In true Junji Ito fashion, Lovesickness has a bleak narrative with disturbing artwork. Ryusuke has a dark secret he has hidden since his childhood that connects him with these disturbing new events, but I certainly won’t spoil that here. Unfortunately, encountering this young man turns out to become a bad omen since his fortunes often lead to women committing suicide, afraid that they will never find true love. On foggy nights, many young women encounter a mysterious young man with pierced ears and black clothes. The town has a tradition where people stand on street crossroads and ask the first passerby they see to tell their fortunes. In Lovesickness, a young man named Ryusuke returns to the town he used to live in as a child. This story takes up more than half of the book, followed by a few shorter stories. I knew the story depicted on the front cover because it was an episode of the Junji Ito Collection anime. In thick fog, a girl turns on a street corner and encounters a creepy man ( Lovesickness, Pg.
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