Episode 145 – Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror
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Show Notes
(Content warning: Body horror and a couple of anatomical references)
We kick off The Tomb of the Crypt, a miniseries on horror comics, with our very first manga title—Umuzaki: Spiral Into Horror by Junji Ito, published by Viz Media!
In this chilling tale that Nerdist referred to as "the Watchmen of horror manga," a small Japanese town becomes plagued by ... spirals. This everyday shape begins showing up in increasingly unsettling ways: A spiral-shaped scar on a girl's forehead grows in size until it consumes her; two boys slowly mutate into giant snails; and a sentient hurricane becomes obsessed with a teenaged girl, to name but a few. And then things REALLY get weird.
Can high-schoolers Kirie and Shuichi figure out what's happening to Kurouzo-cho before their lives are irrevocably altered? And can this superbly realized saga twist and shout its way into that widening gyre of graphic-novel gruesomeness known as ... The Comics Canon?
In This Episode!
- Forget it, Shuichi. It's Spiraltown
- Tomei by Junji Ito
- The Drifting Classroom
- A Walk Through Hell Vol. 1
Join us in two weeks as The Tomb of the Crypt continues with the 2018 Image series Infidel!
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