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

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That synopsis sounds a bit ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet Ito manages to make such a concept absolutely terrifying! His imagination reminds me of Clive Barkers in so many ways, I almost can’t fathom how they come up with such insane, disturbing ideas. 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. The only thing that I didn't like about this manga is the few plot holes here and there, like something would happen in a chapter and then will completely be overlooked in the next one. It was a bit frustrating. First of all, there are two things that determine how much I'm gonna like a book: the beginning and the ending.

Y es que si nos damos cuenta las espirales están por todas partes, desde nuestras huellas dactilares hasta la probóscide o trompa por la cual las mariposas liban el néctar de las flores.Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Su punto fuerte se centra en el llamado body horror, causando nuestra repulsión al instante, apelando a aquello que más asco nos puede dar, siendo imposible no apartar la cara y sentir un ligero apretón en el estómago.

Osamu Dazai's immortal and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. the setting is kurouzu-cho, a sleepy town surrounded by mountains and hills on one side, and the sea on the other. our main protagonist is kirie goshima, a high school student, whose boyfriend shuichi saito has a bit of a depressive streak.To a certain extent, there is no reason to review this. I have nothing to add to what everyone else has already said. It is the perfect horror manga. The plot seems ridiculous (haunted spirals! Soooooo spooooooky) but it works. The art is wonderful, the plot intriguing from start to finish and it's deeply unsettling. lots of people also felt the ending was anticlimactic. which i can understand, considering all the build-up and physical body horror, but to me it was a nice step away from what ito had been giving me up until that point. besides, i’ve always loved cosmic horror, and could anyone really believe all the shit in this book could be caused by something our mortal minds could comprehend? En cuanto a personajes, siento que debo dejar en claro que esto es terror del crudo, lo único que pretende es alimentar tus pesadillas con sus imágenes y sus diálogos extraños. En consecuencia, los personajes son algo básicos, aunque dentro del contexto del manga me parece que tienen lo necesario; su desarrollo se nutre en base a la negación y la locura que pueden provocar acontecimientos como los que aquí suceden, no hay una construcción de personalidad tan rica como en otros mangas más extensos o de temáticas más "serias", pero lo reitero: no es necesario. Entonces, ¿por qué anteriormente dije que la trama «no es para nada sencilla»? Porque que algo no esté hecho para ser leído entre líneas no significa que sea sencillo, siento que este es uno de esos libros que si te lo lees de golpe no logras disfrutarlo como se merece ni logras sumergirte en la atmósfera que se plantea. Esta es mi opinión, claro, habrá quien se lo bebió y aún así lo amó. Absolutely terrifying and disturbing. I’m slightly traumatized, yet I could not look away because the illustrations were amazing! I wonder what goes on in Junji Ito’s mind because never in my life have I read anything like this before. That being said, I will now proceed to devour the rest of Ito’s works. 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.

The last chapter wraps up the story so very well and gives you that sense of satisfaction which I wanna talk about but it would be a spoiler UGH I LOVED IT! ito can jangle your chain with outlandish, surrealist scary images as if they were jump scares, but he can also add to slow-creeping dread of the overall story.Como ya había comentado: no es una lectura rápida. Las ilustraciones tienen tantos detalles que mientras más segundos pasas observándolas más perturbadoras y maravillosas te parecen, por ello creo que es mejor avanzar con calma y disfrutar cada capítulo. Lograr que cada uno de los elementos resalte en una ilustración en blanco y negro no es tan sencillo, y este mangaka ha hecho un trabajo increíble, así que considero que se merece más reconocimiento del que ya tiene. Whether or not you like body horror will also definitely be a determining factor in your enjoyment level.