Uzumaki Vol. 2

Writer: Junji Ito Artist: Junji Ito Publisher: Viz Cover Price: $15.95 Critic Reviews: 1 User Reviews: 6
9.1Critic Rating
9.0User Rating

>A fiendish power - the power of the spiral - swirls about the sleepy, fogbound town of Kur zu-cho. It haunts the streets, kills some of its inhabitants, drives others mad... and changes others in even more terrible ways. Now Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend, Shuichi Saito (who lost both his parents to the spiral), must find a way to stop the malign spiral and its ghastly followers before their world is engulfed!

  • 9.1
    IGN - A.E. Sparrow Feb 5, 2008

    Ito's artwork instantly invites comparison to manga horror master Kazuo Umezu, and with little surprise. One of his first stories won a magazine's Kazuo Umezu award (Umezu himself was one of the judges). As I'm devouring not only Uzumaki but also Ito's Museum of Horror series (featuring his equally popular Tomie stories), I find it fun to compare it to the Umezu books I currently own (the Scary Book series as well as the ongoing publication of his classic The Drifting Classroom. ) They have very similar styles, and it's easy to see Umezu's influence on Ito's work. I would put it to any fan of this series to check out some of Umezu's work, if you haven't already. And be prepared to lose a lot of sleep…a lot of sleep. Read Full Review

  • 8.5
    duBEARck Sep 8, 2022

    Chapter 7 - 7.5. It was... fun? At least I laughed.

    Chapter 8 - 8.5. This one is very creepy. I mean, it gave me the creeps.

    Chapter 9 - 8.5. The sky reminded me of Van Gogh too. Maybe the plot is not so thoughtful (everyone dies, but the main characters always miraculously escape). But it's still pretty cool

    Chapter 10 - 9. The scariest chapter yet. But again deus ex machina

    Chapter 11 - 9. The creepiest chapter yet.

    Chapter 12 - 9. It's funny that Shuichi is the only one who understands what's going on. And again something like deus ex machina

    8.58 -> 8.5

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  • 8.0
    Ultimate Goblin Sep 3, 2022

    For me this volume is rather worse, than the previous one. Some of the stories were too weird for me or made almost no sense at all, but at the same time there's still an awesome art and creepy stories are really creepy. There's too many "zombies", but they are cool. I just don't get it what was the point of these stories.

    For example, the first story. For me it's more like 7.5. The idea is cool, but the part after that guy died felt forced and quite unnecessary... However, that was scary enough.

    The second one was even weirder, but kinda funny at the same time. And even if the message wasn't that clear, I think I got it. The snail transformation was very spectacular as well. 8/10

    Nah, really, what was the more

  • 9.5
    Matsuro Apr 19, 2022

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    Dan Mar 5, 2020

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    myconius Aug 15, 2020

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