Funny / Junji Ito

• Ito's tendency to mock his own horror art by pairing it with mundane topics, especially in relation to overplaying his own behavior like one of the deranged obsessives in his stories.
• The ending of "Map Town", in a rather dark way. After raiding points marked on the titular town's maps for handfuls of gold coins, our two protagonists find that they've somehow angered the town's residents! So, what do they do? They go around scribbling on every map they can find to try to throw the others off their trail, since the town's supernatural effects and magnetism in the ground makes navigating difficult without the maps to help them. All of a sudden, both protagonists realise they can't figure out where they are, because they've been affected by the magnetism too. All they can do now is run about aimlessly while the people pursuing them clean down each map along the way, and from a process of elimination, they're doomed to be found and face a rather unfortunate fate, either from the townspeople's wrath, or the spirits that stalk the woods beyond the town. Don't be greedy!
• In the Animated Adaptation, Souichi makes a cloth dummy to replace his teacher. The quote while it's teaching science class sells it.
  "So basically, this goes like this, and that goes like that."
• This video had people try to scare Junji with various video clips. In an attempt to jumpscare him, he just laughs. It's clear that trying to jumpscare Junji Ito is like trying to punch Superman.
• The title character of "Snow White" anachronistically credits her beautiful complexion◊ to SK-II.
• It's scary as well because of the Gorn and horrifying behaviour of the protaganists, but the short story "Smashed" is also pretty funny because of how mind-numbingly stupid the victims are. They find Ogi's horrifically mangled body smashed flat against a wall, surrounded with blood and smelling awfully. They decide it must be a weird new wall hanging.
• His appearance at the 2021 Virtual Crunchyroll Expo. The little sketch that plays before he shows up.
  Ito: (in English) Oh no, I'm being Space Jammed. Aaaaaaaaaahhh~
• At the 2023 San Diego Comic Con, Ito was photographed inside a Barbie box. Cue people making fan art of Barbie drawn in Ito's style.

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