week 11: Horror

This week I read Tomie by Junji Ito. I'm quite a baby when it comes to horror, but I really enjoyed this one! I enjoyed it because of her ability to reform herself/reincarnate. The idea of being so beautiful that someone kills you but you just keep coming back is both terrifying and tragic. It's almost like she is a disease. I know Tomie is supposed to be an unsympathetic monster, but I always wondered what she was thinking and what made her this way, which I think is the beauty of Junji Ito's work. A lot of his stories feel like quick character studies about the "why" of someone's actions rather than the outcome/what happens next.

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