Alternative : うずまき ; 漩涡 ; Spirála ; Spirale (French) ; The Spiral ; Vortex ; Whirlpool
Author(s) : Itou Junji
Status : Completed
Genres : Drama – Horror – Mature – Mystery – Psychological – Seinen – Supernatural – Tragedy
Kurôzu-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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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 Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return… – Viz
