Ito’s take on No Longer Human is serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original seinen manga magazine, and the 1st collection volume was published in Japan on October 30, 2017.
Macabre manga master Junji Ito is applying his singularly anxious touch to a comic book adaptation based on No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku in the original Japanese), a classic of modern Japanese literature written by Osamu Dazai.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings.