(hb; 1987-2001 manga series,
collected into the above-shown 2016 omnibus edition)
From the back cover
“Tomie is the girl you wish
you could forget. She’s the one you shouldn’t have touched, shouldn’t have
smiled at, shouldn’t have made mad. She’s oh so lovely—but you just might love
her to death.”
Review
Ito’s first mega-successful
manga series about a seemingly immortal and invincible girl you can’t kill is an
unsettling, bold and often horrific work, about a bedazzling girl who seems
nice for two seconds before her selfish demon side begins ruining her victims—usually
anybody within her gaze and memory. While the structure of these episodic,
expanding tales are essentially the same, it’s fun and interesting to see Ito’s
early, emerging style and structuring (which lent itself to later, greater
works) as well as the playful creativity of the myriad of ways that Tomie gets
at her victims, often through initially innocuous ways. And of course the
artwork is great.
Tomie has inspired nine live-action films (starting with Tomie, 1998), at least one Japanese series
and scores of other directly linked multimedia/crossover works. Worth checking
out, this.
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