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Uzumaki #2
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2.
A sleepy town on the coast of Japan is under quiet, deadly siege, not by a person or group but by a primeval spiral shape whose victims include both parents of Shuichi Saito. In this second volume of the saga, Shuichi’s girlfriend Kirie becomes further involved in the town’s terrible secret when schoolmates start turning up as horrible human snails and something unspeakable is discovered within the walls of the local hospital.
208 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1999
About the author
Junji Ito
244 books12.8k followersJunji Itō (伊藤潤二)
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 most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.
Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.
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. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.
Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.
In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema.
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 most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.
Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.
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. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.
Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.
In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema.
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November 15, 2021
Leave it to Junji Ito to take some of the most insignificant things that we take for granted and enlarge them into things to avoid with dread and disgust!
November 2, 2020
this marks my second tango with ito, and i’m starting to realize that the more of him i read, the more enamoured i become.
or, one might say… the more hypnotic i find his work.
꩜ Jack in the Box
men just won’t quit! death won’t stop a man from harassing you, no sir! he’ll just claw his way out of his coffin and bounce around on a spine-turned-spring until you admit that that dick pic he sent you three years ago was a good one!
꩜ The Snail
kylie jenner wants to know what lip fillers katayama’s been using (but only if turning-into-a-mollusk-person is not a side effect)
also at one point someone calls katayama, who is very slow, you glacial fuck! and i would be lying if i said that i’m not immediately going to use this on my brother when he takes too long in the shower.
꩜ The Black Lighthouse
little brothers are the worst! always getting you to chase them into spiral-shaped lighthouses that try to incinerate you!
꩜ Mosquitoes
pregnant women are rife with psychotic body horror potential, and this chapter did not disappoint.
꩜ The Umbilical Cord
PROOF THAT MUSHROOMS ARE ACTUALLY THE WORST.
꩜ The Storm
once again we are privy to the lengths to which [even non-humans] will go to possess a woman. IT IS FRANKLY STALKERISH AND OBSESSIVE. this typhoon needs to go to therapy and reflect on its violent attachment style!
this chapter was like 80% sound effects and still so good.
or, one might say… the more hypnotic i find his work.
꩜ Jack in the Box
men just won’t quit! death won’t stop a man from harassing you, no sir! he’ll just claw his way out of his coffin and bounce around on a spine-turned-spring until you admit that that dick pic he sent you three years ago was a good one!
꩜ The Snail
kylie jenner wants to know what lip fillers katayama’s been using (but only if turning-into-a-mollusk-person is not a side effect)
also at one point someone calls katayama, who is very slow, you glacial fuck! and i would be lying if i said that i’m not immediately going to use this on my brother when he takes too long in the shower.
꩜ The Black Lighthouse
little brothers are the worst! always getting you to chase them into spiral-shaped lighthouses that try to incinerate you!
꩜ Mosquitoes
pregnant women are rife with psychotic body horror potential, and this chapter did not disappoint.
꩜ The Umbilical Cord
PROOF THAT MUSHROOMS ARE ACTUALLY THE WORST.
꩜ The Storm
once again we are privy to the lengths to which [even non-humans] will go to possess a woman. IT IS FRANKLY STALKERISH AND OBSESSIVE. this typhoon needs to go to therapy and reflect on its violent attachment style!
this chapter was like 80% sound effects and still so good.
February 9, 2023
Volumen mucho mas tétrico que el primero, el mejor relato para mí el de los insectos, espeluznante.
