History Characters / Uzumaki

* CosmicHorrorStory: The Lost Chapter reveals that its power extends all the way to the universe itself, being displayed in spiral galaxies that can grant {{telepathy}} to those who obverse them and drive them mad before eventually [[MySkullRunnethOver exploding their heads]] into new miniature galaxies, though it appears only residents of Kurozu-cho can actually see and be affected by them. However, this should be taken with a grain of salt as the Lost Chapter isn't considered canon and is a cut chapter from the tale that was put back into the story as a nice bonus for readers.

* BodyHorror: A [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mushroom-dazed]] doctor puts her baby ''back in her womb''. It's not pretty.

* IAteWhat: The "mushrooms" Dr. Kawamoto begins adding to patients' meals are actually cuttings from the placentas the mosquito babies continually grow. It's implied that those who eat them are considered more desirable to the mosquito women, as Kirei never has more than a bite and is overlooked by Keiko in favor of her draining the blood of Kawamoto and other patients who are obsessed with eating the placenta.

* AttentionWhore: Shuichi hypothesizes that the Spiral is desperate to be looked at, and its curse is how it forces people to acknowledge it.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The Lost Chapter reveals that its power extends all the way to the universe itself, being displayed in spiral galaxies that can grant {{telepathy}} to those who obverse them and drive them mad before eventually [[MySkullRunnethOver exploding their heads]] into new miniature galaxies, though it appears only residents of Kurozu-cho can actually see and be affected by them.

* DespairEventHorizon: He mostly crosses it around chapter 14 when he accepts that the town is now inescapable, but he at least continues fighting to protect Kirei. At the end of chapter 19, after breaking his legs from the fall into the Spiral City, he completely gives up on continuing and decides to instead embrace Kirei in their final moments before time freezes.

Kirie's cousin and classmate.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As a result of the Spiral somehow impregnating her using male mosquitoes, she and many other afflicted women gain an insatiable thirst for blood to provide nutrients for their babies in their wombs, just as female mosquitoes suck blood so that they can have eggs. Instead of using a needle to poke holes through the skin (like mosquitoes with their probosces) or biting important arteries in the neck, they use ''hand drills'' in various places on the victim's body. At night, they seek out blood, but in the day, they act as if nothing is wrong. They give birth to their babies days after being impregnated, and their babies behave more like demonic parasites. On top of this, once her baby is reinserted into her womb, her thirst for blood returns with such a fury that she ''grows'' a proboscis to suck blood personally.

* EldritchAbomination: A massive, sentient spiraling structure ritually drives the residents of Kurozu-cho insane while twisting them, nature, and even time into spiral-shaped monstrosities.

* SeriousBusiness: He finds researching spirals to be ''extremely'', much to the chagrin of his editor whom he continually annoys by missing deadlines.

* UndergroundCity: The spiral city underneath Dragonfly Pond is a sprawling massive of carved stone spires that eventually link up with the surface like a corkscrew once all the residents of Kurozu-cho (except perhaps Mitsuo) are pulled into the catacombs.

* UncertainDoom: It's never made clear what exactly happens to her after Kerie escapes the hospital, as she's last seen draining blood from several placenta-mad patients, but it's unlikely to be anything pleasant.

* AndIMustScream: His spirit, along with dozens of other souls, is trapped in Mr. Goshima's clay urns when the latter uses mud from Dragonfly Pond to perfect his art. Kirie peers into the oven one night and sees their ''screaming,writhing faces'' among the flames, begging for help from the heat. Thankfully, they're presumably freed when she destroys her father's oven.

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* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:In the movie, though it's implied that she might not last that long.]]

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Her better understanding of others is mainly because she has to [[spoiler: watch all her closest friends die]] and witness some pretty gruesome stuff.

* TooDumbToLive: Kirie doesn't try to leave the town until it's been made impossible. She doesn't actually die, though; she just gets [[spoiler: frozen in time, while conscious, presumably for centuries or millennia.]]

* StoppedCaring: About anything aside from Kirie, whom he devotes his entire existence to. Actually played seriously, in this example.
* TooHungryToBePolite: In chapter 4, at the Goshimas' house. Quite possibly the only trope PlayedForLaughs with Shuichi.
* TraumaButton: Spirals. Spirally, spirally spirals.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: [[spoiler:When cornered on a cliffside while fleeing from the mad relief workers who want to eat him for being a snail, Kirie urges him to climb down the cliff and wait for her. He seems to understand.]]

* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:He becomes a snail.]]
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:Nearly averted a couple of times. At one point, he's endangered by the lighthouse, and he is also at risk as he starts to turn into a snail. In addition, the relief workers [[WouldHurtAChild are willing to kill him]] for food, and his fate after separating from Kirie is unknown. Given that everyone in Kurôuzu-cho is screwed no matter what, this probably goes the same for him.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:His fate after separating from Kirie, Shuichi, and Chie on the cliff is unknown. We can assume he was either eaten, possibly died of old age due to the unknown amount of years the trio spent trying to escape, somehow died to the Spiral, and/or is still alive and waiting for Kirie to come back.]] [[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Saito]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakashiMatsuyama (JP)

Shuichi's father, whose growing obsession with spirals plunges his family's life into despair.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His spirit, along with dozens of other souls, is trapped in Mr. Goshima's clay urns when the latter uses mud from Dragonfly Pond to perfect his art. Kirie peers into the oven one night and sees their ''screaming,writhing faces'' among the flames, begging for help from the heat. Thankfully, they're presumably freed when she destroys her father's oven.]]
* CollectorOfTheStrange: He takes up collecting objects with spiral patterns and shapes. And "strange" is probably the nicest way you can describe him.
* NightmareFetishist: Grows insanely obsessed with the nightmarish pattern, to the point where he starts making spirals on his own body.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:After his death, he manifests to his poor wife as a horrifying spiral spirit, trying to persuade her to join him in the spiral. Which she does after falling into insanity and death.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Taken to the worst possible extreme. Mr. Saito neglects his family in favor of his love of the Spiral, and it proves his undoing.
* RubberMan: Very much played for horror. As his sanity [[{{Pun}} spirals]] out of control, Saito develops the ability to warp his body parts into spiral shapes. [[spoiler:It ultimately leads to him contorting his whole body into a spiral shape inside a tub, which breaks his spine and kills him.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Saito dies in the first chapter, but his lingering spirit continues to haunt his family, and the tragedy of his falling to the spiral continues to drive and haunt Shuichi.

[[folder:Mrs. Saito]]

Shuichi's mother who, after her husband's death, develops a paralysing fear of spirals.

* BodyHorror: Her fear of spirals is so intense and indiscriminate that she begins mutilating herself in order to remove any trace of the spiral from her body, culminating in her attempting to [[EarAche dig out her cochlea with a pair of scissors]] after learning that it's shaped like a spiral.
* {{Fingore}}: She cuts off her fingerprints in her attempts to rid herself of the spiral.
* FromBadToWorse: Her attempt to rid her body of spirals by removing her inner ear only succeeds in making her constantly feel as if she's spiraling due to her lack of balance giving her a continuous sense of vertigo.
* SanitySlippage: She was a perfectly normal woman, and then she [[spoiler:found her husband's mutilated corpse. After that, she developed an intense fear of spirals that ultimately led to her death.]]

[[folder:Keiko]]

Kirie's cousin and classmate.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:A [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mushroom-dazed]] doctor puts her baby ''back in her womb''. It's not pretty.]]
* ExpressDelivery: She and many other pregnant women get impregnated and give birth in a matter of days.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:As a result of the Spiral somehow impregnating her using male mosquitoes, she and many other afflicted women gain an insatiable thirst for blood to provide nutrients for their babies in their wombs, just as female mosquitoes suck blood so that they can have eggs. Instead of using a needle to poke holes through the skin (like mosquitoes with their probosces) or biting important arteries in the neck, they use ''hand drills'' in various places on the victim's body. At night, they seek out blood, but in the day, they act as if nothing is wrong. They give birth to their babies days after being impregnated, and let's not even get started on the ''babies''...]]
* WombHorror: She and the other pregnant women [[spoiler:give birth to babies who seem more like parasites -- they want to go back into their mothers' wombs because it's warmer there.]]

!!Others

[[folder:Azami Kurotani]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariyaIse (JP)

A classmate of Kirie's with a crescent-shaped scar on her forehead. It is rumored amongst other school girls that she uses this scar in order to attract the attention of boys.

* AttentionWhore: Azami feeds off of the attention of the boys around Kirie's high school. This is what gets her to start stalking Shuichi when he refuses to get in a relationship with her.
* FaceMonsterTurn: A nice, normal girl before the power of the spiral warped her into a {{Yandere}}.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Every other boy is interested in her, but when Shuichi refuses to have anything to do with her due to her forehead scar becoming a spiral, she becomes obsessed with him.

[[folder:Kyoko Sekino]]

A classmate of Kirie's who takes an immediate interest when the former develop strange spiral hair patterns with mysterious power. Of course, she soon develops similar gifts...

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: As she's obsessed with standing out, Sekino grows jealous of how much attention Kirie's cursed do gains her, and one-ups her by styling her own hair into similar spiral patterns.
* CharacterDevelopment: A small example. Sekino is at first an introverted girl whose curious with getting attention, but eventually devolves into a cackling, power-mad control freak when she gets a taste of the spiral's power.
* CursedWithAwesome: Unlike Kirie, she's thrilled with her prehensile hypnotic hair and the power it gives her over others.[[spoiler:It comes with a heavy price, though.]]
* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:...Said price being her ''life'', as the new hair eventually drains her energy completely, leaving Sekino a desiccated corpse.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Sekino ''really'' wants to stand out among her classmates. Given she's an (initially) average girl living in [[WorldOfWeirdness Kurôuzo-Cho]], it's a little understandable.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: She actually makes some pretty good use of her cursed hair against a reluctant Kirie, at least until [[spoiler:her powers take their toll.]]
* PrehensileHair: Thanks to the Spiral curse, Sekino develops living spiral locks that can entrap people and hypnotize them into a devoted trance.
* SanitySlippage: So very much. Sekino reaches near supervillain levels of insanity in her mad drive for attention.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Whether it's due to the Spiral Curse or her own pathological needs taking over, Sekino is utterly over the deep end by the time she gives her last breath.

