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. 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. Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. However, the town is not haunted by a person or a being, but a pattern - uzumaki, the spiral. First of all, there are two things that determine how much I'm gonna like a book: the beginning and the ending.

By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU.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. 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. nojento, tudo feio, tudo podre, todo mundo é um lixo, tudo é mt esquisito, fiquei com medo, tive pesadelo, achei perturbador e horroroso. and eventually a full-on apocalyptic situation with hotel california vibes that ensure everyone that’s still alive is there for the big showdown.

No convincing build-up of suspense, no actual reasons for why what is happening is happening and also no compelling characters to care about throughout the story. 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. Especially the first half of this volume bored me to tears at times. 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.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. 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. The story itself was a really nice slow-burn horror that centers around a teenage girl named Kirie, and her boyfriend, Shuichi. These two start to notice that the town and its inhabitants are quietly being driven mad by SPIRALS.