Kirie Goshima

Kirie Goshima a schoolgirl in the town of Kurouzucho becomes concerned with her boyfriend Shuichi Saitos father who has become obsessed with collecting and staring at spiral patterns to the ignorance of all else. After Shuichis father kills himself inside a washing machine his cremated remains hang over the town in a giant cloud. The obsessive behaviour starts to spread to Kiries father and others while all around the town people start bodily mutating into spiral creatures.