The Spiral

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Background

The Spiral is an enigmatic and malevolent force that, at unpredictable intervals spanning centuries or millennia, devastates the population of Kurōzu-Cho in a brutal cycle of destruction. It can be considered the main "villain" and "antagonist" of Uzumaki.

Its true nature remains a mystery—whether it’s a sentient being, a curse, or a supernatural infection. However, it displays an unsettling awareness, often fixating on Kirie, and occasionally Shuichi, as though drawn to them. Some speculate that the Spiral might originate from the eerie City of Spirals beneath Kurōzu-Cho, but no one truly knows its source or intent.

The Spiral has the ability to invade and manipulate both the minds and bodies of its victims, turning their obsessions against them. Only those marked by its curse seem to perceive its presence, though Shuichi Saito is a notable exception, as he remains acutely aware without being fully consumed by it.

Its influence is confined to Kurōzu-Cho, where it follows a disturbing, repetitive pattern. At first, there are inexplicable deaths and disappearances, coupled with a growing fixation on spiral patterns. Then, natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes tear through the town. Eventually, Kurōzu-Cho is reduced to a ruinous spiral of rubble, and finally, the town is reborn as a spiraling structure where the remaining inhabitants are drawn into the City of Spirals, never to return.

General Information

Name: The Spiral

Origin: Uzumaki

First Appearance: Uzumaki Chapter 1

Company: Shogakukan (Manga Publishers), Production I.G & Williams Street (Anime Publishers)

Creator: Junji Ito (Manga Writer & Creator), Aki Itami (Anime Writer)

Assigned Gender: None

Sexuality: None

Pronouns: It

Age: Tens of Thousands of years old (Noted that every century, or every few centuries The Spiral comes to haunt the town and when it does the inhabitants rebuild the town in a spiral shape. Shuichi later learns that every few hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands of years it reaches people above ground and sucks everything in)

Homeworld: Unknown

Residence: Kurouzu-cho

Story Role: Unseen Monster, Phenomenon

Classification:

Object: Spiraling Shape

State of Being: Unknown

Physiology: Spiral Physiology (It is connected to anything to do with spirals)

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Spiral-Entities

Enemies: Those attempting to leave town, Those who look at its true form (Shuichi noted he feels like it's cursing him and Kirie for being down there)

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Active

Alignment: Neutral Evil (The Spiral is a sentient being, actively trying to keep the people of the town from leaving it)

Threat Level: Metropolitan Threat (Noted that every century, or every few centuries The Spiral comes to haunt the town and when it does the inhabitants rebuild the town in a spiral shape. Shuichi later learns that every few hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands of years it reaches people above ground and sucks everything in), Up to Cosmic Threat (Can make galactic spirals from millions of lightyears away, that can turn others into a galaxy spiral)

Notable Characters: Kirie Goshima, Shuichi Saito

Results: The entire town was swallowed into the Spiral

Codex Statistics

Grade: S+

Tier: N/A, High 8-C to 8-B with Air Manipulation

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D for the object (It's true self is a large building underground)

Power Source: Spirals

Attack Potency: N/A (The Spiral itself is not a physical force), Large Building level (Potency) to City Block level (Potency) with Air Manipulation (The Spiral gave everyone in the town the power to create whirlwinds through blowing, speaking too loud, or running too fast that ripped apart the entire town, where tornadoes are this strong)

Durability: Unknown: True level (As it lacks any true physical form to say what it could withstand)

Striking Strength: N/A

Lifting Strength: N/A

Attack Speed: Speed of Light with Galaxy Spirals (Can send out radio signals to others)

Stamina: None

Range: Kilometers (Noted that every century, or every few centuries The Spiral comes to haunt the town and when it does the inhabitants rebuild the town in a spiral shape, with it consuming the entire town at the end). Up to Galactic with abilities (Can make galactic spirals from million of lightyears away)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence (The Spiral is a sentient being, actively trying to keep the people of the town from leaving it)

