![]() *Ufff* First thing, don't come at me, I still love Mr. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema. In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her - only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.īefore Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. The surname Owaki means "big, great" (大) ( o) and "side, armpit, the other way, another place, flank, supporting role" (脇) ( waki).Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself.Mesmerized, he strips off his clothes and enters his hole. As he sits mournfully in front of Yoshida's hole, he drops his flashlight and discovers his own hole, much to his horror, located near Yoshida's. He wakes up screaming and finds out that Yoshida has unblocked her hole and disappeared into it. The nightmare grows more freakish as Owaki enters the hole and after some time moving forward in it, he can feel his neck and limbs being torturously stretched and distorted, but he remains alive and in agony. Owaki has another nightmare: This time he is in an ancient time, in which he has committed a horrific crime and is sentenced to enter a hole in the mountain that is dug out for him. Owaki tries to calm her down by stuffing her hole with rocks, and stays the night with her. That night, Yoshida feels that the hole is calling her name and luring her into it, and if she goes there, she knows she'll be trapped. Meanwhile, Nakagaki still hasn't been found. He wakes up to find Yoshida claiming she has found her own hole, located near the foot of the fault. Later that night, Owaki has a nightmare about Nakagaki trapped inside the hole because it has been deformed by the earthquake. Scientists can't find any trace of Nakagaki inside the hole, and a rescue squad who's tiny enough to squeeze into the hole has to retreat after barely getting 5 meters (16 ft) deep into the hole Nakagaki went into. He takes them to his hole, and after removing his clothes to his underwear, disappears into the hole before Owaki can stop him. Owaki dismisses the idea, claiming it's ridiculous, but another hiker, Nakagaki, overhearing their conversation and siding with Yoshida, claims he has found his own hole. Owaki notices Yoshida is looking for something, to which she replies she's looking for a hole that's shaped like herself. Owaki meets Yoshida while hiking the Amigara Mountain, having the same intention to see the fault. ![]() Owaki (大脇) is the main protagonist of the short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault.
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