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    <body><![CDATA[Well, that was messed up.<br/><br/>The black and white style of manga is very helpful to setting the subdued mood of the stories. The town feels oppressed, prime to a supernatural infection. If you haven't heard, Uzumaki is about the curse of spirals that infests a small town in Japan. They begin ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16636417">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious horror manga. I mean, it is not intentionally funny, and it is actually quite disturbing -- I wouldn't read it at night -- but the premise is that there is a town and it is haunted by an evil ... spiral! The very earth is<br/>contaminated by the evil ... spiral pattern! The mangaka does ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50897469">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An insane idea on every page.  <br/>-m<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I randomly found this book while doing an inventory of my library's manga collection.  I've seen the Japanese horror movie, and while I found that the movie was bizarre enough to be horrifying, it was a little silly at the same time (the people become obsessed with spirals and eventually become--to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22226400">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Kurôzu-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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: <em>uzumaki</em>, 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 Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not like horror.  What is labeled as &quot;horror&quot; is generally not horrifying to me, and a lot of &quot;horror&quot; seems to resort to excessive violence and sex because otherwise they would lack content and feeling entirely.  It just does not hit me on an emotional level, which is what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33231982">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Kurôzu-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: <em>uzumaki</em>, 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 Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my new favorite graphic novel series! Junji Ito flawlessly integrates romance,psychological horror,sci-fi, and drama into a story about random, disturbing events that are all linked by the mezmorizing spiral. Vol. 1 Starts kind of slow and the characters are still a bit undeveloped but the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46455321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Kurôzu-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: <em>uzumaki</em>, 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 Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who would have thought that a simple pattern - the spiral - can unleash terror upon a quiet Japanese town? Beautifully drawn, and thoroughly engrossing, this first volume is not for the faint of heart. No blood, no gore, just pee-your-pants creepy horror.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Normally I am not a huge manga fan, but I loved this one and can't wait to read the next 2 volumes. Uzumaki is set in a small Japanese village that happens to be haunted by spirals. Spiral patterns are appearing in all kinds of strange places, and driving almost everyone in the town crazy. You would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50655926">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose it had to happen sometime. Chapel Hill Comics recommended a book that pretty much sucked. I'm sorry, but there are thousands of scary things on this earth. &quot;Swirls&quot; is not one of them. No matter how terrified you make your characters look, I just can't get frightened of a curved ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79329185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Genuinely creepy, and I love the art.  The main characters are kind of forgettable, but the secondary ones more than make up for it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most twisted, goriest, sickest, eye-popping, stomach-churning, heart-stopping graphic novel I've ever read! Love it!!! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nicely drawn Manga horror about a town overrun by sinister spirals.  Uzumaki has an enjoyably creepy, but also kind of goofy, atmosphere. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Odd, really really odd. Some stories were quite good though. The second book tapered off a bit, but the third was a tour de force.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[these were seriously twisted reads. i'm glad i waited until after i wasn't pregnant to read this one]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved looking at the artwork, and enjoyed all the bizarre plot twists! Can't wait to get the other books!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Creepy<br/><br/>glad im not obsessed with the spirals<br/><br/>i remember first picking this up thinking it had something to do with naruto (uzumaki naruto)<br/>boy, was i wrong...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In this horror manga, a small town in Japan is haunted by spirals.  Yup.  Like the shape.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[YAY! MY STAR RATING THINGY IS WORKING AGAIN!!!!<br/>This is probably one of the most messed up things i have ever read! If you think edeger alan poe or H.P. Lovcraft are the most desdurbed people out there then you are wrong because the author of this manga is what you would get if you through both...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5984">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Creepy as all H-E-double hockey sticks. J-horror at its weirdest.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book REALLY creeped me out. Now I'm afraid of spirals... D:)]]></body>
    
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