Tomie (Japanese: 富江) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Tomie was Ito's first published work he originally submitted to Monthly Halloween, a shōjo magazine in 1987, which led to him winning the Kazuo Umezu award.The manga has been adapted into a live-action film series with eight installments to date, and an anthology television series released in 1999, and a streaming television series was in development for Quibi before the service was shut down.
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Disappointingly misogynistic. Could have been better if this was just about a beautiful but normal girl driving men to insane violence and then getting her revenge. Instead, it's undermined by constantly treating Tomie like 'because she's beautiful, she is surely a bitch too, right?'
Reread of one of my favourites by Ito today. Although this is one of his most famous works it is definitely not overrated, Ito is one of the few writers I've come across who manage to pull off the "femme fatale" trope in an original manner.
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The whole idea of Tomie reincarnating after her luring another man into madness and eventually being brutally murdered by them is one that I have neverseen before.
This still remains a 5/5 for me.
Great concept that worked with so many stories, like in Uzumaki.
to be honest I'm disappointed how everyone hypes this work of junji ito. the stories are repetitive and the whole characterization makes you painfully aware that it's written by a man
