The beauty of Uzumaki is how Ito starts small and builds. They infect the town like a plague, one that distorts people’s minds as well as their bodies. Spirals are everywhere in nature, but slowly the town’s fixation on them manifests more and more spirals. The story, as many Ito stories do, concerns a small suburban community facing strange, inexplicable, and ever-growing supernatural forces. Ito originally wrote the story for the serialized publication Big Spirit Comics between 19. Uzumaki is Japanese for “spiral,” the crux of the entire piece.
It’s the most perfect epic of its creator’s psyche. Something of the Watchmen of horror manga, Uzumaki combines Ito’s penchant for disgusting body horror, the perversion of ordinary life, and massive cosmic phenomena. But if you’ve never read-or even heard of- Uzumaki, you may not understand why it’s such an important work. The teaser looked like Ito’s startling drawings come to life which made us very excited for the anime next year. Last week, we learned that Adult Swim would be producing an anime miniseries based on horror manga legend Junji Ito’s Uzumaki.
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