Junji Ito's Fragments of Horror - Longbox of the Damned

Longbox of the Damned is a daily series throughout October where the ghoul Moarte talks about horror comics!
Time for a collection of Junji Ito short stories!
02/31
#halloween #JunjiIto

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

"Eat mine! It's seven feet long and made of spiders!" I think 2020 is even starting to get to Moarte now. XD

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

What's seven feet long and full of spiders? The complete, unabridged clone saga.

[@ShinyGaara65]

"Eat mine, it's 7 feet long and covered with SPIDERS!" So, after Spider-Geddon, Spiders-Man went into porn work I see.

[@shinkaiatsuya950]

Or maybe Spider-Man's villain known as The Thousand .

[@tencents6]

Is it wrong to say I want to see that now? Just out of curiousity?

[@mostmelon]

I think he said “made of spiders” actually. Which is... better?

[@SiRenfield]

That is one of the most WTF yet best lines in Longbox history 😂

[@prindy1429]

Damn the canon is getting wild

[@Sensko]

"Must be really hard to get his pants off" You're on to talk, Mr Seven Feet.

[@keineahnung6184]

Imagine: Clive Barker writes a Comic and Junji Ito draws it Now that would be something

[@bthsr7113]

2:16 This feels like a thing Frank Miller would do, but with a grungy building in a large American city.

[@monanarts3726]

pfft "7 ft long and made of spiders" is a line i need to pull out in friendly company at some point (no pun intended) XD

[@sesfilmsllc]

2:16 Plus that’s going to lead to a lot of splinters in uncomfortable places.

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

"Eat mine, it's 7 feet long and made of SPIDERS!" I think they have a cream for that.

[@battlion507]

Ha! Also, Hot Fuzz reference ftw!

[@nightshardthefanguidebrony847]

i do love how moarte and linkara talk shit about each other XD

[@NotesFromTheVoid]

The best part is that Linkara presumably lets Moarte stay in his house, so presumably there's some kind of solidarity there, but then they talk shit. It's amazing

[@RoseWaltz]

"Gentle Goodbye" is such a nice idea id love to have a few more conversations with dad, with a few friends, even meet my grandparents

[@notgonnasay09]

Thanks to Moarte, I almost choked on my dinner from laughter. Trying to compensate for something, Moarte?

[@Mask0fFate]

I’ve actually seen the Futon, Blackbird, and Whispering Woman stories before via KZbin dubs and recaps. I made the mistake of seeing the Blackbird story while I ate breakfast. I got dizzy and almost hurled.

[@laurietremblay1934]

il could have been worse it could have been greased oil(also know as glyceride) that's one story your really don't to be reading while eating especially if your eating meat ou something fried

[@Mask0fFate]

Laurie Tremblay I’ll take your word for it.

[@michaelrhett4958]

Then don’t read Agony in Pink.

[@skorn8112]

Can you ever go wrong with Junji Ito

[@jotacatalan]

With an anime adaptation

[@ashleightompkins3200]

With a live action adaptation (looking at you Uzumaki)

[@ramirezthesilvite]

@@jotacatalan an incredibly cheap and half-assed anime adaptation lol

[@tgiacin435]

Ashleigh Tompkins I mean uzumaki is the only good adaptation, but that’s not saying much, though I would love to see a Stuart Gordon adaptation of any of Junji Ito’s work starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbra Crampton

[@ashleightompkins3200]

@@tgiacin435 I've only seen a trailer and it looked... Okay but I think I've become too jaded to accept most live action adaptations, especially of horror series.

[@Heavenlyhounds96]

"Must be really hard to get his pants off." What about his getting his pants ON. (Or any clothes for that matte)

[@BrandonCroker]

Spiralman, spiralman, doin whatever a spiralman can!

[@LaNoLaCola]

It wouldn’t be the season of scares without Ito

[@GoneFishingAmalgam]

“It’s seven feet long and made of spiders!!” Oh god, someone is going to make fan art of that, aren’t they?

[@bizarroguy6570]

Yeah! Long Box! *Sees it’s Junji Ito* Welp, better get the barf bag. Cause it’s gonna awesomely scary, but also most likely disgusting.

