Following the release of a new teaser for Adult Swim and Hiroshi Nagahama‘s Uzumaki anime series, Adeline Panamaroff looks back at Junji Ito‘s acclaimed manga and how the haunting spiral encircles the inhabitants of a small town.
Uzumaki by Junji Ito is not for the faint of heart. As is usual for any of Ito’s work, the story has a deep visual and psychological impact. One of the recurring themes throughout this manga is the inability to escape a horrific situation. The horror that afflicts the town of Kurouzu-cho is slow to build up, and the incidents that occur throughout town appear to be isolated and unrelated to each other at first. However, as time goes on, a feeling of apathy and hopelessness takes over the protagonists Kirie Goshima and Shuichi Saito. The two find it difficult to both emotionally and physically fight the situation, or to even simply escape it.
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