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

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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. 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. Random whirlwinds appear from time to time, destroying houses and sucking people up to never be seen again. By the time the reader reaches the last two-hundred pages, chaos reigns as the town turns into a wasteland of freakish mutants and good old-fashioned human depravity. His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature.

it’s perfectly designed, too, making excellent use of page layout to ensure the right impact of every individual image. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but a pattern: UZUMAKI, the spiral—the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It's been a few months now since I read Uzumaki and this is the one chapter that stuck in my memory. 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.Manga maker Junji Ito conjures up an epic phantasmagoria that obsessively plumbs the most modest of shapes, a spiral, for all the perversity and horror to be found within its endless contours. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral — the hypnotic secret shape of the world. 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. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. and eventually a full-on apocalyptic situation with hotel california vibes that ensure everyone that’s still alive is there for the big showdown.

Overall, I'm extremely disappointed in what was done with such a spectacular premise and such a phenomenal art style. 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. 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. this three-in-one collection tells the story of a town completely unravelling through unsettling, disgusting, horrifying, and mind-bending body horror. The local incinerator for the dead starts pumping out winding trails of ash that wreak ecological havoc.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. It's a formula that's tried and true but Ito is just so damn good at the telling that you forget about everyone else who's walked the territory before him.

I read this as part of a Shallow Buddy Read, partially because I'm trying to branch out in my old age, but mostly because a couple of my kids really love manga and they're always trying to get me to read the stuff.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. Kirie doesn't think anything's wrong with the town at first, but the events that follow Shuichi's father's death quickly convince her that Kurôzu-cho is cursed by uzumaki, the spiral, a shape that's everywhere and brings madness, death, and destruction to the town. 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. eu amo o jeito como o Junji Ito é podre, como o rtaço dele é sujo e até coisas fofas ficam medonhas e perturbadoras! 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!