The release date for the English version of 'No Longer Human' by
Junji Ito is Dec 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
It has been a life of great shame for me. I'm not even sure I could imagine what it's like to be a person.
Haunted by an unbearable sense of unease and the stark contrast between his own idea of happiness and the joy experienced by others, Yozo Oba leads a dissolute existence, acting as a clown and providing a mask for those around him as he descends more and further into death.
Junji Ito's adaptation of Osamu Dazai's timeless, purportedly autobiographical masterpiece into a manga is flawless. One line at a time, the visual rips away the novel's content to transform Yozo's mental world into something even more delicate and macabre. This is the pinnacle of Ito's work and evidence that nothing can ever fully capture the horror within the human soul.