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LAYERS OF FEAR JUNJI ITO SERIES

Even without the curse, this family was screwed up from the start. The mothers behavior never truly feels to be in either of her daughters best interests and are entirely self serving, with both of her daughters seemingly acting only as extensions for her ego and happiness, given that when one displeases her she immediately turns on her children. Not to mention that the mother gets downright creepy and obsessive with the idea of aging her child down and redoing everything. The mother constantly babies her younger daughter, but it comes with the implication that she wasnt able to have a normal childhood due to both the spotlight and her moms pushiness. Her older daughter was neglected and ignored because her mom didnt find her pretty enough (which she says to her face). While the entirety of the curse is unsettling enough, the way how the mother treats and manipulates her daughters is disturbingly reminiscent of real world abuse.This implies that she cannot progress forward, and her future has quite literally been ripped away from her.

The setpieces are constantly changing and. These themes are familiar when presented in the context of familiarity to Ito's works, reminding of stories such as Tomie or No Longer Human.

At the end of "Layers of Fear", Reimi is still mentally a child, or alternatively her mind is a irreparably warped amalgamation of whats left of each layer that had been torn off beforehand. Layers of Fear is notorious for its themes of obsession and mortality in the face of ego, telling the tale of a painter who sacrificed too much for his art.

One of the team thinks that the layers resemble a human face and a skull, which looks like that of a child, is uncovered.

LAYERS OF FEAR JUNJI ITO SERIES

Plot A team of archaeologists led by Professor Soya uncovers a series of layers at an excavation site.

Unfortunately, all this results in is the monster making the protagonist its new host. Layers of Fear is a one-shot story published in 2017 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Junji Ito 's manga career. Read between the lines, and it's implied that the woman was attempting to kill herself to prevent the monster from committing any more murders. It's later shown that the woman's "tongue" wasn't really a tongue at all, but a parasitic monster that inhabits people's mouths.When the plan is carried out, the protagonist notices that the licking woman's spectacles are the same as the stranger's, and wonders if it was a suicidal cure. The protagonist meets someone who provides a chemical that should prove fatal.