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

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Drawings amazing, storyline somewhat interesting but repetitive. I did not enjoy (but others will). The characters don't act like people. There's no clear motivation for what they do, especially staying in town. (Yeah, it's sort of explained right at the end of the book, but that explanation feels too late and too insufficient.) They don't change or grow in convincing ways, and I spent almost all of the book wanting to shake most of them. 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. Overall, the idea of turning something as boring and mundane as a spiral into a supernatural force and making a story out of it is effing brilliant!! This manga has forever changed my perception of spirals.

Seeing his father succumb to an obsession with spirals - in shells, in water, in the air - reclusive conspiracy-theorist Shuichi Saito tries to warn of the strange influence of these spirals, but no one pays much attention to the young man. As more and more people become obsessed with the spirals, madness ensues, and a series of tragic incidents convince the townspeople that Shuichi's theories... Taking place in the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho in Japan, Uzumaki mainly follows the characters Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend Shuichi Saito. Their town is a quiet place until some people begin acting crazy with a strange obsession over spirals. It is not long before these people's obsessions turn to complete madness until the spirals consume them and start to affect the entire town. Todo parece estar relacionado con una ancestral maldición que recae sobre el pueblo de manera cíclica. Product Specification Author Junji Ito ISBN-13 9781421561325 ISBN-10 1421561328 Series Junji Ito, Uzumaki FormatSobresaliendo de entre las novelas/cuentos relacionado a pueblos fantasma tradicionales, Uzumaki puede leerse no necesariamente en el mismo orden de sus capítulos, contando todos con la individualidad necesaria como para apreciarse completos y particulares. Aún más, una de las diferencias clave del título en cuestión es que los personajes principales no arriban para toparse con la alucinación y el temor; ellos viven allí y el argumento no se centra en su intento de escape (que sí lo hay), sino en las tragedias que cobran una por una las vidas de los hombres, mujeres y niños que, sin saberlo, han sido hipnotizados por la espiral. No es extraño que nadie reaccione como cualquiera fuera del pueblo lo haría—la enajenación alcanza el punto donde el fallecimiento brutal es una impresión efímera y pronosticada. Allí es, pues, que se conserva la verosimilitud del texto/imágenes: no hay razón para desconfiar de lo que estrictamente ocurre en un pueblo maldito.

Select your desired currency British Pound Currently Selected Euro US Dollar Australian Dollar Canadian Dollar I thought that the story was interesting as well. Ito is known for taking various inspirations from other authors such as the American writer H.P. Lovecraft. In Uzumaki, Ito constructs his own world of a Lovecraftian-type of horror. The premise of something like the shape of a spiral sounds difficult to take seriously at first glance, but Ito uses this premise excellently to tell his tale. It is an interesting take on how something so simple on its face can lead to some horrific consequences and the various twists and turns of the story as the reader discovers the extent of what is happening. 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.Junji Ito logra algo que muy pocos son capaces de hacer y es coger algo totalmente inocuo y anodino como una espiral y con su poder hipnótico traza una historia que rebosa terror y originalidad en estado puro. Osamu Dazai's immortal and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. This was crazy good. The artwork, the disturbing imagery, the originality of the stories, just...all of it. Cada capítulo parece ser independiente, nos va relatando los hechos que van teniendo lugar en el pueblo y sus gentes, pero todo está magistralmente hilado para dar forma a una historia donde se ve claramente la influencia que ha tenido y sigue teniendo Lovecraft en Junji Ito; ese miedo a lo arcano, a lo desconocido que tan bien sabe mezclar con los mitos y folklore del país nipón.

Spirals are one of those naturally occurring shapes and are fairly common to see if you're looking for them, and Junji Ito uses that fact to scare the shit out of us. To say the images in this leave quite an impression is an understatement.An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito’s earliest works. and that is when shuichi -- and kirie, by extension -- starts to notice how everything in kurouzu-cho seems to have some strange connection to the symbol of the spiral. I'm giving it 5 stars because I'm just assuming the translation process made the dialogue sound somewhat simplified. Maybe that's just a thing? Será la protagonista principal Kirie Goshima sobre la que recaerá gran parte del peso de la trama, y será ellla junto con su novio Shûichi Saitô quienes tratarán de dar explicación a tan extraños hechos. Poco a poco veremos como los personajes van evolucionando en un viaje directo hacia la locura.

This had the potential of being really, really creepy but unfortuantely fell extremely flat for me. The art style was terrifying and the premise of a town being haunted by a spiral was definitely intriguing; however, story-wise this just wasn't interesting at all. 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. 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. Este es un manga de terror (para ser exactos, horror), que gira en torno a la figura del espiral, algo aparentemente anodino que cambiará para siempre al pequeño pueblo donde viven Kirie y Shuichi. but even if it gets too hilariously outlandish (without spoiling something, consider snails), i was still laughing in horror. like, the reality of it is still frightening, even when it becomes comedic. it’s mostly due to ito’s drawings being rendered in such vivid, excruciating detail.

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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?) Y mira que es difícil que a los lectores asiduos al género algo nos incomode de esta manera, por eso el valor añadido de esta obra es mayor si cabe, lograr ese grado de sorpresa y angustia no es nada fácil, pero él lo hace con gran maestría.