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Todo parece estar relacionado con una ancestral maldición que recae sobre el pueblo de manera cíclica. Besides the art, Uzumaki is a must-read classic because the chapters, which are all fragments of a very cohesive narrative, offer a wonderfully original mix of everything from body horror and adventure to survival/post-apocalyptic elements and a few Lovecraftian touches. I read this as part of a Shallow Buddy Read, partially because I'm trying to branch out in my old age, but mostly because a couple of my kids really love manga and they're always trying to get me to read the stuff. I loved how each chapter had its own self-contained story or theme, therefore it’s very easy to pick up and read a single chapter and still get a satisfying experience. I'm giving it 5 stars because I'm just assuming the translation process made the dialogue sound somewhat simplified.
This was gory and grotesque and very disturbing and at the same time the story is amazing and I could hardly put it down.which i can understand, considering all the build-up and physical body horror, but to me it was a nice step away from what ito had been giving me up until that point. Uzumaki really has it all: fucked-up body horror, Lovecraftian elements, boundless imagination, and an unnerving sense of dread that pervades throughout its entirety. Needless to dwell on how amazingly creative and imaginative Junji Ito is and how he masterfully puts it into great artwork. all in all, this is still my favorite of his works, and ito is the master of this type of visual horror for me. Kirie doesn't think anything's wrong with the town at first, but the events that follow Shuichi's father's death quickly convince her that Kurôzu-cho is cursed by uzumaki, the spiral, a shape that's everywhere and brings madness, death, and destruction to the town.
His imagination reminds me of Clive Barkers in so many ways, I almost can’t fathom how they come up with such insane, disturbing ideas. There is so much gross imagery (like people slowly turning into massive snails), and while gore doesn't bother me, this is just beyond my comfort level of "ick factor". Manga maker Junji Ito conjures up an epic phantasmagoria that obsessively plumbs the most modest of shapes, a spiral, for all the perversity and horror to be found within its endless contours. yes, this book is the story of how something as abstract and seemingly harmless as a spiral overtakes an entire town and turns the lives of its inhabitants to ruin.
Spirals are one of those naturally occurring shapes and are fairly common to see if you're looking for them, and Junji Ito uses that fact to scare the shit out of us. A man in a Japanese village becomes obsessed with spirals found in nature until he meets a horrific end. Tell us why you liked or disliked the book; using examples and comparisons is a great way to do this.
By keeping the origins of the spirals unexplained, this heightens our fear of the unknown resulting in a far more powerful horror story. and that is when shuichi -- and kirie, by extension -- starts to notice how everything in kurouzu-cho seems to have some strange connection to the symbol of the spiral. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral — the hypnotic secret shape of the world.The last chapter wraps up the story so very well and gives you that sense of satisfaction which I wanna talk about but it would be a spoiler UGH I LOVED IT! Shuichi knows what's happening, but no one will listen to him, and that turns him into a recluse who seems to spiral (no pun intended) slowly into madness out of fear and frustration. The most creepy to me were the two chapters on mosquitos, because it felt like there was actual suspense, despite the utter predictability of it all.
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