History Manga / Tomie

''Tomie'' is a horror {{manga}} by Creator/JunjiIto that predates the well-known ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' and ''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault'', which follows the titular woman and how her presence affects those around her, especially men. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around the unnaturally beautiful Tomie as she [[StealthPun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies.

''Tomie'' is a horror {{manga}} by Creator/JunjiIto that predates the well-known ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' and ''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault'', which follows the titular woman and how her presence affects those around her, especially men. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around the unnaturally beautiful Tomie as she [[JustForPun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies.

''Tomie'' is a horror manga by Creator/JunjiIto that predates the well-known ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' and ''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault'', which follows the titular woman and how her presence affects those around her, especially men. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around the unnaturally beautiful Tomie as she [[JustForPun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies.

The franchise encompasses a 3-volume manga, nine feature films (one of them being a spliced-together, short-lived TV drama released as a feature), and some additional media and merchandise. A hardcover omnibus version of the manga was released in late 2016.

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''Tomie'' is a horror manga by Creator/JunjiIto that predates the well-known ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' and ''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault''.

Tomie is an unusually beautiful girl marked by a distinctive [[DistinguishingMark mole]] below her left eye. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around Tomie as she [[JustForPun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies...

* AmbiguouslyGay: Chie and Miki seem to be the only women [[spoiler:being taken over by Tomie]] that actually enjoy her.

* BilingualBonus: "Tomie" can be translated as "cutting" or "the act of cutting apart," as in the German word "Anatomie" ("anatomy" in English), which is quite appropriate[[spoiler: considering this is a common fate Tomie suffers, as well as at the heart of the obsession she instils in her victims]].
* BlackWidow: An incredibly strange example, where the title character does, indeed, go after the money like a typical Black Widow... except she often ends up the victim through her influence.

* BookEnds: In a way. The first multiple-part Tomie storyline shows Tomie having another face growing out of her head when she gets upset enough, this being a major reveal to Tsukiko about her true nature. The last storyline does as well: [[spoiler:after trying to protect the Ayaka Tomie for so long so that she doesn't regenerate, Yasuko and Ryo make her angry and a face starts to grow out of her head. Ryo puts her in cement to keep the new Tomie from forming.]]

* BrownNoteBeing: People who meet Tomie feel either an overwhelming sense of attraction to her or frustration. As time goes on, these feelings [[DrivenToMadness devolve into obsession]], either turning them into her willing slaves or driving them to murder her.

* DrivenToSuicide: More than one of Tomie's thralls has taken his own life, either at her direct command or simply through madness.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Photograph" it takes ''one'' accidental photo from the only girl in school who owns a camera to make Tomie lose her cool. How on earth would Tomie cope with ''everyone'' owning a camera that can instantly send film and video to everyone else? However the implication seems to be that not every photographer can bring this out of her. Her "father" in "Mansion" admits his own pictures never turn out that way.

* BrownNoteBeing: People who meet Tomie feel either an overwhelming sense of attraction to her or frustration. As time goes on, these feelings [[DrivenToMadness devolve into obsession]], either turning them into her willing slaves or drives them to murdering her.

* TheButlerDidIt: Well, the [[spoiler:maid]], who in the "Adopted Daughter" chapter was responsible [[spoiler:for the deaths of all the girls the old couple adopts, seeking their fortune]].

* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: Once Tomie is well enough to have a say about what she's eating she'll start demanding fancy food, usually foie gras and caviar (until she gets sick of it in a later volume).

* HiveMind: While they do not act in unison under one intelligence, all of the Tomies share the same personality and memories, which is best shown in "Little Finger". Despite this, the Tomies are known to fight among themselves either ForTheEvulz or over not being willing to share even with a HiveMind.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Subverted with Tomie herself. Prolonged exposure causes the victims to go crazy, and Tomie's repeated taunting is the berserk button that leads to her ending up a gory mess, yet her constant regenerative abilities means that such circumstances are only a minor setback at worst, and often an advantage, as she can duplicate and spread from wounds. It is likely that this is her intention (she noticeably switches her behavior in "Painter" on a dime, and the shift drives Mori to kill her) and the Tomie method of reproduction.
* HopeSpot: A small ray of hope appeared in the chapter where Tomie gets adopted by an elderly rich couple who is desperate to have a daughter they can spoil and adore. They praise Tomie, lavish her with attention and shower her with beautiful dresses and jewelry. Although still her typical creepy self, Tomie seems unusually mollified. Unfortunately, Tomie being well, ''Tomie'', this goes downhill really fast.
* HumanoidAbomination: Tomie may appear to be an extremely beautiful woman, but she has extremely unnatural biological properties that allow her to regenerate from almost nothing, and she can influence the emotions of her targets, namely in matters of infatuation and hatred.

