Itou Junji: Maniac Episode 9 Discussion

Jan 19, 2023 5:34 AM

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Tomie is hereeee. they surprisingly adapted it good. They should have adapted whole photograph arc. but overall i m happy.

Jan 19, 2023 5:46 AM

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TsushimaMartin

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How shady it is to have a lump on your head, and even worse, they separate your head from your body

I'm not a critic or anything like that but I like to give my opinion

Jan 20, 2023 3:43 AM

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Fake_Saffron

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More frames please. Effort please. Character design please. Background art please. Please.

Jan 20, 2023 4:54 AM

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tylerfreeman87

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Tomie episode - nuff said. Decent adaptation. Kind of wish Tomie was its own series rather than interspersed in these various series' although it works well enough.

Jan 20, 2023 6:14 AM

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MartaNara21

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Tomie's stories are great. I was amused that after experiencing such traumatic moments, the girl only worried that her photos were spoiled

Jan 23, 2023 3:06 AM

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AceGeek

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nice episode. creepy.

Jan 23, 2023 2:32 PM

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weebtoge

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I was expecting more, since we are talking about tomie....

Jan 23, 2023 7:02 PM

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RedfoxAkame

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G-GIRL! YOU JUST SAW A HEADLESS BODY MOVE, AND ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS YOUR RUINED PICTURES?!!

But hey! They adapted Tomie well, didn't they? The voice acting was good. The animation was decent. The music they used when the body started moving was surprisingly fitting and added creepiness to the scene. I got really scared there as I forgot what happened in the manga already. I'm hoping they would adapt Tomie as a separate series even with just 5 episodes or so.

Of course, no adaptation would surpass the manga. So it was the right choice on my end to forget about the manga and just treat the anime as if it's an original series. I'm enjoying it more than I expected.

HuaLian <3

Jan 24, 2023 9:05 AM

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I see some manga readers here
I liked this episode, so might someone explain why Tomie is like this ?

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/HozayfaHB&sclick=1

Jan 24, 2023 9:06 AM

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I see some manga readers here
I liked this episode, so might someone explain why Tomie is like this ?

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/HozayfaHB&sclick=1

Jan 25, 2023 5:19 PM

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Tomie is back and you just know immediately how taking pics of her is gonna turn out

I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers

Jan 27, 2023 9:42 PM

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HozayfaHB said:
I see some manga readers here
I liked this episode, so might someone explain why Tomie is like this ?

I don’t remember very well, but I don’t think there is a origin story. Tomie has always been like that. Who knows how long she has been alive. There could be many copies of her. You can tell she was aware that the lump would grow when she asked her henchmen to cut it off and burn it.

Jan 29, 2023 9:27 AM

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uu107 said:

HozayfaHB said:
I see some manga readers here
I liked this episode, so might someone explain why Tomie is like this ?

I don’t remember very well, but I don’t think there is a origin story. Tomie has always been like that. Who knows how long she has been alive. There could be many copies of her. You can tell she was aware that the lump would grow when she asked her henchmen to cut it off and burn it.

Actually a friend of mine provided me some information about Tomie origins, it's something like a curse and it explained why her assistants in this episode ended up killing her

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/HozayfaHB&sclick=1

Jan 29, 2023 5:12 PM

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HozayfaHB said:

uu107 said:

I don’t remember very well, but I don’t think there is a origin story. Tomie has always been like that. Who knows how long she has been alive. There could be many copies of her. You can tell she was aware that the lump would grow when she asked her henchmen to cut it off and burn it.

Actually a friend of mine provided me some information about Tomie origins, it's something like a curse and it explained why her assistants in this episode ended up killing her

Can your friend point to a specific chapter/story in the manga?

Pretty much everyone around Tomie slowly goes insane and ended up killing her (particularly men). It is part of her mind control ability.

Jan 31, 2023 10:08 AM

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uu107 said:

HozayfaHB said:

Actually a friend of mine provided me some information about Tomie origins, it's something like a curse and it explained why her assistants in this episode ended up killing her

Can your friend point to a specific chapter/story in the manga?

Pretty much everyone around Tomie slowly goes insane and ended up killing her (particularly men). It is part of her mind control ability.

