The town is being haunted by a beautiful boy dressed in black who causes girls and women to commit suicide at the crossroads. This form of fortune telling is also known as tsuji-ura and crossroads themselves are seen as boundaries between reality and the supernatural in many cultures.Īs with his other stories like Uzumaki, Ito excels in twisting everyday objects and events into the macabre and horrific. It follows a boy named Ryusuke who reluctantly returns to his hometown, a perpetually foggy place where people ask for advice at the intersections. The story was originally printed in 1997 and received an official English translation last April (2021). “Lovesickness” is the title story in the Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection anthology.
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, I wanted to write about love–and who better to teach readers about the dark side of it than Junji Ito? (By the way, The Anime View already has a few articles up on him that you can find here.) By clicking “Keep Reading,” you understand that you may encounter such content. Possible triggers or subjects could include severe mental illness, murder, and suicide. The genre of the work being discussed is Horror. By: Beata Garrett | This post contains content that we at The Anime View do not think is suitable for everyone.
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