Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection

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There's a town, with a curious old custom - you stand at an intersection, and you ask the first person that comes along a question about your future. People with problems stop on the street and ask the first person what their "fortune" is, in response to a question. For the pointless, stupid, pathetic final story I cut down one star, otherwise this was a great read. Ryuusuke rationalizes that the woman he met back then had a mental breakdown and resorted to intersection fortune telling as a way to solve her problem.

I think the concept of "lovesickness" being a literal type of transmitted disease that drives young girls violently insane with lustful obsession is fascinating. It feels like a diet version of Uzumaki with less interesting set pieces, less scary horror elements and a far less satisfying conclusion. One day, Ryuusuke, growing increasingly worried about Midori's deteriorating mental and physical health, tells Midori that he will turn himself in to the police to save her.Ribs woman Wires were used in place of ribs to make music, and the picture of a woman revealing her ribs will stay with me for a long time. Lynzee Loveridge from Anime News Network offered praise for the artwork, while also criticizing the characters as shallow. The entire atmosphere of the main story is what really held me; it was eerie and unsettling in a very subtle way, with brief bursts of that in-your-face horror some people love. There’s also a pair of manga about ‘the strange Hikizuri siblings’ – ‘Narumi’s Boyfriend’ and ‘The Séance’ – which have to rank among my least favourites of all the Ito I’ve read; this type of humour either works for you or really doesn’t, and I’m in the latter camp. Big Bad: The mysterious boy at the crossroads, whose pieces of advice have compulsive and devastating effects on the girls who hear them.

Rumors begin to spread at school he is the Intersection Bishounen, which causes girls to flee to him in a madstruck state of love and boys to despise him.The next day at school, Ryuusuke meets Midori Shibayama, who he had a crush on back in kindergarten, and her friend Reishi Tanaka, who tells him that the girls in school have been eagerly talking about him. When she asks him if her relationship with the man will work out, he tells her it won't and runs away. When a mass suicide occurs, the fog turns red from the blood, and when Ryusuke becomes the boy in white, the fog becomes softer and more ethereal. of this are linked stories that centre around the custom of people with problems going to an intersection, accosting the first person that they meet and asking their fortune.