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Uzumaki, Vol. 3 (Uzumaki #3)

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Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral manifesting itself in increasingly terrifying ways. In this third and final volume, the town is cut off from the outside by devastating hurricanes. Kirie, her boyfriend Shuichi, and the other desperate survivors must face the impending horror. The movie version of Uzumaki will so...more

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Published October 6th 2002 by Viz Media

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May 20, 2013 Ash rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: No ONE (Unless you are addicted to SPIRALS)

Recommended to Ash by: Aqeel

Well....... WTH was the book about???? :S
thinking, trying to remember...................................... oh SPIRALS and what else?? thinking... OH I KNOW SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS etc.
I'm just sitting wondering what to say about it. I guess I will just nag.
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
THIS SERIES WASTED maybe 5 HOURS OF MY LIFE
SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS SPIRALS AND SPIRALS
I have NO IDEA FROM WHAT PART OF BRAIN THIS S...more

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May 04, 2013 Ed rated it 5 of 5 stars

Gustav Murnau gave his legendary film "Nosferatu" the elegant subtitle "eine Symphonie des Grauens" - a Symphony of Horror - referencing his own tight control over the filming process, and the excellent blending in that film of the great traditions of the classic scary story.

Junji Ito's "Uzumaki" cannot be called a Symphony, but a Rondo - a repetition of variations on a theme. Here, in the closing as everywhere else, Ito utilises the techniques of great horror as stipulated by Todorov's essay o...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Dani rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: manga, read-in-2012, horror

I feel like this was the worst volume in the series. What was that ending, really?

I liked that the series became less episodic and more like a coherent story in this volume--finally people seemed to be reacting like normal human beings, actually seeming to remember, "Oh yeah, everyone's dying, aren't they?" The return of snail people grates at me because, come on guys, nobody mentioned a snail epidemic since that chapter! If people were still turning into snails, people would hear about it! With...more I feel like this was the worst volume in the series. What was that ending, really?

I liked that the series became less episodic and more like a coherent story in this volume--finally people seemed to be reacting like normal human beings, actually seeming to remember, "Oh yeah, everyone's dying, aren't they?" The return of snail people grates at me because, come on guys, nobody mentioned a snail epidemic since that chapter! If people were still turning into snails, people would hear about it! With that said, I liked the new addition of Chie a lot. (view spoiler) Even though I did like that a plot had appeared, the chapters did somewhat drag.

I note that the horror element almost completely disappears in this volume.

I really, really can't handle the ending though. I'll summarise before I go into spoiler tags: I accepted the inevitable and it seemed to be going where I wanted it to... and then on the very last page (of chapter nineteen, anyway) I was suddenly left to blink and say, "Wait, what?!" (view spoiler)

I briefly mentioned this in my tags, but I loved the development of Kirie and Shuichi here. It was the first time their relationship showed any sign of depth, and I love that. In a way, it was fitting that they only briefly showed that they were close--any sappiness beforehand would have ruined the moment when it came, I think.

Overall, an alright series, with some disturbing moments... I would love the ending to be less cryptic and for the characters to respond more realistically and with more depth though.(less)

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May 20, 2012 David rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, horror

Oh. My. Gawd.

HOW is this NOT an american movie yet??? (I see there IS a Japanese interpretation, but haven't been able to locate a copy- but like "The Ring" (Ringu) and "The Grudge" before it... this has AMAZING pottential for an American Horror Movie...

REAL Horror, not that blood-n-guts stuff they pass off as 'horror' nowdays...

This is the story of a village. A village infected with SPIRALS.

Oh sure. Go ahead. Chuckle.

Go, "yeah... AND?"

But really.

Think about it.

...what happens when something as...more

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May 07, 2012 Lashawn rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The last volume of Uzumaki, where everything winds down to a close. Ha-HA. WINDING.

Let's see. It opens with the town destroyed by a rash of cyclones. The slightest air movement, be it a handwave or someone shouting, causes twisters. Those remaining townspeople who didn't leave at the first sign of weirdness are crammed together in old row houses, which strangely remain upright under the air pressure. Whatever isn't destroyed by cyclones is trashed by young hooligans who have learned to ride whir...more The last volume of Uzumaki, where everything winds down to a close. Ha-HA. WINDING.

Let's see. It opens with the town destroyed by a rash of cyclones. The slightest air movement, be it a handwave or someone shouting, causes twisters. Those remaining townspeople who didn't leave at the first sign of weirdness are crammed together in old row houses, which strangely remain upright under the air pressure. Whatever isn't destroyed by cyclones is trashed by young hooligans who have learned to ride whirlwinds like horses, Starvation is rampant, as well as the number of people who are turning into snails. Hmmm...no food, but plenty of snails. You can guess where that line of thinking goes...

