Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36282636-20181003013042

Okay, so ever since I read Love Deluxe's abilities and Yukako's general character, I got a strong connection to Junji Ito's character, Tomie. She is basically an immortal shapeshifter who can use her hair very similarly to Love Deluxe.

I believe Araki was not necessarily influenced by the Tomie chapters in "Monthly Halloween" but possibly by the Harionago ghost, which has barbed hair it can attack with and control men with, as Araki brings up demons and gods in 'Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe' and other things.

I sort of quietly put my thoughts behind and read on, only to discover the 'wall eyes' of part eight. Immediately, I connected them to Junji Ito's short story, 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault.' Large columns of dirt and stone erupt from the earth after a large, non-destructive earthquake hits Japan and hundreds of holes that all look similar are open on the rockface, which many humans can fit through, much like the wall eyes. In the story and in part eight, if a human does go in, they are very different when they come (to avoid spoilers).

Both of these got me googling around and finding my suspicion that Tomie and Love Deluxe are likely based off of the same japanese demon (Harionago) close to 99% correct, but as far as I can tell, Amigara Fault has no source other than Japan being earthquake prone and Ito's creative mind.

Some friends of mine have laughed and said that Araki also stole his superbly-detailed style from Ito as well, but I found the topic important enough to post my thoughts about. What are you guys' thoughts on putting these different stories as references or trivia on their corresponding pages?

I may post this question to a few reddits if I don't get much response here but we'll see, normally I wouldn't care but as stated if there's two possible influences from one source (Ito) then I would like to make sure people know of it, as honestly, the references in JoJo are almost half the fun. 