Specific chapter ? I believe it was chapter one of her story...
Anyway the thing was like this:

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/HozayfaHB&sclick=1

Jan 31, 2023 4:28 PM

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uu107

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HozayfaHB said:

uu107 said:

Can your friend point to a specific chapter/story in the manga?

Pretty much everyone around Tomie slowly goes insane and ended up killing her (particularly men). It is part of her mind control ability.

Specific chapter ? I believe it was chapter one of her story...
Anyway the thing was like this:

That one was animated as well. I don’t think she was considered to be ugly before the incident? And she was not bullied. She was trying to seduce someone else boyfriend in front of the girl herself or something (like she always does). She was accidentally pushed down the cliff and supposedly died (so everyone decidedly to cut her up to dispose of the body (everyone hated her because of her terrible personality).

And I think she has been immortal since before the incident. She actually woke up when the others were cutting her up. The way the whole thing developed is the same as always as well.

Feb 3, 2023 2:24 PM

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uu107 said:

HozayfaHB said:

Specific chapter ? I believe it was chapter one of her story...
Anyway the thing was like this:

That one was animated as well. I don’t think she was considered to be ugly before the incident? And she was not bullied. She was trying to seduce someone else boyfriend in front of the girl herself or something (like she always does). She was accidentally pushed down the cliff and supposedly died (so everyone decidedly to cut her up to dispose of the body (everyone hated her because of her terrible personality).

And I think she has been immortal since before the incident. She actually woke up when the others were cutting her up. The way the whole thing developed is the same as always as well.

If it was animated in Junji Itou Collection, then I honestly didn't watch that.
I don't how authentic my friend was, I don't specifically know.
About her waking up while they chopped her, that's correct but it was due to her just not being fully dead yet, like she was heavily injured, or something.
I believe her immortality was a curse caused by her grudge against them.
Btw... this what I like about Junji Itou stories. It's up to the understanding and interpretation of the readers. This dude in pure genius.

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/HozayfaHB&sclick=1

Feb 3, 2023 7:28 PM

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uu107

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HozayfaHB said:

uu107 said:

That one was animated as well. I don’t think she was considered to be ugly before the incident? And she was not bullied. She was trying to seduce someone else boyfriend in front of the girl herself or something (like she always does). She was accidentally pushed down the cliff and supposedly died (so everyone decidedly to cut her up to dispose of the body (everyone hated her because of her terrible personality).

And I think she has been immortal since before the incident. She actually woke up when the others were cutting her up. The way the whole thing developed is the same as always as well.

If it was animated in Junji Itou Collection, then I honestly didn't watch that.
I don't how authentic my friend was, I don't specifically know.
About her waking up while they chopped her, that's correct but it was due to her just not being fully dead yet, like she was heavily injured, or something.
I believe her immortality was a curse caused by her grudge against them.
Btw... this what I like about Junji Itou stories. It's up to the understanding and interpretation of the readers. This dude in pure genius.

I think it was in the extra episode of the collection (ova or something). The normal version is heavily censored (basically black screen everywhere).

I just checked the first chapter quickly. Seems like I remember it wrong. She was actually trying to seduce the teacher (married) (she had slept with him). One of the students got mad and accidentally pushed her down the cliff. The teacher suggested disposing of the body and everyone agreed.

Another thing is that Tomie didn’t give this “I hate you; I am going to curse you” vibe. She was just being a bitch and somehow she got killed and somehow she came back. Looked like she didn’t even give a shit or remember the episode at all.

Actually, the Tomie that came back might not even be the ones that grew back from the chopped pieces. It takes time for Tomie to grow back. At the end of chapter 1 (a few days after Tomie came back), one package of the meat was found on a beach, only starting to look human. Many other packages were found by the authority earlier. They didn’t even start to grow yet and they were cremated. Certainly it depends on the grow condition, but assuming different packages grew at similar speed, the one that came back can not be from the same batch.
Different Tomies share memory to some extent, so a different Tomie might just come in to replace her. That also explained why she didn’t seem to remember much about the incident.

uu107Feb 3, 2023 7:31 PM

Feb 6, 2023 1:05 PM

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