Tomie Chapter 20 Discussion

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.

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.

The first chapters are cool, but then Tomie becomes an unbearable character.

Well, another Ito manga done. Probably the last one I'll read as I've already read Uzumaki and Gyo. It was okay, fun read. 7/10

great ongiz, enwaadded 'l lahttt

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.

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.

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:




I couldn't see a thing. The spot where Tomie should have been was empty. When I looked closer, I saw an old crack. It looked as if it had been there a very long time. I wonder if that's how Tomie ran away. The fissure continued down through the floor, and through it blew a breeze, carried up from unknown depths... which spun into the most plaintive moan in the world.

Tl;dr:




Tomie slowly worked her way through the concrete block and the floor below it, and the moan the couple had been hearing was simply a draft.



As for why there was a draft (considering the space should've logically been a hole, not a tunnel), we can assume the block cracked on the other side a bit while Tomie was burrowing through the other side, and maybe by the time it did the couple's eyesight had deteriorated too much for them to notice it. Or maybe she made the crack on purpose to mess with them or disguise her escape.