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Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito

20 reviews

adriellereads's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Murder, Blood, Stalking, Gore, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Violence, Death, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Body horror

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

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

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

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

krystal_uwu_'s review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Junji Ito's works need no introduction. His art work is so grotesque, his story telling ragged and harsh and all of it just makes up for a beautiful experience. All of his works evoke a physical response from me which I think is every hard for art to do so, obviously, it's absolutely fantastic. Uh, I've said this before and I'll say it again. Junji Ito isn't much of a story teller but, his art work and execution makes up for it. The theme of male violence is prominent in Tomie. A man killing the woman he loves disturbs traditional gender roles. Usually, society scorns women for being too emotional, hysterical, and delirious. In Tomie it is the men who are driven to insanity by Tomie's beauty, whilst she never returns their affections. Also, I am not fond of Tomie, I don't like her one bit. Furthermore, for this manga, I have a few complaints. It felt repetitive...story after story of unsuspecting people being affected by Tomie, ending in her or their death (not even like fun death. Just a lot of stabbing and dismembering, booooOring). I wish there had been more body horror involved; the biological horror that is Tomie’s regenerative ability was pretty much the most extreme part of this book, and while it was cool, it wasn’t NEARLY as trippy or grotesque as the imagery seen in uzumaki, gyo, or some of ito’s other doujins. Some of the stories were definitely a bit on the absurd side, even for the usual bizarre shit that ito brings to the scene.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, and Gaslighting

muh_hahaha's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Tomie is a series of short horror stories about this girl named Tomie and how she influences other people's lives. These stories are told in other people's povs and never in Tomie's view. She's a very interesting character as these stories go on as her movitives seems to shift as she continues to multiple.

Spoiler

 
The more she dies and multiple, she more she becomes more inhumane and embraces her supernatural beauty and charm over the people she meets. The people who survive her, are left insane but it's also sad to see how she is portrayed as the root of evil in some of these stories when in reality, it the obsession of these men and their desire for Tomie, that make these stories so horroric. 
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What make these horror stories so effective is that we don't know how Tomie came to be, exactly, or how she came to gain her power. We don't know if Tomie was once human (and it's my personal belief she was) or if she was always some inhumane monster and I think that unknown mystery is something that drives the horror in these stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Violence, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Infertility

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

bugcollector's review

challenging dark tense slow-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

0.5

Perhaps Uzumaki was a flock. 
The artwork there was enchanting and hypnotizing, so it was fine by me ignoring the lacking plot.
However, in Tomie plot is all you got, and it's not good. 

Spoiler

It's The same story over and over again. Tomie gets abused sure, but in the end she's boy crazy, self obsessed, materialistic, and enjoys killing boys and making girls jealous. 
Minor bitch comments here and there, casual sexism every few pages, Junji Ito can't help it can he? 
I don't know what are we supposed to take from Tomie besides hating women a little bit? 
Boring, tedious, monotonous, flat, one dimensional, even demonizing. 
Took me a while to finish. 
It did suprisengly passed the Bechdel test in one scene- two named characters talk about their obsession with Tomies' hair. 

After being disappointed and dissatisfied with reading Gyo and No longer human as well, I think I'll end my Junji Ito journey here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Torture, Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, and Physical abuse

kengiedamali's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Body horror, Bullying, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Minor: Incest