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: Uzumaki uses the spiral as a metaphor for the self-destructive nature of obsession, demonstrating how internal fixations eventually manifest as external physical and societal decay. II. The Individual: Obsession and Body Horror Focus : Chapters 1–6 (The early victims).

More sources could be included for a more detailed analysis. Uzumaki - Omnibus - 001-020-.cbr

At the center of the spiral that formed in his apartment a single object remained unchanged: the book. Uzumaki lay open on the table, its pages still wet with the same metallic tang. Hiroto stood at the edge of that table like someone stepping onto a knife and noticed then, clearly, that the book no longer described what had happened. It described what would happen. The present tense of its narration had shifted, and when he read the sentences aloud the words rearranged his breath into the same tight, coiling rhythm. : Uzumaki uses the spiral as a metaphor

Below is a for a paper on Uzumaki , focusing on the first 20 chapters (roughly Volumes 1–2 of the original 3-volume run, or the first two-thirds of the omnibus). More sources could be included for a more detailed analysis