#outofspirals

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( Honestly it’s a travesty people only tend to remember Glyceride as a gross out story for that one scene. 

My girl Yui is seriously underrated as a protagonist ) 

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{ West of Loathing gets my attitude towards Spirals }

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( Vibe check ! )

  ╳ - “I see the spirits of the living and dead” 

◉ - “I wish I was dead”

♛ - “I’ve already died over a hundred times and I won’t stay dead”

🌀 - “Literally everyone I ever knew died”

( Business as usual, then. )

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( i am the worst blogger hopper ever but like a boomerang I always come back eventually)

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{ Sorry I desperately need to ramble about how much of an important character Kirie is to me and why she makes for such a good horror protagonist }

So here’s a fun fact - Kirie is the first main character out of anything I ever liked. Previously to her, I can say that I liked none of the protagonists out of horror stories especially that I had read beforehand. ( keep in mind this was some odd 5+ years ago I believe ). Now, it’s not that good main characters didn’t exist before her, far from it, but I very often have trouble connecting to a main character. Kirie was the first character that showed me I could.

I was so used to the trope of a horror movie or story using a character as a plot device moving from one spectacle to the next, often by making the stupidest decisions possible.A lot of horror stories I’d read before would just have a character be all around jackass you didn’t really care got hurt - the little effort that was put into them making a lot of stuff I watched not scary at all. I’d had some experience with certain protagonists I liked - but they were often very proactive and badass in their own way. 

Kirie, on the other hand, does serve as a vessel from one story to the next, but she stands out with just how likable and believable she is. She’s not smart, she makes dumb choices like going out in a hurricane to give her boyfriend lunch and blocking out his warnings about the spiral at first, but she does so in a very believable way, clearly just being a terrified teenager in denial at first, and later doing chores at the worst times to give herself a sense of control. You can actually see her psychological descent from being a strong-headed girl to a timid and frightened one. 

Kirie is...honestly the opposite of me. She enjoys pink, cute things, cooking and housework where I’m much more of a tomboy. But that didn’t stop me from forming a connection with her, because lord, this girl wants to do everything she can to take care of her family and her boyfriend. No matter how bad things get that’s always her main ideal.

Uzumaki’s concepts are rarely terrifying on their face, they’re downright ridiculous to explain most of the time, save for the first few chapters. But it’s scary. It’s stuck with me because sometimes I got choked up imagining myself in her position, because it’s so so easy to connect to that. 

Kirie taught me a lot in that aspect: that it’s okay to have a character be average. They don’t need a complicated or tragic backstory to be interesting, and they don’t need to have super unique quirks to remain in your mind. They just need to be real and believable. 

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{ So I recently bought hardcover copies of “Uzumaki” and “Shiver” - and Shiver has Glyceride in one of its stories ( or ‘Greased’ as they call it...which sounds dumb imo)

but this translation of the story has some of the weirdest censorship I’ve seen?

Like all the gross and horrifying stuff is still there, the dad and brother are just as awful and their dialogue is exactly how I remember it being but...

Yui’s is so....dulled?? Like in both the translations online ive read before and in the Junji Ito Collection Yui stands out from the other protagonists because she’s genuinely angry about what’s happening to her despite being the youngest, and she uses strong language.

But all of that is?? removed?? on this version??

Like instead of calling her brother a sadistic freak she calls him “Malicious”

Instead of shouting “It’s grease! It’s godamn grease!” she says “This is oil...”

Yells “What?!” when she wakes up to her dad force feeding her oil instead of “What the hell?!”  

I’m just genuinely curious at this point if the english version of this manga is more concerned about censoring a child swearing and using more aggressive language compared to her brother’s literal threats to kill her as he’s choking her.

What a world }

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ultimateitako replied to your post: { Really Kirie is just the horror embodiment of...

((SHE TRIED TO DELIVER HER BF LUNCH IN THE MIDDLE OF A FRICKING HURRICANE?!

SHE SURE DOE S -

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( who needs ships when I’m trying to convince everyone to adopt my muses instead -)