Read More: 11 Best Junji Ito Manga More Original Ito Ito clearly adores Frankenstein and here he has given us at last the visual adaptation that the world has been clamouring for. His stories and art have always been of an astonishingly high quality, but here we see not only his love for her craft, but also his respect for Shelley’s novel. In my reading, I was astonished time and again by the love and attention that Ito has put into his work here.
As the one change he makes to the story, it does nothing to harm the original. What’s everyone’s problem with this part of the book, exactly?) I won’t spoil how Ito changes it, of course, but I have to admit that I liked it. This scene plays out very differently from the original (Branagh also decided to radically change this scene, as well. The only artistic licence Ito takes comes later in the story, as Frankenstein is building the monster his bride. The characters behave as we know them, and the pacing and events all remain faithfully intact. The actual story of Frankenstein is almost completely maintained in the book. There is now no reason whatsoever to touch any of the shoddy film adaptations (especially the one by Kenneth Branagh) now that we have this.
I should say very clearly that, if you have never read Frankenstein before, this is the best short adaptation you’ll ever find.
And Ito is able to confidently convey Shelley’s effect here with his art.īy taking Shelley’s dialogue and placing it over some of the most beautiful pencil drawings of cliffs, forests, mountains, snow, lightning, and rain that I’ve ever seen, Ito has sacrificed not an ounce of Shelley’s impact in translating Frankenstein into a graphic form. Shelley wrote about the sublime better than anyone, with astonishing strength of effect. In a nutshell, the sublime is an aesthetic fixation on the overwhelming power of nature over the human mind and heart (sunsets, mountain ranges, storm clouds etc). One of the intrinsic themes of gothic literature something called The Sublime (in caps for dramatic effect). She had a particularly fine vocabulary, and the confidence to use it with ludicrous dramatic flair. One of the many things that makes Frankenstein such a timeless and important work of literature is Shelley’s writing. With that cleared up, there is arguably no greater pairing than the works of Mary Shelley and the aesthetic style of Japanese horror manga legend, Junji Ito.
I am of the opinion that a book and a film are too far apart to be compared clearly and fairly.īut graphic adaptations exist in the gap between literature and film, and so can often work as a perfect means of adapting a piece of written work into something more visual, while retaining much of the writing that made it special. Some spend hours debating which is better. Some welcome film adaptations others don’t see the point. When it comes to adaptation, book-lovers often feel divided.
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