However, in the Ito version of the story he completes the bride(With Justine's head! (She was the one convicted for the creature's crimes)) and brings her to life, only for her to reject the creature and he legit kills her and literally her head falls off because it is just sewn on. The story is also slightly different than the story Mary Shelley wrote, in her version of the story, the creature asks Frankenstein for a bride, and he makes her, but never competes with her because he had the thought of what would happen if they had kids.

However, with the graphic art skills of Ito, you genuinely get to see how gross it is. This retelling of the Frankenstein story is even grosser than the original story, because in the original story, obviously, it is all in your imagination so it can be as gross as you want it to be, especially if you don't truly know what the creature would look like because the science explaining how the creature was brought back to life was never actually described so the level of decomposition is not described.

It is once again an assortment of short stories, however, the first half of the book is only a retelling of Frankenstein, and the second half is like 10 more stories that all surround body horror-type stories. The back of the book says 'Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley!' and it 100% is. I got this book as a gift from one of my friends because it's a combination of two things I like, horror manga and Frankenstein.

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