At the Crossroads: The fortune-telling is practiced at these, and often, life-changing questions are asked there.and unfortunately, answered for the worse.They enter the Despair Event Horizon as ghosts overtake the town. after he seemingly sacrificed his life to stop Pretty Boy once and for all. Acquitted Too Late: Eventually, the townsfolk and Ryusuke's classmates realize that he is not Pretty Boy.While he seeks to find the cause and solution to this disturbing problem, he is challenged, for not only are the dead not leaving the crossroads, but Ryusuke fears that he may be tied to the mysterious events in more ways than one. But ever since he returned, girls who go to the crossroads have begun to break down and violently kill themselves after hearing an answer. People will go to crossroads in the fog and cover their faces, and ask the first passing stranger to answer their questions to find advice and solace in their lives. Ryusuke, a boy returning to his foggy hometown of Nazumi, notices that its unique form of fortune-telling has become increasingly popular since he left.
It was later reprinted in the Lovesickness hardcover collection, along with several other short stories. 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.Lovesickness ( Lovesick Dead note also known as Undying Love and Intersection Fortune Telling) is a short horror manga series from the Kyoufu Manga Collection by Junji Ito, known for such works as Tomie, Uzumaki, Gyo, and The Enigma of Amigara Fault. 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.
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