Ito deserves better, Tomie deserves better. It's a mess, my local streaming service got this one for some reason, otherwise if I had to pay for the BD to watch this. It doesn't have that time limit here! It's an OVA, you can make it how ever long it needed to be.
Her distinctive feature is the mole she has under her left eye. She is presented as an alluring young girl, vaguely in her teens, with a small face and a petite build. why would they choose to adapt this but not the second half? If you can only do one more episode maybe choose one that's actually stand alone?Īlso, somehow they still forced two story into one 22min episode for This. In her critical reading of Junji Ito's Tomie, Rachel Dumas studies the trope of monstrous female adolescence as a 'metaphor for the ascendance of Japanese. Tomie is a very recognizable character in Junji Ito’s universe. The editing on transition is especially bad.Įpisode 2, this was actually the first half of a two parter in the manga.
Episode 2 was not as noticeable but they still cut out more than a little stuff, which hurts the atmosphere of the story, since those parts really helped building up mood in the manga.Įpisode 1, You'd think this being an adaptation of Ito's first story ever, there are lots of place they could have improved. (I just felt like the original wasnt creepy enough. And it's rushed as hell, lots of monologue from the source material of episode 1 was cut out. John Doe as Junji Itos Tomie, a sketch redraw from my goretober prompt list from 2022, last year. Being an BD special OVA of said series, the art and animation is poor even for this series' stander. If you think "Ito Junji: Collection" was not good, well this is worse.
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