wellnotwisely:Junji It’s Cat Diary: Yon and Mu has finally been released in English, so I wrote abou
wellnotwisely:Junji It’s Cat Diary: Yon and Mu has finally been released in English, so I wrote about it here.‘The world (and internet) is no stranger to cats or cat comics, but Ito switches focus onto cat owners: the ascription of behaviour as either cute, or grumpy, or aloof -whatever personality a cat may have filtered and amplified by humans- the perspective dependent on the lens. People seeing what they want to see, or interpreting at will and with license. It’s a framing that’s starkly apparent (and wryly meta) here: Yon and Mu appearing unperturbed and laissez faire throughout, while Ito jumps through hoops and moves dementedly from narrative to narrative of his own creation. He turns the fawning, awkward-relationship-with-my-cat trope on it’s head, and gives the reader his own unique anti-thesis of it. There’s disturbing images aplenty to take your pick from: Ito making as if to unhinge his jaws and eat a cat -gripped by the fervour of its cuteness- and then rabidly descending on it in a tickle attack. Ito and A-ko moving like whirling dervishes: a mad flurry of ritualistic summoning as they dance with the ‘cat wand.’ Yon by turn shape-shifting into turning into a gigantic slug, an ominous monk, a snake. And then you have the downright disturbing, such as when Ito finally gets Yon to succumb and suckle his finger in a close-up, multi-panel sequence mimicking fellatio.’ -- source link