Adult Swim’s Uzumaki Release Date

During its panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Adult Swim unveiled a new trailer for its long-awaited anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s seminal horror manga Uzumaki. This spine-caffeinating preview didn’t stop at showcasing the anime’s distinct art style, either; it also revealed Uzumaki will hit Adult Swim this fall.

Adult Swim and Production I.G’s Uzumaki will air in September

Uzumaki’s latest trailer made my skin want to run away from home to join the carnival down the road. It also proved that Drive’s done a fantastic job adapting Ito’s distinct, detailed style into animation. After the trailer smash cuts from one of the manga’s most terrifying scenes to the anime’s title card (and Colin Stetson’s incredible score winds down), we’re left to stare at the series’ release date; Saturday, September 28, 2024.

We’ve known for a long time that Uzumaki will be a four-episode miniseries. Episodes will air on Adult Swim’s Tonami block at 12:30 A.M. before making their way into Max. If the series follows a weekly release schedule, the finale will air on October 19, 2024.

Uzumaki’s release date brings a five-year-long wait to an end

Two months seems like a long time, and it is, but it’s nothing compared to the five years Ito fans have been waiting for Uzumaki to get a concrete release date. Adult Swim announced its plans to adapt what many see as Ito’s magnum opus in 2019, with an original release date of Fall 2022. Unfortunately, the production team pushed Uzumaki’s release date three times. An official memo from Drive stated that the series’ production team wanted to ensure they were doing Ito’s work justice and didn’t want to rush the production.

As frustrating as Uzumaki‘s delays are, this new trailer proved that the wait was worth it. Ito’s work is infamously hard to adapt, with previous attempts like 2018’s Junji Ito Collection and Junji Ito’s Maniac failing to recapture the mangaka’s iconic style. Luckily, Uzumaki’s trailer proved that Drive spared no expense in bringing the panels of Ito’s most terrifying tale to life.

Uzumaki’s a tale about the ways we can spiral into madness

Uzumaki follows Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend Shuichi Saito, a pair of listless teenagers born and raised in Kurouzu-cho, a quiet town nestled in the hills of rural Japan. When a mysterious “Spiral “curse” unleashes a torrent of terrifying supernatural incidents on the city and its people, Kirie and Shuichi plan to flee the town before the curse twists and furls them into something unrecognizable.