No Longer Human
★ 7.7
13,918 members
- Drama
- Psychological
- Horror
- Philosophy
- Classic Literature
- Nudity
- Seinen
- Family Life
- Biographical
- Primarily Adult Cast
- Drugs
- Body Horror
- Urban Fantasy
Synopsis
Mine has been a life of much shame.
I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Itou. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Itou, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
(Source: VIZ Media)
I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Itou. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Itou, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
(Source: VIZ Media)
Characters
Staff
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Junji Itou
Story & Art
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Osamu Dazai
Original Story
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Jocelyne Allen
Translator (English)
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James Dashiell
Lettering (English)
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Ernesto Cellie
Translator (Italian)
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Chieko Toba
Translator (Italian)
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Christian Biscaro
Lettering (Italian)
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Gyeong-Hwa O
Translator (Korean)
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Jacques Lalloz
Translator (French)
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Lucas dos Santos Cabral
Translator (Portuguese)
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Jens Ossa
Translator (German)
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