Shuichi Uzumaki Manga
Spiral is a horror manga written and illustrated by junji ito and serialized in shogakukan s big comic spirits.
Shuichi uzumaki manga. The 1998 1999 manga follows the inhabitants of a town where strange occurrences related to a spiral shape began occurring one after another. Shinichiro miki shuichi saito 斎藤 秀一 saitō shūichi often misspelled as shuuichi sato is one of the major supporting characters in the manga he is arguably the deuteragonist until chapter 14 in which he is rendered unable to function and chie maruyama takes his place as deuteragonist. Shuichi who was severely mentally ill and fearful in the manga is made perpetually emotionless and abusive. Uzumaki the spiral the hypnotic secret shape of the world.
Appearing as a serial in the weekly manga magazine big comic spirits from 1998 to 1999 the chapters were compiled into three bound volumes by shogakukan and published from august 1998 to september 1999. Originally published in 1998 uzumaki うずまき is one of junji ito s best known manga series containing three volumes. Spiral is a seinen horror manga series written and illustrated by junji ito. Spiral is a seinen horror manga series written and illustrated by junji ito.
The story concerns the inhabitants of the small japanese town of kurôzu cho that seems to be cursed by supernatural events surrounding spirals. Hunting as a sequential from the weekly manga magazine big comic spirits from 1998 into 1999 the figures were published to three bound volumes by shogakukan and released from august 1998 to september 1999. In this second volume of the saga shuichi s girlfriend kirie becomes further involved in the town s terrible secret when schoolmates start turning up as horrible human snails and something unspeakabl a sleepy town on the coast of japan is under quiet deadly siege not by a person or group but by a primeval spiral shape whose victims include both parents of shuichi saito. In the manga kirie was a fairly average young woman with an average social life and an upper middle class family.
It was published in english by viz communications in 2002 and again in 2007. In 2000 a movie adaption was released with an anime adaptation set to follow in 2020.