Uzumaki (Big Comics Special)

The horror classic highly praised by Masaru Sato is now available in a new edition!!

One day, something strange suddenly happens in the town where high school girl Goto Kirie was born and raised. Start waking up. A whirlwind blows, branches and leaves of plants coil, and smoke from the crematorium blows. It swirls and rises... And humans, too, begin to transform into whirlpools. Hair swirls. My body twists up. Transform into a snail... Kirie tries to escape from the town in order to be saved from the Uzumaki's curse!? A classic masterpiece of horror manga that foresaw today's unequal society filled with a sense of confinement. This is the masterpiece of the mysterious manga artist Junji Ito.

[Recommended information from the editor] Author Masaru Sato says that he foresaw the arrival of today's disparate and impoverished society. A horror classic that received rave reviews and was even described as ``this book is Capital of the 21st Century.'' Now available in the new edition! With commentary by Masaru Sato.

countryoforigin: Japan