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Museum of Terror
伊藤潤二愛藏版 01 : 富江 上
迷惑男人，讓他們陷入狂亂愛戀中的女子，她名為富江。不管被殺死幾次，歷經無數次死亡，依舊一再復活的美麗富江。富江啊！整個世界在妳面前都得俯首稱臣吧──
376 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Junji Ito
260 books14.3k followersJunji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
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April 15, 2019
Junji Ito has an imagination that is pretty impressive; he can wring 800 pages out of an idea that would utterly confound most writers. How many cartoonists could create a horror masterpiece about SPIRALS? Where would you even start? How about dead fishes on robotic spider-legs? WTF?! And yet he bites down on these crazy-ass concepts with remarkable tenacity and seriousness. The 'Tomie' stories were among his first, about a beautiful school-girl (why is it always schoolgirls? Do women cease to exist in Japan after their 18th birthday?) who is murdered by an infatuated student, only to show up in class a few days later like nothing happened. Again and again, she has men and boys fall in love with her, manipulating her obsessive suitors in a cold and unnatural way, until she is inevitably hacked to pieces by one of them.
Over the course of the 850-or-so pages of Museum of Terror: Volumes 1 & 2, Junji Ito demonstrates his preternatural gifts as an artist and storyteller, beating this dead horse into a furry puddle. As thoroughly fucking weird as the story gets, it's always entertaining; and Ito's artistic evolution is fun to watch as well. What does it all mean? Nothing. Ito is able to repress the authorial urge to sermonize, so his horror remains horrifying for the sake of wonderfully crass entertainment. There is a serious paucity of quality horror titles in the Western comics tradition, making the masters of manga horror like Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, Hideshi Hino, Suehiro Maruo, & Kentaro Miura* all the more important for fans of the genre.
*(Berserk has become many things in its sprawling, 35-year history, but horrifying supernatural monstrosities & sickeningly inventive carnage have always had a home in the black, cancerous heart of this fantasy epic.)
The story seems to imply from the start that Tomie is somehow the instigator every time some sick fuck goes at her with a yanagiba and turns her into sushi... which might trigger PC accusations of misogyny or victim-blaming from the self-righteous, virtue-signalling fans of Recreational Outrage. But there is no political agenda or subconscious sexism at work here, just a desire to freak readers out with crazy, near-incoherent ideas. To answer a relevant question I posed half-jokingly earlier: the 'schoolgirl' thing most definitely has been fetishized in manga. But this fetish appears primarily in the Shonen genre, which targets school-age boys who are naturally attracted to the teenage girls wearing the famously sexualized uniforms. And the Shojo genre features schoolgirls because schoolgirls are its laser-targeted demographic; surprisingly - to me, anyway - these gory, disturbing tales by Ito initially appeared not in Gekiga anthologies for adult manga fans, or Shonen manga magazines for blood-crazed boys... but in a Shojo anthology. 'Tomie' was Shojo horror, made specifically for teenage girls, before finding widespread popularity and acclaim with every demographic in its collected Tankobon format. So... yeah. I think that might prove a point of some sort. And as the stories get longer and the art improves, it's clear Tomie has only her superficial beauty connecting her to the female gender & humanity in general. Her hyper-seductive sexual magnetism is like the bioluminescent lure of an Anglerfish, and the young puppet-boys are more like prey than prospective mates, used & discarded. By the end of the first few tales, there's no doubt that Tomie is a virus in human form, and that the zomboy suitors are critical to spreading the Tomie-Virus when she orders her own destruction. Mentally controlling men and boys like love-sick zombies, the Tomie-virus subconsciously flips a switch that turns her zomboys into psychopathic butchers when she's ready to 'reproduce'... the process of dissection just ends up spreading the disease. Each dismembered chunk of her body gradually turns into another Tomie, in a properly disgusting way. This leads to power struggles between the various copies and their respective devotees. Dark Horse published two more volumes in the 'Museum of Terror' series, and the second one collects the rest of the Tomie stories.
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Over the course of the 850-or-so pages of Museum of Terror: Volumes 1 & 2, Junji Ito demonstrates his preternatural gifts as an artist and storyteller, beating this dead horse into a furry puddle. As thoroughly fucking weird as the story gets, it's always entertaining; and Ito's artistic evolution is fun to watch as well. What does it all mean? Nothing. Ito is able to repress the authorial urge to sermonize, so his horror remains horrifying for the sake of wonderfully crass entertainment. There is a serious paucity of quality horror titles in the Western comics tradition, making the masters of manga horror like Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, Hideshi Hino, Suehiro Maruo, & Kentaro Miura* all the more important for fans of the genre.
*(Berserk has become many things in its sprawling, 35-year history, but horrifying supernatural monstrosities & sickeningly inventive carnage have always had a home in the black, cancerous heart of this fantasy epic.)
The story seems to imply from the start that Tomie is somehow the instigator every time some sick fuck goes at her with a yanagiba and turns her into sushi... which might trigger PC accusations of misogyny or victim-blaming from the self-righteous, virtue-signalling fans of Recreational Outrage. But there is no political agenda or subconscious sexism at work here, just a desire to freak readers out with crazy, near-incoherent ideas. To answer a relevant question I posed half-jokingly earlier: the 'schoolgirl' thing most definitely has been fetishized in manga. But this fetish appears primarily in the Shonen genre, which targets school-age boys who are naturally attracted to the teenage girls wearing the famously sexualized uniforms. And the Shojo genre features schoolgirls because schoolgirls are its laser-targeted demographic; surprisingly - to me, anyway - these gory, disturbing tales by Ito initially appeared not in Gekiga anthologies for adult manga fans, or Shonen manga magazines for blood-crazed boys... but in a Shojo anthology. 'Tomie' was Shojo horror, made specifically for teenage girls, before finding widespread popularity and acclaim with every demographic in its collected Tankobon format. So... yeah. I think that might prove a point of some sort. And as the stories get longer and the art improves, it's clear Tomie has only her superficial beauty connecting her to the female gender & humanity in general. Her hyper-seductive sexual magnetism is like the bioluminescent lure of an Anglerfish, and the young puppet-boys are more like prey than prospective mates, used & discarded. By the end of the first few tales, there's no doubt that Tomie is a virus in human form, and that the zomboy suitors are critical to spreading the Tomie-Virus when she orders her own destruction. Mentally controlling men and boys like love-sick zombies, the Tomie-virus subconsciously flips a switch that turns her zomboys into psychopathic butchers when she's ready to 'reproduce'... the process of dissection just ends up spreading the disease. Each dismembered chunk of her body gradually turns into another Tomie, in a properly disgusting way. This leads to power struggles between the various copies and their respective devotees. Dark Horse published two more volumes in the 'Museum of Terror' series, and the second one collects the rest of the Tomie stories.
