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Uzumaki

うずまき

anime
Finished
2024
Drama
Horror
Mystery

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The anime is based on this Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror 3 official reading options

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Status: Finished
Episodes: 4
Studio: Akatsuki
First released: 2024
Country: Japan
Format: anime
Author: Junji Itou
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What it is about

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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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: VIZ Media)