By the time of San Diego Comic-Con 2024 The Adult Swim revealed this trailer for the anime adaptation of the horror manga Uzumaki in Junji Ito where it is revealed that the 4-episode series will premiere on September 28, 2024. On MAX it will premiere the following day.
The anime of Uzumaki was delayed from 2019 to 2021, then delayed again to October 2022, and subsequently delayed indefinitely. To premiere now in 2024.
The anime is produced by Studio Drivedirected by Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi) and soundtrack by Colin Stetson (Hereditary).
As for seiyuu we have:
- Uki Satake as Kirie Goshima
- Shinichiro Miki as Shuichi Saito
- Toshio Furukawa as Kirie’s father
- Takashi Matsuyama as Shuichi’s father
- Mika Doi as Yukie Saito
- Mariya Ise as Azami Kurotami
- Katsutoshi Matsuzaki as Katayama
- Wataru Hatano as Okada
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Tsumura
- Kouichi Toochika as Yokota
- kushima as shiho
- Gen. Sato
- Takeuchi
- Anna Nagase
- Kosuke Okamoto
Uzumaki was published in Japan by the magazine Big Comic Spirits in three volumes between 1998 and 1999. The series takes place in the peaceful city of Kurozu-cho, where its residents begin to have a strange and morbid interest in spirals.
The manga even gained two games and a live action film adaptation in the 2000s.
Synopsis of Uzumaki
Kurozu-cho, a small town surrounded by fog on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, his town is haunted not by a person or being, but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the secret hypnotic shape of the world.
It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in the water, to the spiral markings on people’s bodies, to Shuichi’s father’s insane obsessions, and to the voice of the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho are pulled deeper and deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
