This post contains Large spoilers for "Uzumaki".

The unusual Japanese city of Kuruzo-Cho is the focal point of Junji ITO's famous horror manga, "Uzumaki". When we first met Kuruzo-Chi through the eyes of a high school student Curie, her perception of this seemingly quiet and ordinary city blessed us in a false sense of security. A few seconds later, her boyfriend Shuichi destroys this illusion. "I feel dizzy every time I get off the station's platform. This city takes me crazy!" Shuichi shouts while holding his head in his hands, visibly unresolved by Kuruzu-Chuzo's suffocating air.

As chapters are progressing, Fuichi's fears have been proven properly. Deadly spiral obsession catches the inhabitants of the city, starting with the own father of Shuichi, who is drawn from everything that naturally imitates a spiral. After studying these dizzying patterns (in objects like coils and narutomakes) for hours like some pious fanatical, Shuichi's father takes his spiral obsession one step further by imitating the form with his controversial body. This extreme introduction of bodily horror flows into the already heavy atmosphere in the city, infecting anyone who came into contact with the horrible curse (which seems to be almost pleased in their motive to morphine and corrupt).

Ito's "Uzumaki" engages in frightening absurdities, but this instinct is well suited to manga as a medium, as it allows the detailed worlds to revive. The monochrome lenses through which we see "Uzumaki" is less than limit, as the mastery of ito above its horror concepts occupy haunting paper quality. When two bodies climb each other like snakes, imitating double helix (DNA structure), it used dark ink to emphasize the surreal nature of the situation. A similar effect is tricky to achieve live action, especially with the introduction of color, which robs the distorted world of immersion and probability of ito.

This question could have been potentially resolved Monochrome anime series of adult swimming "Uzumaki", But it turned out to be Amazed, pure offensive adaptation in the end. However, we do not fret: we still have a "spiral", adaptation of live film in 2000 that complements its shortcomings by sincerely relying on the perverted, illogical nature of the "Uzumaki" of Ito.

The problems that plague anime for adult swimming are reduced to unfortunate events behind the scenes, including directors to exchange show and study after the promising seasonal premiere. What followed was a quick thing that failed to capture the essence of the etho's evocative art, as the animation had no care or details. The result was an adaptation with an awkward, unfinished quality that made everything look scary.

This is really disappointing, as the adult swimming series initially had a good idea to translate the monochrome panels of the ITO using CGI movement and animation, but it ended up preventing its own potential by compromising quality control. Compared, The "spiral" live in 2000 appears as a competent, faithful companion of the ITO manga. Although not able to recreate the efficiency of the horror manga due to the restrictions of the live medium, it complements it by adopting a linchian sensibility that is not afraid to push the boundaries of what seems frightening to the screen. Combine this with effective use of the J-Horror curse trophy, and we have a fun, strange little film approaching the disorientation of the dizziness that "Uzumaki" causes.

Just like in the manga, the "spiral" throws Curry (Eriko Hatsun) and Shuichi (FHI FAN) in a whirlwind of bizarre events, but nothing feels alien from the events of the spine, which are unusual. Here, a woman traumatized by the spiral curse stabs her own ears because the cochlea (inner ear) is a spiral cavity, while the direct curry hair grows and mutatates endlessly to form sensitive, spirals with nutrients. But even that is less shocking than the culmination of Kuruzu-Cho, because we soon realize that there is no hope in this deteriorating wasteland. Both in "Uzumaki" and "spiral", people surrender to their solid tendency to self -destruct.

Although the "spiral" does not fully satisfy the itching for a competent adaptation "Uzumaki", it has its own by creating a pleasant eccentric identity for itself - the one who echoes the best impulses of it as an artist.