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Uzumaki #3
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3
Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral manifesting itself in increasingly terrifying ways. In this third and final volume, the town is cut off from the outside by devastating hurricanes. Kirie, her boyfriend Shuichi, and the other desperate survivors must face the impending horror. The movie version of Uzumaki will soon be released in the U.S.
250 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1999
About the author
Junji Ito
244 books12.8k followersJunji Itō (伊藤潤二)
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga.
The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.
Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.
His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.
Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.
In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema.
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga.
The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.
Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.
His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.
Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.
In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema.
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October 19, 2018
Well, I had only just posed the question of why nobody is leaving town in my review of volume 2 when volume 3 gave me the answer. *lol* So now I knew. Actually quite a smart way of solving that problem.
In this final volume chaos is descending on Kirie's town and due to more and more strange things happening, the outside world is beginning to notice as well and people try to help - with disastrous consequences.
Where the previous two volumes were a collection of strange and horrific incidents happening to individuals and painting the scene of a cursed town, the spiral is now cramping it up to 11. In fact, I'm not too sure at least one element wasn't a bit too over the top: .
Anyway, the pieces are clicking together and since by now we know all the things the spiral can do to people, the main theme, here, is the people's descent into chaos and insanity as well as pure survival and what people are willing and capable of doing to others in such situations.
I have to say that the ending did give answers though it also left a question or two and, as is usually the case, the path leading to the resolution was more enjoyable than the actual ending but it was still a great comic (manga) since it successfuly envoked this haunting atmosphere in which nobody was really safe. The art, as mentioned in my reviews for the previous two volumes, did a great job of underlining that in all its black-and-white glory.
In this final volume chaos is descending on Kirie's town and due to more and more strange things happening, the outside world is beginning to notice as well and people try to help - with disastrous consequences.
Where the previous two volumes were a collection of strange and horrific incidents happening to individuals and painting the scene of a cursed town, the spiral is now cramping it up to 11. In fact, I'm not too sure at least one element wasn't a bit too over the top: .
Anyway, the pieces are clicking together and since by now we know all the things the spiral can do to people, the main theme, here, is the people's descent into chaos and insanity as well as pure survival and what people are willing and capable of doing to others in such situations.
I have to say that the ending did give answers though it also left a question or two and, as is usually the case, the path leading to the resolution was more enjoyable than the actual ending but it was still a great comic (manga) since it successfuly envoked this haunting atmosphere in which nobody was really safe. The art, as mentioned in my reviews for the previous two volumes, did a great job of underlining that in all its black-and-white glory.
October 11, 2015
Whoa... and I thought first two volumes were crazy. This one takes crazy to a whole new level.
But anyway, a great ending to a really great series. If you're into creepy and unique stories, I would definitely recommend picking up this one, and hopefully, you'll like it just as much as I did.
But anyway, a great ending to a really great series. If you're into creepy and unique stories, I would definitely recommend picking up this one, and hopefully, you'll like it just as much as I did.
October 20, 2018
Re-read:
I've changed my mind. I don't mind about the end or the twists. The huge crazy was still cool but slightly less impactful this time.
I'm just reading it for the phi. :)
Original Review:
I'm of two minds on this volume. The truly horrific increase was awesome, and I loved how utterly fucked the whole town was.
And then, I also really enjoyed the last issue. These are two different likes. I have to separate them for my own enjoyment.
I would have been perfectly happy with it ending on number 19. It was dark, crazy, and had that last little lilt of joy in the very last frame. So sweet in an utterly horrific way.
And then number 20 comes around and turns it all into a ? For Shame! No. No.
Well, that's all fine and dandy in the big view of things... but what really chaps my hide is that number 20 was actually awesome all by itself! It spoke to me on a whole new level and freaked me out all over again. I want to make it an alternate reality special. That would be very nice.
Alas.
Still, my enjoyment of all this wacked-out horror extravaganza is not lessened. Not much, anyway. It was CRAAAAZZZZYYYYYY good.
:)
Gotta pick up more of Junji Ito asap. :)
I've changed my mind. I don't mind about the end or the twists. The huge crazy was still cool but slightly less impactful this time.
