Junji Ito: Collection - Tomie
伊藤潤二 富江 (Itou Junji: Collection - Tomie)
- Drama
- Horror
- Supernatural
- Episodes
- 2
- Duration
- 10 min per ep
- Aired
- Apr 27, 2018 to May 25, 2018
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
High school memories can be tender or painful, but one class is forced into the latter when a fellow student is found dead. The victim is Tomie Kawakami—admired for her striking, almost unearthly beauty—and the crime is especially horrific: her body was cut apart and the pieces dispersed.
Before anyone can process what happened, Tomie appears at the classroom door, calmly apologizing for her lateness. With her long black hair and the distinctive beauty mark beneath her left eye, she looks exactly like the girl they just lost—leaving her classmates to confront a chilling question: if Tomie is back, what did they really witness?
Otaku Consensus
This two-episode Tomie addendum to Studio Deen’s Junji Ito: Collection is received as a niche, uneven adaptation: the Tomie material remains the strongest draw because its short format foregrounds Junji Ito’s recurring obsessions with beauty, gore, curses, and social contagion. The genuine sticking point is adaptation quality, with many viewers finding the TV-anime visual approach too stiff and compressed to reproduce the precision, texture, and slow dread of Ito’s manga panels.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Tomie if you want Junji Ito’s horror in its most iconic, concentrated form without committing to a long anthology or a lore-heavy supernatural series. It scratches the same bite-sized nightmare itch as Yamishibai, but with a more sensual, body-horror-driven curse at its center; it also shares Higurashi’s interest in groups turning unstable, without becoming a mystery-box thriller. The appeal is not “scares per minute” so much as watching a single impossible girl distort classrooms, desire, authority, and ordinary urban life. Viewers interested in monster-girl horror, male fixation, gore, and the uncomfortable overlap between attraction and revulsion will get the most from it, especially if they approach it as a compact companion piece to Ito’s manga rather than a definitive replacement.
Key Characters
- TTomie Kawakami
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s signature creations: a supernatural femme-monster whose power lies less in combat than in making desire, jealousy, and social order rot from the inside.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
It is only two episodes long, making it one of the most compact entries tied to Studio Deen’s 2018 Junji Ito: Collection rather than a full standalone Tomie series.
- 2
The adaptation isolates Tomie, Junji Ito’s recurring horror icon, instead of spreading attention across multiple unrelated Ito stories, giving the page a sharper identity than many anthology entries.
- 3
AniList’s tag spread is unusually specific for a short horror entry: Gore is rated at 85%, while Monster Girl, Male Harem, Heterosexual dynamics, and Curses all sit at 79%.
- 4
Its genre mix is Drama, Horror, and Supernatural, but the supporting tags point to a more social kind of terror: urban settings, school spaces, love-triangle tension, teachers, and age-gap unease.
- 5
The reception profile is distinctly cult rather than mainstream: a 6.42 MAL score from 21,081 votes and a #8319 rank place it in mixed territory, while its #3710 popularity shows Tomie still pulls in horror-curious viewers.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Junji Ito is credited as the original creator, and Tomie is historically central to his career: the manga began as one of his earliest breakthrough works before becoming one of his most recognizable horror properties.
- Fun fact 2
- The two episodes aired from April 27, 2018 to May 25, 2018, after the main winter 2018 run of Junji Ito: Collection, which helps explain why it is often treated as a special add-on rather than a conventional season.
- Fun fact 3
- AniList lists the entry at 64/100 with 269 favourites, closely mirroring MAL’s 6.42/10 average and reinforcing its reputation as a divisive adaptation with a dedicated horror niche.
- Fun fact 4
- Studio Deen handled the animation, the same studio behind the broader Junji Ito: Collection project, making Tomie part of the first major television-era attempt to package Ito’s short-form manga horror for anime audiences.
Studios
- Studio Deen
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