In the midst of the growing insanity is Kirie. Well, there's also Shuichi, but he's rendered useless, okay...MORE useless..but Kirie's still her chipper, albeit oblivious self. She doesn't wonder why the ancient row houses don't crumble. She has no desire to figure out the reason why Dragonfly Pond has turned into a whirlpool. And even though the town has become a deathtrap, she doesn't question why people still keep coming from the outside. When the people in the row houses finally kick her and her family out, even though technically it's their house, she does nothing to fight back. She is passivity personified, until her breaking point comes when her mother and father get blown away to whereever, and her brother starts showing symptoms of becoming a snail. When she sees the shell forming on his back, suddenly, it hits her that hey, maybe the town is dangerous after all. And after so many chapters, she realizes "we have to get out of here."

The problem with having a passive protagonist is that through one, you don't learn anything. The character accepts what's before her eyes and shows no curiosity or interest to change her situation, much to the frustration of the audience. Now, granted, this is a horror story, so the protagonist can get away with being stupid, in which case, we can take great delight in her demise. But the entire problem I have with the series is that there is no rhyme or reason for why these things are happening, and since Kirie isn't willing to find out, I'm left...spinning my wheels, so to speak. She loses her parents. She loses her brother. The townspeople go insane. Ito pulls out all the stops to kill everyone through...spirals. Labyrinths upon spirals upon circles until we get to an underground city that's full of spirals...and then it ends with Kirie and Shuichi giving up and lying down and turning into spirals. Just like that.

I guess it's supposed to mean something. Some sort of metaphor. But if Ito wasn't willing to give us a hint to why all this was happening, then why should I care? At least the movie did a better job in trying to get in some explanation of why the town was so obsessed on spirals--not that we got any answers, but hell, it *tried* (and may I say that the truth in the movie got buried in a gruesome, but hilarious manner). But in the manga, we never know the answer. Spirals happen and then you're dead. Or not. Whatever. I find I do not have the energy to care.

I'm rating this two spirals out of five. The second volume was the scariest of the lot. This one was just weird. But it did have some interesting ideas--and it did have the female reporter from the movie; her plotline was probably the most interesting part of the whole hot mess.

(A quick note...after the end, there was one more chapter where Kirie had long hair again and the town was back to normal and I was like OH SNAP DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME IT WAS ALL A DREAM! But no, it turns out that this as a lost chapter. Apparently, Ito wrote it but didn't know where to put it in the narrative, so he stuck it at the very end of the third volume. Don't know why he did it, and frankly, I was so sick of Death By Spiral, I didn't even read it.)(less)

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Jul 27, 2011 Orrin Grey rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: manga, favorites

The third and final volume of Uzumaki is the one that feels most like a continuous narrative. After the brilliant opening story "The House," the episodic nature of the chapters ends and the final chapters of the book tell one cohesive story. Unfortunately, this volume also contains the closest thing to a misstep that the series ever took for me, with the first few chapters concerning the twisters in the town. Happily, it more than makes up for it shortly thereafter, as people begin trying to esc...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Charles Dee Mitchell rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels-illustration

Things have gone from bad to worse in the fog-bound Kurozu-cho, the Japanese city cursed by the Spiral -- yes that seemingly inoffensive pattern that is literally twisting the lives of these unfortunate citizens all out of shape. A sense that something is wrong in Kurozu-cho has reached the outside world, but aid workers are either caught up in whirlwinds or sunk in maelstroms. Those that make it through find themselves trapped as well.

This is Vol. 3 of Ito's manga. I read the first volume and c...more

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May 05, 2009 D.M. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Rather than review each individual volume of this series, I'll just do an overall here.
I found out about Ito entirely by chance, but immediately fell for his rather distinctly Japanese style of horror. If his art wasn't so evocative and horribly lovely, I probably wouldn't be a fan.
This series is not as strong as Tomie or even the shorts in Flesh Colored Horror (if I remember correctly), but it has the advantage of being of a grander scope, a la Akira. The range of the story from the individual...more

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Jul 04, 2009 Robert rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: comic-manga

Sebuah manga yang mengerikan... suspense thriller! Kirie, seorang gadis cantik, mempunyai seorang pacar yang baik, hidup dalam keluarga kecil yang bahagia, dan tinggal di kota kecil yang tenang. Tetapi mendadak semuanya berubah menjadi aneh... sangat aneh, bahkan terlalu aneh! Dimulai dari si ayah pacarnya yang seakan terhipnotis menatap cangkang spiral seekor siput, seperti virus yang terus menyebar, seluruh kota akhirnya terkena teror kutukan spiral...

