At the 2023 San Diego Comic Con, a new trailer for the Uzumaki anime featuring leads Kirie Goshima and Shuichi Saito appeared. It showed off the distinctive black and white design and animation direction for the upcoming show. It also offered a chance to hear their Japanese voice actors.
Here’s the trailer showing Uzumaki‘s Kirie and Shuichi walking through the streets of Kurozu-cho. He suggests the two of them leave town, citing the recent widespread appearances of spirals and discussing what’s happening to his father. Kirie doesn’t seem to take it all seriously. It ends with the town’s siren going off and Shuichi expressing his discomfort with it all.
However, there’s still no exact release window for the Uzumaki anime. It was supposed to appear in 2021. It was delayed to 2022 after that. We may get to eventually see it in 2023. The one thing we do know is that Junji Ito will make a cameo appearace in it.
This is one of two Adult Swim SDCC 2023 reveals. A preview for Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo creator Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus showed up too.
The Uzumaki anime will eventually air on Adult Swim’s Toonami block of shows. The manga is available in English via Viz Media.
