
Another popular one is The Enigma of Amigara Fault, where people feel madly driven to step into holes cut into the side of a mountain, with each hole perfectly shaped for each individual person. Some of his most famous stories include Uzumaki, a story about a town cursed by spiral shapes manifesting in various places, including human bodies. Diablo 4 Design Inspired by Horror Manga Artist Junji Ito, Developer Says Spirals for days. Ito is most known for his work as a horror manga artist, creating terrifying short stories often focused on body horror, psychological terror, and the same sense of the unknowable that permeates much of Lovecraft’s writing. “Junji Ito and some of the elements he brings in, kind of taking mundane things and twisting them, creating horror elements within that – then there’s the Cthulhu mythos and some of the horror elements there, especially the fear of the unknown,” Roberts told VG247. In the wake of a strange phone call from his parents and an ominous apparition.

Discussing how Diablo 4 takes inspiration more so from Diablo 2’s “grounded” style (versus Diablo 3’s relatively more colorful aesthetic), Diablo 4 lead quest designer Jason Roberts cited Ito and the horror of settings within the real world. Since I missed the Secret Lair drop for these, I am slowly but surely acquiring the Junji Ito MTG cards. Village of the Siren Turning his hand to folk horror, Ito crafts another bleak homecoming in Village of the Siren.
