Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito

14 reviews

ak97x's review

dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Forced institutionalization

euripideez's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Gaslighting, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Murder

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

shea_proulx's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Minor: Incest, Medical content, Misogyny, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

belladonnashrike's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

5.0

- “you’re killing people?”
- “no, I’m killing boys!”

absolutely could not put this down. 

I love the art in this manga so much, I think it’s my favorite now. for some reason I’ve never actually read any horror manga (weird considering how horror is one of my fave genres) and this was a great introduction. NEED to get my hands on the rest of ito’s work!!

I have a lot to think about with this collection of stories, I can’t really articulate everything right now -  but damn, I loved it. the creativity is incredible. tomie is really awful but I just feel so sympathetic towards her at the same time.

deffffinitely will reread this. and I need to get a physical copy immediately so I can admire the artwork as intended 🩸

faves in no particular order:

- painter
- waterfall basin
- hair
- basement

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Death, Suicide, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism and Cancer

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

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

solybugs's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

As someone who hasn't read a lot of manga before, I was impressed with this one and will read more of Junji Ito's work. The art style was engaging and beautiful while the story was a definite page-turner. It kept me attentive and focused the whole time while reading it. I really just bought it in the first place because I had seen Ito's art style being shown on some drawing YouTube channels and thought it looked cool. So I bought the longest book I could find of his. A very good purchase, I will be flipping back through these pages for a long time. I would recommend this to anyone who has a dark mind and curious eyes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Body horror, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content and Self harm