Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition)

yeahhhhhh

Some of the gnarliest body horror ever, with the added bonus of not having to imagine what you're reading since the visuals are right there on the page. Loved it.

My fave junji ito manga I've read so far!

These horror shorts are narrated by a girl and a boy who live in the village. The boy loses his father to the spirals and then his mother. The girl's father is a potter and his pieces become distorted by the spirals. 663399 marginalized rural labyrinth http://pussreboots.com/blog/2020/comm...

terrifyingly gorgeous to look at. creepy as fr*ck, i'll probably revisit it eventually :p

great read for spooky halloween

idk man

my favourite trope : enemies to snails to snail lovers 😍😍😍😍😍 -1 because this book ruined snails AND spirals for me so

** spoiler alert ** I’ve never really been a fan of reading horror books or comics, they don’t scare me but after reading this... IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING MORE SCARY. well actually gory. Because it was usually the human gore that unsettled me. As far as the plot goes there isn’t anything. The relationship between the two leads and how in the end they’re just dying in each other’s arms. Like they didn’t even care about each other through the entirety of the book. But uzumaki is a ride. A very uncomfortable and disturbing one at that. There were times I was scared to flip the page because I was just too scared and then there were times I had to put it down and wait 15 minutes before I could start reading again. Junji ito is a great artist. The art is just out of the world. But you know as a story teller he does lacks a bit. Because it’s not uzumaki but all of his works I’ve read so far, they don’t leave you satisfied. At the end you don’t get any answers... they always just end without resolving or explain anything

I entered this story unafraid of snails. I leave this story afraid of snails. Do with this information what you will.

Singlehandedly sparked my love for horror as an art form whilst scaring me shitless for weeks when I was 14.

I like it. Creepy at times, and it makes you wanna read more and more... It's got good artwork, well, as good as a manga could ever become, but yeah it is good, especially the creepy stuff that's happening. It's like episodes that have some continuation on the big picture that it's trying to paint and in general the story it wants to tell us. The downside on this one is that the characters are meh, not that interesting, I do not care at all what happens to who, there's no connection no real development whatsoever on characters, and that's sad, it may very well be because of the stories and the chapters being small every time or not having enough time I guess?! Dunno, point is it's not giving its characters room to grow. Other than that, I really wanna get to the end of it to finally get an answer or see something big happening, and I guess it gets +1 star because it made me get the next volume and then the 3rd too and pretty much take a break from other reads to finish this one.

I'm not into horror or surrealism, and I'm only just learning the visual vocabulary of manga, but this is well-executed. Placenta fungi, pregnant zombies, horny hurricanes, gangs using tornados for vandalism, humans becoming fair game, all that. But these garish wonders are secondary to the grossness and power of Ito's atmosphere. The protagonist Mikie is frustratingly passive and ineffectual - she waits for 10 distinct monstrous things to happen before running away - but this is a classic shortcoming / genre requirement and I don't know how I'd write a powerful horror protagonist myself. The boyfriend, Shuichi, understands everything right from the start, unlike her, and yet he is no better. There's a few beautiful colour pages, all in pastels, but it makes the rest look incomplete. The price of a weekly medium. So, a masterpiece in an alien language.

Loved it. Will definitely come back to this one again one day 🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥

wtffffffff

I’m speechless…

Habis baca ini langsung kerasa vertigo dan kayak baca buku sensei lain nya bikin bergidik mual-mual. Ga nyangka dari spiral bisa kepikiran bikin cerita di luar imajinasi gini 😭😭. Art style nya juga bagus banget. Cerita nya berkesinambungan sampai di akhir dan tetep bikin merinding ending nya. Habis baca ini kayak aku bakalan agak ngeri liat siput 🐌

Couldn’t put it down! Gave me a new phobia! Can’t wait to reread!!

Now I see spirals EVERYWHERE. Thanks Junji Ito!

This was weird.. TW: trypophobia!

2.5.. like the Goodreads description says: it was ok. the spiral hair battle was hilarious tho

This book fucked with my head in the best way possible. I was seeing spirals for a week while reading it.🌀4.5 stars

I personally would’ve packed my bags and never looked back after my spiral-possessed hair began choking me but good on them for sticking with their hometown!

Reread review: I reread this manga about 10 years after I last read it. When I first read Uzumaki all the way back then I was a scaredy cat, and a newbie to the horror genre, so when it came to the Lovecraftian and grotesque body horror of Juniji Ito I was immediately terrified, and yet I couldn't look away. I read the whole thing over the course of an afternoon and ever since then dreams of the spiral have come and gone over the past decade. No upon a reread, and much more aquatinted with the horror genre (I'm a Shudder subscriber after all) I can see the manga in a different light. Uzumaki as a manga has its strengths in mystery and intrigue, with plenty of shock values along the way (mostly in the case of body horror). This a story about a town haunted by "the spiral" a mysterious force that causes the town's inhabitants to become obsessed with spirals and things that take a spiral shaped pattern gain mysterious powers and influence over the world and its people. The manga starts off strong with The Spiral Obsession Parts 1 & 2, and continues strong for a while as stranger things keep happening (parts of the first act feel like Ito saying "Ohh that's a cool idea, let me make a chapter about it!"). However the first act is also the weakest with the shock value being the main driving force here, as most of the chapters during this time end pretty quickly and the events of them aren't really mentioned again. I think this is because the manga was originally serialized in a magazine so Ito had to draw readers in with monsters of the week and shocking imagery before he could move on with the story in the second act. The second and third acts though are where the manga really shines. In the second and third acts the story becomes more Lovecraftian. I won't say much here to avoid spoilers, except that the story evolves from its monster of the week format to a longer narrative. In the end I didn't find Uzumaki as scary the second time around, even if it had been ten years since I last read it. With that being said I think it's mostly because of my familiarity with both the story and the horror genre itself now. In the end it's still a groundbreaking piece of horror that every horror fan should read at least once (or wait until the anime comes out on [adult swim] in October 2022). Junji Ito is a master of not just modern Japanese horror but contemporary horror itself. 5/5 Original Review: Seriously the most horrifying thing I've ever read / seen. I read this series back in 2012 and I still have nightmares about it. Highly recommend to anyone looking for something truly terrifying. 5/5