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REVIEW: Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection Manga Review




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Zendervai



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 12:27 pm Reply with quote
I think the reason it might be so disjointed is because a bunch of the Viz releases for Ito don’t actually mirror Japanese releases. Most of his stories were in manga magazines and Viz is kinda collecting them on their own. I think Tombs and maybe Venus in the Blind Spot are in the same boat.

I know that there are collections of Ito’s stories you can buy as volumes, but if I remember right, the order isn’t anything like the one Viz uses and Viz is basically picking out the best stories.
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Doctorkev



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:11 am Reply with quote
Zendervai wrote:
I think the reason it might be so disjointed is because a bunch of the Viz releases for Ito don’t actually mirror Japanese releases. Most of his stories were in manga magazines and Viz is kinda collecting them on their own. I think Tombs and maybe Venus in the Blind Spot are in the same boat.

I know that there are collections of Ito’s stories you can buy as volumes, but if I remember right, the order isn’t anything like the one Viz uses and Viz is basically picking out the best stories.


This isn’t quite true. Viz is translating and publishing the 12-volume “masterpiece collection” that includes Ito stories previously collected in other volumes, but also including newer stories. Alley, for example, is Japanese volume 6. I’m not sure why Viz is publishing them out-of-order though. Viz have also published multiple other volumes that aren’t part of this collection.

You may be thinking of the earlier “Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection”, an earlier multi-volume collection, of which Comics One translated and published three volumes in English years ago before they went bust.
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