i just finished uzumaki

just finished it as well.
When i started it i felt like i was reading Goosebumps books.
As soon as i finished it i got good Lovecraft vibes, Ito is a really good author

>>159219899
>>159220665
Glad you two enjoyed it. have you read gyo yet?

Everything junji ito has written is worth reading, but uzumaki is one of my favorites. His one offs can be amazing as well

>>159223146
I read fragments of horror and you are 100% right!

>two guys are turned into snails
>everyone still thinks that there's nothing wrong happening

The guy with the glasses is the only sane person in the entire town.

>>159221126
Not yet. I was just about to start Tomie, is it better or worse than Gyo?

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>>159223957
Dude should have dragged his girlfriend to an airport and flown to the other side of the world from the get-go.

>>159221126
I liked Uzumaki but didn't really see the appeal of Gyo. Just seemed like gross-out horror by comparison.

The gashunk shark was pretty great though.

>>159223957
>>159224266
I write that all off as part of the curse of the spiral - there's no way any of them could have avoided this fate, there never was a point where they could have left the town and escaped.

The only way any of this could have been averted is if the niggas from TTGL came in and used some of their own spiral magic bullshit to reverse the curse. It's kind of interesting, actually - one series uses the spiral motif to symbolize expansion, hope, growth, while the other uses it to symbolize inevitability, repetition, drawing you in, etc. A spiral outward as opposed to inward, I guess.

>>159219899
The secret behind appreciating horror is to laugh when it doesn't scare you instead of letting it ruin the experience. I read Glyceride before this so this was a lot tamer. But some of the stories in Uzumaki were clearly intended as jokes and I really appreciated how the author could bounce between moods. The fetus mushroom babies and the people crammed in the houses was when I legitimately got freaked out - I think that was the time the shift between personal and cosmic horror happened.

>>159219899
I picked it up out of a library years ago and it's still one of my favorites.

>>159220665
It does have a goosebumps vibe but not in a bad way.
That maternity ward/mosquito story was creepy.

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>>159224416
I feel like the boyfriend might have been able to get out at the very beginning, being the only person who could tell there was something wrong with the town. But he waited too long because his girlfriend didn't see any reason why they should leave.

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>>159224186
Better in a sense that there is a huge variety of settings in Tomie. They all kinda end the same way though.