* SnootyHauteCuisine: Tomie loves caviar and foie gras, often refusing to eat foods that aren't either and acting with revulsion toward them. Though in one chapter, when she gains a fan club who can afford it and feed it to her every day, [[RadishCure she gets sick of it]].

* TwoFaced: When Tomie's true nature is shown, it will be by showing a second developed face attached to her normal one.

* VillainRespect: In the final Tomie movie, [[spoiler:she gets Tsukiko to agree to be assimilated by convincing her she (Tomie) is the only one who will care for her and on the premise that she will find someone to love her. In Tomie fashion this means finding an abusive boyfriend who is so obsessed with her that he stabs her to death. While bleeding out Tomie then evilly asks Tsukiko if she is happy yet. However, to Tomie surprise Tsukiko actually is. She was so lonely that that the idea of someone murdering her out of infatuation and possessivness proves someone else truely cared about her which just fills her with joy. At that point Tomie gives up and the two share a loving laughs and smile at each other, then Tsukiko dies.]]

** In "Little Finger", a disfigured Tomie spawn is seemingly abused by the others, and this horrifies ugly outcast Hiroya. When he starts to show empathy for her situation, and even genuine love toward her, the disfigured Tomie quickly heals to catch up to her "sisters", revealing she's part of the Tomie hive mind and gloats it was all a game to manipulate him. Tomie then [[UngratefulBastard leaves the man to die]].

Tomie is an unusually beautiful girl marked by a distinctive [[BeautyMark mole]] below her left eye. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around Tomie as she [[JustForPun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies...

* BeautyMark: Tomie's distinctive mole below her left eye.

* InformedAttractiveness: As happens so often with characters who are supposed to be incredibly beautiful, Tomie falls into this. She pretty much looks like [[OnlySixFaces every other woman Junji Ito draws]] with longer hair and a BeautyMark. However, making her admirers THINK she's the most attractive woman in the world may well be part of her [[HumanoidAbomination inhuman abilities.]]

* InformedAttractiveness: As happens so often with characters who are supposed to be incredibly beautiful, Tomie falls into this. She pretty much looks like [[OnlySixFaces every other woman Junji Ito draws]] with longer hair and a BeautyMark.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Slight subversion. Tomie is extremely vain about her looks, and never seems to be much older than her teens (the oldest Tomie we ever see seems to be in her mid-twenties at most, but this seems to be an outlier). As revealed in one of the later chapters, [[spoiler: when an individual Tomie splits off copies, she stops ageing. This is at the basis of Ryo's plot since he wants to protect at least a single copy of her to old age precisely to avert this and fulfill his revenge.]]

* {{Fingore}}: In one chapter, a Tomie's severed fingers regenerated into five of her and the first three gang up on "Pinky" because she didn't regenerate as fast as the others.

** Ryo manages to live to old age despite all the terrible things he did to take his revenge on Tomie.

* VillainRespect: In the final Tomie movie, [[spoiler:she gets Tsukiko to agree to be assimilated by convincing her she (Tomie) is the only one who will care for her and on the premise that she will find someone to love her. In Tomie fashion this means finding an abusive boyfriend who is so obsessed with her that he stabs her to death. While bleeding out Tomie then evilly asks Tsukiko if she is happy yet. However, to Tomie suprise Tsukiko actually is. She was so lonely that that the idea of someone murdering her out of infatuation and possessivness proves someone else truely cared about her which just fills her with joy. At that point Tomie gives up and the two share a loving laughs and smile at each other, then Tsukiko dies.]]

* VillainRespect: In the final Tomie movie, [[spoiler:she gets Tsukiko to agree to be assimilated by convincing her she (Tomie) is the only one who will care for her and on the premise that she will find somone to love her. In Tomie fashion this means finding an abusive boyfriend who is so obsessed with her that he stabs her to death. While bleeding out Tomie then evilly asks Tsukiko if she is happy yet. However, to Tomie suprise Tsukiko actually is. She was so lonely that that the idea of someone murdering her out of infatuation and possessivness proves someone else truely cared about her which just fills her with joy. At that point Tomie gives up and the two share a loving laughs and smile at each other, then Tsukiko dies.]]

* VillainousRespect: In the final Tomie movie, [[spoiler:she gets Tsukiko to agree to be assimilated by convincing her she (Tomie) is the only one who will care for her and on the premise that she will find somone to love her. In Tomie fashion this means finding an abusive boyfriend who is so obsessed with her that he stabs her to death. While bleeding out Tomie then evilly asks Tsukiko if she is happy yet. However, to Tomie suprise Tsukiko actually is. She was so lonely that that the idea of someone murdering her out of infatuation and possessivness proves someone else truely cared about her which just fills her with joy. At that point Tomie gives up and the two share a loving laughs and smile at each other, then Tsukiko dies.]]

