Uzumaki Episode 1 Discussion

As a person who read the manga and watched every Junji Ito anime adaptations. I have to say that this might be the only CGI anime where CG is improoving the atmosphere of it. I will agree that this episode was kind off rushed and the impact of the scenes was a lot smaller then I expected altough I am interested in how the stories that are now connected are going to play out especially that the episodes are going to be much longer going on(at least from what I've seen)

Watched this at midnight and I have to say, I'm kind of disappointed with the way this was paced. while the realistic animation and rotoscoping was good to look at, it was rushed to oblivion. Everything just happened without any build-up or fear. I'm just sitting there, like 'Oh, that happened okay.' It's just a bunch of scenes mashed together without any structure. Azami's reveal of what's under the hat is accompanied by complete silence with no audio cue like what. I don't feel the same uneasiness as I do when I read the manga. Sad, I was excited for a true Junji Ito adaptation, but it is what it is. I am going to watch the rest to see how it goes. 7/10

kinda odd they speedran through some story

I was vaguely reminded of the "Aku no Hana" anime here. I had no idea it was the same guy lol!

Junji Ito. The man needs no introduction. What also needs no introduction is that when it comes to adaption of his works, they're not the most faithful to the original source. And there's a reason for that. Simply being, his work's aren't something that are easily translatable into anime. Hell, this work itself already had an iffy enough live action movie.

Many years later though, after constant delays and the such, here we are.

Right off the bat, you can clearly tell this ain't your average anime. From the black and white aesthetic, to Hiroshi Nagahama's INFAMOUS rotoscoping. You may know him as the one who brought you the infamous Aku no Hana, and holy hell did he improve his game in the time frame from that to now.

Visuals aside, it's clear that this ain't your average anime even besides the visuals. Main dude's dad is obsessed with these "Uzumaki's". Not to be confused with Naruto Uzumaki or anything lol, but the literal translation of it, a spiral. And he's more than just obsessed, I mean this dude just embracing it. Dude legit just turned his tongue into a Uzumaki itself LOL.

Then we got miss crescent moon on her forehead, who is just bugging out because main dude was the first to ever reject him ever since she got it. As if it wasn't weird enough with that whole ordeal, we go to the funeral of main dude's dad, to which we get the backstory leading to his death, and yeah, it's a Junji Ito manga all right. Only he would be able to think of WHATEVER THE HELL THIS IS


And from there it just gets even creepier and eerier. It's clear that this "Uzumaki" is just the second coming of the devil or some shit, because people in this anime just want to throw everything away at the sight of one apparently. Though, some do make sense why they would freak out, like whatever the hell was going on with Kirei's face.... AND IT WAS WORSE THAN JUST A SIMPLE UZUMAKI, THE SHIT JUST SUCKED EVRYTHING INCLUDING HER OWN BODY IN??? HUH?????

So many questions, so many.. I don't even know what I just watched. But I'm hooked. BRING ON MORE.

Hmmm, by what the people here said:

1. Rushed

2. CGI


Oh well, so the 1st ep is a kinda disappointment similar to Nier.