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Uzumaki en seis tomos #1
Uzumaki. Libro 1: La cicatriz
- GenresManga
112 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2004
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About the author
Junji Ito
223 books14.8k followersJunji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
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July 27, 2019
Esto es una absoluta locura. Desde luego no apto para todos los públicos, ni para todos los estómagos xD. Pero necesito más <3
October 12, 2018
Perturbador, perturbador, perturbador... está muy bueno. No tengo que decir nada... salvo que no dejo de fijarme ahora donde hay espirales. ¡Dios! Lo logro, me ando viendo viendo espirales.
August 8, 2022
Dos historias muy inquietantes que relacionan las espirales, el pueblo de Kurouzu, a Kirie Goshima y Shuichi.
October 16, 2025
Uf, qué mal cuerpo...
September 4, 2023
I am going to cut and paste my review here, since I can't seem to find the 600 page edition I read that has all of these.
I appreciated the body horror NOT being in color. It would have made it much more gruesome, and it was plenty gruesome in black and white. I thought spirals were such a great thing to be scarily obsessed with. I mean, that shit is all throughout nature! I can see someone losing their minds over it.
In the first one, when the big reveal at the end of what that round box was for? That was some creatively creepy mess!
In the second, WHY did they let that woman be anywhere near scissors??
I think the umbilical cord one was my favorite scare/gross-out from all of them.
I briefly thought the kids tied to posts were those babies grown mega-fast (like some weird spiral world effect?) and was a little disappointed they weren't.
That jack-in-the-box kid woulda been hella gross in color.
I like that the outside world wasn't just ignoring this anomaly.
I especially liked the way it ended. Sad, but sort of sweet and couldn't've ended really any other way.
I appreciated the body horror NOT being in color. It would have made it much more gruesome, and it was plenty gruesome in black and white. I thought spirals were such a great thing to be scarily obsessed with. I mean, that shit is all throughout nature! I can see someone losing their minds over it.
In the first one, when the big reveal at the end of what that round box was for? That was some creatively creepy mess!
In the second, WHY did they let that woman be anywhere near scissors??
I think the umbilical cord one was my favorite scare/gross-out from all of them.
I briefly thought the kids tied to posts were those babies grown mega-fast (like some weird spiral world effect?) and was a little disappointed they weren't.
That jack-in-the-box kid woulda been hella gross in color.
I like that the outside world wasn't just ignoring this anomaly.
I especially liked the way it ended. Sad, but sort of sweet and couldn't've ended really any other way.
October 4, 2021
guapardo 😈
¡Es lo primero que he leído de Junji Ito! Su dibujo es espectacular, y el concepto de espiral que maneja es curioso a la par que angustiante. ¿Me pregunto si seguirá la historia en el siguiente tomo o será otra cosa diferente? ¡No puedo esperar a seguir leyendo!
¡Es lo primero que he leído de Junji Ito! Su dibujo es espectacular, y el concepto de espiral que maneja es curioso a la par que angustiante. ¿Me pregunto si seguirá la historia en el siguiente tomo o será otra cosa diferente? ¡No puedo esperar a seguir leyendo!
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December 24, 2020Inquietante, y muy raro. Pero me ha gustado.
December 25, 2021
Reseña general de los seis tomos en: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
January 3, 2023
Me lo acabo de terminar a la 1am de la mañana y voy a tener pesadillas como cierre los ojos, ni siquiera se si quiero seguirlos. 5⭐ porque la verdad es que consigue su propósito
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