Uzumaki

What is Uzumaki?

Kurouzu-cho is gripped by an inescapable curse—the spiral pattern known as uzumaki. This four-episode anime faithfully adapts Junji Ito's psychological horror masterpiece, following Shuichi and Kirie as a hypnotic obsession consumes their coastal town. Witness reality twist into impossible shapes as the town's inhabitants succumb to the spiral's inexplicable pull.

Four episode anime adaptation of the Junji Ito manga. Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return... (Source: VIZ Media)