![]() ![]() Although Rysusuke appears very sweet natured, readers quickly realize that he harbours a dark secret. Lovesickness explores being a prisoner of guilt. ![]() Amidst this chaos, Rysusuke begins patrolling the intersections trying to stop the boy in black from telling fortunes. He turns friends against friends, leads a woman to kill her lover’s son and set herself ablaze, and culminates in the mass suicide of teenage girls. The young women quickly become obsessed with the boy in black: each wants to fulfil his twisted fortunes. One day a “beautiful boy dressed in all black clothing, with a pierced ear”, known as the boy in black, begins to maliciously tell the young women of the town bad fortunes. ![]() This is where an individual must stand at an intersection and wait for the first passerby to tell them their fortune. ![]() The town is ominous as the people within it are fanatics of “crossroad fortune-telling”. Lovesickness is the collection’s main story, which follows Rysusuke who returns to a town where he had once lived before. Lovesickness is one of Junji Ito’s lesser-known titles - Tomie and Uzamaki are the most famous - but Lovesickness certainly rivals them in terms of storytelling. ![]()
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