Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror by Junji Ito

7 reviews

sandramarinis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing, especially the last 100 pages. I couldn't put it away! The illustrations too, just wow. Amazing horror dystopia!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Confinement, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Disturbing, gory, gruesome. This was a perfect read for book club because each chapter was more disturbing than the last and we all needed to check-in with each other, like, did I just see what I saw 😵‍💫

The body horror in this was extremely disturbing and I would proceed with caution while reading. We ended up reading 5 chapters/week, which was good because I needed that space to process each section.

Overall, another 5⭐️ winner from Junji Ito. I thought there was an interesting combination of cosmic horror and socio-political commentary. And each chapter packed a punch! I will not be the same after reading this one—the spirals will haunt me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Classism, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Suicide, Blood, Gore, Bullying, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Murder, Cannibalism, Self harm, and Death of parent

liksie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Body horror, Cannibalism, Bullying, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder

rookerymeadow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

The horror is both faceless and personal. Like many great works, Uzumaki starts from perhaps the simplest premise, a shape, and builds it out into a sprawling narrative that seems to make so much wicked sense.

Anything can be made artistic, and move you to joy or fear. Uzumaki is a masterful example of the latter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bohboh's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Uzumaki by Junji Ito is a whirlwind horror read that picks up spectacularly in tension, terror, and mystery the further you probe into it. Every issue is just so imaginative and unique. Very rarely was I ever able to figure out what would happen next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Child death, Blood, Pregnancy, Animal death, Gore, Medical trauma, Self harm, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cursing, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

mirrorbug's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I always like finding books with weird premises and this is definitely one of them. It's a horror classic for a reason. The body horror in this manga is absolutely fantastic, that is one of its strong points.

The snail people is probably my favorite part of this story due to how absolutely odd and disturbing it is. The mating scene cemented it in my head as one of my favorite sections.

The ending left me with questions that I wonder if there's a real answer for.
The bonus chapters were definitely the weakest. Even if it's not technically a part of the main story, there are things I would've preferred to explore in the bonus chapter. It's not the horror in them was bad or anything, it was great, but it wasn't anything particularly special to me.
Shuichi was my guy. Kirie has serious "this is fine" syndrome when it is, very clearly, not fine.

how kirie can stay in that town after her boyfriend talked about how evil the town feels in the first chapter is incredible to me. Maybe that's a symptom of the spiral, but shuichi should've just gotten the fuck out of there.

I do wish we saw more of kirie and shuichi being a couple. It didn't always feel like they were to me, mostly good friends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Stalking, Pregnancy, Cursing, Confinement, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Bullying

Death is essential in this story, first chapter has a scene where a character finds their deceased parent, this is not a happy story

bibyabs's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Car accident, Cannibalism, and Confinement