5/26/2023 0 Comments Lovesickness junji ito mangaWhat works especially well is the feeling of the situation snowballing, from one damaged woman to an entire town of young women. Not unlike The Enigma of Amigara Fault in that respect, a harmless school game turns the girls of this mysteriously foggy town into love-obsessed zombies who allow the pervasive madness to drive them to extremes of starvation, stalking, and eventually suicide. What the main story arc does best is deal with the idea of compulsion – the threads that pull us toward our own destruction. These two collections are followed by three short stories: The Manson of Phantom Pain, The Rib Woman, and Memories of Real Poop (yes, really). You might well find this volume less disturbing than his others – rather than unsettling concepts like “everything is turning into spirals”, or “there’s a man living in my chair”, Lovesickness deals more with your classic hauntings, the idea of fate and, later in The Strange Hizikuri Siblings, troubled families where even Souchi might belong. Taking its name from the story told in the first half of the book (printed elsewhere as The Boy At The Crossroads and The Lovesick Dead), the first major storyline deals with a sweet boy named Ryuske moving back to his childhood town, the place where he accidentally caused a horrible tragedy. Junji Ito’s at it again with the suicide-filled creepfest that is the Lovesickness collection, and like all of his work, it is worthy of a manga review.
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