Junji Ito's Mangas Are Scary, But The Memes Are Fun

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This Is My Hole originated from the horror manga The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito. The plot follows an earthquake which reveals several human-shaped holes on the side of a fault. As people travel to see the spectacle, they realize that the holes were specifically made for individual people. They then become hypnotized into going through their holes, emerging months later on the other side of the mountain, hideously deformed. Door Bursting Open / Door Slam / Gashunk are two exploitable images both originating from the same manga, Gyo by artist Junji Ito. Door Slam's show someone opening a door and slamming it in fear of whatever is behind it, while Door Bursting Open shows, quite simply, something bursting though a door.  Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/m26w8RUJPkk  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1

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00:00Junji Ito is a horror manga artist from Japan. He's very famous for his manga entitled Uzumaki,

00:04and no, we're not talking about that anime character that goes BELIEVE IT every three

00:07seconds. It's a classic horror manga about spirals that is getting adapted into an anime soon. The

00:12stories make your skin crawl. But this is Know Your Meme, after all, not an anime podcast,

00:15so let's get into Junji Ito's memes, and boy, there are many.

00:18My favorite Ito story is the Enigma of Amigara Fault. In one scene, the character neurotically

00:22gets obsessed with this person-sized hole, so much so that he feels the need to climb into it,

00:26and keep going, deeper within. And well, if you have claustrophobia, this one will annihilate you.

00:30Regardless, this image of the dude crawling in the hole screaming,

00:32this is my hole, it was made for me, it became a meme. It turns out that,

00:35out of context, this is a very hilarious panel. There are tons and tons of redraws of the panels,

00:39Super Mario Sunshine, Wile E. Coyote, Wallace and Gromit, edited into a pumpkin. A lot of

00:43panels Junji Ito draws end up being very funny out of context. Another example might be this

00:46silly shark page. Gashunk! Clearly the noise a shark makes when it kicks down a door. Looking

00:50at this image makes me feel old. In particular, the door slamming on the guy and the dude opening

00:54up the door were used a lot in the meme world. You could throw anything behind that, like Shrek,

00:57or a tinier Shrek, or an even tinier Shrek.

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