During San Diego Comic Con 2024, Adult Swim revealed that Junji Ito’s Uzumaki anime is scheduled for September 28 on Adult Swim.
The Uzumaki anime was announced in 2019. In 2021, director Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi, The Flowers of Evil) said the team had to “restructure” the production due to COVID-19 and that the “way we are making this anime is requiring twice as much staff as we normally use.”
The Uzumaki manga was originally serialized from 1998 to 1999 in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits and is collected into three tankoubon volumes. Viz Media describes the plot as:
Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but a pattern: UZUMAKI, the spiral—the hypnotic secret shape of the world. The bizarre masterpiece horror manga is now available all in a single volume. Fall into a whirlpool of terror!
A live-action film adaptation was released in 2000.
Source: San Diego Comic Con 2024 panel