Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition): Includes vols. 1, 2 & 3 (Junji Ito)

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I meant to read this in one day, but it felt like it took me forever. (Maybe I'm turning into a snail person?) When it comes to horror manga, every debate has to have Junji Ito's Uzumaki as either the starting or finishing point. Drawn from 1998 to 1999, Uzumaki is a perfect example of a master at the peak of his career and proof that a visual narrative can be spooky, smart, Lovecraftian, and gory without being derivative or having to rely on clichés.

all in all, this is still my favorite of his works, and ito is the master of this type of visual horror for me. i reread this every halloween and i still have a good time. a hundred percent recommended if you’re fan of really creepy, uncanny stuff. this three-in-one collection tells the story of a town completely unravelling through unsettling, disgusting, horrifying, and mind-bending body horror. It is probably the weirdest manga I have ever read but it's why I enjoyed reading it. I really loved the story line and the drawings are amazing.Claramente no voy a volver a mirar un espiral de la misma forma que solía hacerlo. Este mundo retorcido, enfermo y derruido es perfecto. Hasta el momento, mi manga favorito de Junji. Todo parece estar relacionado con una ancestral maldición que recae sobre el pueblo de manera cíclica.

Junji Ito never satisfactorily explains why any of the spiraling creepiness is happening. Episodic chapters add up to a disjointed story of WTF-ery that never really coalesces into anything substantial.eu amei totalmente isso aqui, caras! eu já tinha lido um mangá dele antes, qnd eu tinha 18 anos, o Fragmentos do Horror, e já tinha amado totalmente, mas, porra, o que é Uzumaki???? eu amo o jeito como o Junji Ito é podre, como o rtaço dele é sujo e até coisas fofas ficam medonhas e perturbadoras!!! Besides the art, Uzumaki is a must-read classic because the chapters, which are all fragments of a very cohesive narrative, offer a wonderfully original mix of everything from body horror and adventure to survival/post-apocalyptic elements and a few Lovecraftian touches. Also, the story works as a study of the strongest human emotions. Ito takes away all fillers and delivers 20 chapters full of panic, anxiety, and paranoia. Shuichi knows what's happening, but no one will listen to him, and that turns him into a recluse who seems to spiral (no pun intended) slowly into madness out of fear and frustration. When you take all that and add the suffering of family members and the fact that the curse seems to augment every negative human trait, Uzumaki turns into the kind of horror story that works on many levels. that said, there are plenty of criticisms to be had. its format contains a lot of same-structured chapters, where every chapter introduces a Horrific Event Of The Week arc. this is followed by another (and another, and another) until everything gets progressively worse. No convincing build-up of suspense, no actual reasons for why what is happening is happening and also no compelling characters to care about throughout the story. Most chapters follow the pattern of a new character being introduced that is then instantly killed while nothing much happens to the main cast until much later. Especially the first half of this volume bored me to tears at times. The most creepy to me were the two chapters on mosquitos, because it felt like there was actual suspense, despite the utter predictability of it all. Resumiendo, el dibujo y el estilo de Junji Ito me han producido auténtico pavor, sobre todo al inicio de la lectura, no sé si porque me he ido acostumbrando o simplemente se han ido suavizando hasta cierto punto, pero he llegado incluso a tener sueños muy extraños con ellos.