Uzumaki
by Junji Ito
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appears in Horror Manga, Manga, and Horror.
Spirals... this town is contaminated with spirals...Kurouzucho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral _x0097_ the hypnotic secret shape of the world. This bizarre masterpiec...
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appears in Horror Manga, Manga, and Horror.
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