I really enjoyed this collection of stories.

The art in it was truly excellent, with every illustration being detailed and captivating.

The stories themselves were thrilling, keeping me on the edge of my seat from start to finish.

One of the coolest aspects was seeing how much Tomie’s character writing and design had changed throughout the years.

It was fascinating to observe the evolution of her character, along side Junji Ito’s unique artstyle.

His art added an extra layer of creepiness and atmosphere to the stories, making them even more engaging.

Overall, this collection was a great read and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys horror and manga.

The combination of Tomie’s evolving character and Junji Ito’s amazing art made it a truly unforgettable experience.

I read this work several years ago in English.

Rereading it now in Japanese offers a completely distinct experience.

The reason is that Tomie's manipulative techniques seem far more entertaining when presented in Japanese.

Tomie is a rather straightforward character.

Just picture Kenny from South Park (who dies constantly) being transformed into a beautiful teenage schoolgirl.

She can effortlessly make men do whatever she desires.

However, inevitably, these men become consumed by lust and brutally murder her, while also getting destroyed themselves.

This is essentially the plot of every Tomie story.

I believe Tomie is the physical embodiment of Freud's death drive.

Over the course of 25 years, we get to witness Ito's growth as an artist and storyteller as he extracts every possible bloody and gruesome storyline from this character.

Each of these short stories is unique and becomes increasingly grotesque.

It's truly fantastic!

I'm extremely eager for the second half of Tomie in volume 2!

Rather than being scared, I got disgusted instead.

This was the first manga I've ever purchased and also the first horror manga I've ever read.

I truly enjoy reading it. Although it's not as terrifying as I initially thought, it does have a unique and fresh plot.

However, it is definitely disgusting according to my personal preference.

The story takes unexpected turns and keeps me engaged from start to finish.

The illustrations are detailed and add to the overall atmosphere of the manga.

Despite its flaws, I still find it interesting and worth reading.

I look forward to exploring more horror manga in the future to see if there are any that can truly send shivers down my spine.

Maybe the next one will be even more intense and thrilling than this one.

Who knows? Only time will tell.

Si Mbak Tomie ini ngeri kali.

She seems to be a combination of a zombie, an amoeba, and the devil.

Her appearance is truly terrifying, with a pale and lifeless complexion, as if she has just risen from the dead.

Her movements are slow and jerky, much like those of a zombie.

And her eyes, they hold a strange and evil glint, as if she is possessed by some unholy force.

It's as if she is an amoeba, constantly changing and adapting, but always remaining a source of fear and horror.

Overall, Si Mbak Tomie is a truly terrifying being, one that would send shivers down the spine of anyone who encounters her.

I read manga for the first time, and as an experience, it was really interesting.

What I liked was how at a certain moment, the story crossed over into the realm of urban legends.

The vivid illustrations and the engaging plot made it a truly immersive experience.

I found myself completely drawn into the world of the manga, eagerly following the adventures of the characters.

The way the story was told, with its twists and turns, kept me on the edge of my seat.

It was like entering a different dimension, filled with excitement and mystery.

Overall, my first encounter with manga was a great one, and I look forward to reading more in the future.

Tomie is a very beautiful young woman who catches everyone's attention.

She can be a student, a neighbor, a sister, a mother, or a child.

She is an attractive and mysterious woman who awakens desires in men, even the desire to kill her.

Tomie could be a vengeful entity if she weren't a completely selfish demon. Her vengeance lies in not being loved enough. She physically and mentally destroys the men who fall in love with her. She mocks the ugly. She breaks up families. She drives women crazy.

Terror is a complex genre to explore. It requires a good story, good development, and characters (whether protagonists or antagonists) that we care about or that arouse our aversion. Being graphic isn't enough.

Junji Ito has all these qualities for terror. His gorey illustrations are disgustingly wonderful and inventive. The story of "Tomie" is well told but extensive. Far too extensive. As I flipped through the first few chapters, I thought there were small seeds being planted for a development that never came. One or two attempts were sketched here and there without conclusion.

Don't get me wrong, many of the stories - the majority, in fact - within the manga are good and terrifying. Others are repetitive and shallow, especially in the first volume. If the narrative has these flaws, the art does not. Every transformation, death, and resurrection has a touch of originality and fascinates even those who don't like terror.

Among the highlights, for me, are: Hair, Photograph, Babysitter, and, the most surprising, Orphan.

Junji Ito remains the overlord of weird creepiness.

His works have a unique charm that can deeply attract readers.

The grotesque and terrifying images he creates seem to come alive on the page, making people feel as if they are in a nightmare.

Whether it's the strange creatures, the eerie settings, or the disturbing plots, everything in his works is designed to make people's hair stand on end.

It is no wonder that he has such a large number of fans around the world. His influence on the horror genre is undeniable, and his works will continue to be studied and admired by horror enthusiasts for years to come.

This certainly goes places, and we can't wait to see what Junji Ito will come up with next.

Tomie is an ordinary girl. Pretty, a bit distant, sometimes malicious or mischievous, depending on the perspective, but no more so than any other teenager. Except that, you know, she usually ends up dismembered by the men who fall in love with her. And once dead, she always finds a way to come back. To respond to such a show of affection.

Junji Ito makes Tomie, his first long manga, a mythical character precisely because of what she has that is familiar. That is strange. All of his stories have to do with the appearance of Tomie, a man falling in love with her supernatural beauty and how he ends up being carried away by madness, dismembering her and then finding a tragic fate because of his actions. But far from making self-contained stories with his particular monster of femininity, he avoids the repetitive (and the misogyny) by making Tomie the backdrop. That the true protagonists of all the stories are the feelings that the girl exploits, but does not generate.