I'm just reading it for the phi. :)
Original Review:
I'm of two minds on this volume. The truly horrific increase was awesome, and I loved how utterly fucked the whole town was.
And then, I also really enjoyed the last issue. These are two different likes. I have to separate them for my own enjoyment.
I would have been perfectly happy with it ending on number 19. It was dark, crazy, and had that last little lilt of joy in the very last frame. So sweet in an utterly horrific way.
And then number 20 comes around and turns it all into a ? For Shame! No. No.
Well, that's all fine and dandy in the big view of things... but what really chaps my hide is that number 20 was actually awesome all by itself! It spoke to me on a whole new level and freaked me out all over again. I want to make it an alternate reality special. That would be very nice.
Alas.
Still, my enjoyment of all this wacked-out horror extravaganza is not lessened. Not much, anyway. It was CRAAAAZZZZYYYYYY good.
:)
Gotta pick up more of Junji Ito asap. :)
November 3, 2020
after volumes 1 and 2, i genuinely thought i had a handle on the scope of ito’s horrific work with the spirals.
after all, what could be worse than seeing your father squashed into a bone-crushing curve, or witnessing your pregnant cousin drill holes into unsuspecting people’s necks to nourish her bloodsucking fetus, or having your classmates (and homeroom teacher) turn into enormous mollusks?
oh, how naïve i was.
just when i thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse for the people of kurôzu-cho, the book has the audacity to, in fact, GET WORSE.
in that sense, uzumaki bears a striking resemblance to 2020!
last thing i’ll say is that the ending to this whole saga really unexpectedly put me in my feels. kirie was a great protagonist, and i found myself rooting for her and shuichi.
after all, what could be worse than seeing your father squashed into a bone-crushing curve, or witnessing your pregnant cousin drill holes into unsuspecting people’s necks to nourish her bloodsucking fetus, or having your classmates (and homeroom teacher) turn into enormous mollusks?
oh, how naïve i was.
just when i thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse for the people of kurôzu-cho, the book has the audacity to, in fact, GET WORSE.
in that sense, uzumaki bears a striking resemblance to 2020!
last thing i’ll say is that the ending to this whole saga really unexpectedly put me in my feels. kirie was a great protagonist, and i found myself rooting for her and shuichi.
March 28, 2017
Son üç günde üç kitaptan oluşan manga Uzumaki'den aldığım tadı anlatmaya kelime bulamıyorum. Ne yazık ki bitti. Benim için artık bir korku klasiği olarak yerini aldı. Bundan sonra yazar / çizer Junji Ito'yu çok yakından takip edeceğim. Korku, gizem, manga ya da bunlardan birini seviyorsanız kesinlikle kaçırmayın. :)
May 25, 2016
In Uzumaki (spirals) a town is taken over by spirals. Spirals, you say? What is scary about that? Look at an ear, that's a spiral, nothing scary about that. Clouds spiral sometimes. Dust in the wind can spiral. Cat fur can kind of spiral. Your hair can kind of spiral. Gradually, all you and the townspeople see are spirals and you and they are driven mad by spirals. Yes, that happens, it does, in Ito's masterpiece. And with spirals! Uzumaki!
It is kind of a neat trick to make an abstract image/a design principle/an idea scare the living bejeebus out of you. But it's true, it happens, and it's an amazing artistic accomplishment, because you thought it could only happen with words ala Stephen King novels or Hitchcock movies, with music and images and dialogue. But this is manga, comics horror. Mostly images.
And it works. This is an amazing ending to a great manga horror series. Spirals! And a surprise ending it didn't really need to make it great, I could have done without it, but it was still great, maybe even greater because of it. The drawing is amazing, and the accumulative effect of all the spirals taking over and driving a whole town insane really works! You will see spirals everywhere, AHHHHHH!
It is kind of a neat trick to make an abstract image/a design principle/an idea scare the living bejeebus out of you. But it's true, it happens, and it's an amazing artistic accomplishment, because you thought it could only happen with words ala Stephen King novels or Hitchcock movies, with music and images and dialogue. But this is manga, comics horror. Mostly images.
