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By popular request, I finally ready Uzumaki, and I'm very glad I did.

This video is a little personal to me, and I hope it doesn't come across as too overdramatic. This one is a little less "yuk-yuk", and a little more "YUCK!" 

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Uzumaki got into my brain.

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Gregg D.

Well I’m convinced. I’ll read it. On the theme of recommendations, please allow me to give my highest possible recommendation for the podcast series The Magnus Archives. It’s already complete (but with a sequel series on the way) at 200 episodes and, so far, has been the only podcast horror fiction that has worked for me. Each episode is a short story with bookend segments, and similarly feels like a monster of the week format… at first. And then you notice names, places, and themes coming up again. Everything starts to connect, and just when you think you’ve figured out what’s happening the show says “you’re right and here’s a big event to confirm it - but as a result the status quo is completely upended and we have to explore even deeper mysteries.” I also perceive it as a work of genius. It needs to be heard in order (and the audio quality improves substantially as it goes), but some early banger episodes are Squirm, A Father’s Love, and Lost John’s Cave.

Adam Greene

That comic has haunted me for almost 20 years... It was wild going back to it like this. Also, your baby oopsie 2 video was, in my opinion, one of your best. Even thought you were struggling, you produced a fantastic video. I appreciate it even more now

GC

Thanks for this, M. Going to save Uzumaki for when I next need a brain-scouring. Sorry for your loss and hang in there.

Ramona Mantegani

Honestly one of your best videos yet on the channel. I first read Uzumaki at the start of the pandemic while I was stuck in my childhood home, having just left my first apartment that I couldn’t afford the rent of and feeling myself sucked into a spiral. It’s nice to see somebody else who found exactly what they needed from it as well 🌀🌀🌀 PS: You nailed the pronunciation of my name 💜 Also everything in the eye area (the eyeball zone, if you will) was perfection (on point makeup, the extremely cute glasses, all wonderful)

Lola B

Beautifully done, well presented, and you've given me an entirely new layer on a piece of fiction that has literally kept me awake years later just by remembering chapters at random.

Kevin M. Hagerman

Excellent review and THANK YOU for pointing out the manga format. The first one I ever bought - I thought I was losing my mind.

Evangeline Van Houten

I first read Uzumaki when I was dealing with a sudden onset of vertigo that remained unexplained for several months…maybe we’re all cursed to find Junji Ito when we need him most. Thanks for this video. I can already tell I’ll be watching it again.

Slazenger Kincaid

Not over-dramatic, powerful. This is the sort of thoughtful and intelligent discourse that brought me to you. Tremendous work.

DegenCat

Thanks so much for sharing all this with us! I've seen the film but maybe I should go in search of the manga.

Leah Riley

I'm sorry for your loss. This video was incredibly good, and you conveyed that bleakness that you craved (which is weird to compliment you on). If you're ever into trying a horror anime, I wanted to suggest Shiki - it's 22 episodes total about an isolated town that is slowly being taken over by something sinister as everyone seems to be dying from a "disease". As the show progresses it sort of tests where you sympathize. Ok! That was a long comment.