Unable to find food, Kirie and the others are forced to eat the meat of snail people. Kirie, Shuichi, and Maruyama team up with another group of survivors to try and find Mr. Goshima is swept away by a storm concocted by the gang members. After arguing with a gang over their cannibalism, Mr. They discover that the roving gangs are hunting down and eating those who have turned into snails. As the Goshimas, Shuichi, and Maruyama strategize, they struggle to find food.
The Goshimas (Kirie’s family) and Shuichi elect to help Maruyama escape, though others consider it impossible. Kurouzu-cho’s residents now live in fear, cowered in the row houses to protect themselves from roving gangs who stir up storms with their bare hands and terrorize for fun. As Maruyama wanders into town, she discovers that she cannot leave. Her team’s car is swept off the road, and Maruyama is the only one to survive.
JUNJI ITO SPIRAL MANGA SERIES
Maruyama travels to Kurouzu-cho to report on the series of storms and the state of the town. Their bond only grows stronger over the course of Uzumaki.Ī television journalist named Ms. Each time Kirie has a near-death experience, Shuichi saves her. Kirie’s hair grows rapidly and curls into spirals, taking on a mind of its own and towing Kirie around to feed off of the attention of others. Her father becomes obsessed with making ceramics out of Dragonfly Pond clay, which contains the souls of the recently dead and bakes into spiral shapes. As more residents become consumed by the spiral, the curse soon hits Kirie and her family. Shuichi then loses his mother, who develops a phobia of spirals and destroys her body in a frantic attempt to rid herself of them. Shuichi’s father is the first victim of the curse, becoming so consumed with the spiral that he kills himself by forcing his body to twist into a large tub. The curse affects the bodies, minds, and souls of Kurouzu-cho’s residents, causing mass obsession over spirals. Kirie and her boyfriend, Shuichi Saito, discover that Kurouzu-cho is cursed by the spiral shape. It’s a true moment of grotesque body horror that will stay with you for a long, long time.Uzumaki follows Kirie Goshima, a high school girl who lives in a Japanese seaside town called Kurouzu-cho. Eventually, the reason why is revealed and it’s one of the most shocking, eerie, and unnerving moments in an Ito comic. When she meets the boy’s dad, he enters the room in a spider-like fashion and the top of his head is never shown. When a high schooler brings a girl he likes home to meet his dad, she has already suffered memory loss and trauma in the form of a dream about an enormous caterpillar. Nevertheless, it’s still a terrifying scene that comes at the end of this, one of Ito’s most viscerally unsettling and monstrous tales. That is, until he at last saw the director’s cut of The Exorcist and was disappointed to see it had already been done. There’s a funny anecdote surrounding this tale (found in Shiver), which is that Ito created something here that he was very proud of: a person running whilst lying on their back in an uncanny spider-like fashion.
Eventually, though, Ito left his almost comically bland career (especially considering how he is known today) behind and Tomie proved to be the beginning of a phenomenal career as Junji Ito steadily made a greater and greater name for himself as the king of terror, not only in Japan but across the world. Despite its success, Tomie did not project him into the world of famous writers and artists immediately, as Ito worked for several years as a dental technician.
Over and again, Tomie drives the men who fall for her into madness. Ito’s debut story, written when he was only 24 years old, was Tomie, a series of stories about a young woman who defies death and ageing. His horror stories, both short and long, are all written and drawn with a surreal, off-kilter, otherworldly eeriness. What makes Ito unique in the horror world is that he isn’t a novelist or a short story writer in the traditional sense he’s a mangaka. Combining a deft artist’s eye with a boundless and terrifying imagination, Junji Ito stands head and shoulders above every other horror writer around.īorn in 1963 in Gifu prefecture, Junji Ito is Japan’s most successful and lauded horror writer. Junji Ito is a mangaka who understands phobias, existential anxieties, and the terror of the unknown better than any other horror writer on Earth. Turn your eyes to Japan, however, and you’ll discover a writer and artist capable of injecting a far more potent amount of fear into his readers’ veins. The term master of horror is often attributed to American author Stephen King without any argument.
0 kommentar(er)
