Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition): Includes vols. 1, 2 & 3 (Junji Ito)

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Resumiendo, el dibujo y el estilo de Junji Ito me han producido auténtico pavor, sobre todo al inicio de la lectura, no sé si porque me he ido acostumbrando o simplemente se han ido suavizando hasta cierto punto, pero he llegado incluso a tener sueños muy extraños con ellos. Será la protagonista principal Kirie Goshima sobre la que recaerá gran parte del peso de la trama, y será ellla junto con su novio Shûichi Saitô quienes tratarán de dar explicación a tan extraños hechos. Poco a poco veremos como los personajes van evolucionando en un viaje directo hacia la locura. For me personally, the freakiest story was Mosquitos. Kirie is recovering from injuries in a hospital, and patients all around her are dying. Why? Well, she discovers that something is very wrong with a group of pregnant women who are about to give birth. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.

First of all, there are two things that determine how much I'm gonna like a book: the beginning and the ending. Wow, what a macabre masterpiece. This was gory and grotesque and very disturbing and at the same time the story is amazing and I could hardly put it down. It was amazing and it had boundless imagination. The story kept getting more and more hopeless until the bitter end. I mean this really is a horror story, but man, it's so good at the same time. It's a nightmarish brilliant piece of art. I can't explain it better than that. Taking place in the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho in Japan, Uzumaki mainly follows the characters Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend Shuichi Saito. Their town is a quiet place until some people begin acting crazy with a strange obsession over spirals. It is not long before these people's obsessions turn to complete madness until the spirals consume them and start to affect the entire town. this three-in-one collection tells the story of a town completely unravelling through unsettling, disgusting, horrifying, and mind-bending body horror.

Seriously though, for like a whole month after reading this manga, I would see and notice spirals! On fabric patterns, utensils, tiles, EVERYWHERE! I was worried I was gonna keep seeing spirals for the rest of my life!! I'm okay now. I think… Como ya había comentado: no es una lectura rápida. Las ilustraciones tienen tantos detalles que mientras más segundos pasas observándolas más perturbadoras y maravillosas te parecen, por ello creo que es mejor avanzar con calma y disfrutar cada capítulo. Lograr que cada uno de los elementos resalte en una ilustración en blanco y negro no es tan sencillo, y este mangaka ha hecho un trabajo increíble, así que considero que se merece más reconocimiento del que ya tiene.

Spirals... this town is contaminated with spirals...Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral — the hypnotic secret shape of the world. This bizarre masterpiece of horror manga is now available in a single volume. Fall into a whirlpool of terror! the slow, uncanny creep of horror starts when shuichi’s father discovers a new hobby: collecting examples of uzumaki, the spiral. what starts relatively innocent soon becomes a full-on obsession, and he devolves into a state where he doesn’t even go to work anymore. he just stares at spirals all day in his study, with devastating results. The story itself was a really nice slow-burn horror that centers around a teenage girl named Kirie, and her boyfriend, Shuichi. These two start to notice that the town and its inhabitants are quietly being driven mad by SPIRALS. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU.I'm giving it 5 stars because I'm just assuming the translation process made the dialogue sound somewhat simplified. Maybe that's just a thing? His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. This was the first Junji Ito work that I have ever read. I found that this book was quite enjoyable in several regards. However, my favorite chapter must be the SNAILS chapter (of course there are snails in here! What would be a book about spirals without snails? 🐌 🐌 🐌)

I meant to read this in one day, but it felt like it took me forever. (Maybe I'm turning into a snail person?) Sobresaliendo de entre las novelas/cuentos relacionado a pueblos fantasma tradicionales, Uzumaki puede leerse no necesariamente en el mismo orden de sus capítulos, contando todos con la individualidad necesaria como para apreciarse completos y particulares. Aún más, una de las diferencias clave del título en cuestión es que los personajes principales no arriban para toparse con la alucinación y el temor; ellos viven allí y el argumento no se centra en su intento de escape (que sí lo hay), sino en las tragedias que cobran una por una las vidas de los hombres, mujeres y niños que, sin saberlo, han sido hipnotizados por la espiral. No es extraño que nadie reaccione como cualquiera fuera del pueblo lo haría—la enajenación alcanza el punto donde el fallecimiento brutal es una impresión efímera y pronosticada. Allí es, pues, que se conserva la verosimilitud del texto/imágenes: no hay razón para desconfiar de lo que estrictamente ocurre en un pueblo maldito.

Summary

Junji Ito never satisfactorily explains why any of the spiraling creepiness is happening. Episodic chapters add up to a disjointed story of WTF-ery that never really coalesces into anything substantial. Drawings amazing, storyline somewhat interesting but repetitive. I did not enjoy (but others will). eu amei totalmente isso aqui, caras! eu já tinha lido um mangá dele antes, qnd eu tinha 18 anos, o Fragmentos do Horror, e já tinha amado totalmente, mas, porra, o que é Uzumaki???? eu amo o jeito como o Junji Ito é podre, como o rtaço dele é sujo e até coisas fofas ficam medonhas e perturbadoras!!! Whether or not you like body horror will also definitely be a determining factor in your enjoyment level. nojento, tudo feio, tudo podre, todo mundo é um lixo, tudo é mt esquisito, fiquei com medo, tive pesadelo, achei perturbador e horroroso.

My only criticism of this book would be that some of the chapters, especially the earlier ones, are a little too episodic without much continuity between them. It was a bit jarring, for example, to see Kirie go through some supernatural event in one chapter only to head off to school like very little is wrong in the next chapter. However, this is only a minor criticism that did not seriously affect my enjoyment of the story. No convincing build-up of suspense, no actual reasons for why what is happening is happening and also no compelling characters to care about throughout the story. Most chapters follow the pattern of a new character being introduced that is then instantly killed while nothing much happens to the main cast until much later. Especially the first half of this volume bored me to tears at times. The most creepy to me were the two chapters on mosquitos, because it felt like there was actual suspense, despite the utter predictability of it all. I thought that the story was interesting as well. Ito is known for taking various inspirations from other authors such as the American writer H.P. Lovecraft. In Uzumaki, Ito constructs his own world of a Lovecraftian-type of horror. The premise of something like the shape of a spiral sounds difficult to take seriously at first glance, but Ito uses this premise excellently to tell his tale. It is an interesting take on how something so simple on its face can lead to some horrific consequences and the various twists and turns of the story as the reader discovers the extent of what is happening. Select your desired currency British Pound Currently Selected Euro US Dollar Australian Dollar Canadian DollarCada capítulo parece ser independiente, nos va relatando los hechos que van teniendo lugar en el pueblo y sus gentes, pero todo está magistralmente hilado para dar forma a una historia donde se ve claramente la influencia que ha tenido y sigue teniendo Lovecraft en Junji Ito; ese miedo a lo arcano, a lo desconocido que tan bien sabe mezclar con los mitos y folklore del país nipón. No podremos ver con los mismos ojos elementos tan inofensivos como un remolino en el agua, en las nubes, o un simple caracol, los cuales nunca me habían dado asco hasta ahora. The only thing that I didn't like about this manga is the few plot holes here and there, like something would happen in a chapter and then will completely be overlooked in the next one. It was a bit frustrating.