She has a potent effect on men, turning them into lustful obsessives who can't get her out of their minds, ultimately driving them to psychopathic acts of brutality and violence. Tomie is a beautiful young woman who's actually an unkillable monstrosity of undefined origins. It helps that that basic idea is really resonant and effective on multiple levels. It's so incredibly creepy and well-crafted, and even reading it in this format, with 700+ pages of fairly similar stories crammed into a single book, it never really loses its capacity to startle and amuse and sicken because Ito's imagination - especially his visual imagination - never really stops thinking of grotesque new twists on the basic idea. It's great stuff, pretty much on a level with Uzumaki and Gyo to me. I've read some of these stories many years ago but never the whole epic, which Dark Horse has kindly collected into a massive omnibus of all 3 volumes. The horror and Junji Ito talk put me in the mood for this.
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