The Mind-bending Horror Manga
Uzumaki by Itou Junji Most people might not know what a manga is, so let me explain this to those who fall in that category. It is nothing more than a usual comic that we read in English. However, it is written in Japanese by Japanese people, of course! I wasn't much of a manga reader but I started off my manga journey with Junji Itou's manga. Junji is a horror manga writer. One of his wonderful manga come by the name of Uzumaki. Uzumaki in Japanese means Spirals. This manga specifies about spirals, obsessions with spirals along with the phobias. This manga consists of 20 chapters specially drawn and written by Itou Junji and his team. Uzumaki is about a town "contaminated" by spirals and how it affects people's minds and plays a huge role on each and every unique chapter of this story. Starting with chapter 1 of Uzumaki, "The Spiral Obsession Part 1". Here, the main character of this entire manga, Kirie Goshima explains the unnatural phenomenon noticed...