Uzumaki, is a "seinen" horror manga series written and illustrated, by which Japanese horror manga artist?
Junji Ito Junji Ito (伊藤 潤二 , Itō Junji , born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include "Tomie", a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness, "Uzumaki", a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals, and "Gyo", a two-volume story where fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called "the death stench." His other works are "Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection", a collection of different short stories including a series of stories named "Souchi's Journal of Delights", and "Itou Junji No Neko Nikki: Yon and Mu", a light-hearted, but still terrifying, story about moving in a new house with his cats.
Kōji Kiriyama Kōji Kiriyama (桐山光侍 , "Kiriyama Kōji") is a Japanese manga artist best known for the "Ninku" series which was serialized in Shueisha's "Weekly Shōnen Jump" manga magazine between 1993 and 1995, and was adapted into an anime series and film. A second manga titled "Ninku Second Stage: Stories of Etonins" (忍空 -SECOND STAGE 干支忍編- ) ran from 2005 to 2011 in the "seinen" magazine "Ultra Jump". His works inspired artists such as Masashi Kishimoto of "Naruto" fame, who used to copy Kiriyama's drawings in his studying to become a manga artist.