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March 21, 2016
This is horror, now, so watch out if you you just had breakfast. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Tomie is horror manga, a huge collection of stories and only volume 1 of all the Tomie stories Ito did!! I heard from one reviewer that the second volume is a decided up-tick in quality, which I appreciate knowing, but I am not sure I really have to read another 400 pages of this story, or of this theme, which is in every story. I am not as obsessive as Ito or the hundreds of boys driven mad by Tomie.
Tomie is a supposedly gorgeous (this is manga, so it's difficult to create the kind of wild beauty he is going for in this style--cute you can do, as in Yotsuba, but gorgeous?) teenaged girl who makes particular boys she meets fall madly in love with her. How mad, you ask? That would seem to be the point, actually! These boys literally go crazy, they lose their minds, and for some not quite clear reason they kill Tomie to relieve themselves of the agony of lust. Why not just have sex with her, you may well ask? Tommy seems very much to invite this. And well, some of them do, but this is not so much a manga about sex as it is about crazy desire, blood, murder, and Lovecraftianly gross images. Sex would be too nice for Ito to depict.
But never fear, Tomie-lover-readers, if you grieve her loss. She has the power to regenerate herself from, say, her own decapitated head. Any body part will do, actually. Or preferably each and every body part, so we can drive all lusty boys to the charnel house or to death. There's blood everywhere in these stories. And in photographs some guys take of her you can see these gross Tomie-growths coming from her very head. Yuck, unless you are into horror, and then you will be so happy.
Freud help me, but I think there might be some Calvinist guilt issue running though this obsessive story where EVERY boy that lusts after Tomie must destroy the object of his lust and also be destroyed for his lust. And there's nothing particularly new in the stories, no real surprises, or any sort of real development, this is just a collection of individual Tomie stories, where he works out the same idea a slightly different way in every story. And you know, it is pretty masterful for its intentions. I actually liked it, anyway!
I have to call this a femme fatale story, as with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' somewhat less successful Fatale noir series, where the beautiful blonde bombshell also draws men to madness and suicide and murder in different stories across the ages. In Museum of Terror it happens similarly, but is just straightforward horror, which works better than the horror noir crime approach of Brubaker and Phillips. But I do like both. I really do.
Read Eisnein for the very best review of Ito, hands down. As Eisnein points out, Ito has a history of horror obsession that might just be unparalleled in the history of literature. In Ito's Uzumaki, for instance, he manages a creepy horror manga based on the increasing proliferation of . . . spirals. 800 pages of spirals, yes! Everyone driven crazy in a small town by spirals, everywhere, and increasingly, taking over everyone's minds. Which I liked even better, actually, it's so strange. But you see what I mean about the obsession issue with Ito. When he gets an idea, he hangs on to it for years. ..
Ito is amazing. And successfully creepy, especially if you are a horror fan!
Tomie is horror manga, a huge collection of stories and only volume 1 of all the Tomie stories Ito did!! I heard from one reviewer that the second volume is a decided up-tick in quality, which I appreciate knowing, but I am not sure I really have to read another 400 pages of this story, or of this theme, which is in every story. I am not as obsessive as Ito or the hundreds of boys driven mad by Tomie.
Tomie is a supposedly gorgeous (this is manga, so it's difficult to create the kind of wild beauty he is going for in this style--cute you can do, as in Yotsuba, but gorgeous?) teenaged girl who makes particular boys she meets fall madly in love with her. How mad, you ask? That would seem to be the point, actually! These boys literally go crazy, they lose their minds, and for some not quite clear reason they kill Tomie to relieve themselves of the agony of lust. Why not just have sex with her, you may well ask? Tommy seems very much to invite this. And well, some of them do, but this is not so much a manga about sex as it is about crazy desire, blood, murder, and Lovecraftianly gross images. Sex would be too nice for Ito to depict.
But never fear, Tomie-lover-readers, if you grieve her loss. She has the power to regenerate herself from, say, her own decapitated head. Any body part will do, actually. Or preferably each and every body part, so we can drive all lusty boys to the charnel house or to death. There's blood everywhere in these stories. And in photographs some guys take of her you can see these gross Tomie-growths coming from her very head. Yuck, unless you are into horror, and then you will be so happy.
Freud help me, but I think there might be some Calvinist guilt issue running though this obsessive story where EVERY boy that lusts after Tomie must destroy the object of his lust and also be destroyed for his lust. And there's nothing particularly new in the stories, no real surprises, or any sort of real development, this is just a collection of individual Tomie stories, where he works out the same idea a slightly different way in every story. And you know, it is pretty masterful for its intentions. I actually liked it, anyway!
I have to call this a femme fatale story, as with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' somewhat less successful Fatale noir series, where the beautiful blonde bombshell also draws men to madness and suicide and murder in different stories across the ages. In Museum of Terror it happens similarly, but is just straightforward horror, which works better than the horror noir crime approach of Brubaker and Phillips. But I do like both. I really do.
Read Eisnein for the very best review of Ito, hands down. As Eisnein points out, Ito has a history of horror obsession that might just be unparalleled in the history of literature. In Ito's Uzumaki, for instance, he manages a creepy horror manga based on the increasing proliferation of . . . spirals. 800 pages of spirals, yes! Everyone driven crazy in a small town by spirals, everywhere, and increasingly, taking over everyone's minds. Which I liked even better, actually, it's so strange. But you see what I mean about the obsession issue with Ito. When he gets an idea, he hangs on to it for years. ..
Ito is amazing. And successfully creepy, especially if you are a horror fan!
April 3, 2022
na moral alguem iNTERNA o junji ito
March 27, 2024
"Томіе" - це концентрований боді-горор найвищого ґатунку. Не дарма Джюнджі Іто називають імператором жахів у манзі. Його історії - химерні, божевільні та дуже детальні. Кожна оповідь має цілісний сюжет, чудовий розвиток персонажів та ідеальний баланс у втіленні малюнку та реплік.
Наголошую на тому, що малюнок прекрасний - так багато деталей, така глибина зображення, чіткість образів та феноменальна пильність щодо правдоподібності анатомії людей та інших створінь. І не дивно, адже Іто малював своїх монстрів з анатомічних атласів, й сам має біля медичну освіту та працював зубним техніком. Маю невичерпну повагу до такого підходу.
Мені від обидвох томів було лячно та некомфортно. Від деяких історій було дуже бридко. А це показник якості для жанру, чи не так?
