ChurchHatesTucker ☑<p><a href="https://mefi.social/tags/MangaMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MangaMonday</span></a> 28 “Uzumaki” by Junji Ito</p><p>This is perhaps THE classic Junji Ito horror <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/manga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manga</span></a>. It originally ran in the late ‘90s and was collected into three volumes, commonly available as a “3-in-1” volume today (Viz.)</p><p>Uzumaki means ‘spiral,’ and the stories are centered around a town that is increasingly haunted by spirals that turn up everywhere. At first the chapters are somewhat discrete stories, but by the end it is a serial tale. If one chapter doesn’t impress, the sheer repetition of spiral, spiral, spiral will unnerve you.</p><p>Ito has never been my favorite artist, but the concept plays well to his excellent draughtsmanship. His distinctive linework is part of the reason it is difficult to adapt his stories, but the currently running <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Uzumaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uzumaki</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anime</span></a> (Adult Swim) has done a remarkable job at putting his pages on screen. Possibly as the price of that faithfulness, there’s only 4 episodes to adapt 19 chapters, so there will be significant abridging of the story.</p>