The galactic entities at the heart of this decades-spanning mystery are explained just enough to make you think twice about the night sky. Originally published in Japan under the title Travelogue of the Succubus and translated by Jocelyne Allen and lettered by Eric Erbes, Sensor embodies Ito’s formula of creeping dread and shocking grotesquerie, but elevates it to the level of cosmic horror.
Ito’s newest work to hit Western bookshelves, Sensor, is proof that even after all this acclaim, he’s still a master craftsman. He even had a cameo in Death Stranding (after being drafted by Hideo Kojima as a collaborator on the infamously cancelled Silent Hills). Uzumaki, his longer serial about the inhabitants of a town cursed by spirals, is getting a black-and-white anime next year, set to air on Adult Swim before airing in Japan. In the last three years, he’s won three Eisner Awards. After a sporadic release of his work across many Western publishers in the 2000s manga bubble, the bulk of his catalogue - which, unusually for manga, largely consists of short stories and the occasional longer serial - is now readily available in fancy deluxe hardcovers from VIZ Media’s Signature imprint. It’s never been a better time to be Junji Ito.
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