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Uzumaki (うずまき, lit. ' Spiral ' [4]) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito.Appearing as a serial in Shogakukan's weekly seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1998 to 1999, the chapters were compiled into three bound volumes published from August 1998 to September 1999.
Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二, Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist.Some of his most notable works include Tomie, a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and Gyo, a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria ...
As he developed the story, Ito established that the titular character would be a mean-spirited girl because he believed it would be more interesting if the manga featured someone that wasn't likable. [3] He noted that the proliferation of Tomie was created while writing a serial storyline, which helped greatly to convey the concept of regeneration.
Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまき, lit. "Spiral") is a 2000 Japanese supernatural horror film based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito. The feature film directorial debut of Higuchinsky, it stars Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki and Shin Eun-kyung. The film takes place in a town plagued by a mysterious curse involving spirals. As the ...
Tomie (Japanese: 富江) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito.It centers on a mysterious, beautiful woman named Tomie Kawakami.The manga was Ito's first published work that he originally submitted to Monthly Halloween, a shōjo magazine in 1987, which led to him winning the Kazuo Umezu award.
Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (Japanese: スパイラル〜推理の絆, Hepburn: Supairaru: Suiri no Kizuna) is a Japanese manga series written by Kyo Shirodaira and illustrated by Eita Mizuno. It was published by Enix and then Square Enix in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 1999 to 2005 and collected in 15 bound volumes .
Takashi Sonobe (ソノベ 高志, Sonobe Takashi) A 40 year old male teacher at Sukiyomi Academy. He's the first person to witness Sayoko in an unconscious state after she fell off of the roof of the school and was injured from the top of a truck; but in the end it turns out that his teaching position at Ayumu and Hiyono's school is nothing but a ploy, as he's revealed to be working undercover ...
Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.