Junji Itō

Tomie is a beautiful, immortal teenage girl who drives her admirers to madness and murder.

Tomie 1. Volume 1

Museum of Terror

An eternally youthful and beautiful girl inspires people to commit murder in the most twisted ways.

Tomie 2. 2

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was ok.

Could be much much MUCH better. 

Here's my problem, I get it. Junji Ito is the new sensation and everything, he's awesome, his artwork is great (mostly) and his stories from what I've read so far are mostly good, with amazing ideas but the execution is what I have a problem with. 

See, there's a main theme in his stories and there are episodes of sorts of each chapter after chapter that something happens to someone you don't care in the slightest and it's pretty much insignificant to the main story most of the time but it happens so you can see some creepy dismemberment or something like that. 

There's no character development and that's just what hurts me the most. The characters' reactions and choices are mostly dumb as fuck without reason or logic and that also hurts my intelligence.

Other than that it's fun to read and you for sure want to see what happens next and at the end but it was a chore to read some of the stories and that takes it down a star, sadly. 

PS. No. It wasn't as good as Uzumaki.

So, I guess I'd give it 2.5 stars.

Okay, so I read Vol1 and Vol2 almost in one sitting, and Vol2 is so much better, though it didn't get much further when it comes to my rating and here's why:

While I'm absolutely in love with the atmosphere and it completely crept me out it was simply boring. The story is repetitive and after a while, you just start to wonder how many times can the same theme be used in a different setting. Still, I was curious and I kept reading until I finished both of them which ended up being a good thing since volume 2 does spice it up with some stories like Hair and  Murder.

But the art is so good and horrifying. I love it.

I am really curious about other Junji Ito's work. As I said, I love the atmosphere and the art is amazing.

Lili

oh damn, the first story and the last three were absolute perfection. i didn't really like kiss or photo that much, they are amongst my least favourite itou stories, but they still get like 2.5 stars, i'd say. because junji itou cannot write an actually bad story for the life of him. anyway, overall this collection was great, and i really missed reading his mangas!

Museum of Terror Tomie 1. Volume 1

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