Junji Ito’s horror manga masterpiece Uzumaki is finally becoming an anime after a five-year wait. The trailer proves that there has never been an adaptation like this before
The brilliant horror manga by Junji Ito has not had much luck as an anime adaptation. To date, none of the adaptations have been able to successfully transfer the sheer horror and disturbing drawings to the moving medium. This could now change with the ambitious anime adaptation of his masterpiece Uzumaki *.
In the series trailer for Uzumaki, the crazy horror is already making its rounds:
Uzumaki: Manga and soon anime horror under the spell of the spiral
In the manga original from 1998, the inhabitants of a small Japanese town are haunted by the concept of the spiral in various ways. Some are completely obsessed with it until they contort themselves into the enigmatic form, while others are supernaturally mutated into slugs and bizarre vortex creatures via body horror.
There is no escape from the pull of the spiral and we soon realize that the mysterious form exists everywhere: in nature, in our fingerprints, our genetic material, as the shape of galaxies. Episodically, the ultimate combination of cosmic horror and the oppressive terror of cyclical small-town life unfolds.
The revolutionary anime adaptation takes on Ito’s manga in a very direct way, basically animating each drawn panel as the master had put it on paper. Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi) is overseeing the project as director under the rooftops of Studio Drive and Studio Akatsuki, according to Anime News Network. It will be produced by Production I.G USA and Adult Swim.