Valoración: 8/10
Sinopsis: Kirie Goshima ha sido testigo de una espiral de horror que poco a poco ha cubierto su vida y la de todo su pueblo, pero aun ante lo que vive día tras día ya no tiene fuerzas para huir. Tras la fascinación espiral, una tétrica broma llega hasta la tumba ¡y vuelve!, al tiempo que el pueblo infecta a los vecinos de distintas formas, transformándolos en espirales, impidiéndoles avanzar, mutando la más pura esperanza humana en grotescas aberraciones que buscan volver al origen, a su centro…
# 9. Una saga que te de mucha pereza empezar/continuar. Reto literario lecturas pendientes 2023.
Valoración: 8/10
Sinopsis: Kirie Goshima ha sido testigo de una espiral de horror que poco a poco ha cubierto su vida y la de todo su pueblo, pero aun ante lo que vive día tras día ya no tiene fuerzas para huir. Tras la fascinación espiral, una tétrica broma llega hasta la tumba ¡y vuelve!, al tiempo que el pueblo infecta a los vecinos de distintas formas, transformándolos en espirales, impidiéndoles avanzar, mutando la más pura esperanza humana en grotescas aberraciones que buscan volver al origen, a su centro…
# 9. Una saga que te de mucha pereza empezar/continuar. Reto literario lecturas pendientes 2023.
October 11, 2015
Whoa... This one was even crazier than the first one, but also a lot better. Can't wait to read Vol. 3 and hopefully get some answers.
October 19, 2018
After the incident at the end of volume one, Kirie has her hair short - and who could blame her.
We follow her and a number of her town's residents while the spiral keeps turning more and more lives into a horror freak show.
I was very impressed with the second issue as it tackled both bullying and homosexuality (the latter as a stigma). To so subtly incorporate this in a horror comic can't be easy but it was brilliantly done.
For some reason, the lighthouse issue, or at least one of the first images in it, reminded me of "Nuit Etoilée" (Starry Night) by van Gogh.
Oh, and that spin in vampirism was quite unsettling as well.
The art, except for at the very beginning (kind of like a foreword) was again black-and-white, just the way I've come to like it. It really does intensify the creep-factor of this story in my opinion.
People always say that Japanese horror movies are far more spooky than Western ones and after reading this manga, I can definitely believe it, because it's also much more frightening and unsettling than any other I've read so far (these others have all been by Western writers/artists). This is definitely on a whole different level (although I still prefer Western art styles). Nevertheless, I still wonder ... why not just physically leave town?! Why does everybody stay?! Just one of the as-yet unanswered questions, we'll see if there are answers.
We follow her and a number of her town's residents while the spiral keeps turning more and more lives into a horror freak show.
I was very impressed with the second issue as it tackled both bullying and homosexuality (the latter as a stigma). To so subtly incorporate this in a horror comic can't be easy but it was brilliantly done.
For some reason, the lighthouse issue, or at least one of the first images in it, reminded me of "Nuit Etoilée" (Starry Night) by van Gogh.
Oh, and that spin in vampirism was quite unsettling as well.
The art, except for at the very beginning (kind of like a foreword) was again black-and-white, just the way I've come to like it. It really does intensify the creep-factor of this story in my opinion.
People always say that Japanese horror movies are far more spooky than Western ones and after reading this manga, I can definitely believe it, because it's also much more frightening and unsettling than any other I've read so far (these others have all been by Western writers/artists). This is definitely on a whole different level (although I still prefer Western art styles). Nevertheless, I still wonder ... why not just physically leave town?! Why does everybody stay?! Just one of the as-yet unanswered questions, we'll see if there are answers.
October 20, 2018
Re-read.
Truly, deliciously, evil.
We all know the spirals are out to get us. :)
The more I read, the deeper down the Phi I go. Phi, phi, phi, phi, phi.....
Truly, deliciously, evil.
We all know the spirals are out to get us. :)
The more I read, the deeper down the Phi I go. Phi, phi, phi, phi, phi.....
September 5, 2015
Even more creepy than the first one.
October 6, 2020
Çizimler o kadar güzel ki hikayeye ayrı bir keyif veriyor...
June 25, 2017
5* STARS!
Uzumaki is Japanese for Spiral.
