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If you ask horror fans around the world for their favorite writer, chances are the name Junji Ito will come up more than once. He is a titan in the genre, with many of his manga series standing as classics. However, the title that is considered his greatest by many fans, Uzumaki, is finally getting an anime adaptation. Uzumaki’s release date is coming sooner than you think and – trust us – you will not want to miss this one.

Uzumaki is about a small Japanese town that has become enveloped in supernatural occurrences involving spirals. Over and over, seemingly normal, healthy residents descend into paranoid madness. The seemingly simple setup belies the eldritch horror that awaits Kirie Goshima and Shuichi Saito as they seek out the source of the curse. The story is all about the helplessness of an entire town in the face of an overwhelmingly powerful and unknowable force. We all get to join them on their journey when the Uzumaki anime debuts on September 28, 2024 on Adult Swim’s Toonami block.

This isn’t the first adaptation of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki we’ve seen – the manga has been turned into a pair of video games and a 2000 Japanese live-action film. However, neither of them had made their way to the West, so getting to see the Uzumaki anime on broadcast television in the US is a remarkable change of fortune for the iconic manga. In fact, it is getting a US broadcast before the series comes out in Japan.

Junji Ito’s Uzumaki comes out on September 27, 2024 on Adult Swim.

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