[@tgiacin435]

Eh, it’s not too bad, I have that book, Gyo, Glyceride, and uzumaki are way worse lol

[@bizarroguy6570]

@@tgiacin435 Oh definitely

[@MechaKaito]

@@tgiacin435 glyceride takes the cake, the greasy, disgusting cake.

[@eugeneruby433]

I'm so used to watching Linkara yell to Moarte off-screen, it was rather humorous to see the reverse. Considering Linkara has moved at least three times to my knowledge since Atop the Fourth Wall began, does that technically mean Moarte is haunting him specifically, since he sets up shop in the utility closet of whatever place Linkara calls home?

[@GenAqua]

Makes sense.

[@Dr.WaluigiReviews]

Hey be grateful Moarte. At least Linkara lets you stay with him rather than living out on the streets

[@ThespianPlayer]

Ah yes. The house f*****. That story was weird. I always wondered why the house preferred her over the father and daughter. You’d thinkable it would be loyal to the family who’d looked after it for generations instead of the random pervert, but I’m not a house.

[@Mysteryof89]

The house...was a simp O_O

[@ThespianPlayer]

@Mullerornis Ito intends for his subject matter to be disturbing. Frank Miller genuinely thinks his more out there ideas are normal. Not even getting into Frank's racism.

[@Ko700el]

the interactions between Muarte and Linkara are hilarious

[@KillerCaitie]

HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN YOUR JUNJI ITO VIDEOS BEFORE?! I'm happy now.

[@GenAqua]

I love Moarte and Linkara's yelling matches.

[@Crazyivan777]

moarte's disappointed shrug after the first story gives me life.

[@Ashurman666]

TECHNICALLY The woman wanted to be vivisected since she was still alive but details details

[@animeviewer66]

"it's 7 ft long and made of spiders" best line ever 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍

[@nandyk.2026]

these are a bizzare bunch of stories, but I love it for that. blackbird is such a wild, creative concept for a horror monster, and the ghost story is a change of pace for Ito that I kinda appreciate.

[@cassie6146]

0:44 Must. Not. Make. Silk Joke 1:24: An accurate portrayal of getting out of bed during a heatwave. 2:15: Fun fact, the Milwaukee Art Museum is considered the world's sexiest building, so this lady really didn't consider her options. She could have had hundreds of eyes staring at her there. 3:35: Cockroaches? So last season. Get a bag of Pez to shove in there and then we'll talk. 4:28: Yeah, I don't have anything funny for this one. The after-image idea is comforting, but also kind of tragic. Are you really coming to terms with your loved one's death, or are you just delaying the inevitable and making more pain for yourself by losing them a second time? 5:47: I guess it really is what's on the inside that counts. 6:16: Black Bird pukin' in the dead of niiiight.. 7:59: Compulsively collecting people who exhibit odd compulsions to compulsively write about them? This lady's her own best case subject. 8:31: A predicament that could be easily solved with a scarred coin. I actually got caught up on a lot of the Junji Iito Fragments over the summer. My favorite was "The Dark Drinks Blood" for being a very unique and somewhat sympathetic take on vampires. That, and I really love bats. On the opposite end of the spectrum, "Glyceride" was absolutely stomach-churning. I legit had to take a shower after finishing it, and I will never look at salad oil and mozzarella cheese the same way again.

[@Redhatrose]

This is some hillerious commentary Thx!

[@asalways1504]

Eat mine it's 7 ft long covered with spiders! Now THAT is the most horrifying thing you have shared to us this year Moarte.

[@Rixec2]

Always good to see some Junji Ito, especially around this time of year. ^_^

[@cancerboy153]

Junji Ito's work is always the scariest stuff you review, to me

[@YukoValis]

You good sir are still in every way awesome. : ) Thank you for sharing these stories.

[@basilnottheherb]

Ironically just got done reading this

[@PeterWritingThings]

Why did I watch this over breakfast? I've read the book, I know what it contains, this was a bad decision 😅 Fabulous video though!

[@Mask0fFate]

I made that same mistake when I first saw the Blackbird story. I almost hurled.

[@masterofchaos7282]

He’s probably already recorded all of these already but I might as well say it. I hope he does the metal virus saga from the IDW Sonic series.

[@ronnieboydston3302]

I've waited a year to hear a new story from him and I'm not disappointed one bit

[@tonystark106422]

This series is so f*"cking awesome!

[@MGDrzyzga]

The story with the time-traveling blackbird saving the hiker by force-feeding him his future self's flesh. Well that's memorable.

