8.034 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe curse of the spirals is destroying the town and taking peoples' minds with it. The chaos reaches a fever pitch.
Kirie tries to escape from her town Kurouzu-cho, where the residents get obsessed with spirals due to an unexplained curse.
Direction
Static frames mimic manga panels—unsettling stillness.
Sound
Colin Stetson's score coils around you like smoke.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn spirals hit harder than any CGI.
Uki Satake
Kirie Goshima (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Shuichi Saito (voice)
Mariya Ise
Azami Kurotani (voice)
Wataru Hatano
Okada (voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Yasuo Goshima (voice)
Mika Doi
Yukie Saito (voice)
Takashi Matsuyama
Toshio Saito (voice)
Katsutoshi Matsuzaki
Tokuo Katayama (voice)
Tatsumaru Tachibana
Kazuki Tsumura (voice)
Ami Fukushima
Shiho (voice)
Koichi Tochika
Ikuo Yokota (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Junji Ito originally conceived Uzumaki as a short story about a couple obsessed with spirals; it spiraled into three volumes.
The 2024 anime deliberately uses limited animation to preserve Ito's iconic panel compositions—every shot could hang in a gallery.
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