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Uzumaki

★ 6.4 10K votes 2024–2024 1 season · 4 episodes Ended Adult Swim
UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 10/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 10/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 9/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 9/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 9/10Mounting dreadThe pleasure is in the slowly mounting fear.This show: 8/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Uki SatakeShin'ichiro MikiRobbie DaymondAbby TrottDorothy Elias-FahnDoug Stone
Starring
Uki SatakeShin'ichiro MikiRobbie DaymondAbby TrottDorothy Elias-FahnDoug Stone
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Body horror rendered as gorgeous monochrome nightmare"

In the sleepy town of Kurouzu-cho, spirals start showing up everywhere: in pottery, in hair, in the shape of a snail shell, and soon in the minds of its residents. A teenage couple watches as the obsession spreads like a slow-motion plague, warping bodies and sanity alike. Based on Junji Ito's manga, this adaptation trades jump scares for dread that accumulates panel by panel. Its stark black-and-white art is genuinely unsettling, though the short run means the horror builds faster than the story can fully pay off.

Watch it for

the meticulously faithful, genuinely disturbing black-and-white art style lifted straight from Junji Ito's pages.

Maybe skip if

you want a fully resolved story, since the brief run leaves the escalating horror feeling rushed.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2024
7.15K41h 48m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.18.3
2K22 min
▶2Episode #1.26.2
1K26 min
▶3Episode #1.36.5
1K28 min
▶4Episode #1.46.5
90732 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Uki Satake Kirie Goshima
Shin'ichiro Miki Shuichi Saito
Robbie Daymond Shuichi Saito
Abby Trott Kirie Goshima
Dorothy Elias-Fahn Chizuko Goshima, Kirie's Mother
Doug Stone Yasuo Goshima, Kirie's father
Shunsuke Takeuchi Boy 2, Friend 2, Oni Voice
Toshio Furukawa Yasuo Goshima
Aaron LaPlante Shuichi's Father, Shuichi's father
Sean Chiplock Kazuki Tsumura, Togawa

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