I'm worried it's all going to be downhill from here. That's a joke, I know there is so much amazing manga in the world, but I honestly can't believe that I read such an amazing one first.
It's good, but it's also a bit flawed. This is a large compilation, and This is only my second manga, and it's also my second by Ito. This is a large compilation, and unfortunately all of the stories have the same basic storyline. When you read them all back to back they become a bit repetitive, but I have to remember that these stories were originally released on their own, so reading them spread out would have been a much different experience. I was really drawn in at the beginning.
Tomie is far from perfect, but she definitely does not deserve her fate. After a school field trip goes horribly wrong for her, her classmates, and her teacher, some version of Tomie returns to enact revenge. She becomes a beautiful siren that is absolutely irresistible to men, however, their devotion always comes at a cost. The art in this deluxe version is exactly what I have come to expect from Ito.
It's so twisted and wrong, violent and disturbing. I find myself just staring at his art. It's both repellent and horribly stunning. While I did enjoy the stories collected here, they were all basically different versions of the same revenge narrative that Ito establishes early on.
I didn't mind it as much while I was reading it, but in retrospect all the stories are basically the same.
Regardless, I still recommend this manga because of the absolutely brilliant art. I can't wait to read GYO by Ito next. At some point I'm going to have to branch out and find another horror manga. But for now, I'm really enjoying Ito's work. Mar 21, Matthew Hernandez rated it really liked it. Tomie is a mixed bag for me it has both good and bad parts to the story, but I am thoroughly impressed by Ito's genius, creativity, and overall style that is uniquely his own.
By far, Uzumaki is his masterpiece novel that I love with all my heart. Tomie and Gyo are just impressive in their own unique ways. I will read anything and everything that Junji Ito will create out into this world.
Dec 13, Ria rated it it was amazing Shelves: movie-adaptation , tv-series-adaptation , 5stars , comics-manga. My daughter sees men as little more than adornments. She wants to be desired Junji Ito's work is pretty hit or miss for me — I feel like I usually love or hate it — and this was, sadly, the biggest "miss" thus far. I just couldn't get into this at all and didn't feel like it carried Ito's usual brand of bizarro, gross horror that I get so intrigued by.
May 30, Blair rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels-comics , translated , ghosts-and-horror. Tomie is a beautiful girl who sparks mania in almost everyone she meets: first comes intense attachment, then the desire to murder her.
Tomie collects three volumes of manga, 20 stories in total. There are lots of ways to read Tomie. Her curse is tragic, but Tomie herself is often depicted taking pleasure in her eternal invulnerability, and the men who covet and stalk her are surely not meant to be sympathetic.
Having read this, I better understand why so few Tomie stories are collected elsewhere. The effectiveness of Tomie as a character depends partly on the reader understanding her powers and recognising her face, as she often shows up with a different name For me, the weakest felt like strings of violent scenes with little plot, but at their best, the Tomie stories are essential horror.
But then, after her funeral has taken place, she comes back to school Takagi, a teacher Tomie was involved with. It becomes clear that Tomie inspires obsession in men but also, ultimately, drives them to kill.
The scheme also gives her an excuse to photograph her own crush, Yamazaki. Thus another rule of the Tomie canon is established: photographs reveal her true form — a fact that is as much a surprise to Tomie as it is to Tsukiko. I also love the way Takagi is drawn; the character is recognisable, but small tweaks make his expression seem more unhinged with every appearance.
Not one of the best, though I found the final panel chilling. At this point, the reader is well aware that Tomie can replicate herself endlessly. Mitsuo Mori is a succesful artist, satisfied with his work until he meets Tomie at one of his shows. She mocks his paintings, drives his muse away and suggests he should paint her instead. With Tomie, even something as innocuous as a clump of hair is capable of inspiring murderous passion.
She is taken in by the Hinadas, an elderly couple notorious for adopting a string of unfortunate young women. The irony is that, while they are not quite the villains everyone assumes, meeting Tomie turns them into monsters. The male lead, Hiroya, is drawn with exaggerated features to emphasise his ugliness, but the exaggeration is taken so far that the character appears clownish.
This sits uncomfortably with the rest of the illustrations in Tomie which, while often bizarre and horrifying, are always finely done and have their own sort of in-world realism. The handsome, successful Ryo is more of an equal to Tomie than any of her other suitors, which is perhaps what makes his story one of the strongest.
TinyLetter Twitter Instagram Tumblr Feb 07, Chris Greensmith rated it it was ok Shelves: junji-ito. She was young, and beautiful. I felt it was very repetitive, Tomie pops up in some way and people either try to kill her or go mental. The art was creepy, but doesn't have the edge that Uzumaki or Gyo had. But still a good read, even if it did drag a bit Sep 10, Isabela Vilella rated it really liked it. Lesson learned: life is hard as an immortal succubus already knew that from personal experience.
Take advantage of your talent to charm men before they eventually mutilate you. Aug 20, Brody ettubrody rated it it was amazing. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This one left me with a lot of thoughts. Horror factor aside Junji Ito always hits body horror in a perfect spot for me , I often see the character of Tomie discussed negatively. I've seen a ton of reviews saying that the character lacks any actual character development often falling into the "mean pretty girl" trap and honestly I'm not interpreting that as the point.
Every time she is killed each time Tomie d This one left me with a lot of thoughts. Every time she is killed each time Tomie dies, she meets the same end of being dismembered , new Tomies grow from the pieces. How do we expect a young teenager who was murdered by her classmates and teacher who slept with her and possibly impregnated this underage student to show growth as a character if she is losing her humanity every time she grows a new version of herself? Women in the stories become jealous of her beauty and men are driven to madness by it.
