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Junji Ito Anime T-Shirt
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$46.00
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Measurements
Pit-to-Pit: 21"
Length: 28"
Fits like: L
Condition
Vintage. Shows character consistent with age.
The Details
The girl on the front is Azami Kurotani, from "The Scar" — the Uzumaki chapter in which the crescent mark on a much-adored girl's forehead begins to spiral, and the spiral begins to pull. Here she gets the poster treatment: amber face, red hair sweeping into the coil, a single bulged eyeball where the curl bottoms out, blood spattered across her cheek, JUNJI ITO beneath in letters drawn like something clawed down a wall. Ito serialized Uzumaki in 1998–99 — a town infected not by a monster but by a shape, the most elegant premise horror manga has ever committed to — and Azami is its cruelest single image, vanity turned literal vortex. Her face has since entered official circulation on licensed mall-goth shirts through Hot Topic and Ripple Junction, which is its own sort of ending for a character the story destroys for being looked at. This print takes the collector-bootleg treatment instead: heavier blood, horror-type lettering, contrast turned all the way up — for the one mangaka whose work never needed the exaggeration.
Black short sleeve cotton tee with Junji Ito Anime graphic.
Sourcing
We source these shirts from thrift stores, estate sales, and directly from bootleg and overprint collectors.
$46.00