Reviews

What?!
the last thing i would have expected is to read something scary, i have had great immunity to horror for the longest time, i still do, but Junji Ito is out of this world.
i think i finished Drifting Classroom this year, it wasn't scary, yes it should be horrifying for the kids involved, but you ended up just feeling sorry for them!
That's not the case with Tomie, scary females in horror literature or movies freak me the fuck out, its a strong inaccurate expression for my case, but they are the closest to scared you can get me.
For the longest time, i have viewed the girl from Ringu as the scariest horror creation ever, and her reincarnation in F.E.A.R. video games, Alma was a horrific beauty to behold, and then i met her again in The Evil Within video game, this time walking on 8 legs, and can climb walls, and can only be killed with fire.
I am really open to reconsider my position on the most horrifying female creation ever, when it comes to Tomie.
She is Great, but she is limited somehow, not as persistent as Alma, and not as decisive as her.
Alma while she played with the Protagonist of FEAR so much, she was really final with everyone else, we rarely see this in Tomie.
Tomie is really an unusual creation too, So she attracts men, they are hypnotized by her, and fall in love with her, But Hear this out, they want to stab her!
Like for real, that's also part of her power, that not only she attracts the men, she also somehow make them think its logical to stab her for the most superficial reasons.
And it plays well with her freakiness, because if you stab her, cut her to pieces, make her bleed to death, she then can multiply from her blood or her flesh, you end up with an Abundance of Tomies!
each one eliciting the same emotions from men, and each one able to multiply the same way.
Junji Ito has a really freaky penciling ability too, his many variations of Tomie, were each uniquely horrifying, and had a unique growth pattern.
Anyway, This is the kind of Art that make me feel glad i am still alive, its uniqueness in its own field, its effect on the whole medium of Manga, People like Junji change the landscape of writing and penciling forever, you have to learn from him, and somehow find a way to become as unique, and offer more for the next generations of Writers/Artists.
We are in a constant motion of evolution, but each once in a while, there comes that huge leap forward, Junji Ito quite easily presents this leap from my perspective in his field.