Uzumaki
Four episode anime adaptation of the Junji Ito manga.
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...
(Source: Viz Media)
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...
(Source: Viz Media)
Details
Source
MangaRomaji
UzumakiNative
うずまきCountry
JPStatus
Not yet releasedSynonyms
The Spiral
ก้นหอยมรณะ
أوزوماكي
ก้นหอยมรณะ
أوزوماكي
Tags
Cosmic Horror
94%
Achromatic
94%
Gore
89%
Body Horror
88%
Tragedy
88%
Rotoscoping
86%
Seinen
81%
Female Protagonist
77%
Episodic
76%
Augmented Reality
70%
Survival
64%
Lost Civilization
63%
Primarily Child Cast
63%
Detective
28%