![]() Once you combine that with the back history of some of the characters, a weirdly obsessed woman who wants fortunes and advice but doubts both, and the childhood guilt of a now-teen central character, it gets really interesting. The problem is that some of those seeking fortunes have begun to commit suicide, and a lot of them have supposedly encountered the same street-corner stranger, a young man that no one seems to recognize. The first half’s story, though, focuses on a town with an odd local custom, that of asking strangers at a street corner to tell you your fortune, based on the first thing that comes into their mind after hearing whatever you want to tell them. ![]() It’s just too difficult to believe that a group of people this crazy could carry on in this fashion without being noticed. In the second half, the really crazy, really creepy family would be right at home in a slasher horror movie, but not a very believable one. The second half consists of a couple of different tales, more directly blood-and-guts horror, and the two styles are jarringly different enough that it combination was slightly unfortunate. ![]() ![]() That is because the first half of the book is a tightly woven, really weird horror story that is comparable to a really good Twilight Zone-type of scary story. If this had been split into two separate volumes, the first would have earned a higher rating, and the second a lower one. Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection HC ![]()
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