 Hello everybody! E here. E here. Welcome to something completely new. I'm going to be reviewing a manga. Today we're talking about Uzumaki by Junji Ito. I had never read a manga before this one. Is it manga? Is it manga? Let me know down there in the doobly-doo. Try to differentiate the spelling phonetically, you know, manga, manga, whatever. This one, my buddy Gregor Zane said, hey, you got to read this, and I was like, okay, it's kind of expensive, so I'm going to put it off, I put it off, I put it off. It was over a year went by before I finally got to it. Now before I go any farther, I've always known that manga is read instead of, let's see here, instead of from left to right, it's read from right to left. Here in the west, of course, we read the exact opposite way. So if you hear me say you read it backward, I mean no offense to the culture, I'm just, it's just westernization here. So but I knew that. What I didn't know is that the panels are supposed to be read from right to left also. I got about 30 pages into this, no, about, I want to say 15, about 15 pages into this before I realized that I was confused, so I had to go back and try to figure out what was wrong, instead of looking anything up, it just took me a second to realize that the tiles were not, of course, out of order, but I was reading in the wrong direction. So if you pick up manga, know that it reads from right to left, and it's the same thing with the inside, with the actual comic, you're going to read from right to left, the panels from right to left. Anyways, on to this, there's a lot of subtext in the story, there's a lot of messages as it were, but just the amount of things, that this is a 600 page book, 600 and something, I don't know exactly how many, I know it is long as I'll get, anyways, no page numbers. It's over 600 pages, I know that much, but the amount of stuff that Junji Ito points out that is a spiral in the world, like snails and ice cream, well, you know, like a soft serve, all that stuff, it made me look at the world differently, it's like all these things that you don't realize are not really necessarily connected, but that share a certain pattern. The last time I noticed spirals was in all of Tim Burton's work has spirals in it. This one, I'm surprised that Tim Burton hasn't used some of the stuff that was in, not used this, but I'm surprised he hasn't used the same things that Junji Ito has, because usually Tim Burton just creates his own landscapes and what not, puts a spiral somewhere. With this one, it blew my mind how much like tornadoes, whirlpools, all this stuff, I didn't, I just didn't necessarily think that all these things were spirals, but they were. There's never a dull moment in this book, the only thing I'm going to say about this scene is the jack in the box. While horrific, I was also cackling, it was the funniest, it was horrific, and it was hilarious at the same time. That's really hard to pull off, unless of course he wasn't intending it to be funny, I guess maybe I have a dark morbid sense of humor, but I've read, I've since read Gio, Gio, Gio, I'm not sure, it's another one of Junji Ito's books, but I since read that one there was a lot of humor in that one, a lot of fart jokes in that book, we'll get to that review at some point. But with this one, I enjoyed every single panel, every single scene, there was so many things, especially when the town becomes worse, the absolute worst it could possibly be, I enjoyed that, and then it ended fantastically, a true horror experience all the way up until the end. If you know what I'm talking about there, there might be a little bit of a spoiler, but this is how I like my horror to end, I like to be left feeling horrified, or full of dread, or any number of those things. So if you haven't read Junji Ito, and you are a horror fan, man, you are missing out. The only person I could possibly compare this guy to may be Clyde Barker, not so much cosmic horror, but just the wacky shit that Clyde Barker comes up with, because I could totally see Junji Ito doing in the city, in the hills, or is it in the hills in the cities? I can't remember, I always get it flipped around. Yeah, this is fantastic. Have you read Uzumaki and Tony of the Uzumaki Clan? I'm finally reviewing it. Have you read this? If you liked it, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. If you didn't like it, I'd love to hear why you didn't like it. Things like this I look at and I read, and if you're a horror fan, then I don't understand how you could possibly dislike this content. What's up? I don't understand, so I'd love to talk to you. I'd love to get your point of view, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another book review, manga review, whatever. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.