First manga I posted from this artist was Museum Of Terror, and by the looks of it people really enjoyed it. It definitely had some amazing stories but there were also some crappy ones, art was medicore. Tomie came in second and it was one of his 3 most popular mangas. While Tomie is pretty good, Uzumaki will always have a special part in my heart. Partially because this was my very first horror manga and partially because it acutally managed to scare the shit out of me a few times and I practically read it in just two nights. Tomie had this atmosphere of a person that you would, at first, like to have around you but as time goes on you go insane and murder everyone and everything. While it did managed to achive a certain shock effect I didn't find the art in it very good. It was too simplistic, this takes a large role in my enjoyment of reading if it's a horror story.As for Uzumaki, well take a look:
Something so great like this never appears in Tomie. Amazing is the only word I can think of now for this. :DUzumaki is a story told by a girl called Kirie. She invites the reader to enter her world and listen to her story of her town turned mad. The story is episodic in the first two volumes or so. This is something I really liked because each new story gets more and more grotesque and more horrifying as time progresses on. All these stories are linked to one thing and that is spiral shaped things. Spirals seem to appear everywhere and in every form. People become mad about them and slowly the town literaly starts to twist into this horror as each story resolves. The art is perhaps the best of all Junjis work. His trademark of facial expressions is here at its best. The lunacy of people here are portrayed so well that it gives such an awesome feeling while looking at their faces. The detail to the background here is far more better drawn from Tomie and Museum Of Terror which tells us that he really thought this out very well before drawing it. I could go on for hours writing about this masterpiece but I think it's best that I do not reveal all the wonders of this comic because it would destroy you the joy of reading. Enjoy this one, you won't regret reading it. :D
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thanks for this.
ReplyDeletei had needed to read the manga.
i read one volume when i was younger and it freaked me out quite a bit.
then i watched the hilarious movie.
but yeah thanks.
and keep up the awesome uploads.
Hi Burek,
ReplyDeleteI think you'll like this, it has this Boris band and video!
http://belowthefog.blogspot.com/2008/12/boris-greenmachine-church-of-misery.html
Happy new 2009!
Thanks for the link Ignasi but I already have that DVD, actually the author of that blog gave it to me personally. :D
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for the kind deed.
> I already have that DVD,
ReplyDeleteI figured it ^^
Junji Ito is very novel and I'm enjoying it a lot, many thanks ^^
I can't wait to know how this absurd spiral stuff ends, it's overkill xD
Razocarao me ending . Too much emo.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteIt´s a long time ago I met Junji Ito manga first time and get cursed with them like with famous Munch paintings when I was about 6...
In fact it is Kundalini mystic and Uzume mystic based horror. Spiral in tradition is a bit more than mere curved line or a twisted wire... I wonder if there was any mangakas before this inspired with the kind of mystic? Let me know if was.
Is believed Uzumaki is masterpiece of that author. I will fully agree.
Unfortunatelly the movie is not as good as the manga.
Vol. 2 is down. If you have a chance, could you re-up it? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis might sound dumb, but do you know where I could download this in Japanese? I'd rather read things that way. Thanks again.
hello Burek,
ReplyDeleteUzumaki Volume 2 download link is broken. Could you please fix it.
Please please please.
I don't understand how you could bear reading guru mangas. I have read some and it is quite disturbing.
Hmmm...
How often do you read them?
Excellent thanks for sharing, this manga it's excellent and very scary.
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