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The Spiral Abomination behind the events of Uzumaki is Uchiha Madara
Seriously, look at him! "Everything will become one with me", just as the whole of Kurozu-Cho became one with the Spiral City. The Spiral will devour all the countries, one by one. There is no escape, you fools!
Kurozu-Cho is Kirie's Purgatory
The town's curse keeps repeating because she has not yet been purified of her apathy and distrust. All she has to do to escape is to leave with Shuichi during the early stages of the spiral curse.
Spiral City is in the early stages of a Spiral Nemesis
Self-explanatory. It'll speed up and grow quite a bit once its consumed more people and area.
Spiral City is Silent Hill.
With a geometric theme and an even more extreme horror to it. 'Nuff said.
Whatever happened in Kurozu-Cho, it's happening again...
...but in Norway this time. They tried to hide it with some kind of "russian missile" nonsense, but we tropers should know better!
The Spiral City is actually a fragment of The demon world of Ghul in Eisenhorn. More specifically, Yssarile's barque. Thus placing Uzumaki and Warhammer 40,000 in the same continuity.
Obligatory warnings: Firstly, spoilers (untagged because the whole thing would have to be spoiler). Secondly, comprehensive evidence... which means a huge wall of text, unfortunately. You have been warned.
Let us examine the evidence from 'Hereticus', the third book of the trilogy. In Hereticus it is mentioned that Pontius Glaw has fled to the Demon world of Ghul to activate Yssarile's Barque. From the way Dan Abnett describes Ghul, we can deduce that the Spiral Abomination of Uzumaki is Yssarile's Barque. Consider the evidence.
The... thing in Spiral City was actively trying to prevent word of the curse from spreading from the very start.
Let's start with Shuinchi. Shuinchi has some sort of hyper-awareness of supernatural phenomena or whatever. And the spiral-curse-thing was aware of this. Both of his parents were eliminated at the very start to decrease his credibility, so that the curse would gain more time to manifest via everyone believing that Shuinchi's warnings are just a result of his strangeness (which only worked in the beginning when there appeared to be nothing wrong) and grief from losing his parents (the curse keeps on making him see his father all over the place). Thus, even when it should have become obvious that there was something seriously wrong with the town no one budges until it's too late.
Then we have Kirie. The lost chapter was provided to explain how Kirie was telling the story. Somehow she had retained her telepathic power (but didn't know how to unlock them or the fact that she still had them at all) and the spiral-curse-thing knew. And thus the events of the curse happened mostly around Kirie in an attempt to eliminate her early on. While she was trapped in Spiral City limbo Kirie somehow managed to unlock her telepathic powers. The story is being told to someone else living in Kurozu-Cho in the future who is about to undergo the curse.
Kirie is wrong about the spiral-thing's motivations.
The spiral is actually a victim of the last iteration of the curse, and was trying to get as many people out of there as possible before the curse reached the Closed Circle stage.
Ties in with the above. The reason why things keep going wrong around her is that she is the person who, in each iteration, starts the curse in the first place. Shuinchi has some degree of mystical awareness of his own, but told the wrong person that he'd found out about the curse. Kirie is lying to him because a) she cast the spell to make him hers forever, and b)he could break the spell by killing her.
Sometime after the ending of the story, Everyone got better.
I mean, how else can the main character tell the story?
The "Spiral City" below the town is either an ancient or alien machine that can change reality.
it's this troper's interprtation that whatever it is below the city is either an ancient (think lost city of Atlantis or Mu) or alien machine built there long ago that can change reality so long as it's related to a spiral and perhaps it's malfunctioning, which would explain why so many random and bizarre things happen in the town
Uzumaki was written specifically to place the "spiral obsession" in all the readers.
Think about it: How many spirals did you start noticing around you after you started reading? How many times have we said the word "spiral" on these pages? A passing fascination in the shape is just how it started for all the characters...
The Curse is a part of an Assimilation Plot
People who succumb to the curse are assimilated into the spiral, which holds the collective consciousness of every individual who was claimed by it.
Uzumaki is set in the Naruto universe, just several thousand years after.
Kurozu-Cho is where the Village in the Whirlpool once stood.
The movie version is partly about Kirie becoming aware of & rejecting the patriarchy.
This is a long one, but hear me out (also, this interpretation only applies to the film, not the manga): Specifically, the movie is about how a girl might want a man mainly for support & stability, but this in fact limits her. Kirie doesn't want a lover or a husband, she just wants to have a father figure always taking care of her. From the beginning we see that she treats Shuichi as her superior, talking about how he's so much better at math and playing up her own inadequacies. Even in their childhood Shuichi took on a nurturing role for her—she explicitly denies him from replacing her mother, which conspicuously leaves the potential for him to replace her father.
As I recall, Shuichi and her father never share a scene—when Kirie finally takes Shuichi to the kiln, the domain where her father would prove himself as a man and a breadwinner (the kiln not only allows him to support his small family, but it is a place of creation—reasserting the male role as a generator and controller of life), her dad has mysteriously disappeared! The only things he left behind are warped spiral pottery, symbolizing that he has become foreign and isolated from Kirie (since the spirals are always an inscrutable "otherness"). Shuichi has clearly usurped the father's place in Kirie's life (he is already calling the shots; when he declares it's time to leave town, Kirie no longer questions him), cancelling out her father's existence altogether. But then Kirie realizes that depending on men to control her life only hobbles and limits her; Shuichi becomes a monster in her eyes now that he has gained the authority and dominance of a father figure.
Thankfully, before he can start exerting his power over Kirie, she realizes what a monster she has created and how constrictive this relationship truly is. In the closing montage, it appears that Kirie has vanished from the kiln—indeed, thanks to her understanding, she has whisked herself away from her father's and Shuichi's domineering little world. (Alternatively, you could say that her fate is left ambiguous because she is dead and alive at the same time: her experience with Shuichi has killed her childish innocent self, but her jaded, cynical self will live on elsewhere.) In her closing lines, she reminds us that this is "the village of my birth"—but now that she has chosen to be an adult, she can cut the umbilical cord and leave that place to assert herself as a self-reliant individual. If Kirie gets another boyfriend, she will no doubt regard him as a partner and an equal, not a superior surrogate father. She has finally grown out of her needy, childlike stage and won't let people assume such control over her life again.
Kirie's eventual maturity contrasts with the helplessness of Shuichi's mother. In Shuichi's household, he replaces his own father as the family's center of reliability and control, almost as if rehearsing to do the same in Kirie's family. His mother has clearly never grown out of her feelings of dependence on men, and she meets a tragic fate because of it. She entrusts herself to Shuichi (he is the one meeting & planning with her doctors) and blindly hopes that things will get better. But of course things don't; her downfall is due to her lack of autonomy and her faith in the patriarchy. In contrast, Kirie becomes self-reliant and vanishes safely from the miserable town. (This also ties into any theory that the people turning into spirals are an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"-style symbol for social conformity.)
Kirie is telling her story to the TARDIS or the Doctor
Who else can she be talking to from a place where time has stopped? And who else is better to deal with a time bending Eldritch Abomination apart from the Doctor?
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