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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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) Notes: - Includes the extra chapter "Uzumaki Tokubetsu-hen: Ginga", which was included in editions later released. - Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)
Japanese study overview
Uzumaki is a Japanese manga of 47,961 characters, with 3,468 unique words and 1,088 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,468 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.
- 私I×162
- 町town×133
- 君Mr×117
- 事thing×112
- 秀一Shuuichi×100
- 桐絵Kirie×96
- 長屋tenement house×63
- 早くearly×62
- 言うto say×55
- 台風typhoon×51
- 中inside×50
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×48
- 満男Michio×39
- 五島Itsushima×35
- 恵子Ayako×22
- 依子Eko×21
- 増築addition to a building×16
- うずまき模様spiral pattern×15
- 窯stove×13
- 露地bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof)×9