Horror manga icon Junji Ito is again with a brand new one-shot chapter subsequent month, the place he’ll be revisiting arguably his most iconic character Tomie.
When you may have such a lot of works beneath your belt like Ito does, it begins to change into a bit troublesome to find out which one is the creator’s most notable piece of labor. You may in all probability fairly simply argue that Uzumaki suits the invoice, however in terms of characters, there’s none extra recognisable than Ito’s Tomie. The horror character was first launched in 1987 within the shojo journal Month-to-month Halloween, leading to 20 chapters as much as the 12 months 2000. And now, as reported by Anime News Network, Tomie is lastly again for the primary time in twenty years with a brand new one-shot titled Tomie: Management, set to seem within the March concern of Asahi Shimbun’s Nemuki+ journal.
This specific concern is ready to launch April 12, and outdoors of the title, there is not truly any info on what the chapter will likely be about. For those who have not truly heard of Tomie earlier than, the writer of the English launch Viz Media describes the story: “Murdered time and again, one lady all the time comes again for extra… Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with lengthy black hair and a magnificence mark just below her left eye. She will be able to seduce almost any man, and drive them to homicide as nicely, despite the fact that the sufferer is commonly Tomie herself. Whereas one lover seeks to maintain her for himself, one other grows scared of the immortal succubus. However quickly they realise irrespective of what number of instances they kill her, the world won’t ever be freed from Tomie.”
Tomie has been tailored a number of instances, largely by means of reside motion movies, and has additionally appeared in anime just like the Junji Ito Assortment and Junji Ito Maniac. A reside motion sequence was introduced again in 2019, initially deliberate for the streaming service Quibi, however that service has since gone defunct so the standing of the sequence is unknown at this cut-off date.
Again in December Ito sat down with the creator of Silent Hill to talk about his hope to make a rom-com, of all issues.