The continuation of supernatural events in Kurōzu-cho caused by the spiral effects. Our main leads, Kirie and her boyfriend, Shuichi also affected by the spiral curse. They're not untouchable, you know. In volume #2, there's more fascinating yet creepy story in each chapters.
My favorite is the snail person. How disturbing it can be? A person slowly turns into a hugee snail? They're not human anymore. Also there's a mosquitoes-slash-dracula's effect happened when Kirie stayed at hospital. There's no further explanation about that case. Maybe it connected with the spiral curse? Who knows. Towards the ending, there's a weird storm keeps chasing Kirie and everything turns to spiral shit. I mean... what the heck?!
Uzumaki is Japanese for Spiral.
The continuation of supernatural events in Kurōzu-cho caused by the spiral effects. Our main leads, Kirie and her boyfriend, Shuichi also affected by the spiral curse. They're not untouchable, you know. In volume #2, there's more fascinating yet creepy story in each chapters.
My favorite is the snail person. How disturbing it can be? A person slowly turns into a hugee snail? They're not human anymore. Also there's a mosquitoes-slash-dracula's effect happened when Kirie stayed at hospital. There's no further explanation about that case. Maybe it connected with the spiral curse? Who knows. Towards the ending, there's a weird storm keeps chasing Kirie and everything turns to spiral shit. I mean... what the heck?!
November 17, 2015
This is a totally fascinating romp through spirals. As a horror, it is episodic, but that doesn't lessen its impact. The deep strangeness coming through keeps upping the ante, and I can't decide which stories creep me out the most.
It's probably the mosquitos. Probably. My god these are good.
I completely recommend this short series for any horror fan. Even if you're not particularly into horror, I can't recommend this enough. It's like a perfect encapsulation of what makes horror so fun. :)
It's probably the mosquitos. Probably. My god these are good.
I completely recommend this short series for any horror fan. Even if you're not particularly into horror, I can't recommend this enough. It's like a perfect encapsulation of what makes horror so fun. :)
July 20, 2023
★★★★½
mister Ito’s participation inside the comics is on another level! his presence not only adds humor and irony but also more creepiness and makes the ‘adventures’ in Kurozu-Cho much enjoyable. it’s been a a fulfilling experience till now. can’t wait to see what he has in his sleeves in the next volume!
mister Ito’s participation inside the comics is on another level! his presence not only adds humor and irony but also more creepiness and makes the ‘adventures’ in Kurozu-Cho much enjoyable. it’s been a a fulfilling experience till now. can’t wait to see what he has in his sleeves in the next volume!
March 3, 2021
Horrific, Gory and more Insane than the first Volume!!
Uzumaki Vol 2 ups it's weird scale by a several notches this time with things getting more and more insane!
It's more of a Cause and Effect kind of plot however, Junji Ito has smartly managed to hide the reason why the Spiral is making an appearance in every insane encounter. This volume is gripping with a series of stories so weird and scary that you'd feel blessed it's not illustrated in colour!
There's the case of a people transforming into a spiral snail, A lighthouse that burn after sunset , Pregnant women turning into Vampires by the night and Babies wanting to go back into the Womb!
The central characters remain the same (and dumb again), the town remains the same (There's something fishy with the town for sure) and similarly the mystery of the spiral still remains unchanged!
Unimaginable and Gripping!
Uzumaki Vol 2 ups it's weird scale by a several notches this time with things getting more and more insane!
It's more of a Cause and Effect kind of plot however, Junji Ito has smartly managed to hide the reason why the Spiral is making an appearance in every insane encounter. This volume is gripping with a series of stories so weird and scary that you'd feel blessed it's not illustrated in colour!
There's the case of a people transforming into a spiral snail, A lighthouse that burn after sunset , Pregnant women turning into Vampires by the night and Babies wanting to go back into the Womb!
The central characters remain the same (and dumb again), the town remains the same (There's something fishy with the town for sure) and similarly the mystery of the spiral still remains unchanged!
Unimaginable and Gripping!
