![]() The disorder that arises from her body is supported by the expenditure of sexual energy that succumbs to violence by making her partners lose control of themselves, in the erotic game that she provides them. Thus, Tomie's body breaks with its own limits, when it overflows, through its fragmentation and multiplication, an excess of life that is confused with death. ![]() Similar to a planarian, Tomie has the power, when injured or mutilated, to generate from her cells other Tomies and, as if she were a succubus, to seduce and control men, making them fall in love with her and killing her out of jealousy. ![]() In Tomie, one of the first and best known manga by Junji Ito, originally published by Monthly Halloween magazine from 1987 to 2000, the character who gives the title to the work, Tomie Kawakami, when unable to die, is always reborn from her mutilated corpse, never moved by desire of revenge, but by lust. ![]()
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