And it works. This is an amazing ending to a great manga horror series. Spirals! And a surprise ending it didn't really need to make it great, I could have done without it, but it was still great, maybe even greater because of it. The drawing is amazing, and the accumulative effect of all the spirals taking over and driving a whole town insane really works! You will see spirals everywhere, AHHHHHH!
April 9, 2023
Paranoia de capítulo, jajaja.
Tendré miedo a las espirales jojo.
Sinopsis: El primer huracán ha destruido, entre otras muchas, la casa Goshima, por lo que Kirie y sus familiares deben ser reubicados en una de las viejas casas pareadas del pueblo y enfrentar nuevos demonios. Aunque rescatistas y reporteros llegan prestos a ayudar, la espiral contamina caminos, tiempos y almas. El final de Uzumaki revelará las entrañas de la maldición de Kurouzo, envolviendo todas las historias… Uniéndolas hacia lo infinito.
Tendré miedo a las espirales jojo.
Sinopsis: El primer huracán ha destruido, entre otras muchas, la casa Goshima, por lo que Kirie y sus familiares deben ser reubicados en una de las viejas casas pareadas del pueblo y enfrentar nuevos demonios. Aunque rescatistas y reporteros llegan prestos a ayudar, la espiral contamina caminos, tiempos y almas. El final de Uzumaki revelará las entrañas de la maldición de Kurouzo, envolviendo todas las historias… Uniéndolas hacia lo infinito.
November 16, 2020
Me ha ganado con ese final ominoso y de puro horror cósmico.
Aunque confirmo una vez más que el manga y el anime tienen ciertos códigos de narrativa que muchas veces carecen de sentido o rayan en la absurdez total. 😅
Aunque confirmo una vez más que el manga y el anime tienen ciertos códigos de narrativa que muchas veces carecen de sentido o rayan en la absurdez total. 😅
June 26, 2017
3.5* STARS!
Uzumaki is Japanese for Spiral.
The final conclusion about the spiral curse in Kurōzu-cho. Our main leads, Kirie and her family moved to their new 'junk' house after the storm in the previous volume. Kirie's family isn't alone. Her neighbor stated there's a rumor about other family who suffered skin disease. It's the spiral curse again.
In the next chapters, the spiral curse is getting more intense and crazy. Kurōzu-cho already destroyed by the storm but there's some survivors. Also there's the snail person. Anyway, Kirie's family and friends kicked from the 'junk house' because it's the only house that survive the hurricane.
They couldn't leave Kurōzu-cho and walking in circles. Meeting new strangers who hope will find a way but instead infected with the spiral curse. Towards the ending, I still didn't find answers for this spiral curse. Everything turns into spiral and make my head dizzy. Let's just say the ending didn't like what I expected. Kinda frustrating.
Uzumaki is Japanese for Spiral.
The final conclusion about the spiral curse in Kurōzu-cho. Our main leads, Kirie and her family moved to their new 'junk' house after the storm in the previous volume. Kirie's family isn't alone. Her neighbor stated there's a rumor about other family who suffered skin disease. It's the spiral curse again.
In the next chapters, the spiral curse is getting more intense and crazy. Kurōzu-cho already destroyed by the storm but there's some survivors. Also there's the snail person. Anyway, Kirie's family and friends kicked from the 'junk house' because it's the only house that survive the hurricane.
They couldn't leave Kurōzu-cho and walking in circles. Meeting new strangers who hope will find a way but instead infected with the spiral curse. Towards the ending, I still didn't find answers for this spiral curse. Everything turns into spiral and make my head dizzy. Let's just say the ending didn't like what I expected. Kinda frustrating.
May 20, 2013
Well....... WTH was the book about???? :S
thinking, trying to remember...................................... oh SPIRALS and what else?? thinking... OH I KNOW SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS etc.