March 27, 2017
1 günde hatta bir kaç saatte okuduğum ilk kitabın ardından ikinci kitapta müthiş bir hız ve heyecanla bitti. Gerçekten çok beğenerek okuyorum. Çizimler, korku unsurları, karakterler, öykülerin kurguları özgün ve hoş. Üçüncü kitaba hemen geçeceğim. Bir taraftan da bitiyor diye üzülüyorum. Manga, korku, çizgi roman severlerin kaçırmaması gerektiğini düşündüğüm bir seri.
October 18, 2021
جوجی ایتو به لیست نویسندههای مورد علاقهم خوش اومدی.
شنیده بودم این مانگا راجب به مارپیچه، با خودم میگفتم چه چیزی میتونه در مورد مارپیچ ترسناک باشه، مارپیچ که ترسناک نیست، الان میفهمم، اشتباه میکردم.
فقط بدونید که این مانگا نفرینشدهست یا میخونید و دچار نفرین میشید و یا خودتون رو نجات میدید و به مطالعه کسلکننده سابقهتون برمیگردید.
پنلهای مانگا پر از سورپرایز و صحنهها و تصاویر شوکه کنندهست، جوجی ایتو واقعاً نابغهست، ترتیب پنلها استادانه بود.
اگه اوزماکی میخونید هر لحظه ان��ظار شوکه شدن داشته باشید.
نمیگم که جوجی ایتو به اندازه میورا تو آرت خوبه ولی بعید میدونم بتونید بعضی پنلهای اوزماکی رو فراموش کنید.
فقط اینم بگم که مشخصاً شما وقتی تصمیم میگیرید بیاید سراغ وحشت کهشکانی، خلاصه بگم لاوکرافت و بقیه دوستان فعال این ساب ژانر، توقع جواب نداشته باشید. تو ژانر وحشت کهکشانی جواب مهم نیست. اگه دوست دارید تمام پاسخهای داستان جواب داده بشند، اوزماکی مانگای مناسبی برای شما نیست.
ممنون که خوندید.
شنیده بودم این مانگا راجب به مارپیچه، با خودم میگفتم چه چیزی میتونه در مورد مارپیچ ترسناک باشه، مارپیچ که ترسناک نیست، الان میفهمم، اشتباه میکردم.
فقط بدونید که این مانگا نفرینشدهست یا میخونید و دچار نفرین میشید و یا خودتون رو نجات میدید و به مطالعه کسلکننده سابقهتون برمیگردید.
پنلهای مانگا پر از سورپرایز و صحنهها و تصاویر شوکه کنندهست، جوجی ایتو واقعاً نابغهست، ترتیب پنلها استادانه بود.
اگه اوزماکی میخونید هر لحظه ان��ظار شوکه شدن داشته باشید.
نمیگم که جوجی ایتو به اندازه میورا تو آرت خوبه ولی بعید میدونم بتونید بعضی پنلهای اوزماکی رو فراموش کنید.
فقط اینم بگم که مشخصاً شما وقتی تصمیم میگیرید بیاید سراغ وحشت کهشکانی، خلاصه بگم لاوکرافت و بقیه دوستان فعال این ساب ژانر، توقع جواب نداشته باشید. تو ژانر وحشت کهکشانی جواب مهم نیست. اگه دوست دارید تمام پاسخهای داستان جواب داده بشند، اوزماکی مانگای مناسبی برای شما نیست.
ممنون که خوندید.
October 20, 2020
Kurouzu-cho is a small, fogbound town on the coast of Japan, and it is haunted by an unusual curse. The curse of the spiral. A reclusive young man named Shuichi Saito is the first to take notice of the spiral patterns popping up everywhere and having strange effects on people, most of them not even noticing what’s happening to them until it’s too late. No one takes Shuichi’s warnings about the horrifying delusions the spirals cause to those who become entranced by their hypnotic spell seriously, do to his past paranoia-induced ramblings that have given him the reputation of a mentally unbalanced conspiracy theorist. Not even his girlfriend takes him seriously at first. Shuichi’s father is the first of many to fall under the dangerous spell of the spiral, becoming obsessed with the whirling patterns until his obsession drives him to the brink of madness.
