Four episode anime adaptation of the Junji Ito manga. Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return... (Source: Viz Media)
Japanese study overview
Uzumaki is a Japanese anime of 15,583 characters, with 1,636 unique words and 741 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,636 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 渦巻whirlpool×64
- 町town×51
- 秀一Shuuichi×48
- 桐絵Kirie×44
- 私I×35
- 渦whirlpool×32
- 俺I×30
- 長屋tenement house×23
- 今now×21
- 私たちwe×20
- 五島Itsushima×18
- 人person×18
- 満男Michio×16
- 和典Kazusuke×13
- 片山Kakuyama×9
- 依子Eko×9
- 増築addition to a building×9
- 渦巻模様spiral pattern×5
- 窯stove×4
- 台風の目eye of a typhoon×4