[singles] [manga] [movie] [uzumaki] Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror
If you stare at the last image for 30 seconds and then look at a neutral surface (like your hand), apparently you see it wriggling and warping.
Uzumaki is a horror/fantasy manga that was adapted into a movie in 2000. It's more surreal and macabre than anything else; it's more like Lovecraft than Stephen King. It tells the story of Kirie Goshima, a normal high school girl who lives in the peaceful seaside town of Kurozu-cho. One morning while she's walking to school, she sees her boyfriend's father filming something with a camcorder; he's zoomed onto a snail on a wall and is so focused that he doesn't even acknowledge her greeting. She figures he's just busy, but before long, this becomes the least weird thing in her life! People turn into snails, schoolgirls start developing long curly hair that actually battles other people, and, as her boyfriend Shuichi explains, her entire town is going mad and becoming consumed by the spiral. (Because once you start looking, spirals are everywhere...)
(I like Shuichi! The poor boy is very aware that he's in a horror manga and he would LOVE to escape, but he's not leaving without Kirie, so if she wants to stay, well...XD;)
The movie is hilarious and well worth buying. The manga's a little harder to find, although all three volumes were released in English as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror. The mangaka is Junji Ito who was hilariously (and accurately) described on a review site as a "former dental technician who spent too much time staring at the wrong end of the drill."
01. And One - Dein Ende
02. World's End Girlfriend - Ghost of a Horse Under the Chandelier
03. Psapp - Needle & Thread (lyrics)
04. Guitar - I Dream The Sand (for the manga ending)
No zip this time; it's just four songs. XD; Sorry!
Uzumaki is a horror/fantasy manga that was adapted into a movie in 2000. It's more surreal and macabre than anything else; it's more like Lovecraft than Stephen King. It tells the story of Kirie Goshima, a normal high school girl who lives in the peaceful seaside town of Kurozu-cho. One morning while she's walking to school, she sees her boyfriend's father filming something with a camcorder; he's zoomed onto a snail on a wall and is so focused that he doesn't even acknowledge her greeting. She figures he's just busy, but before long, this becomes the least weird thing in her life! People turn into snails, schoolgirls start developing long curly hair that actually battles other people, and, as her boyfriend Shuichi explains, her entire town is going mad and becoming consumed by the spiral. (Because once you start looking, spirals are everywhere...)
(I like Shuichi! The poor boy is very aware that he's in a horror manga and he would LOVE to escape, but he's not leaving without Kirie, so if she wants to stay, well...XD;)
The movie is hilarious and well worth buying. The manga's a little harder to find, although all three volumes were released in English as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror. The mangaka is Junji Ito who was hilariously (and accurately) described on a review site as a "former dental technician who spent too much time staring at the wrong end of the drill."
01. And One - Dein Ende
02. World's End Girlfriend - Ghost of a Horse Under the Chandelier
03. Psapp - Needle & Thread (lyrics)
04. Guitar - I Dream The Sand (for the manga ending)
No zip this time; it's just four songs. XD; Sorry!