To understand the joke (or the horror), we must revisit the source. According to the official Tomie wiki (and Junji Ito’s manga):
The game progresses on a day-by-day basis, often with a "board game screen" as a primary interface. At the end of each day, you are prompted to save your progress. Events are triggered based on your current stats (Attractiveness, Pheromones, Corruption, Reputation), with higher or lower values leading to different scenarios and interactions. tomie wants to get married wiki best
One night, Hideki woke to find Tomie gone. He found her in the churchyard, under the same dim hood of rain, staring at the graffiti on the steps where young lovers carved initials. She looked neither triumphant nor desperate—only weary. He sat beside her and waited. “Why do they keep coming back?” he asked finally. To understand the joke (or the horror), we