We finally have a date for the Uzumaki anime, which is on the way to adapt Junji Ito’s horror manga classic. The series will make its Adult Swim debut on September 28, 2024, with streaming on MAX to follow the next day.
Uzumaki Anime Trailer
The Japanese and English voice cast members were previously announced, including (Japanese on left, English on right):
Kirie Goshima voiced by Uki Satake / Abby Trott
Shuichi Saito voiced by Shin-ichiro Miki / Robbie Daymond
Azami Kurotani voiced by Mariya Ise / Cristina Vee
Kirie’s Dad voiced by Toshio Furukawa / Doug Stone
Shuichi’s Mom voiced by Mika Doi / Mona Marshall
Shuichi’s Dad voiced by Takashi Matsuyama / Aaron LaPlante
Katayama voiced by Katsutoshi Matsuzaki / Max Mittleman
The Uzumaki anime was first announced in 2019 and planned for 2020 before being hit with multiple delays. Hiroshi Nagahama (The Flowers of Evil) directs, with Aki Itami on the script for the Akatsuki and Drive production. VIZ Media currently publishes Uzumaki and describes the title as follows:
Kurozu-cho, a small fog-bound 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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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 everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people’s bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi’s father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
Source: Adult Swim on X (formerly Twitter)