Водночас мені, як представниці західної ментальності, хотілося розкрити підтекст історій про Томіе, бо ж не можуть бути жахи просто жахами? (Насправді можуть, і японці неймовірно майстерні у їх створенні). Результатом моїх роздумів на тему стала теорія, що Томіе - це підсвідомий страх чоловіка, представника закоренілого патріархального суспільства, чиїм головним страхом є вихід жінки з-під чоловічої влади, жіноча свобода. Й автор зображає цей страх у тому, що вільна від умовностей жінка вбиває, та несе смертельну небезпеку для чоловіка. Хоча можу бути не права, й взагалі, залишимо ці теорії психоаналітикам😊
У першому томі ми зустрічаємося з героїнею та дізнаємося з чого все почалося. Між іншим, оповідання "Томіе" надхненне реальним випадком з життя Джюнджі Іто, правда у реальності загинув його однокласник, а не однокласниця. Оповідання "Томіе. Частина 2. Цикл "Лікарня Моріта"" та "Підвал" - страшні та бридкі. Оповідання "Світлина" та "Поцілунок" - просто страшні. Оповідання "Маєток" - бридкуще. А все інше помірне у страху та гидотності.
Загалом я б радила читати це або поціновувачам жанру з міцною психікою, або глянути на цю мангу, як на витвір мистецтва (бо ним він і є, хоч може це й буде недоступно геть усім читачам, бо високий рівень специфіки).
Наголошую на тому, що малюнок прекрасний - так багато деталей, така глибина зображення, чіткість образів та феноменальна пильність щодо правдоподібності анатомії людей та інших створінь. І не дивно, адже Іто малював своїх монстрів з анатомічних атласів, й сам має біля медичну освіту та працював зубним техніком. Маю невичерпну повагу до такого підходу.
Мені від обидвох томів було лячно та некомфортно. Від деяких історій було дуже бридко. А це показник якості для жанру, чи не так?
Водночас мені, як представниці західної ментальності, хотілося розкрити підтекст історій про Томіе, бо ж не можуть бути жахи просто жахами? (Насправді можуть, і японці неймовірно майстерні у їх створенні). Результатом моїх роздумів на тему стала теорія, що Томіе - це підсвідомий страх чоловіка, представника закоренілого патріархального суспільства, чиїм головним страхом є вихід жінки з-під чоловічої влади, жіноча свобода. Й автор зображає цей страх у тому, що вільна від умовностей жінка вбиває, та несе смертельну небезпеку для чоловіка. Хоча можу бути не права, й взагалі, залишимо ці теорії психоаналітикам😊
У першому томі ми зустрічаємося з героїнею та дізнаємося з чого все почалося. Між іншим, оповідання "Томіе" надхненне реальним випадком з життя Джюнджі Іто, правда у реальності загинув його однокласник, а не однокласниця. Оповідання "Томіе. Частина 2. Цикл "Лікарня Моріта"" та "Підвал" - страшні та бридкі. Оповідання "Світлина" та "Поцілунок" - просто страшні. Оповідання "Маєток" - бридкуще. А все інше помірне у страху та гидотності.
Загалом я б радила читати це або поціновувачам жанру з міцною психікою, або глянути на цю мангу, як на витвір мистецтва (бо ним він і є, хоч може це й буде недоступно геть усім читачам, бо високий рівень специфіки).
November 1, 2020
Revenge can be multiplied.
3.5
3.5
October 8, 2023
Перечитала одну з найкращих горор манг в своєму житті
історія про красуню Томіе, яка ніколи не помирає та зводить з розуму з чоловіків вже давно стала моєю
улюбленою і я не можу приховати свого захвату від цієї персонажки 😳
мені подобається все і я просто насолоджувалась та розслаблялась під час прочитання
обожнюю Іто і дуже сподіваюсь, що триматиму в руках українською інші його роботи 🫀
історія про красуню Томіе, яка ніколи не помирає та зводить з розуму з чоловіків вже давно стала моєю
улюбленою і я не можу приховати свого захвату від цієї персонажки 😳
мені подобається все і я просто насолоджувалась та розслаблялась під час прочитання
обожнюю Іто і дуже сподіваюсь, що триматиму в руках українською інші його роботи 🫀
November 10, 2020
Çizimler, hikayeler yine iyiydi. Yüzünün güzelliğiyle erkekleri büyüleyen Tomie'yi anlatıyor bu kez.
Junji Ito fanı olma yolundayım...
Junji Ito fanı olma yolundayım...
September 30, 2023
Це абсолютні жахи в чистому вигляді. Жорстокі, місцями бридкі, з похмурою мальовкою, яка лише підкреслює темряву всього сюжету. Коротше, це точно не для слабкодухих. І точно не для всіх.
March 2, 2018
Esta es la segunda historia que leo de Junji Ito luego de Uzumaki; y aunque no es tan terrorífica como la primera, es igual de increíble.
Pensé que sería una historia predecible típica de fantasmas, pero la trama se vuelve enrevesada y confusa, creo que es muy original lo que pasa con Tomie, nuestra protagonista que además de ser muy inmadura y malvada, es tan egoísta que no le importa perder la vida todo el tiempo.
Aún no me acostumbro del todo a la "exageración y extravagancia" del autor; pero sin duda, ese toque es lo que lo hace tan original y a la vez perturbador.
Pensé que sería una historia predecible típica de fantasmas, pero la trama se vuelve enrevesada y confusa, creo que es muy original lo que pasa con Tomie, nuestra protagonista que además de ser muy inmadura y malvada, es tan egoísta que no le importa perder la vida todo el tiempo.
Aún no me acostumbro del todo a la "exageración y extravagancia" del autor; pero sin duda, ese toque es lo que lo hace tan original y a la vez perturbador.
November 9, 2020
bruhhhhh. 😐 femme fatale to the fucking max.💅🏻🔪
March 20, 2016
The Tomie series is a pretty disturbing set of horror stories. All of them feature (what seems to be) a beautiful girl called Tomie. Men fall helplessly in love with Tomie, unable to refuse her wishes; and Tomie herself is destructive and greedy, using her charm to ruin other women's relationships and families, and to get luxury and wealth. Wikipedia describes her as: "a living embodiment of lust and all the negative emotions that go along with it, such as jealousy."
About half of the time Tomie ends up being brutally (and gratuitously) murdered, usually compulsively by one of the men who love her. One character explains: "I just... wanted to kill her, detective... when I saw her... For some reason, I felt this urge to dismantle her." But that's just the start of the horror. Every part of Tomie which is cut off is capable of budding an entirely new Tomie, which returns to the living, often to drive her murderers insane, though sometimes to simply move on and cause some new chaos. The other half of the stories focus less on lust'n'murder, and more on Tomie's regenerative capabilities, showing Tomie's inherently unstable flesh bursting open into new heads in stressful situations, or simply following the consequence of Tomie parts being dispersed in a variety of places (and on at least three occasions, in other people's bodies).
