I still remember how my classmates would cry and rage that their parents confiscated a band keychain or cassette. Well, that was my take anyway, I realize the story was first written in the 1990 before social media but I got a VERY strong boyband vibe from it, specifically backstreet & new kids on the block. It's fine to love something passionately even if it was a fad. In the end all trends fade but that doesn't mean you should be embarrassed by liking something. So instead of telling them "stop it" he told them to just be sincere until their feelings reach him. The Bishie took the women's obsession and threw it back in their faces, however it's actually impossible to hate someone that sincerely loves you. Readers will want to turn pages swiftly, not only to see what happens next once seen, Ito’s images – startlingly addictive and terrifying both – can’t be unseen.A year late but I just read the book and was thinking through this same point. Three shorts conclude the collection, about a boy whose pain controls the family mansion, the fatal perils of addictive cosmetic surgery, and a fleeting obsession with fake (or not?) feces. In the two-part “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings,” a parentless family wreaks supernatural torture on others – and themselves. Eight years later, an irresistible specter in black is inspiring multiplying suicides, and Ryusuke fights for survival.
Middle-schooler Ryusuke’s return to Nazumi quickly causes debilitating tension, as he is convinced that his six-year-old self caused a desperate pregnant woman’s death.
Translated into English by Jocelyne Allen, who also translated his Eisner-winning Frankenstein, Ito’s latest imported collection opens with the five-part titular “Lovesickness.” In relentlessly foggy Nazumi, the “strange, ancient Japanese folkway” practice of “crossroads fortunes” involves standing at an intersection and asking the first passing stranger to answer a question about future love. In the almost-quarter-century since his manga debut, Junji Ito has undoubtedly ascended to world-renown for his prolific tales of horror.
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