![]() ![]() The boy could be a reflection of our main character, or he could be a result of the foggy town, or he could be a representation of, well, lovesickness, that moment where you have such a single-minded view of love that you lose all sense of reason, only, in this case, it leads to bizarrely horrific consequences. I have my suspicions, of course, especially when you learn more about Ryusuke’s backstory, but it’s left ambiguous. I absolutely LOVE that we never get a definitive answer on where the boy came from, in fact, we don’t get definitive answers on where any of the horrors in this anthology come from. It’s not as simple as the boy telling people to kill themselves (though that DOES happen), in some cases he’s telling people they aren’t worth his time, or to worry about bigger problems, things that get twisted up in horrific ways. While Lovesickness is, primarily, in Rysuke’s POV, we get to see how the beautiful boy’s words have affected people in different ways and how everything links back to the same source. ![]() What I like about this manga is how it tells these stories, especially the main one. While Itos earlier works are a bit more raw in their composition and layouts than his more polished later works, they are all still visually frightening to look at. ![]()
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