Uzumaki follows a high-school teenager Kirie Goshima (五島切り絵), her boyfriend Shuichi Saito (佐藤修一), and the citizens of the small, fictional Japanese town of Kurôzu-cho (黒渦町 Black Vortex Town or Closed Town), which is cursed by supernatural events involving spirals. It was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2003, and placed in the Young Adult Library Services Association's list of the 'Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens' in 2009.

The manga has received generally positive reviews from English-language critics. The manga was adapted into two video games for the WonderSwan and a Japanese live-action film directed by Higunchinsky. The story for Uzumaki spiraled out of the idea that of people living in a long row house, and Ito making the house into a spiral to reach his desired length. The series tells the story of the citizens of Kurôzu-cho, a fictional city plagued by a supernatural curse involving spirals. Viz Media then published the volumes from October 2001 to October 2002, with a re-release from October 2007 to February 2008, and published a hardcover complete collection in October 2013.

In North America, Viz Media serialized an English-language translation of the series in its monthly magazine Pulp from February 2001 to August 2002. In March 2000, Shogakukan released all three volumes in a complete collection, followed by a second omnibus version in August 2010. Appearing as a serial in the weekly manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1998 to 1999, the chapters were compiled into three tankobon volumes by Shogakukan and published from August 1998 to September 1999. Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまき ?, Spiral) is a seinen horror manga series created by Junji Ito.

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