I was first introduced to Uzumaki through the now defunct manga magazine Pulp. I was immediately captured by the strangeness of the story and the exquisite linework of it’s creator Junji Ito’s artwork. Unfortunately, the friend I had borrowed the magazine from stopped receiving Pulp around the second installment of the story and I did not know where to get it! It took about a year of thinking about this story for me to finally order all three volumes from Amazon. Once I received the books I never stopped reading until the end of the story. Every chapter grew weirder and weirder, the townsfolk succumbing one by one to the mysteries of the spiral, the main heroine’s plight growing ever more hopeless. The only criticism I have for the entire series is the end. It is even weirder than all that goes before it and feels a little like the author ran out of gas and tried to tie it all up rather quickly. However, this does not detract from the power of the story or the quality of the art. Uzumaki will be loved by horror and manga fans alike.

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