Dead By Daylight: Who is Tomie?

Survival horror title Dead by daylight recently announced an extremely creepy collaboration with horror manga artist Junji Ito, who has created many incredibly creepy manga over his decades of work. The Dead by daylight The collaboration, which will begin in 2025, will feature eight skins, two legendary and six very rare, transforming its killers and survivors into some of Ito's most iconic characters and creatures. One of them is Tomie, perhaps the most famous character Junji Ito has ever created.

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Tomie: A beautiful but terrifying immortal monster

On the surface, Tomie Kawakami appears to be nothing more than an unusually beautiful young woman with black hair and a noticeable beauty mark under her eye. However, she is actually an inhuman, immortal monster with an infinite potential for cruelty. Her origins are mysterious, but she appears to be a demonic, succubus-like creature that can either make people obsessed with her or drive them insane simply by spending enough time in her presence.

Tomie's main powers include the ability to induce obsession in men and paranoid, frightened hysteria in women. Affected people commit disturbing acts of violence, including murder and cannibalism. A person who targets Tomie, especially a woman, can potentially be transformed into another copy of Tomie, especially if they come into contact with her blood (e.g. through a transfusion). Should Tomie herself die, she simply regenerates; She is also capable of “budding” additional tomies from her own body, similar to the reproduction of a tumor.

Tomie is one of Junji Ito's most recurring characters

Junji Ito introduced Tomie to the world in 1987 when a series of short stories about her appeared in the magazine Monthly Halloween. Since then he has produced a number of Tomie-centric anthologies; She has also made cameos in stories alongside some of his other iconic characters, such as the curse-loving child Souichi.

Tomie's stories have been adapted into a series of live-action films, a television drama called Tomie: Another face, and a novel entitled Tomie: Repeat. Episodes featuring Tomie also appeared in both 2018 animated anthologies Junji Ito Collection and its successor in 2023 Junji Ito Maniac, which aired on Netflix. A Tomie series was also planned for the Quibi television platform, but its fate is unclear following Quibi's closure in 2020.

Dead By Daylight's Tomie draws from her appearance in 'Painter'

Dead by daylight Take on Tomie, a legendary skin for the killer The Spirit, is primarily inspired by a short story with the title Painter. painter appeared as a chapter in the second volume of the original Tomie manga and was later adapted into an episodic segment Junji Ito Collection.

In Painter, An artist named Mori is obsessed with Tomie and wants to paint the perfect portrait of her. Eventually he sees a photo of her taken by a friend and realizes that Tomie is a monster when he sees a second, horrifying face appear behind her outwardly beautiful face. Mori paints Tomie in this form, which incurs her wrath and causes him to kill her (as he does not know she is immortal). He chops them up into pieces and over time each piece becomes a fully formed copy of the original Tomie. Mori is said to have gone crazy after his encounter with Tomie.

Dead by daylight Tomie Skin sees her wearing the short white dress from this story, with two faces – one hideous, one beautiful – pointing in different directions. In the skin's unique audio lines, Tomie screams, presumably a reference to her death by dismemberment at Mori's hands. She is a scary killer who will definitely seem scary to the survivors as she hunts them down if the collaboration with Junji Ito comes to fruition Dead by daylight in January 2025.