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A review by trish204
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 by Junji Ito
4.0
A creepy comic about a town in Japan that suddenly gets cases of people going crazy and it all has to do with spirals.
The comic (manga) consists of 6 chapters, short stories within a larger context if you will, all detailing events in the same town as seen through the eyes of a young teenage girl.
We have her best friend's father going crazy as well as the resulting consequences for that friend's mother, before another friend of the protagonist's as well as neighbours and even her own family are getting sucked into the whirlpool of madness (though the story about the neighbouring kids was actually very sweet/romantic).
All in all, it's a downward spiral (excuse the pun), a town's descent into horror and madness.
The manga is black-and-white, the images detailed and always as weird as the scenes they are depicting. I wouldn't call myself a fan of the art / the artist's style, but it was nice and appropriately creepy and the black-and-white actually helped intensifying the sense of abstract dread and downright weirdness.
There are two more volumes and, supposedly, we'll get an answer as to WHY this is happening by the end of volume 3. Only one way to find out ...
Definitely a great read for October.
The comic (manga) consists of 6 chapters, short stories within a larger context if you will, all detailing events in the same town as seen through the eyes of a young teenage girl.
We have her best friend's father going crazy as well as the resulting consequences for that friend's mother, before another friend of the protagonist's as well as neighbours and even her own family are getting sucked into the whirlpool of madness (though the story about the neighbouring kids was actually very sweet/romantic).
All in all, it's a downward spiral (excuse the pun), a town's descent into horror and madness.
The manga is black-and-white, the images detailed and always as weird as the scenes they are depicting. I wouldn't call myself a fan of the art / the artist's style, but it was nice and appropriately creepy and the black-and-white actually helped intensifying the sense of abstract dread and downright weirdness.
There are two more volumes and, supposedly, we'll get an answer as to WHY this is happening by the end of volume 3. Only one way to find out ...
Definitely a great read for October.
