Uzumaki is the newest addition to the Manga Curation UT T-shirt line.
The mainstream picture of “anime-style” aesthetics could also be vibrant and vivacious, however Uniqlo has been exploring the darker aspect of issues with its Manga Curation UT venture. A subdivision of the informal clothes large’s UT graphic T-shirt assortment, Manga Curation UT’s first reveal was a collaboration with Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, and issues didn’t get all that a lot softer and cuddlier with the following addition to the road, Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasyte.
Uniqlo has now unveiled the third, and last, member of the Manga Curation UT membership, leaning even tougher into the darkish and twisted by teaming up with none aside from the grasp of manga horror, Junji Ito.
For Manga Curation UT, the highlight is being positioned on Uzumaki, Ito’s three-volume manga initially printed in 1998 which was lately tailored right into a four-episode anime.
The primary of the 2 Uzumaki shirts options Kirie Goshima together with the chapter title block for the manga’s sixth chapter, “Makigami,” that means “curled hair.” In English-language editions of the manga, although, Chapter 6 is titled “Medusa,” which, together with the paintings on the shirt’s again, is a touch that Kirie’s hair points are greater than just some cussed kinks or curls.
The second shirt performs issues extra subtly on the entrance, bearing solely the Uzumaki title, however in a stylized font that’s unnerving nonetheless to these aware of spirals’ significance throughout the supply materials.
Issues are bolder on the again, with a full-color rendering of Kirie and numerous different characters, together with all 19 of the sequence’ chapter titles written throughout the underside.
▼ Each shirts even have the Uzumaki emblem on the within of the collar.
Together with the remainder of the Manga Curation UT lineup, the Uzumaki shirts are scheduled to go on sale in mid-February, priced at 1,990 yen (US$13),
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