![]() ![]() Ryusuke believes it’s connected to the earlier woman’s death. In response, the girls keep killing themselves by slitting their throats with box cutters. Now, in the present time a number of girls keep meeting a handsome, earringed man (whom you can see on the cover) and he gives them terrible fortunes about their love lives. The next day the woman committed suicide by cutting her throat with a box cutter, and Ryusuke is haunted that his bad fortune made her do it. Years ago, when Ryusuke was a child, a woman in a desperate situation asked his fortune for her future, and he, not wanting to deal with it, told her something negative. It’s a town that often gets foggy, and people in it are obsessed with an ancient form of fortune telling where you ask the first person you meet at the crossroads during a fog to tell your future. ![]() This part follows Ryusuke as he and his family move back to Nazumi, a town where they had lived during Ryusuke’s early childhood. ![]() ![]() The first part is the titular Lovesickness part, which is broken up into stories (or chapters) titled “The Beautiful Boy at the Crossroads,” “A Woman in Distress,” “Shadow,” “Screams in the Night” and “The Boy in White.” Junji Ito’s Lovesickness is billed as a “story collection.” It’s set up in three parts. ![]()
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