There's not much in the way of character development because, other than the protagonist and her boyfriend, who desperately want to get out of Dodge, most characters don't last much longer than their intro chapter. The manga begins as a collection of interrelated short stories, each exploring yet another aspect of the city's strange connection with spirals, but gradually takes the form of a longer, more interconnected narrative. Another girl sees herself as the love interest of a typhoon and so on.
In another, a boy creates a spiral shell on his back and gradually becomes a snail. In one case, a girl's hair takes on a spiraling, hypnotic life of its own. The spiral theme leaves its mark on every chapter and in many inventive and frightening ways.
Uzumaki, in Japanese, means “ spiral”, hence the useful English subtitle of the book: Spiral into Horror, and throughout these three volumes the reader discovers a city that is becoming possessed by the idea of the spiral.
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