Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror: Episode 1

September 30, 2024 6:21 AM - Season 1, Episode 1

Residents of a small town become obsessed with spirals! Once you start to look for them, spirals are everywhere. You can choose to ignore the spirals, but that doesn't mean the spirals will ignore you. Because they won't! Spirals!!

Spirals!!!

posted by kittens for breakfast (5 comments total)

This is a wonderful adaptation of Junji Ito's manga thus far -- my only worry is that this is only four episodes, which means that a lot of Ito's massive volume will be left out. I guess there must have been some trouble behind the scenes with this production, as it was originally supposed to debut years ago; but you would never know to look at this, an anime that looks very much like an Ito comic brought to trembling life. It's very good.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:28 AM on September 30

That's heartening! I've been waiting for this for quite a while, but have been leery of how you adapt his crazy linework into anime. The Netflix Ito show was awful and I could only watch one episode.
posted by mrphancy at 8:49 AM on September 30

If anything, it's so much like the comic that I sometimes feel like I'm just looking at a photo of a page. Then there's some subtle movement. The small movements and an evocative soundscape give the show an eerie feeling, like walking down a deserted street in the fall when a cold breeze rattles through and stirs the dry leaves on the ground.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:24 AM on September 30 [1 favorite]

Should I bother with this ? Apparently the quality of the animation drops shockingly in episode 2.
posted by Pendragon at 6:40 AM on October 8

The animation is so-so, but on the whole the show is good. I preferred the goofiness of the movie though.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 1:04 PM on October 25