Junji Ito’s terrifying Uzumaki hits Adult Swim in September

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The long-awaited adaptation is yet coming soon.

By Andrew Webster, an amusement exertion covering streaming, virtual worlds, and each azygous Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge successful 2012, penning implicit 4,000 stories.

Jul 26, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

Adult Swim’s long-awaited adaptation of Uzumaki yet has a premiere day — and an appropriately creepy trailer. The series, based connected the classical fearfulness manga from Junji Ito, volition commencement airing connected September 28th. Episodes volition deed Adult Swim first, and past watercourse connected Max the pursuing day.

Uzumaki follows a cursed municipality that is — and I committedness it’s scarier than it sounds — plagued by spirals. Here’s the afloat synopsis:

“Let’s permission this municipality together,” asks Shuichi Saito, a erstwhile classmate of Kirie Goshima, a precocious schoolhouse miss who was calved and grew up successful Kurouzu-cho. Everything from a unusual whirlwind, billowing fume from the crematorium, and the residents is turning into spirals. People’s eyes rotation successful whirls, a lingua spirals, and the bodies twist unnaturally. In an effort to flight the curse of the spirals, Kirie decides to fly from Kuouzu-cho, but tin she get distant from this turmoil?

It’s 1 of Ito’s astir fashionable and unsettling stories, and based connected the caller trailer, it looks similar the amusement is truly nailing the elaborate black-and-white creation that’s truthful intrinsic to his work. Ito’s peculiar benignant has proven to beryllium a tricky happening to construe to animation, arsenic seen successful the Netflix anthology from past year. That’s apt wherefore Adult Swim’s mentation has been successful the works for truthful long; it was archetypal announced successful 2019.

For different taste, here’s the archetypal released clip of the amusement from 2023:

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