The story begins with Shuichi Saito trying to explain to his girlfriend that he thinks his father is being driven insane by his recently developed obsession with spirals. He collects hundreds of spiral shaped objects, hoarding them to the point of his house nearly overflowing with them. He refuses to take a bath unless he makes the water form a whirlpool before he jumps in, he even refuses to eat a bowl of soup unless his wife throws in a few spiral shaped fishcakes to please his bizzare fixation. Eventually, Shuichi’s father’s obsession with spirals becomes so extreme that he throws himself into the family pottery machine and sacrifices his life to become a human spiral. All of the bones in his body are crushed, his remains are contorted into a spiral of baggy flesh, leaving his wife and son to discover the horrifying sight of his grotesquely disfigured corpse balled up into a mess of limbs stretched beyond human capacity. The nightmare doesn’t end there. After Shuichi has his father cremated, even his ashes form a disfigured, humanoid spiral in the sky that looms over the terrified locals of Kurouzu-cho like the gaze of an all-powerful god. In that moment, everyone begins to realize that the curse of the spiral is very real.
After the tragic incident with Shuichi’s father, the spirals begin to contaminate and consume more and more victims with their hypnotic sadism. They turn school students into snails, pregnant women into bloodsucking monsters, they transform villagers' bodies into tree branch-like limbs that get tangled together when they get too close to each other, they even turn a girl’s hair into a living hypnosis wheel that can drive you insane if you look at the spiraling strands of hair for too long. The curse of the spiral is vicious and it doesn’t stop spreading until the entire island is consumed by its vengeful spell.
Before I started reading this manga, I asked myself “how can a cute and innocent thing like spirals possibly be scary?” Well, Uzumaki did a pretty great job of proving that they can be nightmarish little monstrosities. Uzumaki takes full advantage of its visual story-telling format, looking at the pages for long periods of time made me feel slightly dizzy at times, almost making me feel like I was becoming a victim of the spirals myself. It made the experience that much more surreal, being able to see the hypnotic effects the spirals have on the characters while also feeling some of their dizzying effects on my own vision. It’s a masochistic feast for the eyes, drawing you in with surreal body horror and mind-warping imagery. The paranoia, the delirious madness, the lovecraftian themes of normal, everyday people being driven insane by seemingly innocent obsessions. The scales keep getting higher, escalating from strange body disfigurement to full-on gory nightmare fuel.
If you’re a horror fan or a fan of lovecraftian themes and imagery, and you’re not all that familiar with what manga has to offer in terms of horror, Uzumaki is the best place to start. It doesn’t have a brilliant plot or deep characters with major story arcs, it’s about average, perfectly ordinary people getting drawn into something otherworldly that the human mind can’t possibly fathom without self-destructing. The story is also told in an episodic format, each chapter having its own self-contained narrative that slowly builds upon the alluring mystery and origins of the spiral curse. The ending also has that poetic lovecraftian touch of humanity being small, helpless and completely irrelevant in the face of greater things that humans can never hope to comprehend.
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The story begins with Shuichi Saito trying to explain to his girlfriend that he thinks his father is being driven insane by his recently developed obsession with spirals. He collects hundreds of spiral shaped objects, hoarding them to the point of his house nearly overflowing with them. He refuses to take a bath unless he makes the water form a whirlpool before he jumps in, he even refuses to eat a bowl of soup unless his wife throws in a few spiral shaped fishcakes to please his bizzare fixation. Eventually, Shuichi’s father’s obsession with spirals becomes so extreme that he throws himself into the family pottery machine and sacrifices his life to become a human spiral. All of the bones in his body are crushed, his remains are contorted into a spiral of baggy flesh, leaving his wife and son to discover the horrifying sight of his grotesquely disfigured corpse balled up into a mess of limbs stretched beyond human capacity. The nightmare doesn’t end there. After Shuichi has his father cremated, even his ashes form a disfigured, humanoid spiral in the sky that looms over the terrified locals of Kurouzu-cho like the gaze of an all-powerful god. In that moment, everyone begins to realize that the curse of the spiral is very real.
