Uzumaki

Uzumaki is a 2024 horror anime series based on the manga with the same name written and illustrated by Junji Ito. It was serialized and published in Shogakugan's Seinen Big Comic Spirits magazine from January 19, 1998 to August 30, 1999, with a total of 3 volumes.

The anime series was announced at the 2019 Crunchyroll Expo. The series was produced by Adult Swim and Production I.G, animated by Fugaku (Ep. 1) and Akatsuki (Eps. 2+), directed by Hiroshi Nagahama (Ep. 1) and Yuji Moriyama (Eps. 2+), and composed by Colin Stetson. The series premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block on September 28, 2024 in Japanese. It would also premiere the next day on Max^[1].

The English Dub of the series also premiered on Max, the same day as the Japanese version is released, and it also started broadcasting on Adult Swim on October 3, 2024.^[2]

Synopsis

“Let’s leave this town together,” asks Shuichi Saito, a former classmate of Kirie Goshima, a high school girl who was born and grew up in Kurouzu-cho. Everything from a strange whirlwind, billowing smoke from the crematorium, and the residents is turning into spirals. People’s eyes spin in whirls, a tongue spirals, and the bodies twist unnaturally. In an attempt to escape the curse of the spirals, Kirie decides to flee from Kuouzu-cho, but can she get away from this turmoil?

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Kirie Goshima	Uki Satake	Abby Trott
	Shūichi Saitō	Shinichirō Miki	Robbie Daymond
Secondary Characters
	Mitsuo Goshima	Yūko Sanpei	Laura Stahl
Recurring Characters
	Yasuo Goshima (Kirie's Father)	Toshio Furukawa	Doug Stone
	Toshio Saitō (Shūichi's Father)	Takashi Matsuyama	Aaron LaPlante
	Yukie Saitō (Shūichi's Mother)	Mika Doi	Mona Marshall
	Tokuo Katayama	Katsutoshi Matsuzaki	Max Mittelman
	Kazuki Tsumura	Tatsumaru Tachibana	Sean Chiplock
	Ikuo Yokota	Kōichi Tōchika	Jonah Scott
	Mitsuru Yamaguchi	Kappei Yamaguchi	Erik Scott Kimerer
	Shiho Ishikawa	Ami Fukushima	Erica Mendez
	Chizuko Goshima	Shino Kakinuma	Dorothy Fahn

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
Okada	Wataru Hatano	Kaiji Tang	1
Azami Kurotani	Mariya Ise	Cristina Vee
Boy 1	Gen Satō	¿?
Boy 2	Shunsuke Takeuchi	¿?
Girl	Anna Nagase	¿?
Attendee 1	Kōsuke Okamoto	¿?
Kazunori Nishiki	Yūto Uemura	Khoi Dao	2
Yoriko Endō	Satomi Hanamura	Brianna Knickerbocker
Kyōko Sekino	Yōko Hikasa	Jenny Yokobori
Katayama's Father	¿?	Brent Mukai
Katayama's Mother	¿?	Larissa Gallagher
Kazunori's Father	¿?	Kyle Hebert
Yoriko's Father	¿?	Christopher Corey Smith
Yoriko's Brother	¿?	Stephen Fu
Keiko Nakayama	Shiori Koshikawa	Amber Lee Connors	3
Wakabayashi	Yūji Ueda	Stephen Fu
Kurouzu Hospital Chief Doctor	¿?	Kaiji Tang
Pregnant Woman	Sumi Shimamoto	Larissa Gallagher
Tanizaki	Satoshi Mikami	Brent Mukai	4
Butterfly Tribe Leader	Yūto Nakano	Kirk Thornton
Takemoto	Yukito Sōma	Patrick Seitz