[@Bezaliel13]

Hearing Ito stories rushed reminds me too much of how the anime handle these. Spoilers alert; Futon: Being driven mad by mold until it almost kills you is a unique kind of creepy. Wooden Spirit: No mention of the tragic ending, where the house lost its status. Red Turtleneck: Not often enough that we have a story where the horror leaves scars like that, whether literal or figurative. Gentle Goodbye: Huh, hadn't heard of this one before. Dissection-chan: 5:44 It is one of those where the person was creepier than the paranormal. Blackbird: Man, that bird had *lips.* Magami Nanakuse: Also had not heard of this one. Whispering Woman: Another one where the people was creepier than the paranormal.

[@ToHoldNothing]

Gentle Goodbye was adapted in the anime, most of these weren't, but there's a LOT of stories and they only had budget to do 24 segments, plus the 2 Tomie OVAs. Some of these would probably be a bit too violent or they just picked the ones that worked best, some tied together, like the ones with Souichi, the weird curse obsessed boy

[@nightshardthefanguidebrony847]

that part from gentle goodbye to dissection was such a 180 and it made me laugh

[@Steelstriker]

"EAT MINE! IT'S 7 FT LONG AND MADE OF SPIDERS!" Me: Du fuq?

[@SchazmenRassir]

Huh. That really WAS a kind of happy ending. At least the evil boyfriend got his comeuppance, even if in a horrific manner.

[@alexandriahoward2864]

Yes !!! I love junji ito

[@ramirezthesilvite]

After seeing Blackbird covered by a KZbinr, I actually had a semi-lucid dream/nightmare about the monster. I was running from the bird monster, but she wasn't very... difficult to deal with. I had fought back a few times, and every time she showed up I just smacked her with something or threw things at her. Probably helped that I wasn't injured in the dream lol

[@Bezaliel13]

Well, you are supposed to have a broken leg and be helpless while she feeds you.

[@Rojiace]

Junji ito has the creepiest drawing that help his somewhat flat stories so~ much

[@becuaseimbored3481]

Oh, I remember this one!

[@soulreaver1983]

Awesome🎃👍

[@jimdotbeep]

This is the scariest this show has ever been.

[@flmbyz]

Holy crap, that Futon bit in the beginning had me rolling! I love those moments! 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

...the sad part is, now people are going to draw Moarte's 'endowment.'

[@mathieuleader8601]

the blackbird in question I like to think is the blackbird Paul Mcartney sang about

[@MoteDArchive]

I own this one! It's a good collection, super strange, right amount of spooky 👌

[@mercenaryknight5419]

The last one was the best of the lot.

[@MackGeddon]

"Fragments of a story, that are all just hallucinations caused by mold" *shrugs* XD

[@misterabbadon977]

2:19 "Asset" :^)

[@coreymajtyka460]

Linkara was a nice addition to this video

[@baliyae]

What can I say but I liked it.

[@theotherghostgirl337]

Just don’t read them while you’re home alone late at night

[@jackmafo832]

You can say, the house got wood for the the woman

[@dalime605]

I was hoping he would do "the bully" thats my fav junji ito story

[@fats3342]

I remember finding this in the school library when I was 13. Scared the crap out of me.

[@DetectorCliche]

That sounds like it was an awesome school library.

[@171QA]

This manga will make people terrified of inanimate objects.

[@multi-voiceentertainment7013]

Hey Linkara if you have time you should look and find Junji Ito's Tomie. Tomie is one of the most popular they made series of movies and an anime. It's about a girl name Tomie who is so evil. She can't stay dead cuz she's always keep coming back to life. Any guy who looks at her will fall madly in love with her and any girl touches her DNA will be possessed by her.

[@ToHoldNothing]

And Remina finally got an official release by Viz. Tomie is on my wishlist too, I got Uzumaki for Xmas last year, it's kind of more costly than standard manga volumes because it's hardback

[@laurietremblay1934]

To all junji ito caracter if you see a women whit a nonstandard caracter design RUN as fast as you can and don't look back even if she is attractive those are especially dangerous

[@javodey]

2:30 So... this woman was Frank Miller all along!? That IS scary!

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Guuuuhhhhh, nobody does it like Ito.