Ini sebuah manga yang luar biasa, menyajik...more

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Mar 20, 2010 Marcel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: j-horror-manga

The final anthology is also the most narrative. The town has descended into an inescapable abyss of disgusting macabre, cut off completely from the outside world. Its buildings slowly merge and the town goes into a spiral shape, alluding to a previous occurrence of this horror when strange wooden bungalows that had always existed in town fall naturally into a spiral form when construction of them expands. The spiral shape of the town now emanates an evil aura, its people disfigured in various wa...more

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Jan 05, 2013 François rated it 3 of 5 stars

This would have been 4 stars for me if not for the ending. I wasn't expecting a real explanation for the events in the town, but I was expecting something a little more creative given the rest of the series. Whatever force was behind the spirals seemed to have taken a particular interest in Kirie (the hurricane's eye centered on her wherever she went in vol 2), yet there was really no elaboration on as to why. These issues aside, I was surprised by all the manifestations of spirals Ito managed t...more

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Sep 28, 2010 Ririn Miu rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, horror, graphic-novel-and-comic

probably a bit spoiler-ish.

Kurozu-chou had finally given up. The city near the sea and the mountain turned into a giant spiral hell. The snail people are back, and become food (wtf?) and new characters are introduced just to be killed (wtf?) the return of our mad hero Shuichi (who was still crazy and never had the brain to leave town while he still could, duh!) and of course our heroine Kirie who was still alive up till the end, well not really.

Anyway, it was a great read if you thought about it...more

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Jul 07, 2009 Joshua rated it 3 of 5 stars

The series was really bizarre, I enjoyed reading it. I'm a fan of horror/mystery types of stories, but the ending is often disappointing after all the build-up and strange occurrences.

Unfortunately, I wasn't too thrilled with the way this series ended. There were so many "What the hell?!" moments throughout, but the ending just seemed kind of blah. Maybe I'm just used to big surprises and positive resolutions.

Though I will admit, without giving anything away, that the way the series ended did fi...more

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Oct 16, 2010 Hueyyun rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-graphic-novels

One of the scariest shit I ever read. I had nightmares for a week, and this manga only amplified my fear of snails. I think the creep factor of this manga is not the mangaka's grotesque drawing but the psychological underlying and sublime fear residing underneath all that madness. It feels like the mangaka is questioning and exploring the darker side to human nature. And even though the story is horrifyingly grotesque and frightening, the madness and the obsession each character and the town has...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Greg Heath rated it 5 of 5 stars

[Note: This review is intended to cover all 3 volumes of the book, but I'll eventually get around to doing separate write-ups for the individual volumes.]

Junji Ito's "Uzumaki" is a brutally terrifying read that somehow manages to walk that fine line between the kind of creeping, disquieting horror associated with J-Horror films and the go-for-the-throat shock value that the grotesque American monster movies typically possess. The reason I'm making movie comparisons here is not only because, of c...more [Note: This review is intended to cover all 3 volumes of the book, but I'll eventually get around to doing separate write-ups for the individual volumes.]

Junji Ito's "Uzumaki" is a brutally terrifying read that somehow manages to walk that fine line between the kind of creeping, disquieting horror associated with J-Horror films and the go-for-the-throat shock value that the grotesque American monster movies typically possess. The reason I'm making movie comparisons here is not only because, of course, this is a manga - with the familiar cinematic pacing and still-frame shot panels - but also because, though episodic and segmented into installments, Ito's work "feels" like a movie. That is to say, it's simply too visceral an experience to think of it in terms of a written work, and though images from this book will linger in your mind long after you've put it down as they would with any horror novel, you're very likely to experience them firsthand, uniquely, as I did - through the peculiar lens of synthesized art and language, woven together here with such consummate grace as to have a lulling, spellbinding effect. And that, not surprisingly, amplifies the horror tenfold.

The events that unfold in "Uzumaki" are, essentially, outrageous. The concept is so strange and far-fetched - a town is haunted by the spiral shape, its citizens driven mad by the aching beauty of the pattern - that one would expect that in having to consciously suspend disbelief, the element of horror would be diminished. As the reader comes to discover, however, that simply isn't the case. No, despite the fantastic plot premise and seeming ridiculousness of a shape being scary, Ito manages to plow right through the reader's guard and catch him unawares. Ito has very likely set things up this way on purpose, luring the reader into a false sense of security and then proceeding to make the reader truly fear what he or she was previously scoffing at. It's this quality that draws me time and again to Ito's distinctive brand of horror: he capitalizes on the fact that, as rational human beings, we will fear what we do not understand. And in this case, the reader will not understand why the silly spiral pattern has suddenly become an aspect of palpable dread.

