Its ok. I expected better.

The manga is about the characters of a city getting obssessed and taken over by spirals. And it starts small, take over one person at a time and then keeps cranking that shit up till it gets sadistic. The manga is about about a city being enveloped by spirals.

The story follows our FMC with her boyfriend the MMC. We basically follow these 2 characters throughout the movie. The MMC actually notices the oddities with the spirals and tries the FMC but she doesn't listen even after witnessing a lot of crazy shit. Why you ask? So the manga can happen of course.

So basically overtime lots of nasty crazy shit happens throughout the manga. Characters get in fucky situations that seemingly have no way of getting out off. And this shit is constant throughout the entire series.

The thing is i did enjoy some parts of the manga but most of it was pretty mundane. In terms of horror.

The series is considered horror but calling it disgusting is probably a more apt description of the series. Lots of nasty shit happens in this series. Characters turning into horns, characters turning into snails. I mean it sounds not that bad but its pretty gross and a lot of it is because Junji ito has a very insane imagination.

Dude can think of some wacky ass shit its impressive.

With that being said i am kinda disappointed in Uzumaki. I thought it would be terrifying but arguable the most terrifying part about this series is the ending. Some of the implied shit is scarier than most of the horrifying parts about the series.

The thing is Gross stuff is not scary. Its just gross. It doesn't make me stay awake at night it makes me gag. If that was intended intention than good job. I am now less interested in reading more of Junji Ito's works.

It's kind of my own fault really. I sort of built up Junji Ito as the guy for horror. He is practically the face of horror at least in the west. Even as a non horror I know of the guy. But after actually reading his works. They really don't hold up to anything. IF you are the type that enjoys you nasty ass shit like Human Centipede or whatever than this is probably more your speed. But if you are looking for something actually frightening this is not it.

Some of the stories also just end. There is no flow to the next episodic series. What happens after this incredibly big event? Who cares move on. Contining the story from the last chapter would require structure having, to put actual effort in writing. And who's got time for that?

Considering a lot of the horror parts are just shock value maybe reading them back to back is a bad idea. If you are a Junji ito fan i recommend more like 1 chapter at time to bring back to his fucked up imagination after reading a very nice SOL series.

TLDR: Its ok. I expected better. 5/10