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Junji Ito: Tomie (2016, VIZ Media LLC) 3 stars

Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just …

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.)