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Publicerades 15 juli 2016

ISBN:: 978-1-4215-9056-1

Tomie (Japanese: 富江) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Tomie was Ito's first published work he originally submitted to Monthly Halloween, a shōjo magazine in 1987, which led to him winning the Kazuo Umezu award.The manga has been adapted into a live-action film series with eight installments to date, and an anthology television series released in 1999, and a streaming television series was in development for Quibi before the service was shut down.

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Brett Edmond Carlock recenserade Tomie av Junji Ito

No escaping Tomie

4 stjärnor

Tomie shows a lot of the ideas refined in Uzumaki, and takes a relatively mundane idea like a succubus and twists it as only Ito seems able to.

Tomie is both sympathetic and revolting, and I can't help but wonder what her early life was like, if she ever was human instead of a force of nature. Ito seems to hint at suffering or abuse that informs her motives, but perhaps that's just Tomie playing me?

In reading other reviews, I see how male gaze and misogyny is centered, but I feel like Tomie subverts and foils them to her own end, much like Jennifer in Jennifer's Body.

Tomie shows a lot of the ideas refined in Uzumaki, and takes a relatively mundane idea like a succubus and twists it as only Ito seems able to.

Tomie is both sympathetic and revolting, and I can't help but wonder what her early life was like, if she ever was human instead of a force of nature. Ito seems to hint at suffering or abuse that informs her motives, but perhaps that's just Tomie playing me?

In reading other reviews, I see how male gaze and misogyny is centered, but I feel like Tomie subverts and foils them to her own end, much like Jennifer in Jennifer's Body.

Björn recenserade Tomie av Junji Ito

None

3 stjärnor

Probably best read 2-3 episodes at a time over a longer period; when you read it all in one go, not only does it get repetitive - Tomie herself really doesn't change much from episode to episode - but you also start to ask some questions about exactly why Ito is so hung up on the idea of men being forced to punish women for their evil beauty.

All that said, taking it story by story, there's some really neat body horror here, and some of the stories really work well, and in the right dosis Tomie is a monster with some good narrative heft to her. Makes me really wish for a modern film adaptation.