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shalini_gunnasan's review
5.0
This review is for the entire series.
Uzumaki is truly visceral horror, body horror so extreme you feel nauseous. It isn't even splatterpunk and there's little gore, but it's very distressing just the same. I couldn't even look at swirly for a couple of days after reading this. True to Ito's style, there is never any hope, and all we can do is watch everything crumble so very, very slowly. Be glad this is a work of fiction... or IS IT?
Uzumaki is truly visceral horror, body horror so extreme you feel nauseous. It isn't even splatterpunk and there's little gore, but it's very distressing just the same. I couldn't even look at swirly for a couple of days after reading this. True to Ito's style, there is never any hope, and all we can do is watch everything crumble so very, very slowly. Be glad this is a work of fiction... or IS IT?
silaart's review
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
Vraiment dérangeant comme lecture mais bon c’est de l’horreur en même temps 😭
analyticalchaos's review
3.0
Volume 2 was even more terrifying than the first one. Ito has a talent for taking the most mundane concepts and turning them into eerie masterpieces of horror.
vaneunoxx's review
4.0
Pobre Kyrie y Shuichi, ninguna obra literaria me había hecho decir “ewww” tantas veces jajaja
hanyentreletras's review against another edition
dark
tense
fast-paced
3.0
Impresionante el arte, las reflexiones de las historias, amo amo amo
No le puse tanta nota porque siento que en el primer volumen conocimos más de los personajes y en este había más situaciones que sucedían de la nada
No le puse tanta nota porque siento que en el primer volumen conocimos más de los personajes y en este había más situaciones que sucedían de la nada
joshuachan11's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Beautiful art, silly horror
4 out of 5 stars
4 out of 5 stars
sleepingnerd's review
3.0
okay. so. this is the stuff of nightmares.
I think this second volume had way more impactful and grotesque images, but I felt the all-encompassing sense of dread and powerlessness...dimmed, somewhat, in favor of the adrenaline of horror. Which is also good! But I prefer the first, since it makes the horror seem even more scary. So yeah, there was many panels that I literally grimaced upon seeing, and I was more than disturbed, but the eeriness in the air was somewhat gone.
Moreover, I feel like the characters, as characters, are suffering a bit. I mean, Suichi is fine, looks suitably traumatized, but Kirie... damn. That girl has seen some stuff, and yet she seems unfazed and unaffected when not screaming in the actual moment of terror. I know the horror is the focus here, more than the characters, but I care deeply about characters. I want to see her pain upon all the terrible things she's witnessed, her hopelessness, the way she copes. It feels so odd when all those nightmarish things happen to her and she seems fine and normal in the next chapter, like they didn't even happen at all. Suichi at least looks traumatized and paranoid, and the deep bangs under his eyes show he's Not Fine. There's none of that with Kirie, and seeing as we follow her along, it seems strange, how unaffected she is.
Anyway. Rant done. I'll probably wait a bit to read the last volume, since I just binge read this and became kinda desensitized to all the horror.
Read this if you want to have some nightmares about blood-sucking pregnant women and sentient storms (and let's not forget the suicidal stalker turned zombie!).
I think this second volume had way more impactful and grotesque images, but I felt the all-encompassing sense of dread and powerlessness...dimmed, somewhat, in favor of the adrenaline of horror. Which is also good! But I prefer the first, since it makes the horror seem even more scary. So yeah, there was many panels that I literally grimaced upon seeing, and I was more than disturbed, but the eeriness in the air was somewhat gone.
Moreover, I feel like the characters, as characters, are suffering a bit. I mean, Suichi is fine, looks suitably traumatized, but Kirie... damn. That girl has seen some stuff, and yet she seems unfazed and unaffected when not screaming in the actual moment of terror. I know the horror is the focus here, more than the characters, but I care deeply about characters. I want to see her pain upon all the terrible things she's witnessed, her hopelessness, the way she copes. It feels so odd when all those nightmarish things happen to her and she seems fine and normal in the next chapter, like they didn't even happen at all. Suichi at least looks traumatized and paranoid, and the deep bangs under his eyes show he's Not Fine. There's none of that with Kirie, and seeing as we follow her along, it seems strange, how unaffected she is.
Anyway. Rant done. I'll probably wait a bit to read the last volume, since I just binge read this and became kinda desensitized to all the horror.
Read this if you want to have some nightmares about blood-sucking pregnant women and sentient storms (and let's not forget the suicidal stalker turned zombie!).
clarebear2218's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
celinafaramitha's review
3.0
Another gory adventures with Kirie Goshima and Shuichi Saito at Kurozu-cho.
So odd but calming in a weird way. My favorite disturbing chapter is umbilical cord.
A page-turner!
So odd but calming in a weird way. My favorite disturbing chapter is umbilical cord.
A page-turner!