Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror by Junji Ito

146 reviews

blueberrypi'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

3.0

I don’t even know what to say except Kirie really should’ve listened to her boyfriend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Cannibalism

karlaolivera's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

My first approach to horror this year and loved it!
A lot of body horror and some of the scenes/storylines were incredibly sad. 

I was expecting to notice spirals everywhere around me after reading it but sadly, I am either not close to spirals in my day to day life or I simply don't care to notice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, and Body horror

rookerymeadow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The horror is both faceless and personal. Like many great works, Uzumaki starts from perhaps the simplest premise, a shape, and builds it out into a sprawling narrative that seems to make so much wicked sense.

Anything can be made artistic, and move you to joy or fear. Uzumaki is a masterful example of the latter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

storia's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Sexual harassment

mangachild's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you get scared easily then you don’t need to read this but I HIGHLY recommend that everyone read it. It’s funny and silly but also really dark and sometimes disturbing. The perfect book for October.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gore, Violence, Death, Eating disorder, and Grief

cwatson1234's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, Violence, and Cannibalism

jjstoff's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child death, and Gore

mxpringle's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

This was just incredible. I loved the way that the art style went from straight lines and as the characters devolved into insanity, there was way more curvature until everything was a spiral. The way that those artistic elements played into the plot was just masterful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Confinement, Murder, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Blood, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Gore, Child death, Cannibalism, and Animal death

deebauched's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No

3.5

 Kirie... let's leave this town together.

all i'm gonna say is that this girl should've listened to her boyfriend when he said this to her on page 14. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Body horror, and Cannibalism

meowcoric's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Body horror, Child death, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, and Mental illness