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Uzumaki - Espiral by Junji Ito

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birbboi's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious fast-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

5.0

tencutepuppies's review against another edition

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4.0

(4.5) I pity Junji Ito’s therapist.

chsahit's review against another edition

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1.0

Spoooooooooooooooooky spirals
Closer to 1.5/5
The one good thing I have to say is that the art was technically impressive at times.

I don't engage a lot with the horror genre but I heard a lot about Junji Ito so I wanted to give it a try. The thing about horror for me is that it's usually either so scary/disturbing that I can't enjoy it or it fails to produce any emotional response from me at all. Uzumaki definitely falls into the latter camp. I get that its a horror manga about haunted spirals so I wasn't expecting "realism" per se, but also the stories felt so absurd that they were almost comedic (but not quite that either).

sbrandon46s's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

nikkilpzs's review against another edition

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3.0

This was absolutely terrifying & gives the hevee jeeves

misfate's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

cobra_k's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

joaofernandes's review against another edition

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5.0

An awesome and terrifying story that gets weirder as the chapters go by. Stunning illustrations that convey all the terror we're reading.

gatogato's review against another edition

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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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lougenia's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

someone needs to help my guy shuichi please that kid is so fucking depressed :(

loved this a lot, it really stays with you but in a really unsettling way (of course). impressed by all the iterations of spirals that were introduced, got attached to the characters, and i loved how everything all came together at the end

I thought it was a little funny when another god awful thing started happening in korouzu-cho and kirie was talking to shuichi about it and he was just like "yeah it's the fucking spiral again 😔" and kirie was like "oh shit, for real? goddammit :/"

also at some point you think you have been desensitized to all the body horror and think you couldn't possibly be surprised by what happens next but then u find out you are mistaken. because people are fucking

eating

the

snail people

ALIVE

tldr: 🐌😐

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