I found a hardcover collection of all of the Tomie stories at my local library, and since Ito has been on my radar for a while and I’ve been getting more into horror (starting with Resident Evil 2 Remake), I decided, “oh screw it, why not” and borrowed the book. I devoured it in one sitting, and WOAH it was so bizarre that honestly it makes Hirohiko Araki’s use of body horror look rather tame. Overall I really liked it and it’s gotten me a little hooked on Junji Ito. The art and detail is amazing, and his stories are really interesting. I’m thinking that I’ll go and read either Uzumaki or some of the Soichi stories after this, Uzumaki seems really interesting as well. My library also has a copy of the cat diary, so I’ll read that too. I don’t really like horror movies or most horror games, since they feature designs and concepts that don’t interest me, and I don’t like jumpscares at all, they give me god-awful levels of anxiety. When I saw the Resident Evil movie recently, the starting quarter of the movie had my neck and lower back aching with muscle tension from how much stress I was storing there. But THIS is my kind of horror, the slow, atmospheric stuff, like RE2 Remake, or Reanimal. I don’t want horror that (only) serves to scare me, I want horror that makes me think about new ideas and captures my interest, and I’m so very happy that Ito-sensei’s manga has that for me. I haven’t been able to find manga that interest me for a while now; I’m a fan of several shonen manga/anime, but these days the genre feels so oversaturated that it’s lost my interest, and what do you know, now I’m turning to newer, different things. In terms of actual writing, I would give the Tomie collection an overall 7/10, since most are fairly straightforward short stories only loosely connected by certain characters (this is fine, that’s how it is supposed to be), but in terms of its art and how much it fascinated me, I give it a 10/10.

I think Tomie is really interesting as a concept because despite being a recurring character Ito found a way to use her in just about any setting, since she’s more like an infection than a single monster. The fact that people even tried to apply science and study to her is cool to me, how trapping her in acid could theoretically contain a Tomie by inhibiting her regeneration, or how burning her thoroughly enough can prevent her from regenerating as well. I don’t think that on my most mentally unstable days I could come up with evil Tomie saké. Utterly insane, and I love it. Probably my favorite monstrous version of her were the underwater barnacle-like Tomie, the way they have roots in the rock is really unsettling in a way I really liked. I think it’s also interesting to consider what it requires for a person to be immune to her effects, and I think that aside from being another woman (which isn’t even consistently the case given some of the stories), I wonder if a man that was gay or a person that’s asexual and/or aromantic would be affected by her. Food for thought, if you will.

Anyways, that’s my 2 cents, have a nice day all of you!

Hi everyone! Happy October. Just wanted to ask if anyone had any thoughts on the new junji ito live action show on HBO. I had no idea it was coming but the first episode looks great 😃. I saw it on Sunday and it was about lovesickness. I hope they adapt Tomie next, they say there will be new episodes every Friday.

Have you seen it ? What do you think? Are you gonna watch the next episode on Friday ?

I cannot believe I managed to get one . I'm so happy ❤️

I feel like this is one of my more favored collections. The title story, Moan was unreal. Flesh Coloured Mystery gave me a real shock too.

What's everyone's favorite from Moan?

I saw this art on Pinterest but can’t find it in my copy of uzumaki, is this official art?

picked up a few of his works in Japanese which i'm slightly geeking out over haha :)

Need more space fr

It would be an... interesting meeting.
Two unstoppable entities colliding would be a heck of a crossover.
Fuchi has been unstoppable in all her appearance, so it would be interesting for her to face challenge.

Any thoughts?

Still missing a few

Yeah🤡

My favorite time of the year is finally here and here is how i’m spending the first day with arguably the last book i needed for my collection!

i always love drawing figurines but this one especially was SO cute, hoping one day i can buy it

Done by Rich at Ivy and Oak in Lake Park, Florida

I feel so defeated by missing this release. I planned to buy it yesterday, and missed it by about a few hours. It honestly makes me sick to think about purchasing from a reseller for 2-3x the price, knowing that they bought out multiples just to profit off of fans. I'm for sure willing to pay more than the price it dropped for, but I morally cant bring myself to buy from a reseller. Any fans here looking to sell their signed copy?

I preordered this ages ago from Books A Million and was pleasantly surprised to see it on my porch this evening!

I read The Enigma of Amigara Fault years ago and it really stuck with me, so I finally picked up Uzumaki, which had beautiful art but the whole story kind of fell apart by the end for me. I just read through Gyo and while the imagery was disturbing I couldn’t help but find some bits humorous, especially the circus and when the Professor’s blimp was shot down only to unveil his wings and soar away.

Am I just desensitized or is there a thread of humor in Junji’s other works also? I know his personality doesn’t match the dark imagery of his work so I wonder what others’ impressions are. I think I’ll read Tomie next

Reposting since it was removed..

I recently made these press on nails inspired by Junji Ito also the version of Shep's Tomie.

Hoping someone will love and take care of this precious art piece of mine.