History Headscratchers / JunjiIto

** Why did the doll children turn into... whatever theu do in the end? How is the creepy wooden doll stage an intermediate between human and "fucking creepy horror thing"?

** And finally, "Army of One" Creepy as hell, yes. Unsettling reveal of who's the culprit as well as yanking the hope of a happy ending? Sure, that' awesome! But how, exactly, did the "Stitch Killer" do it? How could over 500 people simply disappear under heavy security and then suddenly appear in another place all stitched up. Or, worse, the gruesome Christmas decoration?

** Or possibly she said "Make me a model or I'll eat you alive."

** And finally, ''Army of One''. Creepy as hell, yes. Unsettling reveal of who's the culprit as well as yanking the hope of a happy ending? Sure, that' awesome! But how, exactly, did the "Stitch Killer" do it? How could over 500 people simply disappear under heavy security and then suddenly appear in another place all stitched up. Or, worse, the gruesome Christmas decoration?

*** What about the fact that the sticher at the end included the family dog while the off screen stichers all just used people? Isn't that evidence that she's not a part of the original sticher strains that we see?

* I don't get it, in the Bronze Statue: Ms. Shirakawa just moved in the neighborhood. Why did that "old hag" Madame Sonobe target her as well. Shirakawa is the least at fault for mocking her. In fact Shirakawa didn't even laugh and mock her.

* ''Anything But a Ghost'' ends with the main character's mistress waiting by his deathbed in the hospital, eagerly awaiting his death so she can devour his ghost. So...why can't the guy just ask the hospital staff to remove his crazy ex-girlfriend from his room? And if she resists, that's what security is for.

* Right, so, ''Splatter Film'' is a very good plant-based horror story. Not going to deny that. However, there is one aspect about the tree that confounds me (LovecraftianSuperpower teleportation skills aside). We know the "honey" is actually the tree's sap. We know it cannot stand humans attempting to eat said sap, and will smush anything that it catches doing so. That being said, other animals feed on sap. There's birds, insects, other mammals, etc. Yet, this tree seems focused on crushing only humans who attempt to steal its sap and feed on it. Does it not notice other animals? Or, do other animals just not like the taste of the sap?

** There's a niche market for everything.

* About Miss Fuchi being a model: Who, on their right minds, would want that hideous, man-eating, HumanoidAbomination with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily to promote, represent, and/or be associated with the brand of their products?

* About Miss Fuchi being a model: Who, on their right minds, would use that hideous, man-eating, HumanoidAbomination with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily to promote and/or represent the brand of their products?

*** That's probably just a translation issue.

** What's that giant earthworm doing in [[spoiler:that Tomie hybrid made with the old man's daughter]] in "Mansion"?
*** Possibly a mutation with an earthworm. It's established that Tomie can regenerate from just her blood alone, and we were also shown that her DNA isn't above invading living creatures (as evident by the "Hair" chapter, where a young lady decides to add some of Tomie's hair to her own, and the strands eventually transformed her into another Tomie). So, it's entirely possible that some of Tomie's blood got splattered onto an earthworm during the experimental stages, and that ungodly abomination was born.
*** Wouldn't the earthworm become a full Tomie, though?
*** My guess is it's the opposite - earthworms turn into two living worms when cut in half, so the doc probably did some comparisons with worm DNA. Or hell, Tomie evolved from earthworms and that explains her regeneration ability. Yeah.
*** Earthworms don't have such regeneration at all, actually, it's a myth. Some other organisms do however.
*** Not that the myth would have to be true to be true in ''Tomie''.

