Should i read uzumaki

Most of it is unexplainable and borders on the line of "weird and unexplainable" rather than actually scary. He takes ideas from normal, everyday life and exaggerates them, crafting jumpscares as readers flip the page from horror to horror.

But sometimes, his stories linger in the back of readers' minds as they're trying to sleep at night or enter a dark room. Updated on March 22nd, by Bailey Jo Josie: It's been almost a year since this article was first published, and in that time horror manga fans are still waiting for the premiere of the Adult Swim anime adaptation of Junji Ito's Uzumaki , which was postponed due to the COVID pandemic forcing production to shut down.

Uzumaki is due out sometime in , but in the meantime let's expand on more of Ito's scariest stories. A man named Kume hikes up into the mountains to bird-watch where he comes across an injured man who had been there for a month. The story is disturbing, disgusting, and immensely scary. They tell him to not get caught eating it. Ogi returns to Japan with the nectar and shares some with a friend who then goes on to tell other friends about it. However, something bizarre and terrifying keeps happening to those who eat the nectar: Their entire bodies get smashed and flattened against the ground or wall.

A girl named Risa has lost her memory and her friend Shuichi has taken her home to her parents. Risa wakes up in the middle of the night, seeing an enormous centipede enter her room— is it just a dream or a memory? A man named Mukoda complains to Dr. Even though Uzumaki may be Junji Ito's most popular work, it's definitely not as horrifying as it is bizarre and enticing.

This story is a tale about a spiral shape infesting a town, driving everyone within utterly mad. The horrifying aspect of his story is what it does to its characters. It makes people show true signs of obsession and utter madness. It's otherworldly and unexplainable and no one would want to be caught in the world of Uzumak i. The reason Hanging Balloons is so terrifying is due to the inescapable nature of the plot. Balloons that double as their human counterparts hunt and track down their replica.

The balloons stop at nothing to try and tie their nooses around the humans in which they embody. Even if someone attempts to kill the balloon, the human whose face it matches dies as well.

There is no way out of this story, and the main character reaps these consequences. It is gory but not too much so. Some of the images that are most upsetting and hardest to look at feature no blood whatsoever and some almost become beautiful and all the more disturbing for that beauty. The ending panels, where the mystery of the spiral climaxes and Shuichi and Kirie meet their fate are gorgeous. If you are a comics fan or a horror fan and want to read something that brings out the very best in both genres, Uzumaki is a classic that will stay with you long after you finish it, even if you don't want it too.

You can find Uzumaki here. Submissions Author page. Masthead Our Book. During the twenty chapters of Uzumaki, plus an extra one, I was always interested in what would happen next. There were never any dead moments and most of the chapters tell different situations related to the cursed form.

For the more visually sensitive, there are some more disturbing images with small details that end up making the drawing even more real and uncomfortable. This book is available in a deluxe version, with a hard cover, and brings the three volumes together in just one book. The version I have is in English and distributed by Viz Media.

Unfortunately, there is not a Portuguese version of Portugal, although there is a Brazilian version edited by Devir, but it is not distributed here. This manga is already twenty years old, but its quality is undeniable. In short, I strongly advise you to read these six hundred pages full of cursed spirals. Um apaixonado por videojogos e anime.