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Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito

22 reviews

mir_frog73's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

It took me a really long time to read. 

Spoiler

The first 600 pages are only to set up very firmly that Tomie never dies and then the last 150 pages are a consecutive story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Gore, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Death, Self harm, Murder, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

kkalicky94's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Toxic friendship, Grief, Suicide, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Self harm, Violence, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

lordsnow's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Body horror, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Misogyny

Minor: Alcoholism

veelaughtland's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cannibalism, Death, and Gore

mollyandherbooks's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Tomie est l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui meurt et revient sans cesse à la vie pour se venger. Telle une succube, elle charme les hommes et leur fait vivre leurs pires cauchemars durant 700 pages... 
On ressent quelques longueurs au fil des aventures macabres de Tomie mais une curiosité un peu malsaine nous pousse à découvrir la suite de ses aventures et leur débouchée funeste. 
C'est un manga d'horreur que je conseille pour un public averti. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder, Violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Child death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Blood, and Body horror

patendude's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Suicide, Murder, Body horror, and Mental illness

meaghanelizabook's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Gore, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Car accident, Stalking, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

wintah's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

i liked it, it was a good read but uzumaki is still my favourite. some stories were really good but overall i found it a bit repetitive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Suicide, Stalking, Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Bullying

Minor: Car accident, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

veggiecats's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

i'm a huge fan of junji ito and i think now i may be about halfway reading through the books hes put out. tomie was less on the existential side of horror, and more focused on gore, manipulation, and more real world horrors. as the story progress, i had grown more and more of a distaste for tomie (the character), wishing that she would just leave these innocent people alone.

Spoiler

when i was reading, i couldn't stop thinking about the girl who got the kidney transplant and became tomie instead. really, that made me so sad. also i'm a bit unnerved that the story implies that tomie was a teenager for most of her lives.

if you're a fan of junji ito, you'll like this- but if you're just getting into his work, i suggest picking up a quicker read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Confinement, Self harm, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, Alcoholism, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

keycard's review

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

girl boss Tomie deserved better 🤞🏻this is a rambly review since it’s mostly for me and I’m just spitting out all my thoughts incoherently lol.  in my opinion this collection shows how men believe that they own women and are entitled to do enact violence upon them because of their feelings. As mean as some of her actions are, I don’t consider her to be a femme fatale. she doesn’t really do anything to seduce the men involved with her or say anything nice to endear herself to them, in fact she generally rejects them. they just lust after her. 

even in situations where Tomie hasn’t really done anything or actively seduced anyone,

Spoiler

like in revenge

  at the end of the day a man will kill her because he is obsessed with her. it’s interesting how a lot of them say things you would expect to hear from a perpetrator of femicide in real life, using that same example, the younger brother actually says

Spoiler

“it was an urge that drove him. he couldn’t help it. it was an expression of his love” in regards to his brother cutting Tomie up into pieces, killing and abandoning her on the mountain.

In my opinion, Tomie is the story of a tragic victim who progressively becomes worse as men continue to abuse her because they “love her too much”. She is continually blamed for the torture she is forced to endure and relive when men realize they cannot control her. 

though extremely effective, my least favorite was definitely

Spoiler

boy

and while I understand that it has a purpose and puts an important emphasis on how horrible of a person she can become, it probably needs a trigger warning for

Spoiler

grooming, pedophilia and implied molestation

. It doesn’t quite fit in against the other situations we see her in imo and made me extremely uncomfortable (which was the point but still lol). I think it symbolizes

Spoiler

the cycle of abuse, as in her origin story she is groomed by her teacher and in this story she is the adult who grooms a young boy. this is by far her most monstrous action in my opinion and to me symbolizes her giving up her last semblance of humanity as the victim becomes an abuser.

my favorite chapters are definitely revenge, assassins, photo and painter and coincidentally they illustrate my interpretation of the story pretty well :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Gore

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, and Pedophilia