The most disturbing element is in the first type of stories, where the author takes male sexual violence and externalizes it onto a female-looking-demon-monster-thing. Men can reassure themselves that they are not powerless because of unrequited lust but because of a woman's evil power; and their desperate urge to hack Tomie into pieces is in fact something she has forced them to do. Similarly, Tomie looks like a beautiful girl, but is really a monster, who secretly does just want to torture men (it isn't that she's disinterested, it's that she *wants* to make them feel small!), and to selfishly accumulate material wealth (she's just using them anyway). The horror is *not* the crimes that people commit. It is the callous beauty that has emasculated them by taking away their free will, and that completes its emasculation in defying their attempts to reassert dominance with violence.
There's something deeply icky about that as a reading experience. It's like... when you read one of those badly written scenes of fictional rape by male authors... and you feel like they're compulsively picking this need-to-confess mental-rape-fantasy scab in public, and it's gross. Ultimately, you feel dirty and complicit and you just want to scrape the whole reading experience off your brain. From his other works I've read, I think that Junji Ito is an intuitive writer. I doubt he cared to think through any of the above when putting together Tomie, but I'm sure that it is this symbolic power that drove the writing. This led-by-intuition tendency is also why Ito is interesting (and in some cases - e.g. Spiral - disatisfying) as an author, because he never lets the symbol set a logic for the narrative. He just gets lost down some new sidetrack that's also got a powerful ick factor to it, and stories are often an exercise in capturing that essence, ending evocatively on the moment of that horror's realization - the what-happens-next being irrelevant as far as he's concerned.
Reading over what I've written above, I feel like I should stress that Tomie is not AT ALL a rape-sex-death extravaganza. It's just that these ideas bubble away in the background. There's no sex at all and apart from a few stab-fests, the narrative is classic 80s movie, essence-of-pulp-horror stuff, with a good dose of Lovecraftian crawling, cancerous masses of flesh and eyes and polyps.
The very best of the collection is a set of three chapters in the middle of the book about a young girl called Tsukiko, who incurs Tomie's wrath when she fights back against the monster by spreading a series of photographs which manage to capture her true demonic face. This really captures that sense of terror I associate with films like Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street, where a chilling monster is planted squarely in everyday suburbia, and a gutsy heroine, though seemingly doomed, is repeatedly allowed to overcome the usual rules of the narrative, and emerge unscathed, thanks to bravery and a good dose of luck. The girl v. girl set-up takes the emphasis off male attraction, and the more watchful tone deepens the mystery, suggesting a sometimes human-seeming consciousness to Tomie (albeit evil). You wonder what she thinks, this monster, doomed to mutating and being endlessly dismembered.
One other thing I'd like to mention - shamelessly ripped off another reviewer on GoodReads - is the great black humour in these stories. Charles Dee Mitchell writes:
Although they know she has regenerated herself from a severed head kept in an aquarium, two doctors have this exchange:
"What an ungodly monster!"
"You're telling me. And yet...an extremely alluring one."
He's right, it's amazing! :)
On the whole, I'd say this is a pretty good volume, and if you like Ito, you will get what you're looking for. For those who haven't read this author before, I'd recommend trying to find a volume that features a range of his short stories that feature lots of different characters and scenarios - shorts like Falling, Thing That Drifted Ashore, Slug Girl, The Enigma of Amigara Fault... A lot of these you can read online for free thanks to the wonder of scanlations, but of course, if you enjoy them, do the author a favour and buy yourself (or a friend) one of the official published volumes.
About half of the time Tomie ends up being brutally (and gratuitously) murdered, usually compulsively by one of the men who love her. One character explains: "I just... wanted to kill her, detective... when I saw her... For some reason, I felt this urge to dismantle her." But that's just the start of the horror. Every part of Tomie which is cut off is capable of budding an entirely new Tomie, which returns to the living, often to drive her murderers insane, though sometimes to simply move on and cause some new chaos. The other half of the stories focus less on lust'n'murder, and more on Tomie's regenerative capabilities, showing Tomie's inherently unstable flesh bursting open into new heads in stressful situations, or simply following the consequence of Tomie parts being dispersed in a variety of places (and on at least three occasions, in other people's bodies).
The most disturbing element is in the first type of stories, where the author takes male sexual violence and externalizes it onto a female-looking-demon-monster-thing. Men can reassure themselves that they are not powerless because of unrequited lust but because of a woman's evil power; and their desperate urge to hack Tomie into pieces is in fact something she has forced them to do. Similarly, Tomie looks like a beautiful girl, but is really a monster, who secretly does just want to torture men (it isn't that she's disinterested, it's that she *wants* to make them feel small!), and to selfishly accumulate material wealth (she's just using them anyway). The horror is *not* the crimes that people commit. It is the callous beauty that has emasculated them by taking away their free will, and that completes its emasculation in defying their attempts to reassert dominance with violence.
There's something deeply icky about that as a reading experience. It's like... when you read one of those badly written scenes of fictional rape by male authors... and you feel like they're compulsively picking this need-to-confess mental-rape-fantasy scab in public, and it's gross. Ultimately, you feel dirty and complicit and you just want to scrape the whole reading experience off your brain. From his other works I've read, I think that Junji Ito is an intuitive writer. I doubt he cared to think through any of the above when putting together Tomie, but I'm sure that it is this symbolic power that drove the writing. This led-by-intuition tendency is also why Ito is interesting (and in some cases - e.g. Spiral - disatisfying) as an author, because he never lets the symbol set a logic for the narrative. He just gets lost down some new sidetrack that's also got a powerful ick factor to it, and stories are often an exercise in capturing that essence, ending evocatively on the moment of that horror's realization - the what-happens-next being irrelevant as far as he's concerned.
Reading over what I've written above, I feel like I should stress that Tomie is not AT ALL a rape-sex-death extravaganza. It's just that these ideas bubble away in the background. There's no sex at all and apart from a few stab-fests, the narrative is classic 80s movie, essence-of-pulp-horror stuff, with a good dose of Lovecraftian crawling, cancerous masses of flesh and eyes and polyps.
The very best of the collection is a set of three chapters in the middle of the book about a young girl called Tsukiko, who incurs Tomie's wrath when she fights back against the monster by spreading a series of photographs which manage to capture her true demonic face. This really captures that sense of terror I associate with films like Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street, where a chilling monster is planted squarely in everyday suburbia, and a gutsy heroine, though seemingly doomed, is repeatedly allowed to overcome the usual rules of the narrative, and emerge unscathed, thanks to bravery and a good dose of luck. The girl v. girl set-up takes the emphasis off male attraction, and the more watchful tone deepens the mystery, suggesting a sometimes human-seeming consciousness to Tomie (albeit evil). You wonder what she thinks, this monster, doomed to mutating and being endlessly dismembered.