Knowledge: Unknown level

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Powers and Techniques

• Longevity (Noted that every century, or every few centuries The Spiral comes to haunt the town and when it does the inhabitants rebuild the town in a spiral shape. Shuichi later learns that every few hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands of years it reaches people above ground and sucks everything in)
• Reality Warping (The Spiral has a mass effect over the town, Shuichi notes that the ocean looks different from Midoriyama-shi that black lighthouse is evil, and the mountain looming behind him he feels strange from it. Can make galactic spirals from millions of lightyears away)
• Necromancy (The Spiral can bring back the dead such as when "Jack-In-The-Box" was killed by a car and resurrected as a jumping jack-in-the-box with his rotten flesh)
• Power Bestowal (The Spiral gave everyone in the town the power to create whirlwinds through blowing, speaking too loud, or running too fast. The Galaxy Spirals gave people the power to send out radio waves to telepathically talk with each other, sense each other's presence have clairvoyant visions, along with seeing through walls)
• Life-Force Absorption (The Spiral messes with people's hair and drains them of their energy)
• Erasure (Physical Erasure; Once the Spiral shaped housing was completed, the entirety of the people living together in the houses disappeared without a trace)
• Transmutation (Can turn others into a galaxy spiral)
• Water Manipulation (The Spiral causes spiral shaped whirlpools. Made a giant whirlpool that activates whenever ships come near the town)
• Air Manipulation (The Spiral causes spiral shaped whirlwinds)
• Vacuum Manipulation (The scar on Azami's forehead became contaminated by The Spiral, making it where it was slowly sucking her body and anyone nearby inward until they were devoured from head to toe without leaving a trace behind)
• Sound Manipulation (Through seeing the dead being cremated in her father's kilim, Krie could hear the voices of the dead calling out to Shuichi to where the noises continued going into her and Shuichi who was on the phone)
• Curse Manipulation (The Spiral can curse houses and objects, corrupting the neighbors that live there)
  • Soul Manipulation & Morality Manipulation (The Spiral can twist the souls of those like a family from a row of houses that despise each other completely)
• Biological Manipulation (The Spiral can make the body freely twist into a spiral shape. The Spiral morphed one's entire body and being into that of a snail. The Child born from mothers affected by the Spiral grow umbilical cords that regrow back the placentas along with the cords. The Spiral's curse in the cursed houses causes "warts" to grow on people's feat and kill them overtime)
• Mind Manipulation (The Spiral is the reason people have been acting strange due to "mesmerism", spirals suck things in, the eye follows the pattern to the center, making people possessed by the spiral want to get the attentions of others)
• Madness Manipulation (Passive; Turned Shuichi's father insane, making him obsessed with spirals to the point that he turned himself into a spiral, crushing his body. This reached the point that his very ashes became a spiral in the sky. Shuichi's mom seeing this gave her an intense fear of spirals to the point that she started cutting her own skin because she saw spirals on her skin, and later stabbing her ears destroying not only her hearing but her sense of balance. Noted by Shuichi that he wanted to get out of the town as he feels dizzy every time he enters town and that the town is driving him insane. Shuichi notes that it is due to the town that his dad is acting strange)
• Hair Manipulation (The Spiral can control one's hair creating hair spirals that mesmerize and control anyone that sees it, it will also freely control itself and attack anyone that tries to cut off the hair, even its own host)
• Light Manipulation (The Spiral can cause a spiraling bright light from the light house despite it being long out of service and it not having any power where anyone that sees it walks in a swirling motion)
• Heat Manipulation (The heat from the light generated liquefied the entire room melted gas and burnt bodies to a crisp)
• Spatial Manipulation (3-D; The lighthouse being inflicted by The Spiral made it where no matter how much Kirie was climbing up the stairs she could not reach the top and it was longer then normal. Made the tunnel leading out of town have no end. Noted that no matter the direction one used to exit town, they'd end up back in town, noting it's as if the space in the tunnel turned inside out])
• Insect Manipulation (Controlled a large mass of insects to go around sucking the blood of people)
• Sleep Manipulation (Mosquitoes flying in drowsy spirals caused one to be sleepy and fall asleep)
• Weather Manipulation (Created a massive storm that was trying to find Kirie)
• Technology Manipulation (The Spiral causes no cell phone signal to come outside the town)
• Time Manipulation (1-T; The Spiral can cause a time spiral where it stretches, slows, or spirals time to where it feels like a short time has passed while in reality a long time has, being years long. Noted by Kirie that with The Spiral completed, time stood completely still in the center of the spiral, so the curse was over the moment it began, the endless frozen moment she spent in Shuichi's arm)
• Radiation Manipulation (The Galaxy Spirals send radiation from radio waves a million lightyears away)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Spiral will manipulate anything related in some way, shape, or form to a spiral to make anyone become a spiral or complete the construction of the town.

Weaknesses: The Spiral doesn't seem to choose who it decides to control directly and it happens randomly, as Kirie and Shuichi are unaffected throughout most of the series by the effects that happened on other townspeople. The Spiral comes out only every hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands of years.

Note

• The Spiral is a sentient being, actively trying to keep the people of the town from leaving it.

Battle Records

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