This explains why the majority of the protagonists are women. Girls who desire to be as beautiful as Tomie, who distrust her because of what she does with men or who simply cross her path trying to help her or be her friends. The motive of the obsession — not of the seduction, because Tomie rarely does anything to actively please — is always given to us in the background. It is the girls (or boys, but as third parties with respect to the victims) who face the horror.

Ito treats Tomie like a disease. Like a virus. Something capable of replicating itself, without motives or ambitions in the medium or long term other than its constant replication. And that's where it is evolving as the chapters pass. After the first stories, more naïve even when they already manage to weave their events through the repetition of characters, the role of Tomie becomes increasingly diffuse, more alien, as if it were not something exactly human. Therefore, not monstrous either. It is only a virus with the appearance of a woman, the very idea of «beauty», «perfection» or «evolution» taken to its ultimate consequences.

It is difficult not to think of Tomie as a fury. Someone who actively seeks revenge against men. But what if all she does is replicate the scenario that allows her to replicate as quickly as possible? To be a woman, to be beautiful and not to conform to the desires of men is the quickest way to be killed. And being killed is the way Tomie has to reproduce.

In a way, Ito signs with Tomie a completely new idea in horror. The monster as a viral entity, whose only purpose is its own reproduction; its survival through pure creative destruction. And in the process, he makes some cruel observations about how men and women relate.

Or how the former have too much ease in ending up raising their hands, or their axes, when the latter oppose them.

The movie I watched recently was not as terrifying as I had expected before. However, it could still be appropriately labeled as "horror".

At the beginning, I was filled with anticipation and a certain degree of nervousness, fearing that it would be extremely scary. But as the story unfolded, although there were some spooky moments and elements that made my heart race for a while, it didn't reach the level of truly scaring me out of my wits.

Nevertheless, it did manage to create an atmosphere of mystery and unease, which is characteristic of the horror genre. The special effects and the sound design added to the overall creepy feeling.

In conclusion, while it wasn't the most terrifying horror movie I've ever seen, it still had enough horror elements to keep me engaged and on the edge of my seat at times. I would rate it as 3.5 stars.

Overall, it was an okay experience for those who enjoy a bit of a scare.

Лавкрафт передає вітання.

Lovecraft is a renowned figure in the world of literature. His works have had a profound impact on the horror and science fiction genres.

His unique style of writing, filled with dark and mysterious themes, has captivated readers for decades.

Lovecraft's stories often explore the unknown and the terrifying, taking readers on a journey into the depths of their own fears.

His vivid descriptions and atmospheric settings bring his fictional worlds to life, making them seem almost real.

Whether it's the ancient and malevolent beings lurking in the shadows or the strange and otherworldly landscapes, Lovecraft's imagination knows no bounds.

His works continue to inspire new generations of writers and filmmakers, ensuring that his legacy will live on for years to come.

On a beautiful spring day in Japan, Mr. Tanagi, a high school teacher, decides to take his class on a mountainside hike. Tomie, a teenage beauty with whom he is having an affair, threatens to expose their relationship to his wife if he doesn't marry her. Moments later, she angers a male classmate who is also in love with her, and he pushes her off a cliff. She dies.

Mr. Tanagi tells the female students to continue ahead and turns to the male students, instructing them to remove their clothes. The story then takes an unexpected turn as he wants the boys to strip to their underwear so they can cut Tomie into pieces without staining their school uniforms. Problem solved, or so it seems. The next day, Tomie shows up for class, a little late but intact and evil.

Junji Ito's other horror tales often have cosmic themes. In one, a small fishing village is under the spell of spirals, and the world is overrun with dead fish walking on mechanical legs. Tomie, however, seems more like a return to traditional, mundane horror. One reader even called it a Japanese version of Heathers. But Ito twists the theme of the beautiful girl who won't stay dead into a series of creepy and entertaining related stories.

Men can't resist Tomie, yet they are compelled to kill her. Stabbing usually isn't enough; they often behead or chop her up. Beheading makes sense when she grows a second hideous face beside her beautiful one. But the blood that spills takes on a life of its own, and she returns. Throwing the carpet with her blood into the trash only causes more Tomies to sprout like murderous daisies. Tossing her body parts into a deep pool below a waterfall causes her spirit to lure suicidal young men to the cliffs so she can feed on their bodies. The cycle continues.

There is another volume of these stories and several Japanese film versions. Some of the films, judging from the packaging, verge on the softcore pinkie film category. So far, Ito's stories are a clever mix of black comedy and grotesque horror. Men just can't resist the girl, even though they know she can regenerate from a severed head in an aquarium. As 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 inviting Tomie into his condo. Big mistake.

This manga came highly recommended to me. However, upon reading it, I found that the tone was rather repetitive. The characters, at times, seemed fatiguing. And the drawing, for a purported manga master, was less than evocative.

When the succubus, a key character in the story, lacks appeal, you know you're in trouble. But then a thought occurs to me: quite possibly, it's my own accursed fault. Maybe I'm not seeing the true essence of the manga. Maybe I'm just too critical. Or perhaps I'm expecting something different from what the author intended.

I decide to give the manga another chance. I go back and re-read it, this time paying closer attention to the details. I try to understand the author's vision and the story's themes. And slowly, I start to see the manga in a different light. The repetitive tone begins to make sense, and the characters become more engaging. The drawing, too, starts to have a certain charm.

I realize that sometimes, we need to look beyond our initial impressions and give things a fair chance. Maybe this manga isn't perfect, but it has its own unique qualities that are worth exploring.