# Where to Watch Uzumaki

**Uzumaki streams on Max and Netflix. Junji Ito's most famous manga finally has an anime adaptation — a compact, deeply unsettling descent into a town cursed not by a monster, but by a shape.**

## Where to Watch

- [Max](https://www.max.com/shows/uzumaki/f3ba329b-1089-44bc-a844-6177fa69930e)
- [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81943371)

Max and Netflix both carry it, so most households have a way in. At only a handful of episodes, it's a single evening's watch — ideal for a lights-off horror night.

## Synopsis

In the fog-wrapped coastal town of Kurozu-cho, something has gone wrong with reality's geometry. Kirie Goshima's boyfriend Shuichi sees it first: the spiral — in shells, in whirlpools, in the smoke over the crematorium — repeating everywhere, pulling at everything. His father's fascination curdles into obsession; obsession spreads through the town like weather. Bodies contort, minds coil inward, and every attempt to leave bends back toward the center. There's no villain to defeat and no rules to learn — just a pattern, patient and everywhere, dragging Kurozu-cho down its drain.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 4
- **Premiered:** 2024
- **Studio:** production i.g, akatsuki co., ltd., fugaku inc., drive, akatsuki & phoenix animation holdings
- **Score:** 5.4

## If You Liked This

- **[Another](https://hozuna.com/anime/another)** — Another delivers the same small-town dread — a class under a deadly curse nobody understands, with some of anime's most memorably grim set pieces.
- **[The Summer Hikaru Died](https://hozuna.com/anime/the-summer-hikaru-died)** — The Summer Hikaru Died shares Uzumaki's slow rural wrongness — intimate, atmospheric horror about something that shouldn't exist wearing a familiar face.
- **[Perfect Blue](https://hozuna.com/anime/perfect-blue)** — Perfect Blue is the psychological ancestor: reality dissolving frame by frame, dread built from editing rather than jump scares.
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- **[Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood](https://hozuna.com/anime/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood)** — 
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## FAQ

### Where can I watch Uzumaki?

It streams on Max and Netflix.

### How many episodes is Uzumaki?

It's a 4-episode miniseries — short, dense, and complete.

### Do I need to read the manga first?

No. The series adapts the manga's story directly and stands on its own. Ito devotees will spot beloved chapters, but newcomers get the full spiral experience cold.