Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror by Junji Ito

20 reviews

ririissoamazing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Mental illness, Death, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Genocide, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Miscarriage, and Medical content

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

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Animal death, and Medical content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Stalking, and Self harm

Minor: Sexual content

ollie_again's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The art is immaculate, but the story is kind of eh... Junji Ito is amazing at creating gross terrifying scenarios, but there is not much coherence or satisfying conclusion. After reading Gyo and Uzumaki I feel like even though I'm easily grossed out and body horror is not a type of thing I actively look for, after few shocking moments you can get used to Ito's style and the horror is not as impactful.

So there is the shock by gore, but not shock by the narrative itself because there is not much to grab in terms of storytelling. I think that Junji Ito could reach the full potential with someone else's writing because he's definitely a master in his drawing, and he can match his f-up imagination with an artistic skill, there's just something missing to push the story to the finish line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

yogomagpie'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

4.5

My first Junji Ito read and I really enjoyed it. Probably one of the grossest and bizarre things I’ve ever read. I really love Ito’s technical skill and how he draws his  characters, scenes, and the body horror—some panels genuinely scared me, and I’m the type of person who doesn’t jump at jump scares in horror movies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Cannibalism, Death, Child death, Car accident, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Cursing

anjalirenee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

terrifying and disturbing ! i also love how junji ito always includes a little story about himself at the end i always look forward to those. anyways stepped on Lovecraft's neck and broke it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Child death, Confinement, Body horror, Gore, and Medical content

nyssa_jo's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

Would have been perfect if not for

gangs surfing on tornadoes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Stalking, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Medical content, Physical abuse, Addiction, and Cannibalism

the_one_krissy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

...I didn't like it at all. It's obviously made with great care, but I didn't find the tale to be scary - just extremely disturbing in a way that left me sick to my stomach. My personal enjoyment of this graphic novel was so nonexistent that I can't rate it any higher than two stars.

Besides, Shuichi had the right idea on page 14 of this 600+ page monstrosity. They should have left town the moment all that weird crap started happening, when they probably still could have. There was zero excuse for not getting the hell out after the thing with the kiln. Stay in a place like that, you deserve what you get.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Death

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

reki_oeo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Stalking, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship