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4-episode series based on Junji Ito‘s horror manga aired on Toonami, streams on Max
Viz released the anime of Junji Ito‘s Uzumaki horror manga digitally with English audio on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes Store, Microsoft Store, and VUDU on Monday. The company streamed a trailer:
© Junji Ito, Shogakukan
The series premiered on Adult Swim‘s Toonami programming block on September 28, and it ended on October 19. The series is also streaming on the Max streaming service.
The four-episode Uzumaki mini-series was originally slated to debut on Toonami in 2020 before it premiered in Japan, but the anime was delayed to 2021. It was again delayed to October 2022, and then delayed again in June 2022.
The voice cast includes:
- Abby Trott / Uki Satake as Kirie Goshima
- Robbie Daymond / Shinichirō Miki as Shuichi Saito
- Cristina Vee / Mariya Ise as Azami Kurotani
- Doug Stone / Toshio Furukawa as Kirie’s father
- Aaron LaPlante / Takashi Matsuyama as Shuichi’s father
- Mona Marshall / Mika Doi as Shuichi’s mother
- Max Mittelman / Katsutoshi Matsuzaki as Katayama
Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi) is directing the mini-series at Studio Drive and Studio Akatsuki. Production I.G. USA and Adult Swim are co-producing the anime. Colin Stetson (Hereditary) is composing the music.
The 1998-1999 manga follows the inhabitants of a town where strange occurrences related to a spiral shape began occurring one after another. Viz Media originally released the manga in three collected volumes from 2007-2008, and later released an omnibus edition.
The manga inspired a live-action horror film starring Eriko Hatsune and Fan Fhi in 2000.
