![]() Shuichi Saito is the reclusive young man that notices the spiral patterns around town. The town seems haunted by a bizarre curse of the spiral. Ito’s work “Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror Volume II” is a novel set in a fogbound small town on the Japanese coast known as Kurouzu. It is a macabre, weird and initially amusing premise that soon turns darker. Another girl’s hair also grows into spirals and does battle with Kiri’s hair. In another story, Kiri who is the lead in most of the stories sees her hair grow into Uzumaki. In another chapter, Yoriki and Kazunori who live in the projects where almost no one is sane, fall in love in a relationship that looks doomed to failure. In one chapter, Azami develops a swirling scar that suddenly turns her into a femme fatale attracting all manner of guys. The Uzumaki spirals are horrifying, beautiful and powerful things, but their purpose remains a mystery. The premise of the story is that spirals known as Uzumaki seem to have taken over a town and cursed it for some unknown reason.Ĭould it be that the citizens have a collective madness or OCD? Just like in “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock, the pattern starts with one man and spreads that in the end it infects everyone. Junji Ito’s work “Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror Volume I” is a nightmare inducing, creepy and atmospheric story. This is what has made him one of the most popular horror authors in the space. ![]() In some of his stories, he does not include great cosmic horror as he makes use of impossible mysteries, which are never solved as they are just explored. Ito has a good understanding on how to twist or disfigure the human body to drop his readers into enormous shocks and tingles of discomfort when reacting to his nasty creations and monsters. The author has an uncanny ability to develop a shiver of discomfort in his reader as he depicts the supernatural in uncomfortable and grotesque detail. He gets them from the fear of being watched, the claustrophobia and the unknown depths of the ocean.įrom there, he usually expands these sparks into terrifying and deadly wildfires. Junji Ito has said that he gets his ideas from ordinary existential and physical fears. This is what results in the spine tingling feeling in readers, long after closing the last page of any one of his stories. He usually begins his stories full of normality before they descend into a monstrous and supernatural madness that is usually never resolved. As such, he has become very adept at never giving the mystery away. The author very much understands that the most effective way of spoiling mystery and tension is to give the mystery away. Junji is a master of suspense, body horror and supernatural otherworldly wrongness. The sweet, mild mannered, charming and calm man is remarkably different from the content and themes of his stories and art. Hideshi Hino is a film director and mangaka that is known for his “Guinea Pig” films and “Hell Baby.” With such illustrious storytellers as influences, Ito has made quite the legacy for himself. Umezu is one of the greatest mangaka’s in horror and created some of the most celebrated works such as Orochi: Blood. He slowly but surely made a name for himself in Japan and across the world as the king of terror that has beencompared to the likes of Stephen King.įollowing the horror boom in the late 1990s, “Tomie| was made into a film and since then several of his works have also been made for cinema and TV.Īs for his biggest influences, Junji Ito has cited Hideshi Hino, Kazuo Umezu as well as legendary creator of the cosmic genre and American author HP Lovecraft. ![]() It was not until the publishing of Uzumaki, his phenomenal horror series that he would come into his own. He would soon decide to pursue a comically bland career as a dental technician. While it was quite a successful series of novels, Tomie did not propel him into the halls of famous artists and writers immediately. The writer made his writing debut with “Tomie,” when he was just twenty four and has never stopped writing since. ![]() Ito has been called a mangaka with his stories drawn and written with an off kilter, surreal and otherworldly eeriness. Born in 1963 in the Gifu Prefecture, he is a unique storyteller as he is not a short story writer or novelist in the conventional sense. Junji Ito is Japan’s most lauded and successful horror writer. ![]()
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