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A review by mrswythe89
Uzumaki: Volume 1 by Junji Ito
3.0
Hilarious horror manga. I mean, it is not intentionally funny, and it is actually quite disturbing -- I wouldn't read it at night -- but the premise is that there is a town and it is haunted by an evil ... spiral! The very earth is
contaminated by the evil ... spiral pattern! The mangaka does manage to make it very freaky, but then he spoils it by putting a little biographical comic at the end about the research he did for the manga: "I ate spiral foods: spiral fishcakes, soft-serve ice cream .... I reared snails, but all they did was leave behind orange faeces. Truly, a fascinating pattern ... " Cue mangaka looking thoughtful and mysterious while the figure of his editor pursues him in the background: "Ito, where is the next comic?!"
contaminated by the evil ... spiral pattern! The mangaka does manage to make it very freaky, but then he spoils it by putting a little biographical comic at the end about the research he did for the manga: "I ate spiral foods: spiral fishcakes, soft-serve ice cream .... I reared snails, but all they did was leave behind orange faeces. Truly, a fascinating pattern ... " Cue mangaka looking thoughtful and mysterious while the figure of his editor pursues him in the background: "Ito, where is the next comic?!"