On Friday June 30, Asahi Shimbun's "Junji Ito's Haunted House" site announced that one of the mangaka's works will get an anime adaptation. More details about which work and when it will be released will be announced at a later date.

Junji Ito is one of the most well-known mangaka worldwide when it comes to horror manga. Some of his most famous works are Tomie and Uzumaki, which later inspired a live action series and movie accordingly, as well as Gyo, which was later given an OVA adaptation.

His illustrations are beautiful and at the same time scary. He doesn't try to create designs that are pleasing to the human eye, quite the opposite. We could say that Junji Ito succeeds in putting the feelings of fear and agony across the reader by simple things, such as cats and snails shown from a different "angle".

We never learn why and how the "monsters" and the "supernatural things" appeared and this is what the readers love. Because the unknown, the unexplained is what scares humans the most...

Sources: animenewsnetwork.com, publications.asahi.com/junji_ito