One other thing I'd like to mention - shamelessly ripped off another reviewer on GoodReads - is the great black humour in these stories. Charles Dee Mitchell writes:
Although they know she has regenerated herself from a severed head kept in an aquarium, two doctors have this exchange:
"What an ungodly monster!"
"You're telling me. And yet...an extremely alluring one."
He's right, it's amazing! :)
On the whole, I'd say this is a pretty good volume, and if you like Ito, you will get what you're looking for. For those who haven't read this author before, I'd recommend trying to find a volume that features a range of his short stories that feature lots of different characters and scenarios - shorts like Falling, Thing That Drifted Ashore, Slug Girl, The Enigma of Amigara Fault... A lot of these you can read online for free thanks to the wonder of scanlations, but of course, if you enjoy them, do the author a favour and buy yourself (or a friend) one of the official published volumes.
March 13, 2017
Os puede parecer una nota exagerada, peeeeeero es que hacía mucho que no me enganchaba a un manga así, y aunque he leído comentarios sobre que algunas historias son horrorosas, qué queréis que os diga!? A mi me han gustado TODAS!
La única pega que le pondría vuelve a ser que confundo a todos los personajes, sobre todo a las chicas me cuesta muchísimo diferenciarlas unas de otras (bendito sea el lunar de Tomie).
PD. Aunque tenga el tomo dos a mano, voy a esperar a leerlo
PD. Mil gracias Alberto por dejarme leer tus mangas
La única pega que le pondría vuelve a ser que confundo a todos los personajes, sobre todo a las chicas me cuesta muchísimo diferenciarlas unas de otras (bendito sea el lunar de Tomie).
PD. Aunque tenga el tomo dos a mano, voy a esperar a leerlo
PD. Mil gracias Alberto por dejarme leer tus mangas
September 22, 2024
Я не надто знаюся на японській культурі, і, можливо, упускаю якийсь контекст, тому зі своєї "західної" точки зору скажу ось що: уже на другій історії в мене викристалізувалося чітке відчуття, що головний жах і зло в цій історії зовсім не Томіе. Вона лиш каталізатор того, що уже сиділо в усіх тих чоловіках. Грубо кажучи, якщо підставити замість Томіе будь-яку іншу жінку, яка не боїться заявляти, що чхала вона на чоловіків і любить перш за все себе, результат буде той же. Можливо, патріархальному японському суспільству важко прийняти, що жінка може бути різною, не прив'язаною чоловіка, і страх втратити владу над нею знаходить різні огидні вияви. Всім цим намагаюся сказати, що саме внутрішні демони чоловіків є головним злом цієї історії, а не Томіе. Але знову ж таки, це дуже суб’єктивний погляд.
Трохи знизила оцінку, бо мені не вистачило глибини персонажів, але оскільки це взагалі моя перша манга, то допускаю, що так і має бути) Зрештою, сама по собі історія розкішна, обов’язково читатиму другий том
Трохи знизила оцінку, бо мені не вистачило глибини персонажів, але оскільки це взагалі моя перша манга, то допускаю, що так і має бути) Зрештою, сама по собі історія розкішна, обов’язково читатиму другий том
September 21, 2024
Дуже атмосферно, моторошно й цікаво
October 16, 2024
Idealnie się wpasowała po lekturze "Gąsienicy". Moje pierwsze spotkanie z Junjim Ito. 3.75
August 3, 2017
It's never fully explained what Tomie is. There's enough in the opening salvo of chapters to help you form your own hypotheses, let your spider imaginations run wild, but in the end it's left purposefully vague...and that creeps me out.
1. Tomie - The origin story. Junji is still learning the craft, so the art's a little rougher, but that final image at the end still creeps me out.
2. Photograph - The art is getting better, and we start to get a clearer picture as to what Tomie's influence and character is going to be. She's becoming more defined...and that gonzo ending.
3. Kiss - A direct continuation of the previous story, if you thought it couldn't get any more weird, just wait. Lesson learned: don't fall into the friend zone with Tomie.
4. Mansion - This ****ing story is bananas. It's been teased in the previous two chapters, but now we get the reveal. Mad science and body horror to keep Brundlefly awake at night.
5. Revenge - This is the simplest story in this collection, also the most forgettable.
6. The Basin of the Waterfall - "Oh oh here she comes, watch out boy she'll chew you up. Oh oh here she comes, she's a maneater."
1. Tomie - The origin story. Junji is still learning the craft, so the art's a little rougher, but that final image at the end still creeps me out.
2. Photograph - The art is getting better, and we start to get a clearer picture as to what Tomie's influence and character is going to be. She's becoming more defined...and that gonzo ending.
3. Kiss - A direct continuation of the previous story, if you thought it couldn't get any more weird, just wait. Lesson learned: don't fall into the friend zone with Tomie.
4. Mansion - This ****ing story is bananas. It's been teased in the previous two chapters, but now we get the reveal. Mad science and body horror to keep Brundlefly awake at night.
5. Revenge - This is the simplest story in this collection, also the most forgettable.
6. The Basin of the Waterfall - "Oh oh here she comes, watch out boy she'll chew you up. Oh oh here she comes, she's a maneater."
October 23, 2022
It was ok.
Could be much much MUCH better.
Here's my problem, I get it. Junji Ito is the new sensation and everything, he's awesome, his artwork is great (mostly) and his stories from what I've read so far are mostly good, with amazing ideas but the execution is what I have a problem with.
See, there's a main theme in his stories and there are episodes of sorts of each chapter after chapter that something happens to someone you don't care in the slightest and it's pretty much insignificant to the main story most of the time but it happens so you can see some creepy dismemberment or something like that.
There's no character development and that's just what hurts me the most. The characters' reactions and choices are mostly dumb as fuck without reason or logic and that also hurts my intelligence.
Other than that it's fun to read and you for sure want to see what happens next and at the end but it was a chore to read some of the stories and that takes it down a star, sadly.
PS. No. It wasn't as good as Uzumaki.
Could be much much MUCH better.
Here's my problem, I get it. Junji Ito is the new sensation and everything, he's awesome, his artwork is great (mostly) and his stories from what I've read so far are mostly good, with amazing ideas but the execution is what I have a problem with.
See, there's a main theme in his stories and there are episodes of sorts of each chapter after chapter that something happens to someone you don't care in the slightest and it's pretty much insignificant to the main story most of the time but it happens so you can see some creepy dismemberment or something like that.