I'm just sitting wondering what to say about it. I guess I will just nag.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
THIS SERIES WASTED maybe 5 HOURS OF MY LIFE
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I have NO IDEA FROM WHAT PART OF BRAIN THIS STORY CAME FROM
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
It was about obsession at first but then it turned to I dunno what SPIRALS if thats the word.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
Wondering why would someone bother drawing such a book or a publisher publishing it
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I KEEP wondering what the story is about and what was the point of the last book or the whole series.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I HOPE THEY BAN THIS BOOK WORLDWIDE
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
The book was SICK
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
The characters were unrealistic mentally and physically
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
The book wasn't funny AT ALL (not like the first)
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
As a whole its a 0.2 stars series 0.1 for book one 0.1 for book 2 0.0 for book 3
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
the book SUCKED
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
Nothing else to say but SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
thinking, trying to remember...................................... oh SPIRALS and what else?? thinking... OH I KNOW SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS etc.
I'm just sitting wondering what to say about it. I guess I will just nag.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
THIS SERIES WASTED maybe 5 HOURS OF MY LIFE
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I have NO IDEA FROM WHAT PART OF BRAIN THIS STORY CAME FROM
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
It was about obsession at first but then it turned to I dunno what SPIRALS if thats the word.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
Wondering why would someone bother drawing such a book or a publisher publishing it
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I KEEP wondering what the story is about and what was the point of the last book or the whole series.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I HOPE THEY BAN THIS BOOK WORLDWIDE
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
The book was SICK
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
The characters were unrealistic mentally and physically
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
The book wasn't funny AT ALL (not like the first)
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
As a whole its a 0.2 stars series 0.1 for book one 0.1 for book 2 0.0 for book 3
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
the book SUCKED
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
Nothing else to say but SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
October 12, 2020
Çok manga kültürü olmayan biri olarak, en sevdiğim seri oldu.
Tomie'ye devam edeceğim...
Tomie'ye devam edeceğim...
March 27, 2021
More Gore, More mysteries and too many Spirals.
The entire series progresses gradually in an incremental manner. As you go deeper, the intensity increases. SPIRAL indeed.
It seems Junji Ito was so obsessed with Spirals that he has made this novel one.
The ending is quite a shocker and a disappointment for me. Although people claim it's a perfect ending, I didn't like the concept that the curse was broken only to be started again in few years.
There's no explanation on Why only Spirals, why not squares? Why is it haunting just the town of Koruzochu ?
It seemed promising and the concept itself spirals in the end probably the way Junji wanted to represent it.
Not really my cup of tea. Rated for the immersive story line and the graphics
The entire series progresses gradually in an incremental manner. As you go deeper, the intensity increases. SPIRAL indeed.
It seems Junji Ito was so obsessed with Spirals that he has made this novel one.
The ending is quite a shocker and a disappointment for me. Although people claim it's a perfect ending, I didn't like the concept that the curse was broken only to be started again in few years.
There's no explanation on Why only Spirals, why not squares? Why is it haunting just the town of Koruzochu ?
It seemed promising and the concept itself spirals in the end probably the way Junji wanted to represent it.
Not really my cup of tea. Rated for the immersive story line and the graphics
June 6, 2020
I enjoyed the first two volumes more. The ending was a bit of a let-down. And I am left with all these unanswered questions. Like the answers provided by the author don't make sense. And most of the creepy and gorry stuff was also absent in Volume 3. I'll still recommend this series. This was the first ever manga series I read and I am not gonna let the stupid ending ruin the crazy journey.
May 26, 2017
I don't know. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood to read about people turning into snails and whatnot.
March 19, 2017
Uzumaki finishes up with this final volume. While the weirdness stayed consistent, the body-horror elements took somewhat of a backseat to more action-based scenes, and the episodic way it progressed earlier now only serves the overarching storyline, which makes sense considering everything needed to get wrapped up. Unfortunately, nothing in here quite touches the two “pregnancy” chapter from volume 2, which is not to say this is bad, but that was REALLY good. Still, volume 3 gives us a satisfying ending to what I can easily say was one of the most enjoyable comic-reading experiences I’ve had in a long time.
December 10, 2022
A nice conclusion though it doesn’t say much about the origins of the spiral city. I will definitely check out the other manga by Junji Ito.
Time spent: 1hr 20min
Time spent: 1hr 20min
October 24, 2020
I appreciate the ending.