* [[spoiler: VillainousRespect: In the final Tomie movie she gets Tsukiko to agree to be assimilated by convincing her she (Tomie) is the only one who will care for her and on the premise that she will find somone to love her. In Tomie fashion this means finding an abusive boyfriend who is so obsessed with her that he stabs her to death. While bleeding out Tomie then evilly asks Tsukiko if she is happy yet. However, to Tomie suprise Tsukiko actually is. She was so lonely that that the idea of someone murdering her out of infatuation and possessivness proves someone else truely cared about her which just fills her with joy. At that point Tomie gives up and the two share a loving laughs and smile at each other, then Tsukiko dies.]]

* Crossover: The bonus story in ''Junji Ito Selected Stories II'' features a crossover between Tomie and Souichi.

* '''''Tomie: Beginning ''''' (2005) -- This straight-to-video movie is a prequel to the rest of the series, shot on HD, and based on the first ''Tomie'' manga. It deals with the chain of events that occurred right before the first film takes place. Tomie (Rio Matsumoto) shows up as a transfer student at a high school, quickly enchanting all the males, and raising the ire of the females. As is often the case in the Tomie films, she fixates on one solitary girl whom she befriends, with overt lesbian overtones. She displays all of her typical powers, and it isn't long before the murders and madness begin. In this movie we are introduced to the teacher who promises to kill her no matter how many times he has to do the "favor" as well as the eye-patch-wearing boy of the first movie in the series.
* '''''Tomie: Revenge''''' (2005) -- [[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt As you can tell]], Another home-video release shot on HD, this one partly based on the Tomie manga chapter "Revenge". This time round, Tomie is played by Anri Ban. The story revolves around a young, female doctor (Hisako Shirata), and an unidentified naked woman she runs down on the road one night. In her search for the wounded girl (who has a mole under her left eye) the doctor ends up in an abandoned house filled with bodies, madmen and an unconscious girl. Surely Tomie is not too far away...
* '''''Tomie vs Tomie''''' (2007) -- Partially based on the manga chapter "The Gathering." A young man with a past begins work in a factory, where he attracts the amorous attention of a mysterious woman who lurks behind the scenes. He is a relatively unique young man, perhaps a genetic one-off, in that he feels no particular attraction to Tomie. This of course intrigues Tomie, and she begins to become obsessed with him. Soon, he is caught in a vicious struggle between two rival Tomies. And neither Tomie will die.

The franchise encompasses a 3-volume manga, nine feature films (one of them being a spliced-together, short lived TV drama released as a feature), and some additional media and merchandise. A hardcover omnibus version of the manga was released in late 2016.

* AlphaBitch: Tomie taunts and belittles her enraptured victims, which usually ends in their snapping and killing her. Ditto to girls immune to her charms; she's fond of calling them nothing, nobody, stupid, etc.

* ArcVillain: Takagi, Tomie's teacher, in the first volume. Once the chaos starts, he studies Tomie's regeneration and then turns to facilitating her spread.

** Tomie doesn't handle being criticized or ignored well, and will tend to act hysterically, which causes her involuntarily to start to spawn a new Tomie from her head.
** Tomie herself seems to understand and exploit others' buttons, most likely to be killed and replicate through regeneration. The clearest case may be in the "Painter" chapter. By laughing at Mori's first portrait of her, she seemingly identifies his button on the first try, as he gets very upset about it. Later, she throws a fit about his ghoulish final painting, but he keeps unhingedly insisting it's good instead of getting upset. She then has a noticeable pause before suddenly starting to laugh instead, the final push of the button that gets him to kill her.

* TheGrotesque: Hiroya, the main character of "Little Finger", is a [[{{Gonk}} very ugly man]] with a good heart who is abused by his evil brothers. While Hiroya resists Tomie's advances, he shows sympathy to a deformed offspring of Tomie, helping her out. The Tomie, however subverts this, revealing at the end she's part of the HiveMind and gloats over tricking Hiroya, leaving him to die.
* HealingFactor: An extreme example reaching to FromASingleCell levels. It's virtually impossible to kill her permanently, because any part of her body can turn into an entire new version of her. Burning may work, but even that's hit or miss because of how extreme her regenerative capabilities are. Even when she doesn't regenerate, Tomie demonstrates an ability to heal quickly from various traumas, including being poisoned, cut, or even subjected to extreme cold.

** Tomie kills and manipulates people into killing ForTheEvulz, and she always survives... even if she's killed. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted for one Tomie in the final arc, who was imprisoned until an old age and had to suffer losing her good looks. Although she's shown to have somehow escaped through a small crack, it's possible she escaped too late to preserve her beauty.]]

* ForTheEvulz: We're shown that Tomie seems to know that what she does is wrong, but still does it for amusement.