There's no character development and that's just what hurts me the most. The characters' reactions and choices are mostly dumb as fuck without reason or logic and that also hurts my intelligence.
Other than that it's fun to read and you for sure want to see what happens next and at the end but it was a chore to read some of the stories and that takes it down a star, sadly.
PS. No. It wasn't as good as Uzumaki.
November 8, 2018
This series title confuses me so far. Japanese sites just call the series Tomie but in the US it has Tomie and Museum of Terror for all three volumes. Is there more to the Terror collection not out?
Tomie is creepy. At first just a bit bizarre and even a bit confusing but once it starts rolling-woah! This has some strong psychological chills in this as well as a violent, creepy horror style blended together. So much mystery surrounds this girl. Who is she really? Why is she doing what she does? And many other questions that come up as you go. THe more I read the more I wondered and the creepier and stranger it all becomes. Each chapter is it's own tale but they do tie together. Twisted and unique! Fast paced too. I read this in the middle of the night to up the creep factor. When the horror side wasn't enough to freak me out awake but I sure had strange dreams afterwords that involved abnormal carpet. I will be continuing this series.
Tomie is creepy. At first just a bit bizarre and even a bit confusing but once it starts rolling-woah! This has some strong psychological chills in this as well as a violent, creepy horror style blended together. So much mystery surrounds this girl. Who is she really? Why is she doing what she does? And many other questions that come up as you go. THe more I read the more I wondered and the creepier and stranger it all becomes. Each chapter is it's own tale but they do tie together. Twisted and unique! Fast paced too. I read this in the middle of the night to up the creep factor. When the horror side wasn't enough to freak me out awake but I sure had strange dreams afterwords that involved abnormal carpet. I will be continuing this series.
July 25, 2020
Junji İto beş yıldız vermeye alışık olduğum, beni haksız çıkarmayan bir yazar. Bu sefer verilen dört yıldız ise önceden örnekleri verilebilecek tarzda bir konu benimsemesi yüzünden. Genç bir kadın, hatta kız ve onun üzerinden gelişen, kesinlikle yine Junji İto'nun eşsiz çizimleri ile korkutucu, güzel bir eser. Korku yazarlarının, çizerlerinin son dönem kralı diyebilirim. Önceki eserlerinde kalemine, tüylerinizi ürperten öyküleri ciddi bir yaratıcılık barındırıyordu. Bu onu kendine has kılan en belirgin özelliği. "Tomie"de ise kötücül bir kadın / kızın, ifritin adımlarını takip ediyoruz. Junji İto bende öyle bir intiba bırakıyor ki muhakkak çıkan eserini alırım. Siz bu kitap hakkındaki düşüncemi 4.5'dan 5 sayın ;)
January 16, 2022
Hermaaaano. Que locura este manga. El principio es medio confuso, y el dibujo deja que desear. Pero a medida que avanza la historia, y que Tomie va "renaciendo", la cosa se pone más interesante, y Tomie se pone más y más hermosa. Tengo muchísimas ganas de leer el segundo tomo, y estoy re manija porque mi amiga que me recomendó esta historia (Guada te amo) me dijo que el segundo tomo es mejor que el primero, así que presiento que va a ser épico.
4.5 de 5 estrellas.
4.5 de 5 estrellas.
December 10, 2019
Brutal, como siempre.
August 10, 2021
Terror cósmico, vanidad, celos, posesividad, sangre, mucha sangre. Woooowww. Impresionante. Junji Ito jamás decepciona.
May 8, 2023
3.5⭐
Not as frightening as I thought before, but still ok to be called "horror".
Not as frightening as I thought before, but still ok to be called "horror".
January 15, 2024
шикарний горор, я в любові із творчістю іто, це було огидно-прекрасно!
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September 17, 2017Tomie es una chica normal. Bonita, algo distante, en ocasiones maliciosa o traviesa, según el prisma con el que se mire, pero no más que cualquier otro adolescente. Salvo porque, ya sabes, suele acabar descuartizada por los hombres que se enamoran de ella. Y una vez muerta siempre encuentra el modo de volver. De responder a semejante muestra de cariño.
Junji Ito hace de Tomie, su primer manga de larga extensión, un personaje mítico, precisamente, por lo que tiene de familiar. De extraño. Todas sus historias tienen que ver con la aparición de Tomie, un hombre enamorándose de su belleza sobrenatural y cómo éste acaba dejándose llevar por la locura, descuartizándola y después encontrando un destino funesto a causa de sus actos. Pero lejos de hacer historias autoconclusivas con su particular monstruo de la feminidad, evita lo repetitivo (y la misoginia) haciendo que Tomie sea el telón de fondo. Que los verdaderos protagonistas de todas las historias sean los sentimientos que explota, pero no genera, la muchacha.
Eso explica porqué el grueso de las protagonistas son mujeres. Chicas que desean ser tan bellas como Tomie, que desconfían de ella por lo que hace con los hombres o que simplemente se cruzan en su camino intentando ayudarla o ser sus amigas, el motivo de la obsesión —que no de la seducción, pues Tomie rara vez hace algo para gustar activamente— siempre se nos da en un segundo plano. Son las chicas (o chicos, pero siendo terceros con respecto de las víctimas) quienes se enfrentan al horror.
Ito trata a Tomie como a una enfermedad. Como un virus. Algo capaz de replicarse, sin motivos ni ambiciones a medio o largo plazo más allá de su constante replicación. Y ahí es hacia donde va evolucionando según van pasando los capítulos. Pasadas las primeras historias, más naïf aun cuando ya consiguen trenzar sus acontecimientos a través de la repetición de personajes, el papel de Tomie se va tornando cada vez más difuso, más alienígena, como si no se tratara de algo exactamente humano. Por ello, tampoco monstruoso. Es sólo un virus con aspecto de mujer, la idea misma de «belleza», «perfección» o «evolución» llevada a sus últimas consecuencias.
Es difícil no pensar en Tomie como en una furia. Alguien que busca venganza activamente contra los hombres. Pero, ¿y si lo único que hace es replicar el escenario que le permita replicarse más rápidamente posible? Ser mujer, ser hermosa y no atenerse a los deseos de los hombres es el modo más rápido de ser asesinada. Y ser asesinada es el modo que tiene Tomie de reproducirse.
En cierto modo, Ito firma con Tomie una idea completamente nueva en el terror. El monstruo como entidad vírica, cuyo único fin es su propia reproducción; su supervivencia a través de la pura destrucción creadora. Y en el proceso, hace algunas observaciones crueles de cómo se relacionan hombres y mujeres.
O cómo los primeros tienen demasiada facilidad para acabar levantando las manos, o las hachas, cuando las segundas los contrarían.
