The Strange, Cosmic Horror of Junji Ito's Uzumaki
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Published 2024-03-31
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Wendigoon not seeing the irony of having a cannibal cryptic as mascot while being most easily upset by cannibalism of all horror themes just made my day
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can we talk about how kirie was so concerned about shuichi taking care of himself, that she went to bring him lunch in a HURRICANE. TWICE.
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I love how in their last moments, Kirie and Shuuichi not only immortalized their love, but also stuck a middle finger to the spiral god. They were the last survivors, Kirie was constantly being the object of obsession by the tornadoes, Shuuichi was the only one who was calling it out. And in the end, even as spirals, both didnt die looking at it, they closed their eyes facing each other. For a spiral god that needs attention from people, that must have stung
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"We need to talk about your son. He's a bit... Slow..." "You're telling me my child has special needs?" "No no, I mean your son is a literal snail. Come pick him up."
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shuichi is the standard, if he doesn't stay back for me in a cursed town where we experience horrors beyond our comprehension just to protect me then I don't want him
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I never saw Kirie as a negative, I always saw her as the earliest victim of the spiral, just that she never realized it. She does the same thing over and over, just repeating her mistakes, never once realizing that she's caught in her own spiral.
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A giant tornado screaming "KIRIEE" all night long Kirie: "MMh it must be the weather."
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For some reason, I found that the end of Uzumaki was both terrifying and beautiful. In the eyes of something never ending and mysterious, Shuichi and Kirie just embraced each other and found peace within their new eternity. Devastating and tragic, but so beautiful.
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I always felt bad for Shuichi, his downfall was that he wasn’t willing to abandon those he loved. If he were a worse person he would have survived.
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A real estate agent claiming people are moving out instead of dying is the most realistic thing I've heard in this book, id love to see you cover more if his work
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1:59:11 that part actually made me really emotional. the way mitsuo didn't want to leave kirie, and kirie promising to find him :(( it was so sad i nearly cried
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I think my favorite part of all of this is the absolutely bizarre series of words it made you say at certain points."Think you can just crawl up into a lighthouse and look at a big light and get your friend burnt to death? No, idiot, BOOM; you're a snail!"
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The funniest part of Junji Ito is he's supposedly a pretty fun guy to hang around with IRL. It's always the happy ones that put out the most twisted works. XD
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I love how at the end the two of them aren’t looking at the spiral they’re facing each other with their eyes closed. Like a last small insignificant personal triumph against the spiral. It is an immortalization of their love but in the end it doesn’t save them. Ugh so good
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I absolutely love the left panel of the comic at 1:58:27 Kiriye: Can you crawl to safety? Her brother: 🐌 Kiriye: Great, now run
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Wendigoon: talks about how some of Junji Ito's psychedelic trip of panels are goofy but also Wendigoon: gets scared over random appearance of paw patrol bandaid
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We've got him discussing manga, we're halfway there to a Wendigoon Evangelion video
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My favorite thing about writers like Junji Ito is that his stories go for the very simple “Wouldn’t it be fucked up if weird thing happened” and just build upon a spooky concept until you have something inexplicable and horrifying. Much like some of the best twilight zone episodes, the horror is left unexplained and therefore unknowable, the best form something scary can take.
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1:00:00 all I want to know is at what point Junji Ito sat at his desk and thought "you know what would be nice? Gay snails"
