Although Ryuusuke attempts to change the subject, Midori tells him that ten years ago, her aunt had a married man's baby, but because the matter was never resolved, her aunt started resorting to intersection fortune telling to get help. The love in Ryuusuke's words momentarily snap Midori out of the Intersection Bishounen's curse, and she quickly takes out a razor and cuts her own throat. and it’s one of those short slice-of-life stories that sometimes make their way into these collections; a (possibly autobiographical? With the whole city in an uproar, a smug Midori tells him that the authorities are all looking for Ryuusuke, believing that he is the Intersection Bishounen.

Disproportionate Retribution: Ryusuke as a kid unthinkingly told a pregnant woman that the man who knocked her up would never love her, while he was trying to run away from home.The Séance was my favourite of the two, and these stories do go to dark places, but I just cannot connect with the characters of the siblings. My sister bought me Lovesickness for Christmas, making this the first time I’ve read something by Ito completely oblivious to it is premise. Midori becomes worried about Ryuusuke and attempts to follow him when he goes to help people, but she gets lost in the fog.

The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. I really loved a lot of Ito’s art in this story too, which made great use of fog and portrayed the spirits of the boy’s victims as stupendously horrifying to look upon, especially as they linger longer and longer in the world of the living. r/junjiito is dedicated to legendary award-winning horror mangaka Junji Itō (伊藤潤二) and friends like Kazuo Umezz (楳図かずお), Hideshi Hino (日野日出志), and other horror mangaka. But, the next day, the woman came back to Midori's house looking for more advice about her situation. His friend Teshima also spreads the rumor that Ryuusuke is the Intersection Bishounen, which causes him to be the target of obsession by nearly every girl in school.

He doesn’t appear in ‘The Boy in White’, which is instead narrated by a man who comes to the city having heard rumours of its multiple suicides. I might say that the ten stories here are not appreciably better or worse than other collections (so, 3 stars? Junji Ito’s Lovesickness collection is really more of a graphic novel with some short stories tacked on at the end because the stories that comprise the main story take up about 250 of the 400 pages in this book.

Midori, who has been tagging along, brings some flowers with her to lay at the intersection where her aunt died. I love Junji Ito, in case you haven't been following along, and having any complaints about getting hardcover editions as nice as the ones from Viz feels a little like the very definition of looking a gift horse in the mouth but also the decisions that Viz keeps making about what, exactly, the bring out remain frequently perplexing. Ito’s art is first rate as always, even if his character designs get recycled from book to book - the woman with the full-body tattoo and some of the decayed ghosts look incredible and grotesque.While I adore Ito, I'm not a huge fan of his linked stories and I found Lovesickness to be one of his weakest volumes to date. Ryuusuke suddenly appears and the men can only watch as he runs into the crowd to confront the Bishounen but is torn to pieces by the ghosts. As the man does so, another couple joins him and they make their rounds, realizing that by being nice they are solving the problem.

The primary portion of the manga follows a multi-chapter story of a boy who moves back to his childhood town, only to find his past is haunting him through the spirit of a beautiful boy, targeting young girls at crossroads and leading them to drastic ends. Ito's stories, my sanity seriously, honestly is not doing well and my level of mental health is also dropping.He begins to notice weird things such as his ears getting pierced over night and being chased by lovestruck girls. Pretty Boy: Both the beautiful boy at the crossroads and Ryuusuke, as the boy in white are depicted with femininely attractive faces and gain the term " Bishōnen" as an epithet in the original Japanese text. After finding out more details about the Intersection Bishounen and the woman's death, Ryuusuke goes to kill him. Such as, what is the real origin / identity of the bishounen, what is the connection between him and Ryusuke, and what is the meaning of the ending (Boy in White chapter)? Ryuusuke realizes that the body is of the child the woman murdered and he and his parents inform the police.