Uzumaki - Junji Ito [Review]

Title: Uzumaki

Author: Junji Ito

Genre: Horror, supernatural.

Publishing year: 1998

Volumes: 3

English edition

Price: $6 USD

Volumes: 3 or 1 omnibus.

Publisher: VIZ Media

Translator: Unknown (If you know, please tell me)

Year published: 2001

Rating:

★★★★✩

Spiral obsession.

Hello, I thought this was a good manga to review now that Halloween is coming. Junji Ito is a really popular horror manga creator, I’ve read some one shots from him, and they are really mysterious and intriguing. If you like this genre of manga, I recommend you his works.

            Uzumaki takes place in a town named Kurôzu-cho, this town has a curse involving spirals, there are spirals everywhere. The main characters are a girl named Kirie Goshima and a boy named Shuichi Saito, and since the beginning of the manga we can see how the curse affects the people around them and all the citizens in general, causing them to become obsessed or paranoid about spirals. This curse causes strange changes in the town and in the people living in it, some die in horrible ways and the main characters will have to try to escape or to find a way to stop this curse.

xxxHolic [Review]

Title: xxxHolic [xxxホリック]

Author: CLAMP

Genre: Sobrenatural, comedy, drama.

Original run: July,2003 – Frebruary 2011

Volumes: 19

English edition:

Price: 10.15 dlls

Publisher: Del Rey Manga

Translator: Anthony Gerard
Buy vol 1: Amazon

Rating:

★★★★★

xxxHolic is one of the most iconic mangas of CLAMP because it’s the link between all their stories.

CLAMP

            In case you don’t know them, CLAMP is a group of four mangakas, Tsubaki Nekoi, Satsuki Igarashi, Mokona Apapa, and Nanase Ohkawa. They’ve created some works with worldwide popularity including Card Captor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth, X 1999, and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, just to name a few. Their stories are known for their intriguing and complex plots.

            xxxHolic is my favorite manga created by CLAMP, before saying the reason I will tell you what the story is about.

      

Yuuko Ichihara.

      xxxHolic tells us the story of Kimihiro Watanuki, a high school student that has the ability to see supernatural stuff, something that has made him miserable. One day, while escaping from a youkai (Japanese demon) he finds a store where he meets a mysterious woman named Yuuko Ichihara, a witch that grants wishes. Watanuki wishes to stop seeing supernatural stuff, but Yuuko tells him that he must pay with something of equal value, and in his case his payment will be working for her until his work becomes equal to his wish. That is where Watanuki’s adventures begin; he often has to confront paranormal stuff while working for Yuuko.