* BodyHorror: Her fear of spirals is so intense and indiscriminate that she begins mutilating herself in order to remove any trace of the spiral from her body, culminating in her attempting to [[EarAche dig out her cochlea with a knife]] after learning that it's shaped like a spiral.

* FromBadToWorse: Her attempt to rid her body of spirals by removing her inner ear only succeeds in making her constantly feel as if he's spiraling due to her lack of balance giving her a continuous sense of vertigo.

* SanitySlippage: She was a perfectly normal woman, and then she [[spoiler:found her husband's mutilated corpse]]. After that, she developed an intense fear of spirals that ultimately led to her death.]]

[[folder:Keiko]]

Kirie's cousin and classmate.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:A [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mushroom-dazed]] doctor puts her baby ''back in her womb''. It's not pretty.]]
* ExpressDelivery: She and many other pregnant women get impregnated and give birth in a matter of days.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:As a result of the Spiral somehow impregnating her using male mosquitoes, she and many other afflicted women gain an insatiable thirst for blood to provide nutrients for their babies in their wombs, just as female mosquitoes suck blood so that they can have eggs. Instead of using a needle to poke holes through the skin (like mosquitoes with their probosces) or biting important arteries in the neck, they use ''hand drills'' in various places on the victim's body. At night, they seek out blood, but in the day, they act as if nothing is wrong. They give birth to their babies days after being impregnated, and let's not even get started on the ''babies''...]]
* WombHorror: She and the other pregnant women [[spoiler:give birth to babies who seem more like parasites -- they want to go back into their mothers' wombs because it's warmer there.]]

!!Others

[[folder:Azami Kurotani]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariyaIse (JP)

A classmate of Kirie's with a crescent-shaped scar on her forehead. It is rumored amongst other school girls that she uses this scar in order to attract the attention of boys.

* AttentionWhore: Azami feeds off of the attention of the boys around Kirie's high school. This is what gets her to start stalking Shuichi when he refuses to get in a relationship with her.
* FaceMonsterTurn: A nice, normal girl before the power of the spiral warped her into a {{Yandere}}.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Every other boy is interested in her, but when Shuichi refuses to have anything to do with her due to her forehead scar becoming a spiral, she becomes obsessed with him.

[[folder:Kyoko Sekino]]

A classmate of Kirie's who takes an immediate interest when the former develop strange spiral hair patterns with mysterious power. Of course, she soon develops similar gifts...

* AttentionWhore: Azami feeds off of the attention of the boys around Kirie's high school. This is what gets her to start stalking Shuichi when he refuses to get in a relationship wit her.

* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:...Said price being her ''life'', as the new hair eventually drains her energy completely, leaving Sekino a dessicated corpse.]]

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:Nearly averted a couple of times. At one point, he's endangered by the lighthouse, and he is also at risk as he starts to turn into a snail. In addition, the relief workers [[WouldHurtAChild are willing to kill him]] for food, and his fate after separating from Kirie is unknown. Given that everyone in Kurouzu-cho is screwed no matter what, this probably goes the same for him.]]

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Sekino ''really'' wants to stand out among her classmates. Given she's an (initally) average girl living in [[WorldOfWeirdness Kurouzo-Cho]], it's a little understandable.

->'''Voiced by:''' Uki Satake (JP)
->'''Played by:''' Eriko Hatsune (movie), Creator/ChikaAnzai (animated dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinichiroMiki (JP)
->'''Played by:''' Fhi Fan (movie), Creator/WataruHatano (animated dub)

--> '''Kirie''': Will the storm continue to kill people until it finds me?
--> '''Shuichi''': Why don't you go out and ask it yourself?

* RubberMan: Very much played for horror. As his sanity [[{{Pun}} spirals]] out of control, Saito develops the ability to warp his body parts into spiral shapes. [[spoiler: It ultimately leads to him contorting his whole body into a spiral shape inside a tub, which breaks his spine and kills him.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Saito dies in the first chapter, but his lingering spirit continues to haunt his family, and the tragedy of his falling to the spiral continues to drive and haunt Shuichi. [[/folder]]

* SanitySlippage: So very much. Sekino reaches near Supervilain levels of insanity in her mad drive for attention.

AttentionWhore: Azami feeds off of the attention of the boys around Kirie's high school. This is what gets her to start stalking Shuichi when he refuses to get in a relationship wit her.