* In Tomie, does the titular character's powers extend to asexuals and people with inhibited sociability? Other than the girls, who were often (though not completely) immune to Tomie's charms, the ugly man in one of the short stories was able to resist Tomie's influence (much to her anger) for quite a while until one of her weaker clones (who grew from Tomie's severed fingers) got bullied by the other Tomies, prompting him to defend her from the others due to similar experiences he shared in his childhood. I believe since his appearance didn't grant him any favors in getting girlfriends, he probably never considered the possibility of romantic attraction until Tomie getting pushed around reminded him of his own problems and reignited the spark of feeling that create most males' murderous obsessions. Does her powers also extend to any men who are castrated or are homosexual?
** Tomie's schtick is not just sexual attraction, as that one exception shows. She just needs to make one feel strongly attached to her in any way, and then the whole "go crazy and kill her but it was for love" story repeats itself. I'm pretty sure homosexuals, asexuals and castratti are still pretty much capable of love, yes.
*** Another example is in ''Orphan Girl'' where an elderly couple adopt Tomie as a daughter. They both view her as a daughter and succumb to her charm, ending up attached and obsessed with her.
* Tomie has a ridiculous regenerative ability. Even setting her on fire or dousing her completely in acid does nothing to prevent her from coming back and wreaking havoc again. But what if someone were to tie her up in the middle of the desert and drop a hydrogen bomb right on top of her? Even if the bomb were to annihilate her down to her atoms, would she still continue to regenerate against the odds?
** If one assumes she can regenerate from a single cell(as I do) but not further, then I suppose no. But even that can't be the case, or else Tomies would be all over the place from her skin dead cells alone.
*** Perhaps Tomie knows the only way to truly destroy herself and the reason there isn't an army is because she uses the method.
*** Tomie can be destroyed simply by being "cremated at the highest temperature" apparently, as it is the method used by the Man in Black to dispose of dead Tomies. It is implied that simply burning the body properly with gasoline or the likes would kill her - the fingers regenerated out of the ash simply because a small campfire isn't hot enough to fully cremate a human body.

*** That's probably just a translation issue.
* What would happen in a Tomie pregnancy? Would she give birth to another Tomie? Or would said Tomie-fetus kill her instead and use her to grow?
* And what if a male got infected by Tomie? Would it be like Yukiko, where a Tomie grows and breaks out of the body, or could the Tomie cells actually alter the body to transform like they can for women?

** [[http://h.mfcdn.net/store/manga/10049/15-004.0/compressed/spage175.jpg?token=bc5f4d6e5b501957ae34181612ba0d1c&ttl=1489723200 Here it is.]]

*** That's probably just a translation issue.

** Come to think of it, how is it that humans cannot tell the difference between sap and honey? They're two different foods. Yes, both are sweet and come from plants. However, sap is basically "tree blood". Honey, on the other hand, is the [[NauseaFuel lovely mixture of pollen, water, and nectar all mixed together into delicious bee vomit.]] They do have distinctive tastes.

** Who knows, maybe he did that after the last panel, but we're meant to stop there, learning that she's now waiting for him to die, [[RuleOfScary since it's the scariest way possible]] to end the story.

* ''Anything But a Ghost'' ends with the main character's mistress waiting by his deathbed in the hospital, eagerly awaiting his death so she can devour his ghost. So...why can't the guy just ask the hospital staff to remove his crazy ex-girlfriend from his room? And if she resists, that's what security is for.

** I'd imagine that their head would probably be snapped off if they cut off the noose. After all, tampering with the balloon would end up in death, so I'm sure one would die if the noose was tampered with. Not to mention it would be extremely difficult to cut off a noose that's trying to strangle you.

* So, apologizing for questioning the logic horror stories, after the terror sets in some things still bug me in regards to the inner logic of JunjiIto works. For example...

* This troper would like to bring up something about the Hanging Balloons. You can't conceivably fight them without killing someone or even yourself, I get it, but... why didn't it ever occur to anyone to simply find something sharp and cut off the noose from each balloon? Wouldn't that solve the issue of not damaging the balloons yet not dying?

* I don't get it, in the Bronze Statue: Ms. Shirakawa just moved in the neighborhood. Why did that "old hag" Madame Sonobe target her as well. Shirakawa is the least at fault for mocking her. In fact Shirakawa didn't even laugh and mock her.

