Tomie

Tomie Kawakami is the recurring supernatural figure at the center of Junji Ito's Tomie stories. She appears in multiple lives and settings, provoking obsession, jealousy, murder, and repeated regeneration in Junji Ito Maniac.

Tomie's place in the story of Junji Ito Maniac

Tomie is beautiful, manipulative, narcissistic, cruel, and difficult to interpret as a single continuous human personality. She can regenerate from fragments, multiply into separate bodies, survive extreme injury, and exert a destructive attraction over others.

Tomie's powers, allies, and character growth

Men often become obsessed with possessing or killing her, while different Tomies can turn against one another. The episodic structure makes identity, replication, and the impossibility of destroying desire central to her character.