the last few years, including Your Name, and Weathering…

On the night of April 3, 2015, Shiori Itō, an intern at Thomson Reuters, met Noriyuki Yamaguchi at a restaurant under the guise of a job interview. Yamaguchi, then the Washington bureau chief of Tokyo Broadcasting System and a personal friend (and biographer) of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was a mover and shaker in Japanese media and politics with the power to change her career. The last thing Itō remembers from that dinner is getting violently ill in the bathroom. The next thing she remembers is waking up in a hotel…

It’s been an interesting year for fans of Junji Ito. 2023 will be bookended by animated adaptations of the famed horror master’s work; it started with Netflix’s anthology in January, while Adult Swim’s take on Uzumaki is expected by the end of the year. And right in the middle is a new collection of his work in English with Mimi’s Tales of Terror. It’s a series of short stories inspired by urban legends — just the thing for dark, cold October nights.The book is actually an adaptation itself, taking nine stories from Shin…

Image: Viz MediaThanks to io9, you can keep up with the news and reveals from San Diego Comic-Con online—but some parts of the fan event are best witnessed in person. “Welcome to the Ito-verse: The Junji Ito Experience” is one such example, but we captured a few images to help recreate seeing it up close.“For nearly four decades, Junji Ito has been chilling, thrilling, and titillating fans of manga horror throughout his illustrious career. He is the master of modern cosmic horror and has been awarded four Eisner Awards,…

By Christopher Baggett Viz Media has announced a strong Ito-Verse presence for San Diego Comic-Con weekend, including multiple appearances by Ito himself.  Junji Ito will be hosting a Q&A on Thursday, 7/20 at the San Diego Public Library, kicking off a huge weekend for fans of the legendary horror author. On Friday, 7/21, Junji Ito will be hosting a Welcome to the Ito-Verse panel at SDCC itself.  It’s all promotion for a new exhibit, which will be open from Thursday, 7/20 – Sunday, 7/23. The Welcome to the Ito-Verse…

Part of what makes Junji Ito’s work so terrifying is how it sticks with you. The mind behind iconic horror manga like Tomie and Uzumaki takes an idea — whether it’s a schoolgirl who can’t die or a small town obsessed with spirals — and steadily pushes the concept as far it can go, usually toward some kind of disturbing body horror that forces you to look away. Before you know it, the idea has lodged itself in your brain, his carefully crafted black-and-white images flashing even after you close the book.The new Netflix…

Horror master Junji Ito is bringing his particular blend of scares to Netflix very soon — and you can get a brief taste in a new trailer. The show, which has the somewhat unwieldy title of Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, adapts 20 different stories from the manga artist, from iconic pieces like Tomie to cult material such as Layers of Terror. Netflix says that all of the included stories have “the shared theme of madness,” which, of course, is pretty standard for Ito.The trailer is a brisk run through the…

Sony veteran bows out after decades-long tenure Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that one of the PlayStation brand’s longest-running developers, Masayasu Ito, will retire from the company at the end of September. Ito’s departure was first communicated to Bloomberg, before the publisher made its own statement on the official SIE website. Masayasu Ito started with Sony way back in 1986, where he worked on the company’s range of vehicular stereo systems — back when audio equipment was the cornerstone of Sony’s…

Sony is losing one of the main architects behind its PlayStation consoles. The company has confirmed to Bloomberg News that Masayasu Ito, who led the development of the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5, is leaving Sony on October 1st. Ito has been with Sony for 36 years, joining the company way back in 1986 and starting with the development of in-car audio equipment those first years.  He transferred to the console division in 2000, and he's had a hand in developing Sony's PlayStation devices since then, including the…

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