After the tragic incident with Shuichi’s father, the spirals begin to contaminate and consume more and more victims with their hypnotic sadism. They turn school students into snails, pregnant women into bloodsucking monsters, they transform villagers' bodies into tree branch-like limbs that get tangled together when they get too close to each other, they even turn a girl’s hair into a living hypnosis wheel that can drive you insane if you look at the spiraling strands of hair for too long. The curse of the spiral is vicious and it doesn’t stop spreading until the entire island is consumed by its vengeful spell.
Before I started reading this manga, I asked myself “how can a cute and innocent thing like spirals possibly be scary?” Well, Uzumaki did a pretty great job of proving that they can be nightmarish little monstrosities. Uzumaki takes full advantage of its visual story-telling format, looking at the pages for long periods of time made me feel slightly dizzy at times, almost making me feel like I was becoming a victim of the spirals myself. It made the experience that much more surreal, being able to see the hypnotic effects the spirals have on the characters while also feeling some of their dizzying effects on my own vision. It’s a masochistic feast for the eyes, drawing you in with surreal body horror and mind-warping imagery. The paranoia, the delirious madness, the lovecraftian themes of normal, everyday people being driven insane by seemingly innocent obsessions. The scales keep getting higher, escalating from strange body disfigurement to full-on gory nightmare fuel.
If you’re a horror fan or a fan of lovecraftian themes and imagery, and you’re not all that familiar with what manga has to offer in terms of horror, Uzumaki is the best place to start. It doesn’t have a brilliant plot or deep characters with major story arcs, it’s about average, perfectly ordinary people getting drawn into something otherworldly that the human mind can’t possibly fathom without self-destructing. The story is also told in an episodic format, each chapter having its own self-contained narrative that slowly builds upon the alluring mystery and origins of the spiral curse. The ending also has that poetic lovecraftian touch of humanity being small, helpless and completely irrelevant in the face of greater things that humans can never hope to comprehend.
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December 7, 2023
Due anni fa avevo prenotato in biblioteca i due volumi contenenti l'opera manga di Uzumaki, poi inspiegabilmente il secondo volume era scomparso, così da un giorno all'altro non era più presente nell'elenco, così ritirai soltanto il primo volume. Con grande delusione mi apprestai a leggere il primo volume, sapendo che sarei rimasto orfano del secondo, infatti dopo averlo finito non vedevo l'ora di concludere la storia. Fortunatamente qualche settimana fa, dopo anni a controllare quando sarebbe riapparso, ricompare come per magia e lì é scattato l'entusiasmo, finalmente avrei saputo come finiva la storia inquietante confezionata da uno dei mangaka più fantasiosi e più visionari.
Purtroppo erano passati più di due anni, quindi non avevo bene a mente la storia, ma appena sfogliato e letto qualche pagine, ecco riapparirmi davanti agli occhi gli eventi già accaduti. Le 300 pagine circa di questo volume sono passate con una sequela di sentimenti di inquietudine, raccappriccio, sbalordimento e idolatria, per una storia davvero superlativa!
Non bastasse, alla fine vi é la postfazione che mi ha fatto vedere o anzi ha reso in parole ciò che avevo in mente durante tutta la narrazione, con implicazioni non solo sulla capacità immaginativa e illustrativa dell'autore, ma anche con uno sbocco riflessivo sulla situazione sociale giapponese contemporanea alla stesura del manga.
Capolavoro assoluto!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbol...
