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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- So, that's the ending? She ends up getting away? They waited like, what, 60+ years for that? lol. I really liked the story but I kinda got sick of Tomie after 3/4 in. I also did like how the artwork gradually improved in each chapter. 8/10 Uzamaki is still my favorite. |
| 10/10 masterpiece, I'm glad she escaped, that revenge was dumb af and childish anyway, if he really wants revenge, he should've destroyed all of them coz he got the financial capacity to do so. I doubt he'll be able to eradicate them completely but he'd at least get a lot of them Also, was surprised on the hate for Tomie throughout the series, like in ch12 people still don't get it that she's manipulative and only uses people. Also Despite the death and chaos she brings everywhere she goes, I there are some that's are justified, like in Orphan Girl, while she ended up killing the old couple, she was able to at least make the couple happy and deliver judgement to that murderer maid Satoko |
| Well, t was no the best ending, it was just ok. How the hell Tomie escaped from that block through that little crack? In the ending, I don't have any ideia of what Tomie really is. A ghost, a demon or something else? And sixty years after, there is probably Tomies wandering around. |
| Lame ending. They waited what? 60 years and never noticed the crack, or how she got away? It's not something which is instantaneous and they kept watch continuously. I really hated Tomie, all of them are identically evil (even the pinky!) and extremely one-dimensional. After a point it gets tiring. I had to finish the manga for completeness sake though. |
Maggot_BrainDec 4, 2018 1:01 PM
| Definitely not the most well planned out ending. I got tired of the story early on and frustrated that we weren't learning anything new about Tomie. After a point it just got pretty ridiculous tbh. |
| After reading this and an awful lot of other of ito junji's manga, i have no doubt that you can see what happened to Tomie if you read "The Window Next Door". You can see the same lines, the same attempt to seduce and it goes well hand in hand with the last chapter of the Tomie manga!! The only thing that doesn't make sense and can't be explained is how come the oldies never realized she stopped making noise in that concrete block. Seriously that pretty much shows lack of attention to detail. Overall i liked the manga for how much it reflects a part of the real world. I bet Junji was even inspired by a manipulative ex to write this. :) |
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| Tomie simply don't die, is it! Well, i don't know how to think about it, but i was waiting for some explanation, is ok, there is a good story anyway. I like it! |
JudgeRuthless said: The only thing that doesn't make sense and can't be explained is how come the oldies never realized she stopped making noise in that concrete block. Seriously that pretty much shows lack of attention to detail. This was explained in the last page :) Quoting: Tl;dr: |
TyraT said: Tomie simply don't die, is it! Well, i don't know how to think about it, but i was waiting for some explanation, is ok, there is a good story anyway. I like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITBItosDnMI @CMYK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Ly9Uc59S4 |
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| What about the page before the end? What was that about? |
brucescrews said: What about the page before the end? What was that about? You mean where old Tomie bursts out of the block? That was Ryo hallucinating seeing her, she wasn't actually there. |
| In a way, it was a blessing that the man in black's senility had made him happy. The only thing he wanted was for Tomie to grow old and look ugly. In his mind, he accomplished it. I love the irony of the story. |
 She got him back. If you understand the characters well enough, you'd know she did! |
| Tomie is probably still among us. Beware of a beautiful young Japanese girl in your neighborhood. Don't let her pull you in. Solid manga all around |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| The ending was ok. Overall enjoyed this series, I never really expected it to have a “conclusion” because it’s just of series of mostly unrelated incidents involving Tomie. I don’t think there would ever be an end to Tomie anyways, she’s clearly gonna take over the world lol |
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| Not disappointed with the ending mainly because I never expected an ending to the series since they all seemed to be their own different stories with Tomie on them. I really liked them and found them quite creepy, but they got repetitive. Gotta appreciate Junji Ito's improvement in drawing though. I checked the first chapter after finishing the manga and holy shit, the drawings improved in a ridiculously drastic way lmao. 8/10 |
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| This may just be my perspective, but Ito's effort to make a grand connection comes too late and ultimately fails, in my opinion. |
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| Well, if they try it again in their next life. They should make sure to maintain the block from all sides. I enjoyed this mysterious, charismatic, regenerative, and vain girls story. |
