Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

うずまき

Uzumaki

19 chapters

3 volumes

1998 – 1999

In the town of Kurouzu-cho, Kirie Goshima leads an ordinary life with her family. While heading to the train station to meet her boyfriend Shuuichi Saito, she spots his father staring intently at a snail shell in an alley. She dismisses it as insignificant and brings it up to Shuuichi, who tells her his father has been behaving strangely. Shuuichi expresses a desire to leave the town with Kirie, convinced that Kurouzu-cho is afflicted by a curse of spirals. As his father's fixation on spiral patterns grows, it sets off a chain of terrifying and inexplicable events that drive the townspeople into a spiral of madness.

Information

Status: Finished
Format: Manga
Chapters: 19
Volumes: 3

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Authors

Itou, Junji

Serialized in

Big Comic Spirits

Adapted to anime

Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror

Volúmenes & Capítulos3 vol · 21 ch

Volume 1Ch. 1–6

Cap. 1
Cap. 2
Cap. 3
Cap. 4
Cap. 5
Cap. 6

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Background

Uzumaki was chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens in 2009. The series was published in English as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint from October 16, 2007, to February 19, 2008, and as a hardcover 3-in-1 omnibus on October 15, 2013. It was also published in Polish by Japonica Polonica Fantastica in May 2011; in Czech by Zoner Press; in Spanish by Planeta Cómic; and in Brazilian Portuguese by Conrad Editora from July 2006 to October 2006.