![]() It is a deeply Gnostic view of the world. There is no salvation, only the inevitability of doom from an unfathomable supernatural horror that is utterly indifferent to the fear and panic of human suffering. Uzumaki is a more epic exercise if Lovecraftian cosmic horror where the teenage hero and heroine discover the town they're in is collapsing into an apocalypse of spirals – hair, holes, then bodies, buildings, the landscape itself – that threaten to engulf the whole world. It is the first Junji Ito horror manga the West was exposed to in the 1990s even though he had already created several well-known horror manga series and stories that made him famous in Japan and the rest of Asia, like Tomie, about a demonic girl who keeps coming back from the dead to haunt the men she teased and tormented into killing her. "Uzumaki" means "spiral" in Japanese, and that's as direct a title as you can get. ![]()
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