Horror icon Junji Ito shares rom-com hopes with creator of Silent Hill
Iconic horror manga artist Junji Ito recently sat down with Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, where they spoke about horror and the manga medium as a whole.
Ito is a bit of a funny guy. He’s the man behind several critically acclaimed horror works like Tomie and Uzumaki, but he’s also someone that finds a goofy cat in a slice-of-life anime scary, so he’s certainly someone with multitudes. In a new interview featured on Bokeh Game Studio’s YouTube channel, he continues to live up to his slightly odd nature, telling studio co-founder Toyama that he’d “like to make a rom-com,” though did note that if he does, “it might end up becoming a horror story.”
While that bit about making a rom-com is only a small snippet at the beginning of the interview, and not something he goes into that much, Toyama asked Ito about his plans for the future as a manga creator. “Honestly speaking, I usually end up being cornered,” Ito responded. “There’s a lot of things I need to draw. I don’t really have a long-term objective. I tend to remain conservative and keep writing short stories. I just take them one by one, hoping to draw something good… I’m willing to try new things, but I’ll do that once I get a better idea of what to do.” Maybe those “new things” will be a rom-com (I’ve honestly got my fingers crossed there.”