Mention the horror manga master Junji Ito, such a picture will definitely come to mind many people:
In this world of horror created by Junji Ito, one name can be said to be the most representative - Tomie.
How hot is this soft girl with a clear eyebrow? In the more than two decades since its birth, the comic "Tomie" with her as the protagonist has not only fascinated countless people around the world, but also been remade into several versions of the movie circulating on the big screen and small video websites (of course, these films are generally made without hesitation...). Recently, it has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is ready to meet people in the form of An American drama.
The American drama version of "Tomie" Tomie played by Tomie is looking forward to her performance
As for how the fire of "Tomie" was originally burned, in fact, in addition to the author Junji Ito, there is another name that must be mentioned, that is, Kazuo Tsutomo.
In the 1950s, Kazuo Tsuto added new spices to the Japanese horror manga of the time—a deep discussion of human nature, social phenomena, and the use of a large number of suspense elements. His classic works such as "Drifting Classroom", "Baptism" and "Mr. Mummy" can be said to have inspired countless future generations.
In 1986, Kazuo Tsuyoshi, who aimed to discover new people, set up a manga contest in the horror magazine Halloween to name himself. Among the many contestants, Kazuo Tsuyoshi discovers Junji Ito's thousand-mile horse and "Tomie" on horseback.
"Tomie" tells the story of a beautiful girl named Tomie, who is not popular with her classmates because of her frivolous nature. During a class picnic, Tomie accidentally fell off a cliff during an argument with his classmates, after which the teacher led the whole class to unload eight pieces and throw away the body without determining Tomie's death. The horror is that the next day Tomie actually came to the school as usual, and the classmates and teachers were gradually driven crazy by this inexplicable phenomenon, at the same time, when the position of the heart of Tomie was abandoned, a new "Tomie" was growing...
According to Junji Ito himself, the idea of "Tomie" came from his own nightmare. As a student, Junji Ito's classmate died in a traffic accident. Thinking of the person who had been talking and laughing with him the day before, he suddenly disappeared the next day, which left a big shadow on Junji Ito at that time, and he still thinks that this classmate will come back one day.
In short, Kazuo's appreciation, magazine publicity, curiosity setting and sinister depiction of human nature have made "Tomie" increasingly popular. C's debut is imminent, and the sequel is imperative, so Junji Ito followed some of the settings in "Tomie", and gradually enriched the image and story of Tomie in the sequel.
For example, with the increasing proficiency of Junji Ito's painting skills, Tomie's image has also become in line with the personality of "the most beautiful girl in the world". This is Tomie when he debuted:
And this is Fu Jiang, who evolved to the "complete body":
In addition to pleasing the reader's senses after the "plastic surgery", Fu Jiang's hairstyle, makeup and the tear mole that dot the eyes have also become the inspiration for many young girls.
In contrast to the beautiful image, Junji Ito also explored his own iconic style in the process of painting Tomie - a physiologically uncomfortable, but addictive scene, such as a human head in the stomach, a deformed monster, a corpse block and other cult elements.
Of course, the most important thing is the expansion of the plot level. As long as the people in the manga are targeted by Tomie, the end is often very sad. It's not that Fu Jiang will become a big monster "cheesy" and directly hit people with SAN values or physical overrides. On the contrary, Fu Jiang's combat effectiveness completely matches the appearance of her soft sister, and she walks the rivers and lakes only by relying on one point - appearance.
Tomie also used this to string together the overall framework of most of the chapters of the manga - what happens when a man indulges in Tomie's beauty?
In fact, in addition to the appearance, we can't see any beautiful elements in Fujiang, such as after the man becomes his own licking dog, she will trample on the dignity of the other party with vicious words, instigate the other party to commit crimes for her own profit, deliberately provoke the relationship between the other party and the family, and even when facing the life-saving benefactor, she willfully let the other party buy caviar and luxury goods for herself...
The result of Fu Jiang's bad words and deeds is often only one - being dismembered by these men.