March 26, 2021
Üçlemenin en karmaşık çizimleri bundaydı 🥺
September 26, 2022
this is the last volume of the story, and probably the most disturbing one of them all. as you're reading the first and the second one, things get super bad and you (probably) think to yourself - hey, this can't get any worse at this point! and then volume 3 comes, and it sure as hell does get worse for these people!
if you are like me (and also if you're not, this is a fair question), at some point you asked yourself why the hell do these people stay in this god-forsaken, cursed as fuck town. and this volume definitely answers that - because they have no choice.
so, in this volume things just keep getting worse and worse, and everyone keeps getting more desperate and i was on the edge of my seat for this entire volume. at this point, i had given up on trying to guess how this ends or where the story is going - this story managed to one-up me every time i thought i knew.
and then the end of the book comes, and if i'm being perfectly honest in the very moment i finished this, i was a little disappointed. it ended so underwhelmingly in a way, and so quickly, and i was just staring at the book for a few seconds. now, when my brain had a few moments to process, i realized that while slightly underwhelming, it was the scariest possible conclusion to this already scary story.
all in all, i loved this series, and i thought this was an amazing and very strong conclusion to the story :)
if you are like me (and also if you're not, this is a fair question), at some point you asked yourself why the hell do these people stay in this god-forsaken, cursed as fuck town. and this volume definitely answers that - because they have no choice.
so, in this volume things just keep getting worse and worse, and everyone keeps getting more desperate and i was on the edge of my seat for this entire volume. at this point, i had given up on trying to guess how this ends or where the story is going - this story managed to one-up me every time i thought i knew.
and then the end of the book comes, and if i'm being perfectly honest in the very moment i finished this, i was a little disappointed. it ended so underwhelmingly in a way, and so quickly, and i was just staring at the book for a few seconds. now, when my brain had a few moments to process, i realized that while slightly underwhelming, it was the scariest possible conclusion to this already scary story.
all in all, i loved this series, and i thought this was an amazing and very strong conclusion to the story :)
June 10, 2022
الان که دارم نظرمو می نویسم دارم تصمیم میگیرم کدوم یکی از مانگاهای این نویسنده را بخرم...آرت خیلی خوبی داشت و ایده اش خیلی جذاب بود اینکه هر چپتر داستان خودش را داشت خیلی خوب بود و باعث نمی شد داستان یکنواخت باشه
در نهایت اینکه یکی از بهترین مانگا هایی بود که در این سبک خوندم
در نهایت اینکه یکی از بهترین مانگا هایی بود که در این سبک خوندم
September 5, 2015
Ok this one was equally icky and creepy, and I think sometimes that Japanese writers get to the most twisted ideas in the world of horror. So when finishing some creepy story you can be sure that somewhere behind the scene there's this Japanese guy giggling like mad.
April 18, 2017
Birazcık saçmalamamış mı ?
Read
October 25, 2023Glad I read this in Japanese, learned wonderful new terms such as [腐乱], "decomposition". And they say reading manga in the original wouldn't be that helpful, huh. Liars, the whole lot! On a more serious note, I do think reading manga can be a good means of improving one's grasp on the language (it depends on the title in question, one's goals, how far along one is in one's journey and many other factors) and while "Uzumaki" is probably not that great a starter title- no furigana, for starters- one can learn from virtually anything by repeated exposure, Thus I Have Pontificated.
All that aside, it occurred to me that we could do with a chapter on musical notation!
The treble clef is a perfect example of a spiral and immediately recognizable. The bass clef is a spiral as well, while less known and the alto clef does also resemble one is not as much. A chapter on a mad musician? It'd be absolutely amazing!
Also, Shuuichi and Kirie is one of my favorite 2D love stories.
And I leave you all with something entirely different:
All that aside, it occurred to me that we could do with a chapter on musical notation!
The treble clef is a perfect example of a spiral and immediately recognizable. The bass clef is a spiral as well, while less known and the alto clef does also resemble one is not as much. A chapter on a mad musician? It'd be absolutely amazing!
Also, Shuuichi and Kirie is one of my favorite 2D love stories.
