-"Are you ready? Always ready. We are all people in the whirlpool. "

Junji Ito's cartoon world has rendered social distortion in a "beautiful" and morbid way, among which Vortex is undoubtedly the most attractive work. The traditional horror game is to design one or several monsters, murderers or psychopaths and so on. However, in Junji Ito's cartoons, there are many inanimate beings, which make people fall into fear, a kind of existence that cannot be dealt with and destroyed at all. Just thinking about it makes them feel a little scared. Just like the work vortex, the black vortex is a cursed place, a cursed place by an ominous vortex.

Vortex is the most beautiful, symmetrical and evil way of "twisting". The story is told from the heroine's first-person perspective. There is a quiet town called Black Vortex Town, where the wind is always swirling. The weeds here look like spiral coils outlined by Van Gogh with his wild brushes. The long houses here are connected together and look like a long black clockwork from the mountain. The hero's father was the first person to fall in love with Whirlpool. He has no intention of working and is addicted to collecting all kinds of living or non-living things with vortex patterns. Gradually, his eyes turned in different directions at the same time, and the spirit of whirlpool attached to his body. Finally, one day, in pursuit of perfection, he twisted into a barrel like a snail, broke all the bones and died. On the day of cremation, the black smoke from the chimney of the crematorium condensed into a big vortex in the gloomy sky, and his wife fainted, just like his body. His wife was taken to the hospital because she heard her husband's voice before he died every night: "You are going to become a whirlpool, too." She shaved her hair, cut off the skin of her fingers and toes, and put an end to everything related to the whirlpool around her. One night, however, she heard her husband's voice: "The whirlpool is in your ear." The existence of cochlea frightened her, and in fear, she inserted scissors into her ear. Although she survived, she could only spend the rest of her life in a state of losing balance because of the damage to her cerebellum. That feeling is like being on the edge of a vortex ... the curse of the vortex is getting worse and worse. On a rainy day, my classmate in class yesterday turned into a giant snail. A few days later, the classmate who usually bullied him also became a snail. Because no one claimed to keep two snails at school, hermaphroditic snails mated quickly and gave birth to many snail eggs ... There was a tornado in Black Snail Town, and a butterfly family that could control the whirlwind appeared. These new people are also cursed by the whirlpool. In order to avoid the tornado, everyone flocked to the dilapidated longhouse, and only the same spiral longhouse could be attacked by the tornado. However, the longhouse does not have so much space to accommodate the residents of the whole town, so the ugliest side of human nature is exposed, ugly fighting and moral decay. A small number of people plan to flee the town. Some companions turned into snails because of the curse, so the former companions put their heads into the volute and chewed the juicy and delicious body that kept struggling. It tastes good. ...

I always thought that Junji Ito wanted to use this work to reflect the distorted society and people. There is no doubt that he took a successful and very tortuous step. People in this era are suffering from invisible diseases, which is the real curse.