* Ok, I have a bit of problem accepting one of the aspects of the series ''Manga/{{Gyo}}''. Don't get me wrong, it's a great manga and downright disturbing. But, there's a tiny problem with the story's logic (not counting the ones that can be explained by RuleOfCoole or RuleOfScary). At one point in the story, a walker-powered whale shows up before it instantly collapses under its weight. Ok, fine, SquareCubeLaw and everything. But, later in the series [[spoiler: '''huge''' towering machines are seen walking about powered by massive piles or corpses]]. How? It's shown that the gas-inducing bacteria bloats the victims and increases their mass. If that is the case, then this would mean the infected humans are heavier than they were before becoming zombies (as evident when Kaori collapsed after trying to hang herself when she became infected). Therefore, huge piles of infected people would way hundreds, if not thousands of pounds (even if you don't take the gas into consideration, a lot of humans is quite heavy). How is it that these walkers cannot support a whale, yet can support mountains of farting zombies?

* Ok, I have a bit of problem accepting one of the aspects of the series ''{{Gyo}}''. Don't get me wrong, it's a great manga and downright disturbing. But, there's a tiny problem with the story's logic (not counting the ones that can be explained by RuleOfCoole or RuleOfScary). At one point in the story, a walker-powered whale shows up before it instantly collapses under its weight. Ok, fine, SquareCubeLaw and everything. But, later in the series [[spoiler: '''huge''' towering machines are seen walking about powered by massive piles or corpses]]. How? It's shown that the gas-inducing bacteria bloats the victims and increases their mass. If that is the case, then this would mean the infected humans are heavier than they were before becoming zombies (as evident when Kaori collapsed after trying to hang herself when she became infected). Therefore, huge piles of infected people would way hundreds, if not thousands of pounds (even if you don't take the gas into consideration, a lot of humans is quite heavy). How is it that these walkers cannot support a whale, yet can support mountains of farting zombies?

** If one assumes she can regenerate from a single cell(as I do) but not further, then I suppose no. But even that can't be the case, or else Tomies would be all over the place from her skin dead cells alone.

* Tomie has a ridiculous regenerative ability. Even setting her on fire or dousing her completely in acid does nothing to prevent her from coming back and wreaking havok again. But what if someone were to tie her up in the middle of the desert and drop a hydrogen bomb right on top of her? Even if the bomb were to annihilate her down to her atoms, would she still continue to regenerate against the odds?

* In Tomie, does the titular character's powers extend to asexuals and people with inhibited sociability? Other than the girl, who were often (though not completely) immune to Tomie's charms, the ugly man in one of the short stories was able to resist Tomie's influence (much to her anger) for quite a while until one of her weaker clones (who grew from Tomie's severed fingers) got bullied by the other Tomies, prompting him to defend her from the others due to similar experiences he shared in his childhood. I believe since his appearance didn't grant him any favors in getting girlfriends, he probably never considered the possibility of romantic attraction until Tomie getting pushed around reminded him of his own problems and reignited the spark of feeling that create most males' murderous obsessions. Does her powers also extend to any men who are castrated or are homosexual?

* In Tomie, does the titular character's powers extend to asexuals and people with inhibited sociability? Other than the girl, who were often (though not completely) immune to Tomie's charms, the ugly man in one of the short stories was able to resist Tomie's influence (much to her anger) for quite a while until one of her weaker clones (who grew from Tomie's severed fingers) got bullied by the other Tomies, prompting him to defend her from the others due to similar experiences he shared in his childhood. I believe since his appearance didn't grant him any favors in getting girlfriends, he probably never considered the possibility of romantic attraction until Tomie getting pushed around reminded him of his own problems and reignited the spark of feeling that create most males' murderous obsessions.

* Okay, so I was a bit confused by the ending of the ''Intersection Fortune Telling'' story. So who the heck were they hinting was the Pretty Boy? Were they trying to imply that he was the son of the man who got his mistresses pregnant? Was there some motive they were hinting at that went totally over my head? Was he just doing it ForTheEvulz? The ending was so abrupt I didn't grasp much beyond the protagonist's death.