UZUMAKI MANGA SO HORROR
About the Manga:
Originally serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine from 1998 - Uzumaki is a three-volume horror series by Junji Ito. Acclaimed by critics, Uzumaki was nominated in 2002 for an Eisner Award in the Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material category. A full-length feature film version of Uzumaki was released in Japan in 2002.
Junji Ito was born on July 31, 1963 in Gifu-ken, Japan. Influenced by the horror manga artistry of Kazuo Umezu (creator of The Drifting Classroom), Ito went on to create and submit his first short horror manga story to Gekkan Halloween (Monthly Halloween) Magazine. This first story won honorable mention in Gekkan Halloween's Kazuo Umezu Award competition, which was also judged by Umezu.
Ito continued on to greater success as the creator of several acclaimed horror manga stories, including Tomie and Uzumaki, both of which have been adapted into live action horror films.
A small seaside town turns upside down when its occupants become mysteriously obsessed with spirals. How can something so small and insignificant become the catalyst for an entire population's descent into insanity? Only Junji Ito, Japan's master of horror manga knows, and he's not telling until you get to the last volume of Uzumaki.
Uzumaki is a series of short horror stories that have one thing in common: the spiral. Each story can stand alone, but also works cumulatively to build suspense as the spiral's grip on the villager's sanity tightens and more people, young and old, succumb to its hypnotic allure.
The spiral incidents, each more bizarre than the last, are narrated by Kirie, a teenage girl who lives and goes to school in Kurozu village. At first, she's skeptical when her childhood friend Shuichi begs her to leave town with him because he senses the evil surrounding them. Later, as the madness claims her classmates, her family members and even herself, she begins to realize to her horror that it may be too late to escape the supernatural spiral snare that is choking the sanity and life out of her hometown.
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