Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

65 reviews

euripideez's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

4.5

Cute enemies to lovers in

chapter 8

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

natcrash's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I really liked it, but wouldn't reread due to its length. The main topic of the book is the spiral, but the main focus shifts from chapter to chapter, eventually coming together around the middle of the book. 

I couldn't really connect with the characters a lot. I like how Shuichi's character changed due to the events of the first and second chapter. Kirie, the main character, I felt like she wasn't really there for the first half of the book, as the events start to really affect her later and we then see how the events affect her.

I don't know what I was expecting for the ending,

but I really wished that Kirie and Shuichi would have escaped Kurouzu-Cho. I think that was the point, though, to show how the entire town was consumed by the spiral and no one could escape it, in the end. I just like happy endings, to be honest.

Despite all of this, I still really liked the book. I found it entertaining and captivating. The art style is beautiful and the expressions are on point. I loved how everything was connected, and even though things don't make a lot of sense, it was a fun read. 

I can read manga and graphic novels in a short period of time, but i was still surprised that i was able to read this almost in one sitting/less than 24 hours (took a break to sleep and continued the next day).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying and Stalking

Minor: Grief and Toxic friendship

There is a lot of gory/graphic imagery, including: - blood - body horror - child death - injuries - (attempted?) murder - medical content. Bullying occurs once, but since the bullying is so brutal I placed it at moderate.

lames's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

belladonnashrike's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

loved this - not quite as much as the tomie series, but still. I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if shuichi was the protagonist - I just didn’t care about kirie quite as much as him. I loved his characterization much more and I think this story from his perspective would be very compelling.

I wasn’t scared of uzumaki but that’s more telling about me than it is about ito. the story was certainly creepy as hell but I just never get scared of supernatural or unrealistic horror. anything realistic (or more realistic sci-fi or fantasy even… like the invisible man film really scared me even though the science doesn’t exist) will get me. so I definitely wasn’t disappointed by my lack of fear, it’s very normal to me. the story was definitely creepy though. I would love to pick ito’s brain — what on earth is going on in there?

artistically, ito really excels in body horror & conveying emotion/story through the eyes. the panels containing one or both of those elements are my favorite and have definitely stuck with me.  I also think people ignore his comedy when praising him, like of course he is clearly a master of horror but he’s also quite funny if you pay attention!

a little thing that I really enjoyed throughout reading was the little tiny spirals in the background of panels. they’re unnoticeable if you’re not looking, but from the beginning there are spirals in the blades of grass and wood grain - it’s really some fantastic subtle storytelling on ito’s part. as an artist I really loved that attention to detail.

finally, I loved how the story itself was also a spiral… you don’t realize it at first, but when it hits you… damn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

finleyfrogreads's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, Suicide, Medical content, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief

jaedia's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was weird. And it successfully made me uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

satanita's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

5.0

Horrific, in a perfect way! Uzumaki is one of Junji Ito's best works, and now that I can finally read it on paper his drawings are even more mesmerizing and terrifying. As I kept reading this manga I felt tingles in my back and it made me want to scream in terror, precisely what I was looking for. My fears augmented as the panels seemed to hypnotize me with so many spirals, so so many spirals. I truly felt like my head was going in circles in the motion of a spiral, the story seemed to come alive and pull me in. Favorite part was the beginning, the mystery was so eerie as the spiral slowly began to affect more and more people. The scar and Medusa were the most interesting ones. However I found that Twisted Souls prophesized the ending of the main couple, the story made a full circle, like a spiral! Truly a masterpiece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Truly a scary, gory book! This book had me all tensed up as I was reading it and had to take breaks bc it was so unsettling. Really liked it but didn't like how some characters seemingly learned plot details that were important from thin air. Also had weird pacing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

ririissoamazing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Self harm, Stalking, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content