Famed horror manga artist Junji Ito was collaborating with Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima on their doomed Silent Hills project.



JUNJI ITO, undisputed master of horror in Japan (along with Hino and Tsubaki) and our collaborator in SILENT HILL (S) pic.twitter.com/D9ypKBhVk5 — Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 27, 2015



Kojima and myself are fans. pic.twitter.com/Jbp7qtRGfo — Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 27, 2015

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del Toro made the revelation on Twitter, saying that both he and Kojima were fans of the "undisputed master of horror in Japan".del Toro went on to say that Ito's 2002 manga GYO was the only comic to "make him jump." The revelation is a further blow to those who were holding out for the too-good-to-be-true project, which was unceremoniously cancelled as a result of the souring relationship between Kojima and Silent Hill publisher Konami.May it live on in our hearts.

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