The three volumes, when read in proper order, build quietly and escalate in horror with each subsequent release. Things in the sleepy lakeside town are unsettling. Whispers of madness and strange events abound, and throughout the first volume, these lulling moments of calm are broken only by explosive moments of violence, generally self-inflicted and always grotesque in nature. The story focuses on two high school teenagers, a young boy/girl couple. The horrific events unfold slowly around them as they desperately search for clues and a way to help the town from its descent into madness, and toward the end of the book, they come face to face with the horrors on a more personal level. The ending is absolutely terrifying, but as with all great J-Horror, it's purposefully ambiguous. Sharing that won't spoil anything - in fact, let it serve as a fair warning. Not having everything wrapped up in a perfect little ribboned box is generally a lot more disquieting, and this is no exception.

Although not necessarily relevant to the book's review, I'll take a moment to touch on the 2000 film version of "Uzumaki," having already referenced the J-Horror film genre a fair amount. The film covers the first two volumes of the book faithfully, though the hospital mosquito scenes are missing. It comes as close as possible, I think, to capturing the subtlety and nuance of Ito's thickly-inked artwork, and adds a new layer of atmosphere all its own in the stuffy grays and muted greens and browns, blanketing the sky above the town with a perpetual, suffocating sheet of ash-colored clouds. There's also something unique in watching the film version of the story - a detective character actually discovers fairly early on the reasons behind the spiral's presence in the town and its maddening influence on the citizens. Without spoiling the film for those who want to watch it, I'll say that, despite this new plot development, the ending is perhaps even creepier than the book version. For the added dimension of color and haunting ambiguity, I highly recommend watching the film prior to reading the book. Nothing was lost in knowing some (not all) of the events that would occur, and I feel that my experience of Ito's work was further enriched by having viewed it prior.

Anyway, by the book's third volume, the word "catastrophic" will come to mind. Without risking spoiling one of the more gruesome elements of the third installment, I'll just say that when limbs contort, minds bend in turn...and that slugs should fear one another as well as salt. For anyone who's read it, I'm sure you'll agree with me that the "crawl in and dine" scene was one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard of, let alone seen drawn. If anything I've read or seen can said to have been imprinted in memory, then for me, it's surely that nasty image and the sounds and implications of what was not shown along with it.

In conclusion, I firmly believe that this is Ito's best work. His Tomie stories are iconic, Gyo was strange and shocking, and the various collected shorts for the stand-alone Museum of Terror anthology were all memorable and eerie, but it's this, with its slowly rising din and climactic cacophony, that really made a lasting impression in my mind. From a writer's standpoint - novelist, manga-ka, or any other kind - this is a flawless masterwork of horror, and should be studied for both technique and subsequent effect. The concept is inimitable, and no one has even tried. Ito's tone and pacing, both in his artwork and through his writing, is seamless and perfectly suited to the subject of the tale and the events that unfold. No event is insignificant to the whole, though finding a common thread of meaning among them is, amazingly, quite troublesome. It's the simultaneous bludgeoning of the mind and the senses in reading "Uzumaki" that makes it work, makes it linger - makes it unforgettable.(less)

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Jun 11, 2013 Rucker Manley rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, 2013

Junji Ito finishes strong in the third volume of Uzumaki. While the second, third, and fourth acts (I'm looking at this from Shakespearean structure) floundered and became repetitive, the third package finishes it off well with the only ending we could get here.

I wonder how much Uzumaki was the inspiration for Amigara Fault, or vice-versa. It becomes clear, here, though, that the man knows how to package an ending. His philosophy of story, a winning one, shines through here.

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Nov 06, 2012 Faris Morgan rated it 4 of 5 stars

I LOVED THIS SERIES. I read reviews online and getting a copy was the best move I ever made.

This is true horror. Not the typical monsters chasing people, ghosts coming out of walls, but the deep dark disturbing horror that wakes something equally sinister within our own minds.
The illustrations are just too eerie. And that scene with the pregnant women (no spoilers don't worry). I couldn't believe some of hte things I was seeing, and that's why it will rank at the top of all mangas I have read.

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May 08, 2013 Robert Rohwer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A small Japanese town experiences a series of horrifying events, all related in same way to spirals. Yeah, it sounds stupid, and in a way it is. That being said, I found I LOVED this series! Incredibly horrifying, sometimes cheesy, but always suspenseful and intense. Junji Ito's images are perfectly grotesque - many will still with me for the rest of my life! If you are big fan of horror, this is an absolute MUST-READ!!!

