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Uzumaki Streaming in U.K. on Channel 4 Website
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The anime of Junji Ito's Uzumaki horror manga is now being streamed on the Channel 4 website here, with Part 1 available now and subsequent episodes released on the following Sundays.
The episode is dub-only, and the stream includes advertising, although there is a "Channel 4+" ad-free subscription option. The Channel 4 website is also currently streaming FLCL, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Ninja Kamui, Housing Complex C and Makoto Shinkai's films your name. and Weathering With You.
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.
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.
