Elise reviewed Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito
Eh.
2 stars
Not all it's chalked up to be. Glad I read it, but failed to really impress.
hardcover, 752 pages
Published Dec. 20, 2016 by VIZ Media LLC.
4 stars
(4 reviews)
Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.
Lucas reviewed Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito
Fascinating, beautiful work—not without flaws
4 stars
I appreciate that Tomie has an argument, seems to have more of a back and forth between the author and their audience than did Uzumaki.
Misogyny lives in many aspects of society; we are all, at the very least, complicit in it—and confronting this is horrifying. But also, these are stories of a woman who gets destroyed by men, and women, over and over and over.
(Picked this up thanks to the unit on Ito on the Shelved by Genre podcast.)
