Once the main points of the story are established, Ito assumes that the reader is aware of the basics and takes a completely episodic approach with his storytelling until the last few chapters. chapters set the stage for all the events that are to follow: a man's obsession with all things spiral-shaped, smoke that forms a spiral when it reaches the sky, the protagonist's boyfriend becoming paranoid over the mysterious activities that have been occurring in the small, sea-side town where the story is set, and so on. The manga is brief, as it is only 19 chapters long with one extra story, but it drags the reader through so much. That is, until I came across Junji Ito's Uzumaki. I would spend my time with a work, ponder on it for a while, and leave it at that. I've found the medium as something that I would always gain enjoyment from no matter the genre. Disturb me in some cases with grotesque imagery and copious amounts of gore, yes, but nothing that would constitute in giving me nightmares. If find any of this not really your style, especially the disturbing images, avoid this series at all costs! This series contains a lot of disturbing images, violence and gore, nudity, language, and intense scenes of horror. You never know, you could be missing out on a great horror manga and you could never have even known! This story might not appeal to everyone like said before, but a lot of people should at least read the first chapter before making their judgment. Either way, this story provides a chilling, but enjoyable ride from beginning to end if you find that you like this series. Some might be put off by the crazy images or might find this story not that scary but just disturbing. But this story might not appeal to everyone. Well… this series is extremely rewarding if you get it a chance and you’ll for sure think there is no other horror story around that can reach this level of freakiness. It’s kind of annoying that you get to know a new character only to never see them again. Everyone else that has a big part in one of the chapters is pretty much a one time appearance. The only people that make repeat appearances are Kirie’s mom, brother, and dad plus one of her friends occasionally. Then we get the rest of the cast… there isn’t much of a cast besides these two. The girl is a bit uneasy and refuses to believe a lot of the things happening around her for a while and there is her boyfriend who is really nervous about the town and believes there isn’t something right about it. Like I mention before, we are instantly given our two main characters right off the bat that both provide two different personalities. This story contains a lot of this story and unlike most stories, it actually makes this story scarier! There’s also the carnage and scenes of disturbing violence in the story, now this stuff is freaky. It really is drawn well and if you look closer enough, you’ll find spirals that aren’t even apart of the story at hand. These characters are really well drawn and have a small alteration that makes them different than another person, though a lot of the girls seem similar to me and at one point I could tell two of them apart from each other. This story really is scary and what helps it is its sick and creepy style art. But some of these stories within the story aren’t actually really horrific or anything which is why this grade isn’t a 10. We get strange stories about a lighthouse, crazy hair, giant snails, and twisting bodies that all go together into this spiral story, no pun intended. The story is written well and focuses on something that really isn’t scary to begin with, a simple spiral.īut as this story shows, there is much more to this symbol then meets the eye.Īs the story moves along, each chapter presents us a separate story that is completely different than the last, but still connects to the main plot. Soon, after the first chapter we get our first freak out and scary moment that is very twisted. Right away, we get the feeling that something isn’t actually right in this little coastal town. The story is simply starts us of quick with two main characters to get use to and He is known as the godfather of horror manga, but there is another called Junji Ito called the master of horror manga who has wrote something just as terrifying as any scary movie, book, or comic out there. Now there is Kazuo Umezu who really can write a horror story that’ll scare you. But often we just get a comic that’s more gory or disgusting than scary. There are many horror mangas out there that try to make themselves scary.
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