And I leave you all with something entirely different:
August 14, 2021
Un muy buen cierre para una obra magistral. El primer epílogo pone para mí un broche de oro y el segundo es muy divertido. El dibujo es indescriptible, algunas de las espirales tienen vida propia y, por efecto óptico, se mueven ante tus ojos.
January 15, 2023
Hmm j'imagine bien un prof avertir ses élèves de faire preuve de créativité et de ne pas se lancer dans des 'depuis la nuit des temps' pour un projet d'écriture et se retrouver face à ÇA.
Bref, ça se lit bien mais je suis traumatisée sur un temps pi ça m'enlève toute envie de goûter à des 🐌.
Bref, ça se lit bien mais je suis traumatisée sur un temps pi ça m'enlève toute envie de goûter à des 🐌.
February 13, 2023
See my reviews of Vol. 1 & 2 ... more of the same... :-) Since, despite being nearly 700 pages all together, this can easily be read in less than 3 hours, it's definitely worth checking out.
May 14, 2019
Soooooooo this will be a review on the series as a whole. While I found the third volume not-as-good-as-the-prequels it was still amazing, disgusting and horrifying. Which it is to be expected from Junji Ito of course.
I found out about Ito’s genius from an YouTube video that I will link here:
https://youtu.be/lIIA6QDgl2M
I was intrigued, nevertheless, since I consider horror to be one of the hardest and best genre to experience full on. If there is anything that life actually taught me, is that I can get scared thru video games (oooh yeahh) and comics surprisingly (the video talks about this topic more so I won’t stop here).
So I read “The enigma of Amigara Fault” first. And I was not impressed. From a person who is quite familiar with the genre (or at least a person who experienced dark and twisted thoughts, like so many others) an other disabled mind isn’t such a surprise nor did it scare me.
I was disappointed and considered his fame overrated. I saw his illustrations before, but out of context, i couldn’t care for them.
And then I read Uzumaki.
While the entire narrative is still composed out of short stories (like the enigma of Amigara Fault and so many others of his works), the stories are linked together, and provide a much slower and torturing experience.
Uzumaki got me throwing away the phone in disgust. Closing my eyes. Look behind my back. Feel my stomach turning upside down. Thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it. Looking for lighter works (something I never do). I can’t imagine the Mind who created this hell hole and I do truly don’t want to. All I can say is that if you want to risk and look into the eye of the tornado, you’ll have to expect a spiral.
The symbol of the spiral is so rich in history and using alike, so the fact that Ito managed to twist it completely while still keeping its original sense it’s terrifying and compelling at once.
All i can say is that you are gonna see me picking up more of his works, that fascinates me and correlates with my mind in a strange, swirling way.
I found out about Ito’s genius from an YouTube video that I will link here:
https://youtu.be/lIIA6QDgl2M
I was intrigued, nevertheless, since I consider horror to be one of the hardest and best genre to experience full on. If there is anything that life actually taught me, is that I can get scared thru video games (oooh yeahh) and comics surprisingly (the video talks about this topic more so I won’t stop here).
So I read “The enigma of Amigara Fault” first. And I was not impressed. From a person who is quite familiar with the genre (or at least a person who experienced dark and twisted thoughts, like so many others) an other disabled mind isn’t such a surprise nor did it scare me.
I was disappointed and considered his fame overrated. I saw his illustrations before, but out of context, i couldn’t care for them.
And then I read Uzumaki.
While the entire narrative is still composed out of short stories (like the enigma of Amigara Fault and so many others of his works), the stories are linked together, and provide a much slower and torturing experience.
Uzumaki got me throwing away the phone in disgust. Closing my eyes. Look behind my back. Feel my stomach turning upside down. Thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it. Looking for lighter works (something I never do). I can’t imagine the Mind who created this hell hole and I do truly don’t want to. All I can say is that if you want to risk and look into the eye of the tornado, you’ll have to expect a spiral.
The symbol of the spiral is so rich in history and using alike, so the fact that Ito managed to twist it completely while still keeping its original sense it’s terrifying and compelling at once.
All i can say is that you are gonna see me picking up more of his works, that fascinates me and correlates with my mind in a strange, swirling way.
