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Uzumaki (Big Comics Special)

Junji Ito

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Release Date late August 2010
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Catalog No.NEOBK-2989772
JAN/ISBN 9784091832429
Product Type BOOK
Label/DistributorShogakukan
Product Package Size (Measured) 13 x 18 x 3.9cm
Pages 632

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[Machine Translation] The horror classic acclaimed by Masaru Sato is now available in a new edition! One day, something strange suddenly begins to happen in the town of Kurozu, where high school girl Kirie Gotoh was born and raised. The whirlwind begins to dance, the branches and leaves of the trees and grass begin to curl, the smoke from the crematorium rises in whirlpools......, and even the people begin to turn into whirlpools. Hair whirls. The body twists up. They turn into snails. ...... In order to save herself from the vortex curse, Kirie tries to escape from the town, but? A classic horror manga that foreshadowed today's stagnant and disparate society, this masterpiece is one of the best-known works by the bizarre manga artist Junji Ito.

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うずまき (ビッグコミックススペシャル) / 伊藤潤二/著

佐藤優氏絶賛のホラーの古典、新装版で登場!! 女子高生・五島桐絵が生まれ育った黒渦町に、ある日突然、異変が起き始める。つむじ風が舞い、草木の枝葉がとぐろを巻き、火葬場の煙が渦を巻いて上がっていく……そして人間も、うずまき化し始めていく。髪が渦巻く。身体がねじれあがる。カタツムリに変身する……うずまきの呪いから助かるため、桐絵は町から脱出しようとするものの!?閉塞感渦巻く今日の格差社会を予見した、ホラー漫画の古典的傑作は怪奇漫画家・伊藤潤二の代表作。

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    Probably one of Ito-sensei's masterpieces! If all horror manga were this creepy, I would consume them all. But honestly Ito-sensei's manga are my favourite horror manga! The synopsis simply says: Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. However, the town is not haunted by a person or a being, but a pattern - uzumaki, the spiral. So it sounds a little ridiculous, right? Yet Ito manages to make such a concept absolutely terrifying! His imagination reminds me of Clive Barkers in so many ways, I almost can’t fathom how they come up with such insane, disturbing ideas. The illustrations are all so detailed and incredible, just mind-bending and horrifying as well as beautiful at the same time. Some will live long in the memory! I loved how each chapter had its own self-contained story or theme, therefore it’s very easy to pick up and read a single chapter and still get a satisfying experience. And yet the story manages to connect all the single stories with an overarching one which leads to an unexpected conclusion! Uzumaki really has it all: terrifying body horror, Lovecraftian elements, boundless imagination, and an unnerving sense of dread that pervades throughout its entirety. Highly, HIGHLY recommend.

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