Book: Uzumaki
Year: 2000
Pages: 653
Part of Series: Omnibus 1/2/3
Reading Time: 18 days (2021)
Rating: 10 stars
Enter Uzumaki.
This is the first manga I've read from beginning to end in paperback. And one of the fewest I've really enjoy it. I've seen the japanese movie and then the anime featuring Junji Ito stories. So I tried and I love it.
This is a 650 page story. Each chapter it's a independent story but reading them all makes more sense than reading a isolate chapter (apart from the last which will have no purpose reading isolated).
Basically the city Kurouzu-cho is being plagued by spirals pattern (uzumaki em japanese).
In the beginning people start being fascinated by spirals and have really no consequence but then it turns into obsession - and then deathly.
As the chapters progress we see more of this uzumaki and then it changes from being a plague to entity in itself. It's very subtle this changes but every few pages you get that feeling.
In this tale we follow Kirie and the first person to notice the spiral plague and her boyfriend Shuichi.
After the last chapter there is a lost chapter that deals with the uzumaki in a parallel universe but with the same consequences and instead of being focused on a town is more widespread.
There were things I really didn't get it, like why Kirie didn't become affected by the spirals like everyone else did? I've got to read more about this.
Edit: https://uzumaki.fandom.com/wiki/Kirie... for more information about Kirie and Uzumaki in itself.
Overall, I really love it. Love the black art and the colour as well. Nice contrast. Going to buy the rest of his work.
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