| Uzumaki (manga) |
Articles about Uzumaki |
Information AboutUzumaki (manga) |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT UZUMAKI | |
| horror anime and manga | |
| viz media manga | |
| horror comics | |
|
Uzumaki is a Horror Manga by Junji Ito . The manga is published in English by Viz Communications . With a beautiful highschool girl as the Protagonist , the people of a small town in Japan become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of natural and artificial Spirals . The obsession with spirals is accompanied by the townspeople's extreme obsession with various things, such as an artist's obsession with perfect forms and a youngster's with the ability to attract eyeballs. The result of this obsession is often slow transformation into something other than human, leading to a gruesome, realistically-depicted death. It has been made into Movie With A Simpler Story Line . FULL PLOT Vol. 1 Kirie Goshima, a girl who goes to Kurozu-cho High, one day, notices her Boyfriend 's (Suichi's) father watching a Snail intently. He starrts to collect anything involving a spiral pattern, eventually creating spirals through his own body.Eventually he commits suicide by curling himself into a tight spiral in a large tub. He is cremated, and the ashes form a spiral shape in the sky. Suichi's mother, haunted by any images of spirals, attempts to rid her body of spirals, by cutting off the tips of her fingers and shaving her head. She eventually finds out that there are spirals in the Cochlea , or the inner ear. She rams a pair of scissors into her ears, rendering her in a constant state of dizzy vertigo. She eventually dies, and her cremated ashes form a spiral in the sky and fall into Dragonfly Pond. Since both of his parents are dead, Suichi quits school. At school, Azami doesn't get "no" for an answer from a boy when she asks him out since she got a cresent-shaped scar on her. Suichi says no, however, and a disturbing death of Azami happens. Kirie's father is fired from his job as a Potter , because his Bowls , Pots , and Vases are turning into spirals and are unusable. A Romeo And Juliet esque Kirie/Suichi moment with the appearance of spirals. A girl's hair turns into the frequent spirals. Vol. 2 Kirie notices a student who is nicknamed "Jack-in-the-box" because he usually sneaks up on students and he sneaks up on Kirie. Spirals ''are'' involved. The slowest kid in school gets caught up in spirals, turning him into a Human / Snail Hybrid . Kurozu-cho's old lighthouse is making spiral motifs in its light and Kirie gets hurt. The mosquitoes are acting quite strangely and so are the people. Women give birth to the most perfect babies. In horror stories, whenever a character is behaving ''extremely'' perfectly, something bad is to happen. A hurricane with spiral-shaped winds attack Kurozu-cho. Vol. 3 The hurricane did a lot of damage and infected the town with spirals! No one is safe! The introduction of a newspaper reporter and spirals are involved. Pretty self-explanatory, with spirals being involved. More people are gullible for the spirals and no help comes from the snail people. Kirie and Suichi try to escape the spirals, but all roads mysteriously lead back to the village. All the buildings of the town have ended up as one giant spiral. In the middle a spiraling staircase downwards appears from nowhere. At the bottom of the staircase is an abandoned, enormous, ancient Lovecraft ian underground city. The twisted corpses of the village people have turned into stone and are making up the floor of the cave. Kirie and Suichi finally accept their fate, and become part of the spiral that has already consumed the entire town. The staircase closes up again and the curse of the spiral leaves the now lifeless village for another thousand years. |
|
|