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Humans cannot escape or change their fates. For example:ġ-Newly introduced character(s) will die at the end of present or next chapter.Ĭorollary:1.1- Fighting the Spiral is useless. And after reading a couple chapters, you start noticing a pattern. Intentionally or not, this manga is parodying itself.Įach chapter can stand on its own, the manga being more of a collection of interconnected stories. Once the Spiral has taken hold of the city, it never stops tormenting it. While the overall concept of a strange and unknown force messing up the world is refreshing (no big bad monster!), I could never get into it. Hypnotizing! I won't spoil it for you, but The best (and well known) example is: The Spiral is granting the mosquitoes the terrible power of. The story is just so ridiculously over the top! It breaks any kind of immersion. Or in this case, the complete lack of it.

Uzumaki is not, in my honest opinion, a horror manga. But I was disappointed in this manga: Uzumaki is hardly scary or horrifying. I had expectations for Uzumaki, having heard it was one of Junji Ito's better known work.

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If find any of this not really your style, especially the disturbing images, avoid this series at all costs! This series contains a lot of disturbing images, violence and gore, nudity, language, and intense scenes of horror. You never know, you could be missing out on a great horror manga and you could never have even known! This story might not appeal to everyone like said before, but a lot of people should at least read the first chapter before making their judgment. Either way, this story provides a chilling, but enjoyable ride from beginning to end if you find that you like this series. Some might be put off by the crazy images or might find this story not that scary but just disturbing. But this story might not appeal to everyone. Well… this series is extremely rewarding if you get it a chance and you’ll for sure think there is no other horror story around that can reach this level of freakiness. It’s kind of annoying that you get to know a new character only to never see them again. Everyone else that has a big part in one of the chapters is pretty much a one time appearance.

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The only people that make repeat appearances are Kirie’s mom, brother, and dad plus one of her friends occasionally. Then we get the rest of the cast… there isn’t much of a cast besides these two. The girl is a bit uneasy and refuses to believe a lot of the things happening around her for a while and there is her boyfriend who is really nervous about the town and believes there isn’t something right about it. Like I mention before, we are instantly given our two main characters right off the bat that both provide two different personalities. This story contains a lot of this story and unlike most stories, it actually makes this story scarier! There’s also the carnage and scenes of disturbing violence in the story, now this stuff is freaky.

It really is drawn well and if you look closer enough, you’ll find spirals that aren’t even apart of the story at hand. These characters are really well drawn and have a small alteration that makes them different than another person, though a lot of the girls seem similar to me and at one point I could tell two of them apart from each other. This story really is scary and what helps it is its sick and creepy style art. But some of these stories within the story aren’t actually really horrific or anything which is why this grade isn’t a 10. We get strange stories about a lighthouse, crazy hair, giant snails, and twisting bodies that all go together into this spiral story, no pun intended. The story is written well and focuses on something that really isn’t scary to begin with, a simple spiral.īut as this story shows, there is much more to this symbol then meets the eye.Īs the story moves along, each chapter presents us a separate story that is completely different than the last, but still connects to the main plot. Soon, after the first chapter we get our first freak out and scary moment that is very twisted. Right away, we get the feeling that something isn’t actually right in this little coastal town. The story is simply starts us of quick with two main characters to get use to and He is known as the godfather of horror manga, but there is another called Junji Ito called the master of horror manga who has wrote something just as terrifying as any scary movie, book, or comic out there. Now there is Kazuo Umezu who really can write a horror story that’ll scare you. But often we just get a comic that’s more gory or disgusting than scary. There are many horror mangas out there that try to make themselves scary.

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