Synopsis "Black Paradox (Junji Ito) "

Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito's legendary sci-fi thriller is finally available in English! Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny...

Junji Ito

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Born in 1963 in Gifu Prefecture, he is a manga author specializing in the horror genre. Although he started training as a dental prosthetist, he enjoyed drawing manga and won a special mention in the Kazuo Umezu Award, precisely one of his favorite authors. Among his most famous works, distinguished by their disturbing nature, are Tomie, Gyo, Black Paradox, and Uzumaki.

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