History Headscratchers / Uzumaki

** Hmm, as I can tell you, patients can and do sneak things, so, it's just as possible that Shuichi's mother did have them taken away but still managed to find another pair and the staff probably didn't think she'd try to pull that stunt, though she did fight her way to the medical books. An another note, she was in a general hospital and would have been moved to a psychiatric hospital but then she tried to cut out her out own cochlea, so here we go.

** ...[[FridgeHorror did you just make Uzumaki scarier, you bastard?]]
*** Oh Jesus I do not want to know what she was talking to...OH DAMMIT, MY MIND IS ALREADY TRYING TO DO IT!
*** My little sister had a particularly interesting idea about this strange phenomenon. She believes what the readers see in the beginning of the manga is in fact not truly Kirie herself, but some kind of mental echo of her, caused by the time spiral that surround the area. It's all pretty freakish, but something like this might actually work, I think.
*** Personally, I always assumed that she remained fully aware after being turned to stone, which probably eroded her sanity over time; in order to cope with the horror of what had become of her I always assumed that she escaped into her own mind and what we see at the beginning is actually all a fantasy that she had concocted due to having lost her mind or as a coping mechanism.
*** Well, there ''is'' always the somewhat comforting possibility that she's not talking to some horrifying inhuman thing, and that the Spiral City is letting her reach out to communicate after years of being [[AndIMustScream basically alone, with only her thoughts, fears, and regrets to keep her company]]. The city does seem to want attention, after all. There are a lot of parallels between attention seeking and being obsessed with the spiral, and giving it attention is how people invite the spiral into their minds in the first place. People hearing or reading her story would of course develop a minor fascination with spirals and start noticing them more often, which is the first step doing the long, spiraling road to-[[ParanoiaFuel oh god, this isn't nearly as comforting as I intended]].

*** Personally, this troper always assumed that she remained fully aware after being turned to stone, which probably eroded her sanity over time; in order to cope with the horror of what had become of her I always assumed that she escaped into her own mind and what we see at the beginning is actually all a fantasy that she had concocted due to having lost her mind or as a coping mechanism.

** We never find out, because Kirie never goes back. [[spoiler:If there were more doctors, assuming they weren't eaten, the other women probably had their babies put back in them. From there, they probably stayed inside as much as they could. Given how little control Keiko seemed to have when her baby was put back in her, this troper wouldn't be surprised if, between them all, the women killed everyone in the hospital and ended up attacking and killing off each other for food.]] Chances are they weren't still around after the hurricane season (or at least found shelter elsewhere), since the hurricanes destroyed pretty much every building but the row houses and no one says anything about [[spoiler:having to be careful of blood-sucking pregnant women.]]

* Wait, so why did the typhoons call Kirie's name? There's no particular reason why whatever is affecting the town would be interested in her more than anyone else (except possibly the fact that [[spoiler:she's one of the last two people to be consumed by it]]). Also, how did no one else notice this rather bizarre weather phenomenon? In Junji Ito's Manga/HellstarRemina, just having the planet named for her is enough to turn millions of people against the protagonist. How did no one reach the conclusion that they could sacrifice Kirie and everything would go back to normal?

** If I remember right, Shuichi is probably an odd sort of genre savvy, as well, he's already seen the weird stuff that what happened with his dad dying (his dad was obsessed with him) before the rest of the weird shit starting happening, so he probably knows from that experience alone and knew it was gonna get worse.