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No Longer Human by Junji Ito

20 reviews

veggiecats's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Really intense, but really well done. As a book, I mean its masterful and raw. In terms of Junji Ito's rendition of it, I think the illustrations definitely help with certain themes, such as a

Takeichi being "reborn" as Yoichi. And also the delusions and envisioning different people inhabiting one person.

I think this is wonderfully done and really resonated with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Body horror, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Abortion, Death, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Gore

I would not recommend reading this if you are actively struggling with feelings of hopelessness and suicidal ideations, symptoms of psychosis and extreme paranoia, or are sensitive to themes of sexual assault and rape.

happycroissant's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gore, Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Domestic abuse

zombie_loves_books's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

As always Junji Ito's art is astonishing! I doubt I would have been able to read this otherwise.

A person you come to hate pretty fast going through a never ending spiral of momentary content quickly followed by self-imposed dispare that almost always leads to  death of a mostly innocent party. Even being haunted by those he wronged he never acknowledged his part in it and instead justifies everything in his own mind, blames the victims and just women in general.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug abuse, Bullying, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

itsdoroo's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Pregnancy, Murder, Infidelity, Incest, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Adult/minor relationship

salise_is's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship

zahliajayne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolutely brilliant.

Although there was a lot of triggering things about this book and some horrifically graphic scenes, I still believe it is amazing.

It really makes you think about the characteristics of humanity and makes you question others and even yourself. It’s a broadening book with its interesting plot and sense of philosophy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Physical abuse

floatinthevoid's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Oh, I have a mixed feeling about this adaptation of the original novel. First of all, the artstyle is amazing, like wow. It really did so well in the way that it visualizes the narrative of the novel, such as Yozo's anxieties and trauma personified.. It enhanced the reading experience. But on the other hand, I feel like Yozo's character is a bit more demonized than the original work. Like, he becomes even more abusive and misogynistic. I know maybe it's for the horror effect, but it feels like it reduces a portion of the complexity of his character. 

I don't have any problem with Ito's own perception of Dazai's work, like the extra scenes and stuff. The bit where Ito choose to

break the 4th wall by inserting Osamu Dazai in the manga is very interesting although a bit odd, I get that it's his take on the narrator of No Longer Human who narrates the life of Yozo Oba from his own perspective.

it's an interesting take. 

All in all, one thing that I really respect about Junji Ito is how truthful he visualized Dazai's work. You can see how he honored No Longer Human by making it alive through his drawing and his own style to make the story alive. Respect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Suicide, Rape, Gore, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Infidelity, Murder, Vomit, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide attempt

mrclintdavis's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Incest, and Infidelity

doomluz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

As always Junji Ito's art is amazing. The horror in this is kind of worse because it's more realistic. Though he has some panels with ghostly or creepy imagery that the main character imagines or hallucinates.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Incest, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Vomit, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Bullying

sweetsxrrxw's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

i decided to read the manga right after finishing dazai's book, as there were some things that i couldn't still understand.

horror is not a genre that i really like. in fact, i tend to avoid it. im also super sensitive to blood and im not much into smut (written or drawn) since this is a manga, the author portrayed some of the triggering things in dazai's version in a more detailed way.however, i must admit his artstyle is really good!

i am not going to give a full plot review once again but i'd like to highlight some things:

• the changes in the plot allowed to give some side characters, such as yozo's wife or his dad in more depth; he also introduced new ones. i am guessing they could have perfect fit in the original story.
• however some choices left me feeling ??? such as
  making dazai a character himself (he looked a bit too much like yozo btw) or the mc having a kid with his cousin and finally going to live with them? (maybe that was the right thing to do but yeah) and the fact that the kid looked exactly like his classmate who killed himself, partly because of yozo? or killing his wife and the pharmacist by the end???
• even though the artist kept some important monologues, i feel like turning this story into a manga erased some other relevant ones. despite that, i liked how he added some scenes to recreate in a better way the mc's anxiety.

all in all, i can recognize it was good but it was not my cup of tea. i definitely recommend reading the original book first and then reading the manga!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Death of parent, and Incest