Book Review: Lovesickness - Junji Ito

Year: 2011
Pages: 402
Reading Time: 8 days
Rating: 8 Stars

Lovesickness... This is a short story compilation of interconnected tales... The first take is Lovesickness is biggest overall stories and the most interesting. Basically we follow a young teen who returns to his hometown which he left after a strange situation with a young lady. There is belief that in the densest fog you can ask a random person - like fortune teller - and what they answer will happen.

When he returns to his hometown people start dying - usually young female teens. The problem is that their spirits stay behind. There is a mysterious prince/strange and he wants to find who he is.

Amind the story, this is also a tale of redemption and well love. The art is awesome and very dark.

The next tales are also connected (2) and deal with séance and supernatural vs taking advantage of other people. IT was also very dark and ends with a sense of poetic justice.

The next tale is about a young teen who is contracted to take care of a house - but that house has secrets. A young teen feels pain on his body but the pain is not quench on his body but on the house... so a group of workers go from division to division to help alleviate the suffering of course this turns very dark when people start dying and the human condition comes into place.

Overall I find that this tale was not as good as Uzumaki and unfortunately that was the first I read so high standards. I have all the books and I am going to read one per month or so... I don't want to end them all in one go - because I could - they are so damn interesting.

Remembering the anime show I Watch a couple of years ago-- it doesn't make justice. enough said.