![]() ![]() ![]() She reacts to each ordeal with fear and manages to escape before the spirals show up yet again. ![]() Characters enter the story only to become part of the town's body count, and Kirie, a constant survivor, is no more than a vehicle for the next spooky outbreak of deadly spirals. ![]() Ito knows how to make readers' hearts drop and stomachs turn, but once the scare factor wears off there's not much more to the book. When she's at home or school, things seem normal, but the sudden contrasts between the ordinary events of everyday life and this mysterious invasion of chaotic, threatening spirals makes the horror all the more shocking. Readers witness these chilling disturbances through Kirie, a wide-eyed schoolgirl with a pixie cut, whose world is drawn in typical, lighthearted teen-romance manga style. The spirals even begin to infect people's bodies, leaving grotesque spiral voids. Soon, things intensify: a lighthouse throws out spiral beams at dusk babies are born, only to sprout spiral-capped mushroom-shaped appendages from their stomachs one man becomes obsessed with spirals until he goes completely mad. When corpses are cremated, the smoke forms a black spiral in the sky, and the clouds form swirls like those in Van Gogh's The Starry Night. The townspeople of KurĂ´zu-cho are being haunted by a strange infection of spirals. ![]()
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