It's just that the split body of Fu Jiang is not a "victim", with a special physique, she not only has an immortal body, each body can grow into a new Fu Jiang, and it can even be said that the split body is one of the reproductive means of Fu Jiang.
On the other hand, these "murderers" were tortured after splitting Fujiang's body. For example, after being attracted by Fujiang one day, a painter with a successful career began to obsessively indulge in painting The beauty of Fue, while the arrogant Tomie hated that he had not yet painted a tenth of his beauty, and for a long time, the angry painter divided Fue's body, and finally went crazy when he looked at Fue who was resurrected from a little piece of meat.
When the well-known model was ambiguous with Tomie, his appearance was constantly degraded by the other party, and when he was accustomed to swans, he became a toad in front of Tomie, which made him angry and split Tomie at home and burned his house when Tomie bred. In the end, the model was disfigured in the fire, and for the rest of her life she had to live in the shadow of Tomie with a monster-like face.
Of course, Tomie's arsenal is not only sexual seduction, she also plays with people's sympathy. For example, after the crippled Fujiang pretended to be poor and was saved by a passing bear child, he used a series of instigations to make the bear child's personality more and more eccentric, and finally under the impetus of this personality, the bear child not only fell apart as a family of three, but also became a murderer when he grew up.
Or in the face of an otaku who is not interested in the three-dimensional big sister, Fujiang will take the initiative to lower his stature and win the pity of the other party with various weak and pitiful postures, and when the otaku is hooked, Fujiang will kick him away, and his head will not turn back away from him.
In addition, Tomie will also take advantage of the doting of his elders, once adopted by a couple in infant form, and in order to satisfy Xiao Fujiang's desire to see the fire, the couple chose to go out every night to set fires...
Stories such as these abound in Tomie, where tomie is addicted to contacts like a drug, and when the person who uses it really perceives the danger, it is already trapped in it. At this time, the newly grown Fujiang will use that worldly beauty to find the next prey.
So how can Tomie, a beautiful girl who combines S and M, become one of the top streams in the horror manga circle? On the one hand, this is inseparable from Tomie's mysterious life, and in the manga we can only understand that Tomie has existed in the world since ancient times. Where did she come from? Why do you have the superpower of splitting and resurrecting? We don't know anything, which also leaves readers a lot of room for reverie, and the discussion and speculation about Tomie's life on the Internet has not stopped.
"Victims of World War II", "Chemical Leaks", "Revenge of the Female Ghost"... At present, there is a lot of speculation about Fu Jiang's life on the Internet
On the other hand, compared to most female ghosts, Tomie has a strong particularity. In most cases, Fujiang's routine of persecuting people is to use the most beautiful face and the most vicious words to arouse the dark side of the other party's heart, and finally being "killed" by the other party and tragically divided.
I have to say that when I first heard about this absurd setting, I was full of thoughts about what this female ghost was trying to be. However, after watching the complete episode of "Tomie", I realized that this strange setting precisely contains the most terrible point of Tomie.
Yes, splitting the body is not Tomie's main purpose, she enjoys the process of slowly playing with and destroying a person from the inside out. And the way she plays with people's hearts is actually well documented in the real world. The temptation of beauty makes people dizzy and makes wrong choices, green tea who play with feelings, trample on the self-esteem of others with vicious words, instigate others to take the road of crime with rhetoric, bear children with their parents' inaction... Junji Ito poured all kinds of "evil deeds" in human society into Fue's body, and I think this combination of reality, even the evil that many people have experienced or done, is often more frightening and reflective than visual terror.
Finally, as a digression, there was news that Junji Ito and Hideo Kojima cooperated to make a game, although yesterday Junji Ito clarified on Twitter that the news was not accurate, the two were just "maybe make a game together", but this news still made me look forward to it, there is a precedent of "P.T", if the cooperation between the two is true, then it will undoubtedly be a carnival for horror game fans around the world.