Granted, Tomie does seem to exhibit traits of a succubus, using her beauty to get what she wants, but that's only after she's so far detached from her humanity and has been split apart time and time again that it's unsurprising. Each Tomie, we learn throughout, has a shared set of memories. Do we expect a parasitic dare I say demonic? While reading, I drew a lot of comparisons to the film Jennifer's Body.
While there are obvious cultural differences between Tomie and Diablo Cody's feminist black comedy, I think if you enjoy one, you'll enjoy the other. Especially if you like themes of young women becoming villainized for their perceived attractiveness and subsequently taking down the men who treat them like physical objects only to be owned.
Oct 26, Jenny Lawson rated it really liked it. Some of the best in body horror. Probably my favourite Junji Ito so far! Such a fantastic premise and just adore how Junji Ito wove everything together. Nov 12, Laura rated it liked it. Undermining after reading Uzumaki which I really enjoyed reading. This one felt a lot more disjointed but still a nice manga to read. Not scary for me though, even if it is full of gruesome drawings. Mar 14, Armand rated it really liked it Shelves: read , transgressive , allure , graphic-novel.
The primordial archetypes of Sex and Death meld together to concoct the perfect femme fatale in Tomie. No siren can be deadlier: she lures men by corrupting their most primal instincts - to copulate and to kill - and fuses them into a heady melange calculated to destroy them from the inside.
Insidious, merciless, and voracious - she will stop at nothing to get her claws on her target. And once she has cornered her prey she sheds her visage to reveal her true self, in all the myriad monstrous glo The primordial archetypes of Sex and Death meld together to concoct the perfect femme fatale in Tomie.
And once she has cornered her prey she sheds her visage to reveal her true self, in all the myriad monstrous glories that can only spring from the fervid imagination of Junji Ito.
If you're familiar with his oeuvre, you know that he can whip up some truly sumptuous body horror. Tomie ranks among the best of these, and it's great to see how Ito's art improved over time. Check out the huge difference in quality between the first and the last chapter. Anyway, regarding prey - she doesn't spare women either, treating them with hostility or contempt. Her victims have hailed her as a goddess, and that would have been accurate if divinity presupposes a bloodthirsty creature with the immortality and moral compass of a hydra.
She can spawn perfect clones of herself from just a handful of severed body parts, a transplanted organ, or even copious amounts of congealed blood. And yes, that process is not a very pretty sight, to put it mildly. You know how every creature's main biological imperative is to reproduce? I kinda think that's the key to Tomie. She lures and provokes men into a killing lust precisely so that they could cut her up into disparate parts.
Then from these bits she'll grow different clones of herself, developing into a horde of lovely Tomies after a stomach-churning metamorphosis.
Thus the cycle would once again commence. The gist of all of this is that she reproduces not via sex, which this manga rather surprisingly lacks, but by violence.
This is a collection of mostly stand-alone stories that explore the different facets of our anti-heroine. Taken together though, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts, weaving a grand tapestry of the lives and loves of our dear, distasteful Tomie. For such a voluminous tome, I do wish there was more addenda than the paltry Afterword written by the author. I also hope that in the future, Ito would write the definitive genesis of Tomie, as her origin was not really disclosed here.
I have always been fascinated by the famous enchantresses of history. Combine that with my love of horror and the grotesque and I can't be faulted if I fall under Tomie's spell. I'm lucky that she doesn't exist on this plane or I'd have a hell of a time shaking off that black widow. In any case, even with a book as thick as this, by the end I found myself craving for more. Sep 14, Scott rated it really liked it Shelves: manga.
Tomie, the mysterious girl with the birthmark and the hypnotic voice. The voice that can make you do anything. Make you fall madly in love with her. Make you obsessed to the point of murder.
But Tomie will not die. This volume collects all twenty chapters of Junji Ito's surreal horror comic. Most of the stories are self-contained, but there are a few that have connections to others, including the multi-part finale. Considering Tomie's M.
But then, not all the Tomies are exactly the same. Yes, all the Tomies. Tomie is legion. There might be one in your town right now. In your school. In your family. View all 4 comments. Dec 16, Himanshu Karmacharya rated it liked it Shelves: manga , horror. Tomie features some great artwork and body horror, but becomes repititive after some chapters. Jun 14, Hannah Garden rated it really liked it Shelves: jugs-capes , comics , june So the first part of the premise of this book is.
I donno, kinda flatly woman-hating, I guess: there's this crazy beautiful thin-long-limbed big-eyed tiny-skirted anime-dream teen, Tomie, who, because she is too beautiful and too selfish i. Pretty dismal Tomiiiiiie! Pretty dismal. The rest of this book is: Tomie arises from death to terrorize and punish ANYONE who ever desires her again in these increasingly gonzo ways where her body regenerates duplicates of itself and every Tomie ever after is hell-bent on bloodlust in this fascinatingly coldblooded purpose-driven but also somehow essentially languid unconcerned kind of way that is.
There are forty-something stories all built around the same essential premise--Tomie is destroyed and then arises to destroy. Usually she is destroyed because a man falls in love with her and, because it's impossible to fully possess her, he must ensure that she is unpossessable. Which is a really sticky trope to be poking around in, especially in the 90s, especially as a male creator, especially with an anime babe.
But for me what makes this book really sing or screech, maybe as a collection of bonkers horror stories, rather than fall flat as a slop pile of woman-hating sexualized violence like this kind of material could so easily devolve into, is the fact that Ito isn't telling stories about Tomie's destruction, or even her punishment: Ito is telling stories about what Tomie wreaks, not what is wrought upon her.
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