Uzumaki will premiere on Adult Swim’s Toonami in 2020.
Of course, being a horror manga, this will probably hurt anyway.įor those who aren’t manga aficionados, you may recall Ito’s name and style from a humorous collaboration with The Pokémon Company back in 2014 Ito was also attached to the canceled and still-mourned Silent Hills that Hideo Kojima was working on with Guillermo del Toro. Uzumaki really has it all: fucked-up body horror, Lovecraftian elements, boundless imagination, and an unnerving sense of dread that pervades throughout its entirety. It is a fantastic work of art and Junji proves, what many people have long suspected, that if you want true horror you need an ex-dentist to create it. Here he is speaking to humans’ very real and primal adaptation, an instinctive need to define the unknown before it can hurt them. “It’s like when you see something scary, or you’re wondering what is beyond the darkness, I want to know those kinds of things.” Ito says. The film takes place in a town plagued by a mysterious curse involving spirals. The feature film directorial debut of Higuchinsky, it stars Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki and Shin Eun-kyung. Spiraling motifs are featured throughout Ito’s art, and will be in the anime as well. 'Spiral') is a 2000 Japanese horror film based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito. Uzumaki means “swirl,” and the story’s theme is one of luring in people, much like a whirlpool. The franchise is currently being adapted into an anime.
Uzumaki, the landmark horror manga that Eisner winner Junji Ito wrote and illustrated more than 20 years ago, is being adapted into a four episode miniseries in Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block.Īdult Swim offers this table-setter to establish Ito’s work and its importance. Another one of his most popular series is Uzumaki, a horror series about a towns sudden supernatural obsession and paranoia with spirals.
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