{"id":14194,"date":"2015-01-17T23:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=14194"},"modified":"2015-01-17T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:40:27","slug":"the-long-tentacle-of-h-p-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/01\/17\/the-long-tentacle-of-h-p-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Tentacle of H.P. Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

io9<\/em> has a new ‘not safe for work’ article in “The Long Tentacle of H.P. Lovecraft in Manga”<\/a>, a breathless scamper through Lovecraft’s reception and use in Japanese manga comics. Though supposedly about manga the article is unable to resist slithering in a mention of a genre of interactive, erm… “romance system tentacle battle” games and the existence of “porn anime” animated movies with titles such as Mystery of the Necronomicon<\/em>. Generally the reader gets the impression that Lovecraft in Japan looks like this<\/em>…<\/p>\n

\"lovecraft-japan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, apparently Nyarko W<\/em> is one of the top Lovecraft inspired series. Which, in terms of sheer chutzpah<\/em> in using Lovecraft’s name and characters, rather overshadows the West’s recent wave of feeble ‘Kickstarter cash-ins’. <\/p>\n

Though the article does have a more interesting mention of…<\/p>\n

Innsmouth wo \u00f4 Kage<\/em> [Insmus wo Oou Kage<\/a>, 1992], Chiaki Konaka’s 1990s TV adaptation of “The Shadow over Innsmouth” transplanted to the foggy byways of rural Japan”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds good, but looking at it on the YouTube link (above) it just seems very ‘TV movie flat’, cheesy, and distinctly lacking in mist and shadow. Maybe I skipped past too much.<\/p>\n

Not that much to get excited about, then in terms of the possibility of a Japanese equivalent of a Berni Wrightson or a Mike Ploog penning Lovecraft adaptations in comics. But should readers want a little more authoritative detail on Lovecraft in Japanese manga, maybe in order to dig up a comic worth licensing for an English translation, the io9<\/em> article helpfully notes…<\/p>\n

In an article in the Japanese Mythos horror anthology Night Voices, Night Journeys<\/a>\"\"<\/em> (published in English in 2005 by Kurodahan Press), Yoshihiro Yonezawa and Satoshi Hoshino provide an exhaustive 50-page history of manga which really refer to Lovecraft.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

io9 has a new ‘not safe for work’ article in “The Long Tentacle of H.P. Lovecraft in Manga”, a breathless …<\/p>\n

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