I began reading Spiral out of sheer curiosity. It was always presented to me as an incredibly chilling horror so I decided to give it a try.
Within the first minutes of reading I was like: Huh, people are obsessed with spirals they willingly turn into them? Am I supposed to take this seriously?
As I went on reading, this feeling gradually escalated. The happenings of the supposedly cursed town became increasingly absurd and grotesque to the point, the entire thing wasn't even scary.
At first I just had to laugh but as it went on, I wondered - is the entire manga going to be like this? People twisting into spirals of their own will or even against it for no damn reason? Is it all there is to it? Is there any point in keeping reading this thing? What kind of drugs was Junji-san doing, that made him create this ... stuff?
In the end I dropped the manga after the chapter where the high-schoolgirl absorbed herself into a fleshy vortex and disappeared into nothing. It became so absurd, that it was neither scary or funny.
Manga You can't take this seriously.
I began reading Spiral out of sheer curiosity. It was always presented to me as an incredibly chilling horror so I decided to give it a try.
Within the first minutes of reading I was like: Huh, people are obsessed with spirals they willingly turn into them? Am I supposed to take this seriously?
As I went on reading, this feeling gradually escalated. The happenings of the supposedly cursed town became increasingly absurd and grotesque to the point, the entire thing wasn't even scary.
At first I just had to laugh but as it went on, I wondered - is the entire manga going to be like this? People twisting into spirals of their own will or even against it for no damn reason? Is it all there is to it? Is there any point in keeping reading this thing? What kind of drugs was Junji-san doing, that made him create this ... stuff?
In the end I dropped the manga after the chapter where the high-schoolgirl absorbed herself into a fleshy vortex and disappeared into nothing. It became so absurd, that it was neither scary or funny.