Bittersweet Ending: While at the end, the boy at the crossroads and ghosts seem to be gone, many lives have been ruined by intersection fortune-telling and the protagonist must bear the burden of restoring and aiding the town as it continues its practice.Bishōnen: Both the beautiful boy at the crossroads and Ryuusuke, as the boy in white are depicted with femininely attractive faces and gain the term as an epithet in the original Japanese text.Big Bad: The mysterious boy at the crossroads, whose pieces of advice have compulsive and devastating effects on the girls who hear them.Ryusuke, after becoming the boy in white, tells the undead horde of spirits to go right ahead and love him, and the chaotic swarm destroys them all, finally giving the town some peace. Be Careful What You Wish For: The beautiful boy at the crossroads cultivates the obsessive love of the girls in the town, even after their deaths.He not only resolves to catch the one causing the problems, but seeks to restore hope and avert future suicides by giving good fortunes, which eventually becomes his defined role. The Atoner: Ryusuke, for he believes he started this whole mess as a child by brushing off a woman who became the first crossroads suicide from his dismissal.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. 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.
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