Uzumaki #1
| Writer | Junji Ito |
| Artist | Junji Ito |
| Cover Price | $15.95 |
Kirie Goshima has lived all her life in the coastal town of Kurôzu-cho, a sleepy community where the citizens live quiet lives away from the bustling city. But soon, all that will change. When normal citizens become obsessed with the ever-reducing shape of the spiral, strange accidents begin to happen that have Kirie, and her sensitive boyfriend Shuichi, puzzled and frightened. Now, with the spiral phenomenon spreading and the body count rising, Kirie and Shuichi must fight its growing number of followers or die trying! In This Volume: It all started one overcast day in the town of Kurôzu-cho. When the father of Kirie's boyfriend, more
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7.0
The Graphic Library - Sara Campbell
May 22, 2025The first two-thirds of this reads like a traditional short story compilation from Ito -- it just happens to be set in the same place with the same main character. Towards the end, Ito brings everything together and gives a reason why the town seems to be cursed with the spiral, and the explanation divulges from creepy, horror stories into speculative strangeness. The story itself seemingly spirals into itself into a maddening conclusion that makes little sense and may be unsatisfying, but it's completely on brand for other Ito stories that often have no discernible moral, no happy ending, no riding off into the sunset as the monster-of-the-week has been destroyed. It also wouldn't be Ito if there wasn't one obligatory nudity story, which is entirely non-sexual and just adds to the overall body-horror aspects of his work. Read Full Review
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9.0
Several people (3, actually) that I subscribed to gave high marks to this manga, and I myself have met moments from here many times, so I decided to read it.
I don't regret a single minute of reading.
I love all sorts of weird and schizophrenic things (in fact, Twin Peaks is one of my favorite TV shows), and this manga gave me what I wanted.
The artwork here is impressive. Brilliant work
Chapter 1 - 9. Maybe I overrated this chapter. There is no plot yet, but the atmosphere has drawn me in.
Chapter 2 - 9.5. So depressing. Wow.
Chapter 3 - 8. Curiouser and curiouser. It looks like the interlude is over and something even more terrible is about to begin.
Chapter 4 - 9. Well, something even more more+ Like • Comments (2)• Likes (3) -
8.5
I'm not really into manga and that's my first real manga and not some Zombies Assembled garbage.
Yeah, I see now why people love Junji Ito. First of all, he makes his works alone and he really can do all the work by himself properly. I mean, his artwork is just awesome! My girlfriend reads manga mostly and I saw many things she read. Some of them had really lazy art: not really detailed, not mesmerizing, not on the same level as the worst american comics look. Especially with no color at all. But Ito has a brilliant style and I honestly read it much slower, than it reads, only because I stayed on some pages or panels to look at the art a little longer. This is epic. Everything is soooo clear, that you really don't need colors. And more -
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