Tomie: Nottori

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This is yet another entry to the Tomie universe, if you will. The description already covers most of it, honestly: A man falls for Tomie but not quite, he actually wants to steal her body, as in, posses her. It's an interesting twist for the story, but not much more lore-wise (is there even a lore? I feel like people elucubrate many theories about Tomie so forgive the term just this time). It is still a very enjoyable read if you are a Junji Ito fan.
I can't say much more not to spoil, but I recommend this, even if you have no clue ... who Tomie is.

Having read Tomie just yesterday, I was delighted to see that Junji Ito had released some more chapters way later in his career.

So, how is it, you ask? It's bad. The art style feels like he simply drew over pre-positioned 3D models. Tomie doesn't feel like Tomie, and she barely gets mentioned, too. It's just this dude in her body being like, "Huh?"

The background and characters are plain. The panel with Tomie sitting cut up on the ground looks like a joke. In fact, it had looked so bad that I just stared at it for a couple of minutes, being like: Which publisher ... nodded this off?

Her "pieces" look like cut up, deformed corn dogs on a stick. The room looks like he just gave it to a newly trained assistant and just told them, "Do whatever, lolz.".

The plot is non-existent. Nothing gets explained, these whole three chapters were like a vague idea of what could've been a very good manga spin-off. Skip this.