I just finished reading Uzumaki. What do you Sup Forumsnons think of this series?

I just finished reading Uzumaki. What do you Sup Forumsnons think of this series?
I am new to Ito, and horror manga. I found it more unsettling than outright scary. Keiko having her baby put back inside her is an image burned into my eyes.

if you want horror, read BESERK

>I found it more unsettling than outright scary
Horror manga will never be outright scary, I'm sorry.
Uzumaki is the Ito's work who left the bigger impact on me, mostly because the recurring theme is well handled and the narrative keeps taking it one step further every episode.

I liked it when everybody was turning into snails

>Haha, time for some Junji Ito

Just want to ask Sup Forums
What do you think how a story of Tomie as a teen mom with a son and daughter (we don't know where she get them, if they are really birth by her or just adopted ) play out ? consider all Tomie stories we had see.

We will finally get to see Tomie in anime from

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Only if the son and the daughter are mini Tomies.

The snails scared me wayyyy more than anything else. Become a weird snail that ends up having sex and laying eggs with your worst enemy!!! nooo!

Tomie is scarier to me than Uzumaki by far. Tomie would kill /torture her daughter and probably just fuck around (literally)with her son..probably make him into a creepy servant and have an overall disturbing relationship with him. She is textbook narcissist but with Cthulhu powers. Terrifying.

Tomies don't take too kindly to each other.

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pure sex

If you want more Ito, I (and most other boards) am a huge fan. Dude's style and stories are unique in their insanity, and he's pumped out so much work over the years. Even though they get labeled as horror, sometimes he does something comedic or even just tragic. He's a great artist.
Read all of his one-story volume collections, along with Mimi's Ghost Stories, Tomie, and Voices of the Dark. Frankenstein has his own spin on it, so it's worth a read too. Then his collection series mostly gets all of his stories in one place, although things get scattered from the amount of things he's done over the years. The newly released (2010s+) has most of his good ones, but the older one has more. I think everyone has their own opinion on which is his legitimate scariest work/story. Haunted House for visuals and Army of One/Hanging Balloons for terror for me.
Gyo OVA is pretty bad, new anime is piss poor, live action movies are campy but not great. If you wanna watch the few things that got turned into moving pictures.

Thanks for the write up. I was planning on checking out more Ito anyway, so its handy knowing what I am in for. I will probably pick up the collected editions that will match my [pic related] copy.
Do you have any other horror mangaka recommendations in the same vein as Ito?

I find most of Junji Ito's work are just boring. He depends too much on gory disgusting imagery.
The horror are too fantastical and over the top.
Personally i find Masaaki Nakayama's work much scarier.

>I just finished reading Uzumaki

Did you, though?

Recently I read "School Zone" by Kanako Inuki, in which every chapter a scary rumour regarding the school and the blocks around it's depicted. It's good shit. I haven't read anything else of the same author though.
The safe step in taste is always Maruo though, every person who enjoys Ito ends up reading Maruo too. I have them linked in my brain even when their style have different takes on horror as a theme.

Honestly I never strayed far from him, since it was hard to find good horror manga in the ocean of Japan. Fuan no Tane is an extremely good collection of shorts, and Drifting Classroom and it's author are infamous in the horror biz.
Also, all the english collections like that are legit, and very nice. The Tomie collection is a little rough since the originals were so old, but they did a good job with it, I think.

While all Tomie had the same basic personality , I noticed that some Tomie seem to be nicer than others.
Like some Tomie are total abomination , that they doesn't even try to hide they are evil and bad while others at least act a bit nicer and " normal " For example, in chapter one she's show to have a friend
Reiko, in "Revenge" ,"Murder", and "Orphan Girl " she's nicer and less mean
and monstrous compare she's in for other stories.(like in The boy)
In Painter and Top Model she didn't actively try to seduce the artist (like she usually do ) and model, these two came to her themselves
Does this means that while they are the same person , different individual Tomie still have different personalities ?

