Erratum

Correction: Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human

Number: Advanced Online Publication Early Pub Date: October 12, 2026
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Correction: Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human

The original article was published on September 15, 2026. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/at/article/1874090

Erratum Note

Author Email Address Correction In Issue 11 (2026) of Art Time Journal, the email address of the author, Sevda KAÇTI, listed on page 91, was inadvertently provided incorrectly. The author’s email address should be corrected as follows: Sevda KAÇTI E-mail: sevda.kacti@deu.edu.tr Accordingly, the email address should be updated as indicated above in the relevant issue of the journal and in its digital records.

Abstract

This study examines the intermedial and generic transformation of Osamu Dazai’s novel No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku, 1948) in Junji Ito’s manga adaptation. It addresses the question of which narrative and generic interventions restructure an existential and confessional written work as a visual, sequential horror narrative, and to what extent this transformation enables the adaptation to become an autonomous creative work bearing the artistic signature of the manga artist. Accordingly, the study aims to demonstrate how Ito reinterprets Dazai’s source text through his own horror aesthetics and the expressive possibilities of graphic narrative. The research is based on a comparative analysis of the novel and its manga adaptation. The source text is examined within the sociocultural context of postwar Japan and in relation to Dazai’s life, the I-novel tradition, confession, memoir, and suicide narrative. The adaptation is then analyzed in terms of narrative and generic transformation through the approaches of Timothy Corrigan and Julie Sanders. Sequences added or altered by Ito are compared with their counterparts in the novel, while the changes arising from the transformation of written narrative into visual language are examined through manga-specific devices such as composition, viewpoint, shot scale, facial expression, and body language. The adaptation’s restructuring within the horror genre is analyzed through kaidan and yūrei elements, surreal interventions, a karmic plot structure, and body-horror aesthetics; this aesthetic is interpreted through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of “grotesque realism” and Julia Kristeva’s concept of “abjection.” The findings demonstrate that the shame, guilt, anxiety, and alienation constructed at a psychological level in the novel are transformed in the manga into a bodily and visual experience of horror. Ito expands the narrative’s internal tension through elements of ghosts, haunting, revenge, and karmic justice, while positioning the reader as a compulsory witness through grotesque bodily imagery, physical deformation, and graphic violence. The work thus becomes a new narrative grounded in body-horror aesthetics through Ito’s creative interventions. In conclusion, by explaining the originality of Ito’s adaptation through intermedial transformation, generic restructuring, and body-horror aesthetics, this study demonstrates how graphic narrative adaptations interpret and transform their source texts.

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Ethical Statement

This study is based solely on the analysis of published literary and visual works. It does not involve human participants, personal data, or animal experimentation; therefore, ethical committee approval was not required.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Fine Arts

Journal Section

Erratum

Early Pub Date

October 12, 2026

Publication Date

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Submission Date

October 11, 2026

Acceptance Date

October 12, 2026

Published in Issue

Year 2026 Number: Advanced Online Publication

APA
Kaçtı, S. (2026). Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. Art Time, Advanced Online Publication. https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH
AMA
1.Kaçtı S. Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. Art Time. 2026;(Advanced Online Publication). https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH
Chicago
Kaçtı, Sevda. 2026. “Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative As Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human”. Art Time, no. Advanced Online Publication. https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH.
EndNote
Kaçtı S (October 1, 2026) Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. Art Time Advanced Online Publication
IEEE
[1]S. Kaçtı, “Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human”, Art Time, no. Advanced Online Publication, Oct. 2026, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH
ISNAD
Kaçtı, Sevda. “Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative As Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human”. Art Time. Advanced Online Publication (October 1, 2026). https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH.
JAMA
1.Kaçtı S. Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. Art Time. 2026. Available at https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH.
MLA
Kaçtı, Sevda. “Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative As Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human”. Art Time, no. Advanced Online Publication, Oct. 2026, https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH.
Vancouver
1.Sevda Kaçtı. Reconstructing an Existential Written Narrative as Visual Horror; Junji Ito’s Manga Adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. Art Time [Internet]. 2026 Oct. 1;(Advanced Online Publication). Available from: https://izlik.org/JA89NL83NH