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Uzumaki
The Japanese horror manga artist, Junji Ito illustrated the manga, Uzumaki. The meaning of Uzumaki is spiral. The Psychological horror manga is based on the town named Kurouzu-cho and the obsession of the town’s people with the spiral shape.
In 1998, the manga was illustrated in Shogakukan’s weekly magazine, Big Comic Spirits. The Dark Fantasy has 3 volumes. Anime adaption of the mange is premiered in September 2024 in the United States. A movie with the same name was released in 2000.
Uzumaki- Main Plot
Starting Event
The anime Uzumaki begins by showing the anime’s main protagonist, a high school girl named Kirie Goshima. She was rushing towards the train station where she would be waiting for her friend, Shuichi Saito. She lives in the town, Kurouzu-cho along with her mother, father, and a younger sibling. Her father, Yasuo Goshima is a potter.
On the way, she came across Shuicihi’s father who was obsessively filming a corkscrew pattern on a snail’s shell. Later, when she met her boyfriend who seemed depressed and asked her to leave the town with her. While having the chat, he talked nonsense like the town was contaminated with spirals, driving him insane.
The following day, she finds that Shuicihi’s father is talking with her father who is ordering a spiral bowl with the spiral pattern and acting all weird. The next day, she met Shuichi where she discussed all the incidents with him and found that Shuicihi’s father was acting abnormally for a couple of days and collecting all the objects with spiral shapes.
Series of Events
Shuicihi’s father became so obsessed with the spiral things that he killed himself by turning himself into a spiral shape by crushing his bones. At the funeral, the smoke from his body turns into a spiral that swirls down toward the water of the dragonfly pond.
Looking at all the incidents, Shuicihi’s mother was admitted to the Kurozu Hospital where she started to phobia when spiral. She started to get afraid of the shape to such an extent that she shaved all her hair and cut her fingerprints and eventually killed himself when a millipede tried to crawl into her ear to inhabit her cochlea which caused her to hallucinate about her husband.
Soon, the whole town was affected by the obsession with the shape, and the entire town was affected by the condition. Students of the town were turning into sails and a tornado that appeared like a spiral occurred.
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What is the cause of Uzumaki?
The cause of spiral obsession is the curse that the town has. In each 100 to 1000 years the same series of events where the people obsessed with the spiral ended with end of the all humans in the dragonfly ponds. Again, the settlement of the humans would take place around the ponds for the destruction with the same phenomenon.
Uzumaki- Characters
Kirie Goshima
Kirie Goshima is the main protagonist of the anime, Uzumaki. She is a high school student at Kurôzu-Cho High School. She is the first person in the town who suspects something divine which is taking place in town.
The voice of the character is provided by the Japanese voice actor, Uki Satake. Apart from being a voice actor, she is also a singer and radio host. Talking about the English dubbed version, the American voice actress, Abby Trott voices the character. She has been part of the Japanese anime including Kuroko’s Basketball as Riko Aida, Hunter × Hunter as Machi, and The Seven Deathly Sins as Veronica Liones.
Shuichi Saito
Shuichi Saito is the love interest of the main protagonist, Kirie Goshima. He is a primary character in the series. He appears in the first chapter of the series where he meets with Kirie for the first time in the station. In the series, he bore the loss of his parents who were the first victims of spiral obsessions.
The voice actor, Shin-ichiro Miki voiced the character in Japanese language. As a voice actor, Miki has been part of more than 100 anime. Next, he will appear in the series, Yōjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil II as Erich Rerugen.
Moving forward, Robbie Daymond contributed an English dubbed voice to the character. Last, he provided voice to the character, One Piece as Kozuki Oden.
Yasuo Goshima
Yasuo Goshima is the father of Kirie Goshima. Goshima is a potter by profession. He got under the influence of a curse when he was collecting mud for his pottery. He is 58 years old.
The voice for the character is provided by Toshio Furukawa who is affiliated with Aoni Production. In English, Doug Stone voiced the character. Next, he will be part of the anime including Vampire Princess Miyu, Witch Hunter Robin, and Zilion.
Chie Maruyama
Chie Maruyama is a supporting character in the anime who portrays the character of a journalist. She appeared in the anime to cover the events that are taking place in the town.
The voice actress, Shino Kakinuma voiced the character whereas the English dubbed voice was given by the artist, Dorothy Elias-Fahn.
Mitsuo Goshima
Mitsuo Goshima is the younger brother of Kirie Goshima. He is one of the students who turns to snails during the series of events that take place in the town.
Yūko Sanpei voiced the character in Japanese. Talking about the English dubbed voice, Laura Stahl provided the voice.
Azami Kurotani
Azami Kurotani is a high school student at the Kurôzu-Cho High. She first appeared in the chapter named The Scar. She is one of the most attractive girls that all the men in the high school desire. The secret behind the attraction was the scar on her forehead which has the special ability of attraction and Can kill people using her scar which eventually devoured her.
The Japanese voice actor, Mariya Ise voiced the character who is popular as Riko Mine in Hidan No Aria. The English voice for the character is provided by the voice actor, Cristina Vee.
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