Well it was a few days ago. I wanted to gather my thoughts before asking Sup Forums.

Of course, even if they were literally clones the situations would make each of them develop in slightly different ways.

But have you truly finished reading it though?

It was romantic. The kind of love story I love. Not too much just subtle romance. There were a lot of shocking images but just laughed it away

I never really get the horror feeling while reading Ito's stuff. Sometimes it just kinda feels unsettling and most of his stories are also strangely hilarious.

There's a reason why "horror" was part of "weird fiction" - often times horror is just creepiness or mood rather than "omg spooky"

"Anime" form, but not "animated" form since this is part of Deen's slideshow.

At the beginning of the story, Tomie , as beautiful and young as always, is seemly
haveing a good and healthy relationship between mother and her children.
But later it was revealed that the son actually had unhealthy obsession tword his "mother" while the daughter is jealous of her motheris unnatural beauty.
As they both reach juvenile, things getting even worsened. Tomie tourment her children pycholcalicly, she will going back and forth form sweet loving mother to cruel and abusive.
The daughter, growing more and more
jealous of her mother's undying youthful appearance forever beauty and the son become love his mother even more psychopathically obsessive.until one
night, they decided to kill their mother and dismembered her.
However, to their horror and shock, the body pieces of their mother started to regenerate while more and more creature at that resembling a bunch of flash and their mother growing from those body pieces of her, each of shout out bothoveing and cynical worlds to the two teens
With madness and horror , the son burn the house down, runing out from the house in flame, without looking back or checking his elder sister.

At the end of the story, we see the brother is in mental mental asylum for the murdered he claims he commit.
His eyes are hollow , like a dead man with soul and mind both dystory.
The guards told him that he has a visitor,
It's his sister ,
He went out to see her, only to find her different. The young woman came to see him is his sister but also not.
She's now looks just like their mother, with the same unearthly beauty and eyes that will drive any men into madness,and a small mole at her under her left eyes
.....The end.

Tomie is his most consistently scary work. Uzumaki, while overall good, has a terrible ending and some stupid scenes such as the tornadoes, the jack in the box and the hair and more.

It's Itou's one offs which tend to be his best work. The Tomie series, Army of One, the Back Alley, the Window. His longer series; Black Marble, Uzumaki, Gyo, Hellstar Remina all have far too many silly sequences or dumb things happen in them.

I think so? Is there more not published in this that I am missing out on?

>Horror manga will never be outright scary
Ibitsu had good suspense.

I'm afraid you've been stuck in a loop, user.

Well, if you call scary the moment during movies when there is a loud unexpected sound of course you wont get it
Probably you wont get spiral obsession too
But when i finished tomie i really wanted to kill her too, that was very unsettling

In English they've released in hardcover: Gyo, Shiver, Tomie, Fragments of Horror and Dissolving Classroom. I only have Fragments of Horror, Gyo, and Tomie but does anyone own the complete hardcover set yet? I want to see how they look together.

I didn't really find Tomie scary but more fascinating, got incredibly repetitive at points but it was always clever the way she kept coming back. My favourite being the one with the girl who had kidney surgery and Tomie's kidneys were used on her.

When you think about it, it's kinda like Yaoi isn't it?

>Horror manga will never be outright scary, I'm sorry.

Last page of The Bully kinda made me jump out of my fucking seat though.

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the first few tomie stories are samey because they're getting you into the concept of it and exploring it in odd ways.

Then there's worm tomie.

this kind of imagery cringes me off for some reason, feels like they're trying too hard to be creepy

Imagine Tomie with swollen belly and milk fill breast, takinh bath in bathtub naked ,what an erotic sence

Pinky best ito girl.

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>Frankenstein has his own spin on it
It's actually quite faithful to the original book, I've heard.

Ito is always so fucking comfy to read at night before bed

>tfw no Tomie lewds

Dunno mate, the /ss/ chapter was lewd enough for me
>shota mindbreak

Yeah, but she never milked that shota dick until he died from exhaustion