Newer buildings get destroyed easily by the tornados (a natural disaster), whereas the old row houses stay intact.
At this point in the story, any sudden motion or loud noise summons tornados, supposedly from the force of the air pressure from Dragonfly Pond, a powerful body of water in the centre of Kurouzu-cho. The only structures that remain are row houses ( Nagaya ), old Japanese houses occupied by working class communities. The threat here isn’t the snail creatures themselves, but the humans destroying life and consuming them out of their own greed.Īs the whole town crumbles towards the end, turning to rubble. Later on, some people start eating the snails to survive, so Kirie has to hide and protect her brother once he becomes a snail. It’s noteworthy that the ‘mollusk people’ seem relatively content with their new state of being Tsumura previously bullied Katayama, but as snails they actually mate and end up laying eggs. Having humans metamorphose into slow creatures that live a simple life represents a return back to the basics of nature. It’s unclear why particular people turn into snails, but the spiral affects everyone differently, after all. Another classmate (Tsumura) and the teacher (Mr Yokota) both turn into snails shortly afterwards, and Kirie’s own brother (Mitsuo) does as well towards the end of the story. The spiral becomes a snail shell, and Katayama gradually morphs into a snail. Katayama, a classmate of the protagonist Kirie, starts acting strangely and is found to have a giant spiral on his back.
One way in which the spiral affects people is first seen in Chapter 8: ‘The Snail’. Everyone in the town eventually becomes obsessed with or possessed by the curse of the spiral, causing many bizarre deaths and transformations to occur.
One of Ito’s most popular mangas, Uzumaki, is about a town called Kurouzu-cho that becomes plagued by spirals.
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