Week 3 - Uzumaki by Junji Ito (3+ points)

 Week 3 - Uzumaki (3+ points)



Junji Ito takes a mundane idea of a spiral and elevates it into something horrifying that the town fears and loathes. When they're trying to get out of the city to escape this overtaking curse, they turn into spirals themselves and even in snail form. There's transformative powers that symbolize the possession of grotesque horror in this town. He uses the spiral motif everywhere - there's almost no stone left unturned. Even her hair turned into a spiral at some point. Throughout the story the spiral possesses everything, almost like a disease. Which is interested to read during these difficult unprecedented times that we find ourselves in now. Maybe not the same levels of horror but overall Junji Ito never fails to turn the most mundane events and scenarios and push them into horrific trajectories that are uncontrollable and at a large scale. 

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