Uzumaki Chapter 19 Discussion

Lol ppl don't know how to read and experience Ito Junji's works.



Screw explanations, keep it creepy, surreal and mysterious.

It was pretty good. I liked that they didn't try and force a stupidly happy ending.

6/10

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This manga was utter madness,had some really terrifying scenes all over and now the whole town will be rebuild again,and the never ending curse will again start from the very beginning.The art was really great but the characters really lacked common sense sometimes

i guess that crazy fella missed out on his dreamplace.



this manga seriously made me loose my appetite

Karura_Jiinsaru said:
Talvi said:
Wow people here even expect an explanation.



Go back to your kid's mangas.

Nah, I stopped caring for an explanation when all the premise went way too surreal, just like with Gyo. Personally, Junji Itou should be labeled as a mastermind in supernatural stories instead of horror ones, since most of his chapters were more bizarre and/or laughable than frightening actually.

I probably think this way as I started reading Uzumaki short after Ibitsu, when the latter really made me shiver like hell... O_O

Overall, it was a weird read, but nothing that made me want to have my time spent on it back. At least I admit the author sure have guts to come up with such oddities.



It baffles me a little that you found that Ibitsu schlock anything but popcorn stupid. At least when compared to Itou. I mean, it's perfectly entertaining, but chilling?



Personally I found a few of the Uzumaki chapters silly, but it seemed more like him playing with the concept than trying to be scary. Ibitsu is just a generic slasher with a shitty monster design, that kind of stuff that scared me as an early teen. :l It reminded me of a bad creepypasta... Entertaining, but...



(And by the way, I will throw out a recommendation for Ibitsu for anyone that likes slashers. It's competent enough and reasonably graphic with a good amount of torture porn. The mangaka definitely cared about the work.)



That said, I can understand that you can find Uzumaki fascinating even if you don't find it scary. For one, Junji Ito's artwork is absolutely stellar. And I agree with you and other people that it was very clear from early on we weren't going to get any real explainations.



I didn't mean to pick on you here, I just wanted to share my own thoughts about the two. This whole thread confuses me a little, that so many people wanted faux-Lovecraftian horror to explain itself.

My head is spinning over this conclusion.

Alright, I just read the entire manga and it was ok....most chapters are pretty good especially the spiral scar and the spiral snail. Others chapters are pretty stupid like the baby/mosquito spiral since I feel like they aren’t really related to the spiral very much and I dislike the sudden timeskip between the infection house spiral and the breathing spiral.



Secondary characters are undeveloped and even some important character deaths felt forced and inconsistent like Chie suddenly "dying". But I appreciate that the series did not have the cowardice to kill everyone at the end since there were indications that some were going to survive.



Art is amazing. I enjoyed reading this. 7/10 for the manga.