Since Ito’s universe often provides no reasonable explanations, reasons, or endings, fear and horror are always presented through contagion-like, unusual and mysterious incidents. It manifests itself in small ways with objects to people’s bodies and minds, such as seashells, hair, the spiral marks on people’s bodies, and the insane obsessions of spirals. Appearing like a form/concept of contagion, the bizarre spiral occurrences spread to infect the inhabitants and their bodies, which turns everyone and their everyday events into chaos, horror, and madness. Created by the popular and brilliant manga artist Junji Ito, who is known as the godfather of the horror manga genre today, Uzumaki has combined the most terrifying, grotesque, and insanely sensational features and elements of horror with “spirals.” It tells the story of Kurozuchou, a fictional town which is plagued and haunted by a supernatural “curse” involving a pattern-uzumaki, the spiral.
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