I'm quite a scaredy-cat, chicken, easily spooked and terrified. From words, pictures or video, it doesn't take much to freak me out and it's been like this since I was little. So I've avoided horror and to an extent thriller movies and such media, whether it contains ghosts and other supernatural phenomena to gore and psychological mindfucks. Even commercials and give me paranoia and I hate having to go upstairs when the lights are off, the darkness behind me. I turn around and leap into bed as soon as I switch off the light to avoid being near the gap under the bed at night. And I peek out from behind the shower curtains and stay away from the drains when I have a shower.
But there's something about Junji Ito that's got be hooked. I read Tomie and Tomie 2 last year, staying up all night to finish each. I had trouble getting to sleep that night, but I wanted to read more stories. Perhaps it's the art style and the way the people are drawn, maybe it's the adrenaline rush I get from each piece. Whatever it is, it's got me and I want more.
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