Junji Ito hace de Tomie, su primer manga de larga extensión, un personaje mítico, precisamente, por lo que tiene de familiar. De extraño. Todas sus historias tienen que ver con la aparición de Tomie, un hombre enamorándose de su belleza sobrenatural y cómo éste acaba dejándose llevar por la locura, descuartizándola y después encontrando un destino funesto a causa de sus actos. Pero lejos de hacer historias autoconclusivas con su particular monstruo de la feminidad, evita lo repetitivo (y la misoginia) haciendo que Tomie sea el telón de fondo. Que los verdaderos protagonistas de todas las historias sean los sentimientos que explota, pero no genera, la muchacha.
Eso explica porqué el grueso de las protagonistas son mujeres. Chicas que desean ser tan bellas como Tomie, que desconfían de ella por lo que hace con los hombres o que simplemente se cruzan en su camino intentando ayudarla o ser sus amigas, el motivo de la obsesión —que no de la seducción, pues Tomie rara vez hace algo para gustar activamente— siempre se nos da en un segundo plano. Son las chicas (o chicos, pero siendo terceros con respecto de las víctimas) quienes se enfrentan al horror.
Ito trata a Tomie como a una enfermedad. Como un virus. Algo capaz de replicarse, sin motivos ni ambiciones a medio o largo plazo más allá de su constante replicación. Y ahí es hacia donde va evolucionando según van pasando los capítulos. Pasadas las primeras historias, más naïf aun cuando ya consiguen trenzar sus acontecimientos a través de la repetición de personajes, el papel de Tomie se va tornando cada vez más difuso, más alienígena, como si no se tratara de algo exactamente humano. Por ello, tampoco monstruoso. Es sólo un virus con aspecto de mujer, la idea misma de «belleza», «perfección» o «evolución» llevada a sus últimas consecuencias.
Es difícil no pensar en Tomie como en una furia. Alguien que busca venganza activamente contra los hombres. Pero, ¿y si lo único que hace es replicar el escenario que le permita replicarse más rápidamente posible? Ser mujer, ser hermosa y no atenerse a los deseos de los hombres es el modo más rápido de ser asesinada. Y ser asesinada es el modo que tiene Tomie de reproducirse.
En cierto modo, Ito firma con Tomie una idea completamente nueva en el terror. El monstruo como entidad vírica, cuyo único fin es su propia reproducción; su supervivencia a través de la pura destrucción creadora. Y en el proceso, hace algunas observaciones crueles de cómo se relacionan hombres y mujeres.
O cómo los primeros tienen demasiada facilidad para acabar levantando las manos, o las hachas, cuando las segundas los contrarían.
September 15, 2012
On a beautiful spring day in Japan, Mr. Tanagi decides to take his high school class on a mountainside hike. Tomie, the teenage hottie he's having an affair with, threatens to tell his wife about their relationship if he doesn't marry her. Fortunately, just minutes later she angers a male classmate who is also in love with her and he pushes her off a cliff. She dies.
What to do? Mr. Tanagi tells the female students to go on ahead, turns to his males students, and tells them to take off their clothes. Here the story does not take the direction one would expect. He wants the boys stripped to their underwear so they can cut Tomie into little pieces without getting blood on their school uniforms. Problem solved. Only the next day, Tomie shows up for class, a little late but in one piece. And evil.
Junji Ito's other horror tales have cosmic themes. A small fishing village falls under the spell of spirals. The entire world is overrun with dead fish walking out of the ocean on tiny mechanical legs. Tomie seems like a regression to more mundane, traditional horror -- I noticed one reader review calls it a Japanese version of Heathers. But Ito spins the theme of the beautiful girl who won't stay dead into a series of related tales that are creepy as all get out and wildly entertaining.
Men cannot resist Tomie, yet they are driven to kill her. Stabbing her will seldom do. More often they behead her or chop her up. Beheading her makes a certain amount of sense when she is growing a second hideous face alongside her beautiful everyday visage. But the blood that gushes into the carpet takes on a life of its own and she's back. Tossing the carpet into the rubbish heap only causes an entire crop to Tomies to sprout like so many murderous daisies. Toss her bits into a deep pool below a waterfall and her spirit lures suicidal young men to the cliffs so she can feed on their bodies, It goes on and one.
There is another volume of these stores and a batch of Japanese film versions. Judging from the packaging, some of the films slip into the softcore pinkie film category. Ito's stories, so far, are a clever blend of black comedy and grotesque horror. Men just can't resist the girl. Although they know she has regenerated herself from a severed head kept in an aquarium, two doctors have this exchange.
In the next panel the doctor is showing Tomie into his condo. Big mistake.
What to do? Mr. Tanagi tells the female students to go on ahead, turns to his males students, and tells them to take off their clothes. Here the story does not take the direction one would expect. He wants the boys stripped to their underwear so they can cut Tomie into little pieces without getting blood on their school uniforms. Problem solved. Only the next day, Tomie shows up for class, a little late but in one piece. And evil.
Junji Ito's other horror tales have cosmic themes. A small fishing village falls under the spell of spirals. The entire world is overrun with dead fish walking out of the ocean on tiny mechanical legs. Tomie seems like a regression to more mundane, traditional horror -- I noticed one reader review calls it a Japanese version of Heathers. But Ito spins the theme of the beautiful girl who won't stay dead into a series of related tales that are creepy as all get out and wildly entertaining.
Men cannot resist Tomie, yet they are driven to kill her. Stabbing her will seldom do. More often they behead her or chop her up. Beheading her makes a certain amount of sense when she is growing a second hideous face alongside her beautiful everyday visage. But the blood that gushes into the carpet takes on a life of its own and she's back. Tossing the carpet into the rubbish heap only causes an entire crop to Tomies to sprout like so many murderous daisies. Toss her bits into a deep pool below a waterfall and her spirit lures suicidal young men to the cliffs so she can feed on their bodies, It goes on and one.
There is another volume of these stores and a batch of Japanese film versions. Judging from the packaging, some of the films slip into the softcore pinkie film category. Ito's stories, so far, are a clever blend of black comedy and grotesque horror. Men just can't resist the girl. Although they know she has regenerated herself from a severed head kept in an aquarium, two doctors have this exchange.
"What an ungodly monster!"
"You're telling me. And yet...an extremely alluring one."
In the next panel the doctor is showing Tomie into his condo. Big mistake.