October 16, 2023
The end! Time for the big finale! And grande indeed it is – while the story so far told stories on a smaller scale, everything is coming together in this one. The spirals invading a small coastal town in Japan aren't just affecting single people now, they're taking over.
For some reason I was surprised about how we got a proper conclusion. I was expecting something unresolved, probably because everything so far has been so over the top (in a good way) that I couldn't really see it making proper sense at any point. But here we are, experiencing the aftermath of the tornado that destroyed Kurōzu-cho at the end of the last chapter.
Things are shifting into dystopian areas in this one. We follow Kirie and her family trying to escape the town and have to realise with them that once surviving becomes hard, people turn against each other. It's humans after all that can be the most cruel. There are nice references to previous episodes of the story, like the snails that used to be human reappearing, but in total, the vibe here was different.
The least scary of the manga, this one felt very focussed on letting the story come to an end. It's fine, it's what the story needed, but it's definitely the one I enjoyed least and the one that had the least emotional impact on me. It's still a bloody (in the literal sense) good series for anyone with a curiosity for the horror genre. It doesn't get much creepier than this.
For some reason I was surprised about how we got a proper conclusion. I was expecting something unresolved, probably because everything so far has been so over the top (in a good way) that I couldn't really see it making proper sense at any point. But here we are, experiencing the aftermath of the tornado that destroyed Kurōzu-cho at the end of the last chapter.
Things are shifting into dystopian areas in this one. We follow Kirie and her family trying to escape the town and have to realise with them that once surviving becomes hard, people turn against each other. It's humans after all that can be the most cruel. There are nice references to previous episodes of the story, like the snails that used to be human reappearing, but in total, the vibe here was different.
The least scary of the manga, this one felt very focussed on letting the story come to an end. It's fine, it's what the story needed, but it's definitely the one I enjoyed least and the one that had the least emotional impact on me. It's still a bloody (in the literal sense) good series for anyone with a curiosity for the horror genre. It doesn't get much creepier than this.
May 21, 2012
Oh. My. Gawd.
HOW is this NOT an american movie yet??? (I see there IS a Japanese interpretation, but haven't been able to locate a copy- but like "The Ring" (Ringu) and "The Grudge" before it... this has AMAZING pottential for an American Horror Movie...
REAL Horror, not that blood-n-guts stuff they pass off as 'horror' nowdays...
This is the story of a village. A village infected with SPIRALS.
Oh sure. Go ahead. Chuckle.
Go, "yeah... AND?"
But really.
Think about it.
...what happens when something as simple, no... as MUNDANE, as a 'spiral' becomes greater than just one aspect of the world, one pattern... and begins to take OVER?
It's HORRIBLE.
I couldn't stop reading untill I had gotten through the trilogy- TWICE.
It would take some translating... but this, like many other 'surreal' movies (like "Ink" and "Pan's Labyrinth" would make an EXCELLENT movie that would make your SKIN crawl.
You have spirals on the skin over your fingertips you know.
...and they don't stop there.
Don't think too long, too hard, about it... or YOU could get infected, too.
HOW is this NOT an american movie yet??? (I see there IS a Japanese interpretation, but haven't been able to locate a copy- but like "The Ring" (Ringu) and "The Grudge" before it... this has AMAZING pottential for an American Horror Movie...
REAL Horror, not that blood-n-guts stuff they pass off as 'horror' nowdays...
This is the story of a village. A village infected with SPIRALS.
Oh sure. Go ahead. Chuckle.
Go, "yeah... AND?"
But really.
Think about it.
...what happens when something as simple, no... as MUNDANE, as a 'spiral' becomes greater than just one aspect of the world, one pattern... and begins to take OVER?
It's HORRIBLE.
I couldn't stop reading untill I had gotten through the trilogy- TWICE.
It would take some translating... but this, like many other 'surreal' movies (like "Ink" and "Pan's Labyrinth" would make an EXCELLENT movie that would make your SKIN crawl.
You have spirals on the skin over your fingertips you know.
...and they don't stop there.
Don't think too long, too hard, about it... or YOU could get infected, too.
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