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Title: Uzumaki, Vol. 1 by Junji Ito ISBN: 1-56931-714-3 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Creepy, Surreal Manga
Comment: Uzumaki is one of the few things that I've read lately that really scared me. It's a creepy, well drawn, Japanese comic about a town possesed by the idea of the spiral. It may be a weird idea, but it works, and Junji Ito moves it along by using grotesque images and twisted situations. The main character is mostly there to bring the reader from one bizarre horror to the next, but the comcic is extremely compelling despite that. It's a relativelty gory comic, so if you don't want to see people twisting themselves into spirals then this comic might not be for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lovecraft's Japanese Heir
Comment: I saw Uzumaki Vol. 1 and 2 in a comic shop here in Perth, Australia, and grabbed them right away. I had read Junji Ito's Tomie Vol. 1 and 2 just weeks before, and I knew I could expect to feel the same spine-tingling thrill from reading this new collection of disturbingly weird and eerie images from Ito's twisted imagination.
Uzumaki is a collection of tales about a small coastal town haunted not by a ghost or a demon but by a shape - one of the most common and natural of shapes, the spiral. The mere idea of a shape exerting its deadly influence on the innocent folks of a small town is positively Lovecraftian in scope, and Ito does not disappoint.
Vol. 1 opens with the tale of a man who collects anything spiral-shaped and then spends hours staring at them, becoming increasingly unhinged as the tale unfolds. Next, in the most disturbing story in Vol. 1, a woman with an acute phobia of anything spiral-shaped shaves her head and snips off her finger-tips in an effort to get rid of all traces of spirals on her body. The panic on her son's face when he realises that an anatomy chart in her doctor's office displays the spiral-shaped inner ear sucked me right into Ito's tale of fear, dread, paranoia and mounting hysteria. The other stories in Vol. 1 are interesting enough to read, i.e. competent but do not quite reach the heights of the first two stories.
Vol. 2 ups the ante by presenting even more disturbing tales. The first story, appropriately entitled "Jack in the Box", has some of the most gruesome images I've ever seen in any medium, involving the disintegrating corpse of a dead boy intent on seeking vengeance from a girl who rejected him while he was still alive. And even if you are tired of vampire stories, "Mosquitoes" and "The Umbilical Cord" will still manage to give you a couple of sleepless nights, make you look at pregnant women and babies differently, and possibly give you a life-long phobia of maternity wards. Ito manages to give the old vampire angle a very frightening twist by linking pregnant women to mosquitoes - biologists would know what I'm talking about.
For any horror fans, I cannot recommend Uzumaki Vol. 2 enough. I hope Vol. 3 comes out soon, I cannot wait to find out what happens to Kirie, the pretty young heroine of the series, and her boyfriend, when the mother of all spirals - a hurricane - strikes their small town.
Rating: 5
Summary: The movie does not compare
Comment: If you saw the movie and are now interested in the book. Be prepared for a much better ending. This book is great, including the other 2. You should own them all. Alot more happens in these books then what happens in the movie. And they are alot weirder.
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Title: Uzumaki, Vol. 2 by Junji Ito ISBN: 1591160332 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 08 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Uzumaki, Vol. 3 by Junji Ito ISBN: 1591160480 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 08 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Flesh Colored Horror by Junji Ito ISBN: 1588990869 Publisher: ComicsOne Corporation Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Gyo (Book 1) by Junji Ito, Yuji Oniki, Alvin Lu ISBN: 1569319952 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 13 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Battle Royale by Koushun Takami ISBN: 156931778X Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 26 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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