Tomie
| Tomie | |
Tomie volume one.
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| 富江 | |
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| Genre | Horror |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Junji Ito |
| Published by | Asahi Sonorama |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Monthly Halloween, Nemuki |
| Original run | 1987 – 2000 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Television drama | |
| Tomie: Another Face | |
| Directed by | Toshirō Inomata |
| Produced by | Yasuyuki Uemura, Shun Shimizu, Ito ChokuKatsu |
| Written by | Shotaro Oikawa |
| Music by | Hayashida Hideaki |
| Studio | Daiei |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Kansai TV |
| Original run | December 26, 1999 – March 1, 2000 |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Novel | |
| Tomie: Replay | |
| Written by | Fumihiko Iino |
| Published by | Asahi Sonorama |
| Live action films | |
Tomie (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 TV series released in 1999.
The manga centers on the titular character: a mysterious, beautiful woman named Tomie, identified by her sleek black hair and a beauty mark below her left eye. Tomie acts like a succubus, possessing an undisclosed power to make any man fall in love with her. Through her mere presence, or through psychological and emotional manipulation, she drives these men into jealous rages that often lead to brutal acts of violence. Men kill each other over her, and women are driven to insanity as well — though there are some who are strong enough to resist her. Tomie is inevitably killed time and again, only to regenerate and spread her curse to other victims, making her effectively immortal. Her origins are never explained, though it is suggested by some older men in the series that she has existed long before the events of the manga.
Each story showcases various characters that encounter Tomie in her many (often hideous) forms, with some having their own arcs or returning in later chapters. Tomie's regenerative abilities (partly fuelled by cannibalism) are also showcased: aside from recovering quickly from gruesome and seemingly mortal wounds, she can also replicate herself by sprouting unnaturally from any part of her body, whether it be from severed limbs, organs, or even her spilt blood. Radiation accelerates her healing/regeneration process. Her cells are also capable of transforming a victim into a Tomie via an organ transplant. Multiple characters are even driven to dismember her corpse, unwittingly allowing more Tomie copies to grow and spread throughout the world. Even locks of her hair are dangerous; burrowing into its victim's brain to possess them, and eventually kill them when it grows wildly within the body. It is also shown that even if Tomie's body is not injured, her body will attempt to sprout another Tomie through tumorous growths, usually when she is emotionally stressed. Some Tomie copies, however, can not stand one another; one is seen killing one personally, while others order it done through the boys they seduce/enslave. Fire is the only known method to destroy a Tomie for good, though only if the flesh is completely carbonized.
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