Purtroppo erano passati più di due anni, quindi non avevo bene a mente la storia, ma appena sfogliato e letto qualche pagine, ecco riapparirmi davanti agli occhi gli eventi già accaduti. Le 300 pagine circa di questo volume sono passate con una sequela di sentimenti di inquietudine, raccappriccio, sbalordimento e idolatria, per una storia davvero superlativa!
Non bastasse, alla fine vi é la postfazione che mi ha fatto vedere o anzi ha reso in parole ciò che avevo in mente durante tutta la narrazione, con implicazioni non solo sulla capacità immaginativa e illustrativa dell'autore, ma anche con uno sbocco riflessivo sulla situazione sociale giapponese contemporanea alla stesura del manga.
Capolavoro assoluto!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbol...
March 12, 2022
Najbrže čitanje ove godine ,i opet jedva čekam da kupim sledeći deo, i pomalo proklinjem svoju odluku da svedem kupovinu na minimum jer me Ito zove kao što njegove spirale zovu svoje potencijalne žrtve
October 14, 2020
Slightly better than the first volume.
Precisely, art for the scary frames was better.
Loving this series overall.
Precisely, art for the scary frames was better.
Loving this series overall.
October 24, 2020
Love the mosquito storyline.
December 4, 2021
Tiene páginas impactantes pero los diálogos redundantes abundan.
June 25, 2022
The hospital arc is by far the most disgusting, traumatizing thing I've read in fiction ever. I'll certainly not be okay when it gets animated. Junji Ito's mind is a wonder.
March 10, 2017
Although the majority of the chapters follow the exact same beats, this remains some of the most bizarre body-horror stories I’ve ever seen. It’s awesome.
February 17, 2021
It is decided. I’m never having a baby.
July 30, 2017
Well that was intense... if that is even a word to describe this volume. The pregnant women chapters were seriously messed up.
March 24, 2021
Vol.2'deki olaylar 1'dekilerden daha güzeldi. 3 için sabırsızlanıyorum ❤️
February 2, 2023
4.5/5
Wow! This was way better, darker and more grotesque than Vol 1.
Towards Vol 3. Lets go!
Wow! This was way better, darker and more grotesque than Vol 1.
Towards Vol 3. Lets go!
August 9, 2023
Just hated reading this one. It is getting just stupidly repetitive and giving me yuck feeling. Still I'm gonna read the vol 3 . This better be good or it is going to be huge disappointment.
February 23, 2022
3.5
probably an unpopular opinion, but this was the weakest volume. as i mentioned in my review of vol. 1 i enjoy my horror as a mixture of bizarre and scary. this was definitely bizarre, i'll give it that - but not that scary? this kinda crossed the line for me into just bizarre and gross, kinda shock factor stories.
we still follow kirie, and we still have the little creepy episode chapters. and don't get me wrong, i still enjoyed this volume a lot, it just wasn't my favorite.
my thoughts on the chapters (this is the only volume i'll do this for, the chapters cover many different stories and my opinions differ the most based on the chapter):
•jack-in-the-box - someone who won't take no for an answer coming back to harass you, even from beyond the grave - peak horror, if i'm being honest
•the snail - this chapter is one of the two that made me say that this book is more gross than scary. i am not very squeamish (some exceptions apply, we'll get to that soon), but i will not look at snails the same way ever again
this chapter had very "gregor samsa woke up as a giant bug and he still decided to go to work" vibe and to be fair, i did find that funny
•the black lighthouse - who doesn't love some haunted, in this case by the spiral, lighthouse content (i was just at the time of reading this getting obsessed with researching lighthouses and why they're, supposedly, haunted); i loved this chapter
•mosquitoes - despite what i'll say about the next chapter, i enjoyed the creepiness of this chapter and the blood-sucking pregnant women
•the umbilical cord - this is the one officer! as i said, not very squeamish, but pregnancy and giving birth stuff? i am absolutely terrified of anything related - so this chapter just made me insanely uncomfortable to the point of my stomach hurting. maybe i should retract that this volume wasn't scary enough, this chapter scared the hell out of me, but i still stand by the fact that the grossness levels of this volume were definitely a bit too high
(now if you are not absolutely terrified of the same things i am, you might find this morbidly interesting - i just felt like my insides were knotting)
•the storm - i liked this chapter a lot! i feel like it's not bringing us any new information but it definitely shows how much more unhinged things are getting, and how unpredictable and uncontrollable this curse is; i enjoyed this chapter, but it wasn't that scary in my opinion?
