Kirie Goshima

Kirie Goshima is the main protagonist of the Junji Ito manga series Uzumaki, as well its 2000 live-action movie adaptation.
She is a high school student from the small town of Kurôzu-Cho. One day, as a result of an ancient curse on the town, the town slowly evolves into a giant spiral. This curse also turns ordinary objects into spirals, and seemingly turns many of the town's residents mad or mutates them into monstrous beings. At one point, Kirie hereself was affected by the curse, in that her hair started resembling a set of spirals, which had gained a conscience of its own.
In the 2000 movie, she was portrayed by Eriko Hatsune.
==Appearance==
Kirie is a tall, skinny, pale-skinned girl with upper-back length ginger hair. She also has large blue eyes, thin eyebrows, and appears to wear lipstick and masscara in most ocassions. In Chapter 6 of the manga, Medusa, the Spiral curses her hair to resemble itself, and tries to kill her on many ocassions, when her boyfriend Shuichi Saito successfully cuts it, her hair is at a short layered crop which reaches down to her ears.
Up until Medusa, Kirie is usually seen wearing a school uniform.
==Personality==
Kirie is one of the most level-headed people in the town, as she is usually serious, pragmatic, practical, and mature. However, she is also easily annoyed, and is rarely in the mood for jokes.
Despite her harsh, impatient personality, Kirie has shown to care for and be protective of her allies. She is protective of her little brother, Mitsuo Goshima, even though he can be a nuisance to her. This is best demonstrated in Chapter 17: Escape, where she carries him around after he had transformed into a snail, and tries to prevent him from being eaten by the starving Mr. Takemoto. She also delivers food to a mentally scarred Shuichi, who had refused to leave his house, on a routine basis.
After Volume 1 of the series, Kirie starts to become more pessimistic and cynical. Although she remains skeptical of the existance of the Spiral, she does start to notice a pattern within the town, and starts to become more cautious of the next potential disaster that my occur. This especially becomes the case after Medusa, where the Spiral curses her with spiral-shaped hair. 
The chapter also reveals that she dislikes being the center of attention, though the precise reasoning for this is unknown.
==Biography==
===The Spiral Obsession===
The manga starts off with Kirie standing on a cliff looking at her hometown, where she ponders over future chapters and begins narrating the story. She notices that she is late to the train station, where she is supposed to meet with her boyfriend Shuichi Saito.
==Trivia==
*Kirie's name likely comes from "paulownia" (桐) (kiri) and "picture, painting" (絵) (e), while her surname comes from "five" (五) (go) and "island" (島) (shima).
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