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Junji Ito’s Uzumaki anime (Official Teaser)
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Brace yourself, people. We might finally be getting a proper Junji Ito anime.
HUGE fan of the manga
Can't wait
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
This looks so good.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Damn, looking good.
NoLootBoxDev
Member
I read it online and then read the hardcopy I have, love it!!!!!!
Doom85
Member
Yep, Junji Ito has done a lot of horror manga. The story you’re thinking of is his story The Enigma of Amigara Fault.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Really nailing the look of the comic. Damn.
Robot Carnival
Member
yes. that's his short story, The Enigma Of Amigara Fault. it's amount one of many of his short horror stories. Uzumaki on the other hand, while is somewhat similar being a collection of a lot of indiviidual short stories, they all happened in one village and has an overarching theme to them. I personally love it the most out of all of Junji Ito's collections and I can't wait for this to come out after all these years.
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Weird to watch this on Toonami. I’d rather just buy it or something. I’ve owned quite a few of his books and the anime that kinda sucked. This actually looks good.
Lunarorbit
Member
Yeah, this is streets ahead of the animation in the netflix show
Werewolf Jones
Member
Took them 4 years. Maybe it'll be worth the wait.
MayauMiao
Member
Doom85
Member
Yeah, he’s a big cat fan. IIRC, his only non-horror manga is a lighthearted slice-of-life focused on cats.
Doczu
Member
Man. The similarities between him and Lovecraft are chilling.
Both are kinda introverts.
Both are unquestionable masters of cosmic horror.
Both are cat guys.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Lunarorbit
Member
I've watched community so many times since the pandemic that I should instantly realize what scene this is. I'll just blame the bong rip I did on not remembering.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
The anime series I've seen come off as more goofy than horror. I have the Uzumaki book and it really creeps me out but the anime series made me laugh.
ForAcademicPurposes
Member
Should I purchase the manga? I am a horror buff sort of person but I hate books. My brain is not hard wired to shit down and flip through some fucking pages. That said, I've read through Rurouni Kenshin, GANTZ, and Berserk online. Physical media is always great. Maybe it will be worth something one day.
Doczu
Member
Check a chapter or two online.
The art style is almost 1:1 with the anime. If you like it then buy it, if not just wait for the anime and buy it afterwards.
There are highs and lows in the whole manga, but if you like cosmic horror, liked games like Silent Hill, Forbidden Siren and World of Horror (which is literally Junji Ito: The Game) then you'll like it.
Dirk Benedict
Member
Sigh. I remain Enthusiastically... tempered.
NoLootBoxDev
Member
The D&D episode had me DYING.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
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Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I just watched the new trailer and it looks so freaking cool. I never read the comic, but I kinda want to now. I’ve got a long flight in a couple weeks, I might read some of it while I travel.
Robot Carnival
Member
you should read it. I'm pretty sure the anime won't be covering all the stories in the book so reading it is actually a very good choice. it's my favorite of Junji Ito's work.
ForAcademicPurposes
Member
It's in black and white?
Legit awesome.
Legit awesome.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
What does this have to do with Naruto!?!?!
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Robot Carnival
Member
just watched the first episode, and holy crap this really captured the vibe of the manga. the pacing is definitely a little fast but it's understandable consider how much they have to cover. really looking forward to the rest of the episodes.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
It's because he ate hot chili, that's why he has a long tongue.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Really enjoyed the first episode. At first I didn't like the lack of color but it grew on me.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
I like it but 2,5 chapters in one episode. It feels a bit too fast.
March Climber
Member
Everything about this show feels 95% perfect so far. That tiny 5% issue with me is the pacing. It moves at a quite fast pace and I sometimes feel that certain scenes weren’t allowed to simply hold or linger for a few seconds longer to help make everything feel just a bit more unsettling.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Episode 2 took a quality nose dive. lol.
SJRB
Gold Member
Super hard disagree, the vibes were though the roof.
Animation work is bad but man what a sick show. The atmosphere, the music, the grotesque body horror and the Lovecraftian horror.
Awesome episode.
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Revolutionary
Member
Second episode's animation quality is distractingly poor - it's like Invincible levels of bad animation.
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March Climber
Member
On the bright side thanks to both episodes being back to back, maybe anime fans will finally see that there is a legitimate difference between good CG and bad CG animation, and that the CG itself was never the problem.
_Idea_of_Evil_
Member
This didn't need an anime adaptation. It's more visceral and perturbing in manga/illustration format.
I watched ep1 today and am not going to continue with the rest.
I watched ep1 today and am not going to continue with the rest.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
CG has been used in all anime for years. Netflix style of anime cg is bad because of the artstyle. Not the use of it.
March Climber
Member
Your statement already isn’t true because it’s a blanket statement. Even you know this. Certain CG animation studios under Netflix are good, and some are bad. If you’ve been noticing a similar artstyle amongst some of them, check the credits.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I haven't seen a Netflix produced anime that I have liked the look of. It's a blanket statement but a true one(for me). I'm sure I haven't seen them all. I'm also far from the only one with this opinion. If you like them that's fine of course.
it's also 100 percent true that every anime is made on a computer these days and has been for years. it really is down to art direction for me.
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March Climber
Member
Part of this reason you feel this way is because Netflix got a bad reputation for it in the 2010s. I’ve said this before in other threads, it took some of these studios time to improve. Most of them had to crawl to walk, and they’re going to keep improving their craft every 5ish years. We are going to see more studios grow to become as good or better than studio orange, blue spirit, fortiche, etc.
The gap in quality between CG studios is going to become more and more apparent, just like this shift in quality from episode 1 to episode 2 of Uzumaki.
This is a different conversation that is harder to engage with, because the people who want traditional media back are much harder to please than anyone else.