all in all, not a bad volume, i enjoyed a lot of the chapters as you can see, but but the "less scary" vibe in general, and that umbilical cord chapter really are the reason my rating of this volume is lower.
probably an unpopular opinion, but this was the weakest volume. as i mentioned in my review of vol. 1 i enjoy my horror as a mixture of bizarre and scary. this was definitely bizarre, i'll give it that - but not that scary? this kinda crossed the line for me into just bizarre and gross, kinda shock factor stories.
we still follow kirie, and we still have the little creepy episode chapters. and don't get me wrong, i still enjoyed this volume a lot, it just wasn't my favorite.
my thoughts on the chapters (this is the only volume i'll do this for, the chapters cover many different stories and my opinions differ the most based on the chapter):
•jack-in-the-box - someone who won't take no for an answer coming back to harass you, even from beyond the grave - peak horror, if i'm being honest
•the snail - this chapter is one of the two that made me say that this book is more gross than scary. i am not very squeamish (some exceptions apply, we'll get to that soon), but i will not look at snails the same way ever again
this chapter had very "gregor samsa woke up as a giant bug and he still decided to go to work" vibe and to be fair, i did find that funny
•the black lighthouse - who doesn't love some haunted, in this case by the spiral, lighthouse content (i was just at the time of reading this getting obsessed with researching lighthouses and why they're, supposedly, haunted); i loved this chapter
•mosquitoes - despite what i'll say about the next chapter, i enjoyed the creepiness of this chapter and the blood-sucking pregnant women
•the umbilical cord - this is the one officer! as i said, not very squeamish, but pregnancy and giving birth stuff? i am absolutely terrified of anything related - so this chapter just made me insanely uncomfortable to the point of my stomach hurting. maybe i should retract that this volume wasn't scary enough, this chapter scared the hell out of me, but i still stand by the fact that the grossness levels of this volume were definitely a bit too high
(now if you are not absolutely terrified of the same things i am, you might find this morbidly interesting - i just felt like my insides were knotting)
•the storm - i liked this chapter a lot! i feel like it's not bringing us any new information but it definitely shows how much more unhinged things are getting, and how unpredictable and uncontrollable this curse is; i enjoyed this chapter, but it wasn't that scary in my opinion?
all in all, not a bad volume, i enjoyed a lot of the chapters as you can see, but but the "less scary" vibe in general, and that umbilical cord chapter really are the reason my rating of this volume is lower.
August 16, 2017
Birinci kitaptan daha iyi olmasını beklerken, birinci kitaptan daha saçma çıkması beni üzdü. Sürüsüyle olay yaşanıyor. Ortada bir lanet var ama ne doktorlar ne polisler ne de ülkedeki diğer kişiler bu konuyu el atmıyor. Okulda bir çocuk salyangoza dönüşüyor ve "Aaa hadi bunu okulumuzun bahçesinde besleyelim" diyorlar. 😂 Hastanede hamile kadınlar acayip bebekler doğruyor ve "Aa hadi bunları mantar yapıp yemeklere katalım" diyorlar. Üzgünüm ama tamami ile saçmalıktı. İçindeki çizimler için 2 puan verdim....
October 14, 2021
Even weirder than the first volume, if you can believe it. Clearly this is not meant for kids — why then do the characters keep on acting incredibly foolish? Why does Junji keep on stating the obvious? I doubt the third volume will answer my questions.
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