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May 21, 2013 Sae-chan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comic-graphic

The completion of spiral stories. It's spiraling out of control and sucked everything down with it. It left me with quite an aftershock.

I really didn't like the Lost Chapter part. Like pouring hot water into my deep-frozen heart (not to mention my distorted face and clenched stomach). If it had gone straight to the afterword, it would have been fine to close up the eerie series.

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Aug 05, 2009 Danielle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: graphicnovels, manga, supernatural

I will never look at escargot the same EVER again!! Yerg!

That said, I do think Shuichi is a cutie... at least before the start of his mental breakdown. Considering what's happened to him throughout the series, it's no real surprise the grasp he had on his sanity started slipping.

Also, I'm surprised Kirie didn't have MASSIVE nightmares after all she'd witnessed! The incident at the hospital? Jack-In-The-Box?!?!? O_o

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Dec 11, 2012 Emma rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thought this was great. I never read any Junji Ito before, but I saw some illustrations from this series and decided to give it a look. They were pretty great; I like that there's a bunch of random incidents that don't really seem to go together until the end. The illustrations alone are worth reading it for, but the story line was surprisingly good, too.

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Jan 23, 2013 Penny Puspa rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel-and-manga

Sensasi apa yang saya dapat setelah membaca ketiga seri Uzumaki?!

Mumet-frustrasi-stres-pusing-mual-mumet!

This is the most bizarre manga I've ever read. Seperti membaca karya Salvador Dali dengan sentuhan Mister Jigsaw, Hanibal Lecter, atau Inferno-nya Dante...
Lupakan itu Vlad Dracula, Edward Cullen, E.T.. lupakan itu Sadako, Ju-on, Tali Pocong Perawan.. Uzumaki adalah jenis manga sarap dan "sakit" yang mampu membuat saya jadi speechless dan kepala saya ikutan cenat-cenut tujuh kuadrat.

I may do...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Deviant-Muse rated it 4 of 5 stars

~Review for Uzumaki, Vol. 1, 2, & 3~

The only reason this book (series) was given 4 stars was because of the artwork. This series was suggested to me by some people on Tumblr. They said it was "really scary" and freaked them out. I asked if it was really scary or just little kid scary. I was promised a really, truly, scary, horror story.

Once again I have been deceived and let down by what others perceive as "horror".

This is in no way scary. It is a very interesting story, do not get me wron...more

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Oct 22, 2012 Nura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic

Will you do anything to survive? yang nyeremin dari volume ini bukan kejadian supernaturalnya. justru manusia-manusianya yang nyeremin. untuk bisa selamat, kayaknya mereka mau ngelakuin apa aja. Whoa... pokoknya bikin gw ga bisa mimpi indah deh semalem gara-gara baca ni manga. 4 bintang buat ending yang lumayan menyentuh walopun ga membahagiakan...

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Mar 27, 2012 Jesse Bullington rated it 5 of 5 stars

Phenomenal ending to the series, and one that never directly states its possible quantum mechanical connections. Is all of history a spiral resulting from one fateful atom swerving, setting a new trajectory for...everything? Ito never overstates, instead focusing on cosmic weirdness. Love that guy...

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May 10, 2009 tangerine rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Oct 06, 2012 Gurra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, manga

Fantastiskt innovativ skräck, Ito berättar saker som överraskar och som jag inte hade tänkt på att jag ville höra. Stiligt att han lyckas hålla spiral temat över alla tre böcker utan att det känns krystat.
Teckningarna kompletterar storyn väldigt väl och adderar ruggighetsfaktor.

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Oct 15, 2012 Ravenhats rated it 4 of 5 stars

The bone chilling conclusion. Finally a center plot is established as the entire town is slowly consumed by a giant spiral. Despite two other books, this book still has the ability to make one sick with terror. A most read for horror fans, makes Higurashi look like a joke.

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Jul 28, 2012 Jim rated it 3 of 5 stars

OK, it was very creative and definitely off-kilter. I was ready for the story to be over. Literally the manga equivalent of being chased through town by a zombie: even when you get ahead, it's still coming and picking up friends. That gets old. So did this series, IMHO.

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Jan 17, 2013 Deen Sakurai rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Uzumaki tale comes to an end in this volume and Ito manages to wrap up the narrative in fairly tidy fashion. As with the entirety of the series, Ito's detailed and intricate art is the standout and the final volume does not disappoint in this regard.

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About Junji Ito

Junji Itō 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 p...more Junji Itō 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.(less)

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Uzumaki, Vol. 3 (Uzumaki #3)

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