What are they cooking? Slitterhead devs seemingly tease something Junji Ito-related
Slitterhead fans think its developer is teasing some sort of collaboration with famed manga author Junji Ito.
Yesterday, September 28, Bokeh Game Studio simply tweeted out the image below, accompanied by no caption or any other information. The image doesn't really give much away - the smile from the person isn't even creepy or anything! - but Slitterhead fans reckon the image is from Junji Ito's Tomie manga.
pic.twitter.com/C7VKhgbasCSeptember 28, 2023
First published by Ito between 1987 and 2000, Tomie is a series about the titular woman, Tomie Kawakami, who is murdered again and again, but always reappears. Tomie possesses a power whereby she can easily seduce men, but this seduction always leads to brutal acts of violence, where men typically kill either her, or each other.
The manga series has a bit of a cult following around the world, and has been the source of heaps of praise for Ito. There have been a grand total of nine film adaptations in one series based on Tomie, and in 2019, The Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja revealed he would be making a TV series based on the manga series (this was effectively killed a year later when Quibi shut down).
This cult status for Tomie is what's got many Bokeh Game Studio followers excited. "yooo. What ya doing with Tomie?" writes one fan on Twitter, while another adds "Is this a mf Junji Ito reference??????" People are really jazzed about a potential collaboration with one of the most prolific horror authors ever, and who can blame them?
It could be that Bokeh Game Studio is having Ito in for a video interview, instead of working on Slitterhead directly with him. Studio head Keiichiro Toyama loves getting guests in for a chat as part of the studio's 'Golden Hour' series
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