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.
Japanese horror Japanese horror is Japanese horror fiction in popular culture, noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre in light of western treatments. Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror and tension building (suspense), particularly involving ghosts and poltergeists, while many contain themes of folk religion such as: possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition, and yōkai.