No one knows where they came from, or why they are there, but it is soon revealed that the holes in the mountain are calling to people, that visitors to the site are drawn to find the hole that fits them and go inside. It starts with an earthquake that opens a fault in Japan, where scientists make a remarkable discovery: innumerable holes in the mountainside, all shaped like the human body. And while Uzumaki and Tomie are both excellent examples of his longer volumes, I can’t think of a better introduction to his work than his short piece, The Enigma of Amigara Fault. Is artwork is by turns beautiful and freakish (often at the same time), and he has a fertile imagination for unknown and unknowable monstrosities. While Digimon Ghost Game's depiction of this body horror was less graphic than Uzumaki, the episode showed how much such a drastic change could scare a person, albeit in a more understated manner.Junji Ito is recognised as the doyen of modern horror manga. While everyone survived the changes to their bodies, they still were unable to function as before. From pets to humans, Calamaramon's powers began changing living things as well. While Jellymon's transformation was less horrific, Digimon Ghost Game did still employ some terrifying transformations as Calamaramon's powers gained strength. The horrific imagery accompanying these changes highlighted the horror of the town's compulsive obsession with spirals as the curse continued to wreak havoc. Two young lovers chose to entwine their bodies like snakes to escape their families' disapproval, which foreshadowed Shuichi and Kirie's own fate to become similarly entwined at the end of the curse. Two of Kirie's classmates, a teacher, her younger brother and ultimately countless other people turned into slugs because they were "too slow" and could not keep up with the time spiral. In the beginning, Shuichi's father became obsessed with spirals to the point of madness, and he died when he turned himself into a spiral creature. Because Jellymon is a jellyfish and already has an amorphous form, her transformation was much less horrifying than the other transformations throughout the town and in Junji Ito's works, making it a bit less scary for the children in the audience.Īs the spiral curse spread in Uzumaki, the curse caused multiple instances of body horror. However, like the victims in The Horror of Amigara Fault, Jellymon's choice to enter the pot ends in her own disfigurement as Calamaramon begins using her spiral powers once more. However, upon finding the pots, Jellymon excitedly enters one and states, "This feeling when I'm a perfect fit!" Thus, the clay pots function similarly to the human shaped holes in Ito's short story. The clay pots themselves are a nod to Kirie's father's pottery in Uzumaki. The short story is a masterwork of psychological and existential horror and echoes the transformative horror found in Uzumaki.ĭuring the team's investigation of Spiral Beach in Digimon Ghost Game, Jellymon finds a stack of clay pots in the town's harbor. Multiple characters enter these holes insisting that they were "made just for them," and in they process, they are warped into twisted forms of themselves. In this short story, an earthquake causes thousands of human shaped holes to appear in Amigara mountain. While most of the references in "Spiral Beach" come from Junji Ito's Uzumaki, one particular moment instead referenced his short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault. Therefore, Digimon Ghost Game adapted the memorable chapter of Uzumaki to instead empower one of the episode's young guest stars to investigate the strangeness further. When investigating, Gammamon met a young girl, Rin, who was investigating the mystery because the spirals in her hair made her realize something strange was happening in her town. Kirie's classmate, Sekino, embraced her own hair transformation, but she ultimately began a skeletal husk, drained of her life force from the curse.ĭigimon Ghost Game avoids the full horror of Kirie's hair transformation, but "Spiral Beach" still used hair transformations to foreshadow the later body horror that Calamaramon would cause. She only survived because Shuichi was able to cut off her hair. While her classmates marveled at her new hair, the hair itself began to drain her of her energy. In Chapter 6 of Uzumaki, Kirie's hair begins to take on a spiral form. Throughout Uzumaki, Junji Ito used both blatantly horrific and seemingly innocuous bodily changes to show the spiral curses' effects on the town.
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