A September 28, 2024 premiere date was revealed for the Uzumaki anime at San Diego Comic-Con back in July, and now a new trailer is here ahead of this month’s debut. Those familiar with Junji Ito’s manga will be treated to a lot of familiar imagery, depicted in stark black and white. Check it out below while we wait for the Japanese language premiere of the series with English subtitles. Both the subbed and dubbed versions of each installment will be available to stream the next day on MAX, followed by English-language encore airings every Thursday at 12:30am starting October 3.
Uzumaki Trailer
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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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: Press Release
