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Excelente. Although it is a bit repetitive, especially in the first volume, the second volume brings us a series of powerful stories and a final arc as remarkable as the arc that initiates this work by presenting us with Tomie: a subverted version of the femme fatale. A victim of a brutal crime, Tomie returns to life and begins to dominate men with her incredible beauty and, in some cases, showing herself as the'masculine' dream of submission. They, unable to handle the overwhelming passion awakened by her, are led to an inexplicable desire to mutilate her. Recurrent in other media, this emotional turmoil awakened by women in men usually leads to tragic ends, where the man will express himself through violence, leading one of the involved to death. In the case of Japan, it seems to me that the notion of dishonor and decadence occurs in a much more brutal way when a man commits an atrocity, such as mutilating a woman, than when he takes his own life (a common episode in Japanese fiction works). Thus, Tomie takes revenge in each episode, in eternal resurrection, leading men of all ages, women, and families to decadence in this work that explores in an intriguing and astonishing way various intimate aspects of the masculine and feminine under the perspective in which they become more evident - sex.
