Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

Kirie is hospitalized over the summer after the lighthouse incident. She describes how Kurouzu-cho seems overrun with mosquitoes. One day, while walking the hospital grounds, Kirie discovers a dead body punctured and leeched of all its blood. Over the next few days, groups of pregnant women are admitted to the hospital after suffering mosquito attacks—one of them being Kirie’s cousin, Keiko.

Kirie helps Keiko settle in. She finds a mysterious object in Keiko’s bags, wrapped in cloth; Keiko tells Kirie to place it in a drawer. The next morning, several dead bodies are found in the hospital, all drained of blood. Shuichi visits Kirie, who now shares a room with Keiko. Shuichi believes something is wrong with the hospital and tries to convince Kirie to leave.

Shuichi pulls out a can of insecticide and sprays the mosquitoes flying around. He picks up the mosquitoes as they fall and explains how only pregnant female mosquitoes (seeking nourishment for their young) seek blood. Keiko grows sickly from the cloud of insecticide. Keiko’s nurse throws Shuichi out of the hospital for bringing chemicals into the ward.

That evening, Kirie awakens to the sound of mosquitoes buzzing. She decides to follow the sound and goes out into the hall. She discovers a group of sickly pregnant woman walking together, all carrying hand drills. The pregnant women split up and go into different patient rooms. Following one of the women, Kirie watches as she drills the neck of a patient and sucks out his blood.

The vampiric woman realizes Kirie is watching and begins to chase her—until a patient and nurse intervene. The pregnant women regroup in the hall and feast on the patient and nurse. They notice Kirie and chase her into her room. Keiko approaches Kirie from behind with her own hand drill, eager to drink her blood. Kirie remembers the can of insecticide Shuichi left behind and sprays it, driving the women away—however, proof of their vampiric murders vanish the next day.

Keiko is giving birth to her child. Meanwhile, nobody in the hospital believes Kirie’s story about the vampiric women, dismissing the tale as a dream. Kirie visits the maternity ward; all the babies born of the bloodthirsty women are remarkably adorable and healthy.

Kirie is discharged and meets Keiko’s baby, Makio. Kirie notices Makio and the other newborns have swollen stomachs. The babies begin crying when Kirie gets close, and she runs out of the room. In her panic, she falls down the stairs and is readmitted to the hospital.

The hospital begins serving strange mushrooms for lunch. Kirie does not eat them because they taste like meat, but other patients become obsessed with them. One day, as she walks the halls, Kirie overhears the babies in the maternity ward talking to each other. They wish to return to their mothers’ wombs and discuss how the ward’s doctor is working to return Makio as they speak.

Kirie witnesses one of the infants sprout a dome-like growth from their stomach. She rushes to find Keiko and stumbles upon a recovery room infested with more dome-like growths. The ward’s doctor finds Kirie and explains that the recent batch of babies insist on staying infants forever. They are so eager to return to the womb that they have begun growing their own umbilical cords and placenta—the stomach “mushrooms” being makeshift wombs.

The doctor tells Kirie that he began eating the growths and feeding them to patients as he believes they have rejuvenating powers. Kirie pushes past the doctor into the back operating room—where she finds Keiko bloody, swollen, and stitched up after the doctor “returned” Makio. The doctor tells Kirie that Keiko will need blood to nourish herself and Makio. Keiko unfurls a long, barbed tongue and lashes out at Kirie. Kirie ducks, and Keiko’s tongue plunges into the doctor’s neck.

As Keiko drains the doctor of his blood, Kirie escapes. Keiko gives chase and discovers a group of patients grazing on the recovery room’s forest of “mushrooms.” Kirie flees the hospital as Keiko attacks the patients.

Kirie and Shuichi sit on the beach together. Kirie thanks Shuichi for saving her life so many times. Suddenly, the wind begins blowing fiercely. Shuichi realizes a typhoon is coming and runs into town, warning people; Kirie returns home. She tries to deliver lunch to Shuichi before the storm becomes dangerous, but the winds are too strong. When Kirie’s umbrella flies out of her hands into the sky, she looks up and realizes that the eye of the storm is directly above her. Overnight, Kirie hears the winds saying her name.

The next morning, the weather is calm, and Kirie believes the storm has passed. However, when she goes outside, she finds that the eye of the storm is above her house. Still, she delivers dinner to Shuichi. Shuichi scolds Kirie for venturing outside, as he believes the storm is obsessed with her. As Shuichi tries to take her to safety, the storm blows debris in an attempt to stop them.

Kirie is trapped under debris. A woman tries to help Shuichi free Kirie but gets sucked up into the sky. Shortly after, the woman is spat out by the storm and dies upon hitting the ground. Shuichi realizes that the storm mistook the woman for Kirie. After Kirie is freed, she and Shuichi find shelter under a bridge. The storm’s winds call Kirie’s name, trying to find her.

The storm blows debris under Kirie and Shuichi’s hiding spot, forcing the two to slip into a nearby storm drain. They outrun the winds, but the storm drain’s water spirals into a powerful spout that sucks them up into the storm’s eye. The storm rages over Dragonfly Pond and eventually spirals into the water below. Days later, Kirie and Shuichi are pulled out of Dragonfly Pond.