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| I learned of Tomie, but only watched it the anime in 2019. I thought it was bad from how rushed it felt as an adaption, but it was still captivating. ... Without rewatching it, I don't know how I'd judge it now now that I've experienced the original Chapter 1 of that adaption. I think that the attachment of its hype may be something that causes me to be a little biased to wanting to respect Tomie as its popular by being one of Junji Itou's most iconic works. Although, critically... I think it's decent yet amazing as a horror. 6/10. I plan to read the other installations of Tomie and watch Tomie analysis videos to better comprehend Tomie, but as of now from simply reading the first manga; I think that most of the events individually aren't extremely and overly entertaining, but her abilities are amazing- some scenes more horrifying and shocking than others which is great. Her beauty is effortlessly and truly captivating which perfectly compliments her character of alluring men. The way that the art drastically improves after the first quarter of the volumes is awesome also. Overall, even though it's not super entertaining, it's intriguing and fascinating in its concept of repetitive loop horror. Tomie, a high school teenager who's beauty is unmatched, sly and secretly dating a teacher while dating a classmate- to then suddenly fall off a cliff in a agrument, to which the teacher and all the students cut her up in (their amount of people) 42 pieces as she's still living. Each burying her body parts in different places. With her heart being dropped in a lake of a bridge. ...I don't know if that lake is what is the core cause of her new phenomenon... But after that, this "curse" is born where she can never die through regeneration and multiplication, as she bewitches men to fall madly in love with her to the point of insanity which causes them to kill her. Tomie the character herself is oddly intriguing. She's a snob narcissist sadist who enjoys manipulating and tormenting anyone in various ways while being fully aware of her ability. Slaving people for her comfort and best of foods she desires, taunting or mocking men while attempting to seduce them knowing many will kill her and already have. Causing hundreds of people to go insane. Her multiplications are even more fascinating though... Some support each other in insulting an individual, while others despise the others and wants to be the only Tomie as they attempt to kill themselves. I think all of the chapters are happening simultaneously, so imagining that thousands of Tomie exist in the world, turning the population into chaos is awesome to imagine. It's difficult for me to imagine her laugh and giggles as she acts fake, mocks or orders people, or whenever she gets angry, but what I enjoyed the most from Tomie, as crazy as her deaths are while she causes people to go insane, her haunting scenes of multiplication were my favorite. It is fascinating in wonder how she causes anyone to go insanely mad to kill her or others while she sadistically takes pleasure on it all, even in death. Hopefully the other manga installations, the anime and movie adaptions satisfy some of my imagination of experiencing Tomie in action, even though I'm aware of how bad the adaptions were so far. |
waalex11Nov 26, 2024 7:12 PM
| I don't know how to feel about this ending. I wanted Ito to explain more things relating to Tomie... |
| This was like.. author got tired and thought, this is it. It was hinted, Tomie still isn't dead and lurking around somewhere. Perhaps will plan to take over a country or something.. because of course she can lol. We never knew more than the bare minimum about Tomie, but yeah that's just how this author writes. Decent read anyways but Uzumaki was even more grotesque. |
| a great series overall. I’m kind of disappointed we never learnt about Tomie’s true nature but it also fits her very erratic and mysterious figure |
| There is no ending for this series, people, it's an episodic collection of separate stories revolving around the monster known as Tomie, each chapter have its own "series ending" Tengai said: She's an unkillable "mysterious" monster who doesn't even know her own origins, what that's sufficient enough, no need to reveal her true nature because it would ruin the whole mystery and horror elements.i thought we'll have a conclusion on what she really is, but oh well. Maggot_Brain said: The crack was bellow the rock which they never moved, obviously they won't notice it.They waited what? 60 years and never noticed the crack ViniSD said: Concentrate cracks.How the hell Tomie escaped from that block through that little crack? |
| Tomie and Uzumaki are Junji Ito's most famous works and I prefer Uzumaki way more. This was a good and bizarre read but I couldn't help but compare it to Uzumaki which I enjoyed a whole lot more. |
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| Dumbest revange story ever, of course Tomie didn't just wait in the concrete block forever lol. Loved every bit of the series, crazy female horror story, just how I like them. So far my favourite Junji Itou's series, next to classisc Uzumaki, of course. 8/10 First Tomie chapter was apparently also his published debut work, and the drawings weren't really that good, so seeing this MASSIVE improvement over the years was amazing. |
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| Got a chance to reread Tomie again and I gotta say, it's not that the stories are bad but reading the tomie chapters consecutively just makes the premise really boring to me since her whole schtick has never really changed. |
| Reading for the first time when it was my first manga ever made me not enjoy as much, but after reading a ton of junji ito so far and rereading it is not bad at all. I always found it good for how funny it was and how good the art is (with ito it always is hella good), but now i recognize it is quite nice the story. It has its charm. I remember being confused with the unfinished vibe i got after this ending, wanting more closure to tomie but the truth is that junji ito's works are mostly suddenly ended, with uzumaki being a remarkable example of a well closed wrapped up finale in comparison to his other works. Regardless of the anticlimactic ending i felt of his works, he always exceeded in atmosphere and entertaiment so it was always consistently good. With Tomie, though i liked it less than uzumaki, it is still worth it and not as bad as i used to consider. Tomie is funny overall |
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