[@mathieuleader8601]

nice use of Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2

[@w1ndgeneral226]

Absolute carnage please

[@spaceinvader9815]

Fucking A this was funny AF

[@ghosttheexplorer]

Oh boy, let's see what Moarte has for us today! Junji Ito? Kill the modem. Kill the modem!

[@superkid2815]

Not gonna lie, that was a happy ending.

[@S1nwar]

japanese twilight zone is really gory

[@Sonicfalcon16]

Ive been told ito lost his luster butbi dont know when

[@budofsharon3496]

💙

[@mrs.wontkins9294]

Mmmmm Ito! It's my Longbox it was meant for me!

[@cartoonkelly7924]

It’s seven feet long and made of spiders? What?! Just, what?!

[@Zenn_Chan]

if Moarte covers manga, might we see him covering "The Enigma of Amigara Fault" at some point?

[@DetectorCliche]

I'm still waiting for him to cover Deadman Wonderland.

[@jdpragmatic8644]

0:42 👍🏻

[@earthguardian2]

He need the other stories and dissolving classroom

[@brendakrieger7000]

Futons can be scary! Mine fell apart while I was sleeping on it and I broke my ribs😵😨 Really delightfully creepy stories😱

[@johnoneil9188]

At least the bird woman looks like a good kisser. The raw flesh thing is a bit of a problem though.

[@metalgamer1416vamoscontodoXD]

Good video dude!, can you read and give me your oppinion about the horror manga school ningyo? i really wish you talk about this one hehe and its a bit underrated so i hope you give it a try hehe.

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

Moarte i recommend checking out Trail of Blood (Or Blood on The Track) by Shūzō Oshimi. That's a manga series that'll give you nightmares

[@Krillinjustchillin]

Do you think this character could pop in and do videos throughout the year maybe?

[@thegrimone1318]

0:43 just so you can find the good part

[@marinamoraes6174]

The red sweater one actualyl made me feel dizzy

[@mattysharellagaming2479]

Will you do marvel zombies resurrection

[@John_does]

The description of this stories seems interesting, is it possible to purchase their comic online?

[@darkizuru4215]

I believe you can buy it on Amazon and Comixology!

[@ToHoldNothing]

Viz has been on a roll with releasing them, there are several at the moment and they even released Remina, which Linkara covered a few years ago through unofficial means. Maybe they acknowledged his reviews in part?

[@shinkaiatsuya950]

If he does another horror manga maybe shuold try Mai-chan's Daily Life.

[@ashleightompkins3200]

Or Higurashi or Umineko

[@SiRenfield]

Oh no ho ho ho. Would you subject Lewis to that

[@SiRenfield]

Ashleigh Tompkins Mai-chan? Probably not. But Ryukishi I’m all for especially Umineko since it’s a murder mystery with witches.

[@ashleightompkins3200]

@@SiRenfield The Light Novel and the manga of Umineko, yes.

[@Mister-Thirteen]

No, seriously why does Moarte follow Linkara around in lore?

[@CouchSpud91]

I like to think that Moarte is a curse that Linkara unknowingly put on himself during one of his many bizarre adventures.

[@mrxnacho7925]

Maybe unlike Nostalgia critic he was his long lost dead brother

[@jfdrac]

I swear this collection must have been the result of a bet.....I bet you cant make just anything creepy....Dare accepted...ok a Futon and a Turtleneck sweater lol

[@Jygerthe2nd]

...It's seven feet long and made of spiders... ... ... Kinky. lol

[@wiiagent]

you have manga in your longbox? lol

[@Mysteryof89]

Dear god...some of these stories weren't that scary but oh boy..that crow woman O_O

[@Bezaliel13]

Yeah, she thicc.

[@Redhatrose]

Don't you hate it when a giant bird appears when you have broken a bone? My advice... Yeah I got nothing, just hope that you are not in a Junji Ito story...

[@mathieuleader8601]

actually spectral happenings can be scientifically explained as illusions caused by black mould common houses that are old

[@jfdrac]

Of course when they see them in graveyards, renovated homes or shopping malls...

[@andreworders7305]

2:45 same people as the 1st story?

[@nicksawtelle6475]

Moarte: "And she rubs her naked body against the wood (of the house)." O_O. Geez! And I thought the scene with Nina and Table-kun from Code Geass was creepy!

[@jonnycoyote2782]

I actually own this