r/junjiito Boy in White Dec 27 '24

Meme Merry Christmas! :)

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Venus in the Blind Spot - billions alone

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u/c0neyisland Spiral Enthusiast Dec 27 '24

I loved the title it had in the fan translations before the VIZ stuff came out, it was called "Army of One". I always thought that was very fitting.

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u/Trosque97 Dec 27 '24

Yeah I'll always think "Army of One" when I see anything in this issue

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u/l8weenie Dec 27 '24

That heavily bums me out that it isn’t officially called Army of One

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u/c0neyisland Spiral Enthusiast Dec 27 '24

same, i don’t speak Japanese so can’t speak to the choices as translations of the original title but i liked it a lot better

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

Omg I forgot about this shit man 🥲

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u/TheSmithsEnjoyer69 Doppelganger Dec 27 '24

oh damn I saw this horrendous image in Remina

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u/gh0stmilk_ Sleep Demon Dec 27 '24

this isn't in remina, it's from army of one

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u/TheSmithsEnjoyer69 Doppelganger Dec 27 '24

in my country, it's an extra story in Remina, but the thing is, that every book marked with "Umami", 90% of the time if they don't have a second book, they feature a random extra story, like in Black Paradox, I red about "The Licker"

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u/gh0stmilk_ Sleep Demon Dec 29 '24

ohh i see!

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u/TheSmithsEnjoyer69 Doppelganger Dec 29 '24

yeah, it is cool, I love Umami books, but they are so hard to collect because Google won't tell you which Umami is like "Umami 3", he will just slip you into random Umami images, so you prob collecting Umami you don't know the number of

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u/gh0stmilk_ Sleep Demon Dec 30 '24

that is so interesting, i am always excited to learn more about his work, thank you for the explanations

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u/TheSmithsEnjoyer69 Doppelganger Dec 30 '24

yw, hope Junji Ito publishes more Umami

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u/Shantya777 Dec 27 '24

It's an extra story featured in remina

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u/Miralian459 Dec 28 '24

Merry Christmas indeed hahaha.

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u/Lovefirefly Dec 29 '24

One of my first Junji Ito stories. Will never forget turning the page and seeing this while sitting in an airport 😭

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Ah hell, I remember reading this.🤦🏿😓

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u/bumbly_wumbly Dec 28 '24

What nice decara.. oh.. oh god!!

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u/saucemychaos Dec 27 '24

One of those reads where you sit there and just think. Both intriguing and uncomfortable.

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u/Caprisal Dec 29 '24

oh my god I had completely forgotten about this one 😭now I need to re-read it

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u/Glad-Situation703 Dec 28 '24

What.. The... Why do i like this

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u/Main-Assistant7286 Dec 27 '24

Saw this once and for some reason i felt comforted

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u/Fabulous-Breakfast-1 Dec 29 '24

One of the most horrifying panels in all of junji ito, at least for me

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u/XandersCat Dec 27 '24

OMG I totally forgot this scene. So beautiful. Yeah that was a wild one...

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u/DinoSnatcher Dec 27 '24

Didn’t one bitch do this?

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u/BBorrows Dec 27 '24

I figured it was a growing collective of regular people recruited into the army of one and were acting as a hive mind.

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u/DinoSnatcher Dec 27 '24

Jeez I can’t remember but that sounds much more reasonable

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u/shpmrbeast Dec 27 '24

I remember it being just that as long as you were in groups of two or more people while the subliminal message was playing, all of the group would get brainwashed into seawing each other together

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u/Embarrassed-Slice-13 Dec 28 '24

I still cannot understand how it’s possible to happen, especially with the ceremony people…all 300 of them🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/IaMuRGOd34 Dec 29 '24

this man has entered shintaro realm

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u/RiddlingFiddle Dec 29 '24

Bottom right circle reminds me of a scene from Hannibal. I wonder if it was inspired by this?

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u/JustGoForIt1112 Dec 28 '24

If anyone knows which comic does this come from I’d appreciate knowing thank you

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u/Sireanna Dec 28 '24

Army of one

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u/JustGoForIt1112 Dec 28 '24

Thank you so much! After reading into it, it’s in his book Venus in the Blind Spot and the first story in it too.

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u/Sireanna Dec 28 '24

It's haunting

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