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In the climax, only Dr. Kurodera and Wataro survive the mass meditation while the other people who helped Kyoko are reduced to skeletons. Junji Ito: "And from there Sensor discusses suicidal bugs that carry the souls of the remorseful dead, stalkers, cults, and time-travelling Jesus in Japan. All this and more is awaiting the reader in the collected series SENSOR!"

Beveridge, Chris (September 2, 2021). "Top 20 Graphic Novels By Units & Dollars For August 2021". The Fandom Post . Retrieved December 22, 2021.Speelman, Tom (August 17, 2021). "Junji Ito does Lovecraft better than Lovecraft in Sensor". Polygon . Retrieved December 22, 2021. When Brown asked if he was worried the world has become so scary that it’s hard for his manga to compete, Ito responded “Yes, there have been some horrible incidents lately that make me think real life is scarier than manga. But my manga is far removed from reality and many of them couldn’t happen in real life. So I don’t think it really competes with reality. But eventually, if science develops to a point where we enter a period where things begin to happen that you couldn’t imagine, then I have wondered if that’s maybe the end of my manga. But I hope such a day will not come.” Kyoko Byakuya discovers a village at the foot of Mount Sengoku, an old volcano that hasn't been active in a long time. The volcano has produced golden hair-like fibers, more human than geological, and the villagers worship the hair as a blessing. The hair, which they call amagami, gives them blissful extrasensory powers, but the volcano erupts, giving them a vision of a dark god, and Kyoko Byakuya is the only survivor, her hair transformed into amagami. Strangely, the village has been destroyed for more than sixty years... His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. Mullicane, Evan (August 18, 2021). "Junji Ito's New 'Sensor' May Be Scariest Manga Series Ever Printed". Screen Rant . Retrieved December 22, 2021.

One of the more unsung elements of your work is how funny it can be, so I’m curious: what makes you laugh? A mysterious young woman with golden hair becomes the focus of a cult and a reporter. But what is her connection to the volcanic countryside she can’t seem to escape? Junji Ito was born in the Gifu prefecture of Japan in 1963. He was inspired from a young age by both his older sisters' drawings and the work of Kazuo Umezu. Ito first began writing and drawing manga as a hobby while working as a dental technician in the early 1990s. In 1987, he submitted a short story to Gekkan Halloween that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize (with Umezu himself as one of the judges). This story was later serialized as Tomie.A lot of it was so absurd, it was almost like a South Park parody. The unkillable cult leader who uses meditation as if it were like NORAD’s DEFCON countdown, the insane plan to crash cars into every traffic mirror in the country, covering them with the angel hairs, to create a spy network for… reasons?? One scene involves giant brains crushing everyone that looked so silly, it was like the giant foot coming down at the end of the Monty Python opener! Junji Ito: "Welcome to our horror story for today. SENSOR. This book is about a young girl with amnesia who goes to a small Japanese village that's been covered in golden volcanic hair. Also called Pele hair. Small tiny fibres of gold-looking glass that sometimes result from volcanic eruptions. Anyways an entire town is covered in it, making it look shaggy. And all of the people in the town have volcanic hair attached to their heads. It gives them psychic powers and lets them communicate with the universe." Commonality Connection: Dr. Kurodera agreed to treat Kyoko on seeing that she had the same amigami hair as natives in his village. His son also started bonding with her while performing hypnotherapy.