Uzumaki

Uzumaki

1998

3 volumes/ 20 chapters

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“Kurozu-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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people’s bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi’s father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return…” (source)

[VOLUME 1]
01. The Spiral Obsession Part 1
02. The Spiral Obsession Part 2
03. The Scar
04. The Firing Effect
05. Twisted Souls
06. Medusa

[VOLUME 2]
07. Jack-in-the-Box
08. Snail People
09. Dark Lighthouse
10. Mosquitoes
11. Umbilical Cord
12. The Storm

[VOLUME 3]
13. The House
14. Butterfly
15. Chaos
16. Erosion
17. Escape
18. Labyrinth
19. Completion
20. Lost Chapter: Galaxies