June 25, 2021
2.5
tomie volume 1 é a segunda obra do Junji Ito que leio, a primeira foi fragmentos do horror que eu adorei, diferente da atual.
bem, eu esperava uma coisa totalmente diferente de tomie, achava que ela era uma entidade que matava homens de uma forma cruel e divertida. e que, de alguma forma, fosse uma personagem minimamente cativante.
qual não foi a minha decepção ao perceber que tomie é uma grande chata, cujo único traço de personalidade é atrair os homens com sua beleza estonteante ™, implicar com mulheres menos atraentes que ela e causar a morte e a loucura de algumas pessoas, depois ser esquartejada, reviver e se multiplicar. e o ciclo se repete.
inúmeras coisas me incomodaram na história, algumas eu relevei porque é o primeiro mangá do autor, como alguns errinhos de roteiro e conveniências absurdas, como no conto do transplante quando os médicos deixam uma ala do hospital, onde eles estavam desenvolvendo uma pesquisa super importante e perigosa, aberta para QUALQUER UM ter acesso. enfim.
mas acho que o que mais me incomodou é não termos nenhum contato com a personagem principal, sempre vemos a tomie pelos olhos de outros personagens, muito chatos também, por causa disso não temos quase nenhuma informação importante sobre essa criatura.
pois bem, ainda lerei o volume 2, mas não vou esperando grande coisa do roteiro, também não vou esperando nenhuma resposta para todas as perguntas que ficaram em aberto aqui.
quanto ao trabalho gráfico: pipoca e nanquim é sempre impecável, apenas elogios.
tomie volume 1 é a segunda obra do Junji Ito que leio, a primeira foi fragmentos do horror que eu adorei, diferente da atual.
bem, eu esperava uma coisa totalmente diferente de tomie, achava que ela era uma entidade que matava homens de uma forma cruel e divertida. e que, de alguma forma, fosse uma personagem minimamente cativante.
qual não foi a minha decepção ao perceber que tomie é uma grande chata, cujo único traço de personalidade é atrair os homens com sua beleza estonteante ™, implicar com mulheres menos atraentes que ela e causar a morte e a loucura de algumas pessoas, depois ser esquartejada, reviver e se multiplicar. e o ciclo se repete.
inúmeras coisas me incomodaram na história, algumas eu relevei porque é o primeiro mangá do autor, como alguns errinhos de roteiro e conveniências absurdas, como no conto do transplante quando os médicos deixam uma ala do hospital, onde eles estavam desenvolvendo uma pesquisa super importante e perigosa, aberta para QUALQUER UM ter acesso. enfim.
mas acho que o que mais me incomodou é não termos nenhum contato com a personagem principal, sempre vemos a tomie pelos olhos de outros personagens, muito chatos também, por causa disso não temos quase nenhuma informação importante sobre essa criatura.
pois bem, ainda lerei o volume 2, mas não vou esperando grande coisa do roteiro, também não vou esperando nenhuma resposta para todas as perguntas que ficaram em aberto aqui.
quanto ao trabalho gráfico: pipoca e nanquim é sempre impecável, apenas elogios.
August 9, 2016
Tomie es un conjunto de historias de terror cuyo protagonista es una chica del mismo nombre, muy guapa, caprichosa y un poco extraña que enloquece a los hombres con su belleza y les hace cometer locuras, no comentaré nada más porque creo que lo mejor es ir descubriendo los detalles poco a poco.
Mi amiga Tomie ha muerto. Han encontrado pedazos de su cuerpo en varios puntos
Este es el inicio de la historia, es raro empezar con la protagonista muerta pero veréis que hay una razón para esto En total tenemos 9 historias, casi todas conclusivas, lo que permite seguir la lectura en pequeñas dosis, lo cual creo que es adecuado porque grandes dosis de Junji Ito puede ser perjudicial para tu sald mental.
Sólo decir que si te gusta el horror extraño, perturbador y un poco enfermizo, esto es lo tuyo... yo aunque no es que sea mi género favorito, he disfrutado bastante de este tomo, no se puede negar el alarde de imaginación que hace Junji Ito, las historias son en su mayoría muy originales, aunque suelen seguir una pauta general, pero esto es debido a las características y cualidades del personaje.
Mi amiga Tomie ha muerto. Han encontrado pedazos de su cuerpo en varios puntos
Este es el inicio de la historia, es raro empezar con la protagonista muerta pero veréis que hay una razón para esto En total tenemos 9 historias, casi todas conclusivas, lo que permite seguir la lectura en pequeñas dosis, lo cual creo que es adecuado porque grandes dosis de Junji Ito puede ser perjudicial para tu sald mental.
Sólo decir que si te gusta el horror extraño, perturbador y un poco enfermizo, esto es lo tuyo... yo aunque no es que sea mi género favorito, he disfrutado bastante de este tomo, no se puede negar el alarde de imaginación que hace Junji Ito, las historias son en su mayoría muy originales, aunque suelen seguir una pauta general, pero esto es debido a las características y cualidades del personaje.
July 17, 2009
While I appreciate the surreal, nightmarish horror of Ito's work, I have to admit this was just too much Tomie for me. I wish that for these collections they had interspersed the different stories rather than just bringing together all of a recurring series like this because it does become too repetitive after a while. There isn't enough variation in the stories' plots to keep it compelling through the whole book with one character and more or less the same ending over and over.
The great thing about the Cat-Eyed Boy series is that even though the title character is in every story, the other demons he meets are always different and the circumstances he meets them in are always different, with little gradual developments of his back story and a surprising sense of humor thrown in to keep things interesting.
Tomie is basically just a virus, endlessly copying herself over and over and always causing exactly the same disease regardless of her host. Plus, we are never given any deeper clues about where she originated from, which becomes pretty irritating.
The great thing about the Cat-Eyed Boy series is that even though the title character is in every story, the other demons he meets are always different and the circumstances he meets them in are always different, with little gradual developments of his back story and a surprising sense of humor thrown in to keep things interesting.
Tomie is basically just a virus, endlessly copying herself over and over and always causing exactly the same disease regardless of her host. Plus, we are never given any deeper clues about where she originated from, which becomes pretty irritating.
August 29, 2007
The artwork is amazing. Excellent detail...both horrific and beautiful.
If you are not familiar with the Tomie story, it's essentially many versions of the same basic tale...an otherworldy young woman who inspires violent obsession in all who meet her--particularly men. Her admirerers are driven to annihilate her, but she keeps returning to wreak more havoc. (It's a long running series of J-Horror films.)
I guess I am not doing it justice, but that's the simplest way to put it and I just don't feel like constructing a long review would be any fun.
If you are not familiar with the Tomie story, it's essentially many versions of the same basic tale...an otherworldy young woman who inspires violent obsession in all who meet her--particularly men. Her admirerers are driven to annihilate her, but she keeps returning to wreak more havoc. (It's a long running series of J-Horror films.)
I guess I am not doing it justice, but that's the simplest way to put it and I just don't feel like constructing a long review would be any fun.
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