Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition) (Junji Ito)

Arrived quickly as described. Good quality construction. Highly recommend.

The deluxe edition is stunning—thick pages, crisp print, and Ito’s spiraling descent into madness never looked better. If you like your horror slow, weird, and deeply unsettling, this is a must-have. Bonus points for the hardcover making it feel like cursed literature.

Never before ventured into manga. I started reading the series berserk and just fell in love with that stroy and it's characters. So I was watching a video of a person I respect on youtube and he gave some manga opinions and options and I knew of UZUMAKI from the new show on max and I recognized the name of the writer too. So I went to look at his work and chose UZUMAKI and wow. I love the horror, the feeling of WTF around every corner. Knowing that even if someone gets a happy ending in this story, it's still not gonna be happy. But the writing and the story and the fascination with the spiral. All the stories that intersect to make this one big manga. I didn't hate any of it. The ending I wish I had a more keen way to understand it for myself but I did enjoy it and kinda wished some small questions were answered but now want to read more by Mr. Junji Ito. Thank you for this beautifully grotesque and awesome piece of literature. I will cherish it the rest of my life and can't wait to reread it!!!!

Kurouzo-Cho is a normal town unlike every other until spirals can be seen everywhere in plants, ashes coming for a crematorium, whirlpools, whirlwinds, and even the topography of the town itself. Uzumaki is an anthology of stories about this town with two main characters that connect all of the stories: Kirie Goshima and Shuichi Saito. These two are teens that are going to the local high school and dating each other until Shuichi's father becomes obsessed with spirals. He collects every object he can that is spiral shaped or has spirals on it. His wife becomes concerned by his behavior as he only stares at his objects, forgoing work and anything else not spiral related. She throws all of his things away and he opts to find spirals within himself leading to his grotesque death when he crushed his entire body into an elongated spiral. When he is cremated, his ashes take a spiral shape and fall into Dragonfly Lake.Much like Tomie, the stories told have that seed of obsession throughout on a bigger and bigger scale as the book goes on. Each story is related in some way to something that has happened. An artist gets clay from Dragonfly Lake and becomes obsessed with his pottery that comes out of the kiln with bizarre spirals with a much sinister origin. Shuichi's mother fears spirals with as much furvor as her husband loved them, even removing them from her own body in hair, her fingerprints, and eventually inside her ear. Kirei herself becomes effected as her hair spirals, growing larger and larger, and attacking her when she tries to cut it. Classmates and others flock to her hair's mesmerizing power until another classmate vows to be more popular than her. Azami, a Tomie-esque girl, entrances anyone she sets her eyes on. When Shuichi rejects her, she becomes obsessed with him. A lighthouse with no power lights up again and hynotizes people to go to it. People start turning into giant snails. Spiral cursed mosquitoes bite pregnant women with monstrous, disgusting results plus even more stories. These stories have transformations, murder, mayhem, and, beneath it all, a town that largely ignores every instance and goes back to some semblance of normal.During the last few stories, the curse of spirals amps up to completely isolate and change Kurouzo-Cho. The spiral curse is simply too big to ignore at this point since life has completely changed for its inhabitants and anyone unlucky enough to fight their way there. Six hurricanes (of course as giant spiral storms) surround the city along with deadly whirlpools in the ocean, keeping rescue away and keeping people from leaving. Inside the city, any sound above a whisper creates a twister that will tear through the city. Some people use this power liberally as a weapon while others prefer to live as peacefully as they can. As a result, the enture city is in shambles with the only true shelter being old row houses that were deemed as slums in more normal times. The row houses are rebuilt, but the curse doesn't spare them even where the whirlwinds can't enter. If people move too slow, they turn into giant snails, a source of food for the starving and less morally burdened. I didn't know how a story at this scale could end, much like Gyo kind of had a non-ending, but it eventually settles down until the next cycle (or spiral) who knows how many years later.Through all of this, Kirei goes about her life as normally as she can while Shuichi becomes a sullen, justifiably antisocial harbinger of the harm these spirals can do. However, they still remain in Kurouzo-Cho for no reason. In Tomie, the title character is the connective tissue for the stories, but this one doesn't quite work for me. If any normal person had seen a fraction of what they have, why would anyone stay in that one city? It's stated early that none of the surrounding cities are affected so they would have been safe if they moved even one town over. The only other thing I have a problem with is Ito's habit of characterizing the majority of the young women in his stories as completely vain and obsessed with popularity. It's a rehashing of the Tomie story which was proven to be much more than just a misogynistic stereotype. In these small moments, it seems more like that is the case and it's disappointing.Uzumaki is another successful horror anthology that serves up surrealistic horror, gut punching and grotesque surprises, and horrifically detailed art. Each story is more extreme than the last even when I think it can't go any further. While I see some storylines or concepts that Ito likes to return to, many of the stories are completely unique and go places I never expected horror to go. I especially enjoyed the Sunnydale vibe about the town that refuses to see what's really going on and eager to go back to normal as soon as possible. If you like Japanese horror films or Lovecraftian, surreal horror, I would highly recommend just about anything Junjo Ito produces.

This book. How do I even try to describe it? If you know Junji Ito, you know what to expect. Body horror, physiological horror, isolation, weird people, etc... I love this story in and out. It is one of Junji Ito's unforgettable stories. It centers around the spiral; the deeper the story goes, the more it spirals into madness. I cannot look at spirals the same way anymore after this. It has a way of captivating you and leaving you wondering what you will see and read on the next page. Or maybe that's just my experience. This is actually my second time reading this story, but I had read a digital copy, and hell, I might reread it for a third time soon. Having a physical copy of this incredibly cool and unnerving story was money well spent, in my opinion.

A mi hijo le encantó. Muy buen libro y el precio es mejor. Buena calidad las páginas resistente y la cubierta de carpeta dura. Mucho mejor.

Bought as a gift for someone , there are blemishes that may have occurred during shipping but aren’t that visible unless you are looking for something.Very good quality.

Uzumaki is an extremely fun manga, I wouldn't really call it "scary," but it was definitely fun to read. Also, the construction quality is pretty good, and the drawings are beyond beautiful.