Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror by Junji Ito

13 reviews

gatogato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

what the fuck did i just read. 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Gore, Murder, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Body horror, Violence, Cursing, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, and Torture

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

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

mxpringle's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

This was just incredible. I loved the way that the art style went from straight lines and as the characters devolved into insanity, there was way more curvature until everything was a spiral. The way that those artistic elements played into the plot was just masterful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Confinement, Murder, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Blood, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Gore, Child death, Cannibalism, and Animal death

tobermueller's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Violence, Self harm, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Blood

chloereadds's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Mental illness, Gore, Suicide, and Self harm

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Addiction, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Stalking, Toxic friendship, Torture, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Truly a scary, gory book! This book had me all tensed up as I was reading it and had to take breaks bc it was so unsettling. Really liked it but didn't like how some characters seemingly learned plot details that were important from thin air. Also had weird pacing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Death, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Confinement, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Animal death, Car accident, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Animal cruelty

butvampirestho's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WOWWW this is my first time reading a full book of Junji Ito’s work, and I’m so glad I finally got around to it. completely understand the hype—his work is both beautiful and horrifying, often at the same time ! on one hand, I never expected to get jumpscared by the flip of a page lol ! on the other hand, I would love to find prints of some of these panels to display in my home because they’re just that stunning ! devoured this in a few days because I was so absorbed into the plot, and will DEFINITELY be looking into his other works !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Physical abuse, Death, Gore, Torture, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

kyahfae's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

kakeyame's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Torture

Minor: Emotional abuse, Car accident, Infertility, Terminal illness, and Addiction