Uzumaki

What the fuck did I just read?

Foreboding and incredibly off from the first panel, this work is truly exceptional.

I can not wait to get into his other works and can see why Ito is considered such a huge influence for so many artists.

4/5

This was the first visual novel/manga I’ve ever read and I really enjoyed it! I do think the first half of the book was much better than the later half, I just liked the individual strange stories more than when it all started converging together by the end. But overall it was solid.

There were some truly horrifying scenes in this book, like things that will probably haunt my dreams for a while. The art style really sold the atmosphere and feeling of dread throughout and the author did not hold back with all of the truly messed up ways people ended up dying. It was a great read and I might have to start picking up a few more visual novels in the future.

What could I possibly say about Junji Ito’s works that have not already been said? He is a master at taking bizarre or mundane ideas and turning them into a creeping horror with his fantastic art style. This collection of stories about this doomed town and the people who live in it initially feels disconnected and disparate, but ultimately built up into a suitably Lovecraftian conclusion. If you are interested in horror manga and have not yet tried out this book, do yourself a favor and check it out.

«Uzumaki» es una obra maestra del manga y del terror en general. Es una historia de terror surrealista y perturbadora que sigue a Kirie Goshima y a su novio Shuichi Saito mientras intentan entender y escapar de la maldición que parece estar afectando a su ciudad natal, Kurôzu-cho. Para más detalle: enredandotemas.com/uzumaki-de-junji-ito/

An absolute gem of cosmic horror. Junji Ito manages spectacularily to hold the mood throughout the entire book. It starts weird and gets just weirder, presenting the reader with unsettling things one after another, without ever feeling stale or somehow forced. I really enjoyed the ending.

For any fans of H.P. Lovecraft, and I kinda found something similar here as in Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic, which I completed just recently, in that regular people get caught in something inexplicable and alien, looking for answers and closure.

first off I'd strongly advise against reading this (or any of Junji Ito's works, probably) if body horror is a big problem for you. that said, Uzumaki is really good! the art is amazingly done, and the slow escalation from relatively self-contained (and occasionally kind of silly) spiral-based phenomena to... the stuff that happens at the end... is just fantastic.