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| That was so weird and so many questions open. Cant believe the last episode is coming soon. But it was entertaining and I look forward to how all this concludes or doesnt conclude lol. |
| I like that they're including the boyfriend more than he was in the manga, but I don't know what they were thinking with the final scene of this episode. The return of the jack-in-the-box was so random it didn't make any sense. |
| The animation improved a bit compared to the previous episode, but it’s still disappointing and lacks the quality you'd hope for in such an adaptation. I really hope they manage to step it up in the final episode. What redeems the show is the story itself. The theme of the pregnant women and the placenta, along with how others want to consume it and become addicted... it disturbed me deeply. I genuinely felt uncomfortable and disgusted. I don't want to overthink the logic behind why they haven’t left the village despite everything that’s happened, but maybe it's due to the curse of the spiral. Many people are right in pointing out that the pacing in this episode was too fast, which made the unsettling scenes less impactful than they could have been. |
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| This is my attempt at an in-depth analysis of Uzumaki episode 3. Let's get into the new episode director, Shigeki Awai: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=51745 His works are mostly on animating, especially key animation, so he's an experienced animator, something that somehow comes to show in this episode, but he lacks experience in directing, making some parts inconsistent, although better than episode 2. Take for instance the beginning of the episode, the character acting, expression lines, and lip-syncing are better than in the previous episode: But still, some scenes feel weird, probably due to lack of time to polish them, like in this one, his head popping out of the water just like you drag two image files on top of each other. Also, his movements are weird, like someone stuck some image files on top of a 3d model and forgot to properly polish the transition whenever an angle changes (that's pretty much how hard it is to anime by rotoscoping and Nagahama nailed it in the first episode): They also managed to deliver some disturbing scenes using detailed lines and hatches, like this one:  While having a better fall-down animation (0:11s), some camera angles were weird, as in the scene at 00:20, the man's reaction was a little bit delayed IMO, and he also lacked some hatches along the shading in his face, these additions would have made the scene better (or less bad, in fact, I think this scene had the potential to be superb but it ended up being weird and ok-ish) Something similar happens in this scene, Kirie's facial expressions and lip-syncing are a bit off as if they were delayed by some milliseconds, creating an uncanny valley due to the poor execution and the douga here is rough, you can see her abruptly facing slightly up: The animation above is mostly (if not entirely) made in 2s, it's the ideal framerate for 2d animation and is quite ambitious if you ask me, if only they had more time to polish off this episode, some scenes could have turned out great, like the aforementioned one. The centipede scene was greatly done with awesome drawing and hatches, although I'm not a fan of the lens distortion applied but it's just my taste:  This one is worth showing too:  This next scene really caught my attention for its poor transition: Within 1 frame, we go from this:  To this:  I know it's supposed to look abrupt, but still, this one lacked a better douga to properly show it. The next scene has again the same qualities and flaws: ambitious animation, and lack of time or personnel to properly do it. It's an extremely detailed scene in lines, hatches, and the tongue itself but her hair looks stiff and so does their facial expression in the end: I think this is more than enough to cover my point and analysis: this episode's director tried to do better and was more ambitious, but the chaos in this production affected the outcome. Overall, a better episode compared to the 2nd but still needed more polishing here and there. I'd make some angle changes, especially during the blood harvest scenes at the hospital, though. |
| Pacing is still terrible, but it probably can't be helped since the adaptation only has 4 episodes. Animation looked slightly better here than episode 2, but still not as polished as episode 1. It has also been surprising to hear some veteran seiyuu like Kobayashi Yū, Ueda Yūji and Kujira (in this episode for example) in such minor roles. |
| This adaptation is a perfect example of how most people and their tastes are a joke. Over 1500 people gave this anime a rating of 10, freaking wild, aint no way this anime deserves as high of an average score of 7 as it does. |
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This adaptation is a perfect example of how most people and their tastes are a joke. Over 1500 people gave this anime a rating of 10, freaking wild, aint no way this anime deserves as high of an average score of 7 as it does.
| @Technopunk Probably they rated it 10 in the 1st episode and either forgot to change it or are waiting for episode 4. I rated it 9 in episode 1 and am keeping it this way until the final episode airs next Sunday, then I'll change the score and write my review. |
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@Technopunk Probably they rated it 10 in the 1st episode and either forgot to change it or are waiting for episode 4. I rated it 9 in episode 1 and am keeping it this way until the final episode airs next Sunday, then I'll change the score and write my review.
| @ManoCustaff Politely disagree with the idea that Ep1 deserves a 9, no way. But guess people overrate Junji Ito no matter the quality displayed on screen. |
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@ManoCustaff Politely disagree with the idea that Ep1 deserves a 9, no way. But guess people overrate Junji Ito no matter the quality displayed on screen.
| @Technopunk Thing is, I didn't read Uzumaki, although I'm a horror fan. Episode 1 IMO is nearly flawless in animation and direction, but since I didn't read the manga to compare, I rated it a 9 due to those factors. A whole lot of people reported that this adaptation is rushing the chapters to fit in 4 episodes. I don't think people overrate Junji Ito a all, otherwise, the Deen adaptation wouldn't be rated in the 6 and the score for Uzumaki wouldn't be dropping day after day. |
| I'll admit, at least the animation improved a bit from the last one (because I'm not really one to judge an entire show because of one simple thing) |
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@ManoCustaff Politely disagree with the idea that Ep1 deserves a 9, no way. But guess people overrate Junji Ito no matter the quality displayed on screen.
| @Technopunk Very similar to what @ManoCustaff was saying, tbh Now, I am a manga reader, but I also follow some people who are watching it blindly. (Also I don't give premature scores to influence the page.) As a manga reader, some parts definitely feel off to me, both in how fast we're moving and some admittedly more important stuff we're missing. For Episode 1 I commented that I would have liked to see the scene where Shuichi's mom throws out his dad's spiral collection and he loses it, but since then:
But the pacing issues aside, I really don't have an eye for stilted animation or errors like that. Hell, I'm 13 seasons into Yami Shibai (Iykyk). Stuff like that just makes it more eerie and helps it IMO, so most of the time I really don't care about stuff like that. And then, you look at it from the perspective of an anime only, who may or may not feel the same as you or I do about the animation: they are on a speedrun, sure, but with Ito's masterwork's imagery it's taking them on one hell of a ride. I know the story itself is hit-or-miss with people, especially by the end, because his creations tend to be very open-ended, lacking explicit explanations, more abstract pieces which, in Uzumaki's case, delve into a kind of cosmic horror. That's not for everyone, so I fully expect the score to go down after episode 4 because that certainly won't land for some people. But until then... idk, we all know its weaknesses right now are the pacing and animation. But if you look past the pacing, let the animation work for you... idk, I can see a lot of casuals having a lot better time with it than hardcore Ito stans who are hoping for the "adaptation curse" to be broken. That's been my experiences looking at newcomers reacting, at least. |
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| i would've left that town from the ep 1 itself |
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| this episode was pure chaos ;d ahh i wish this had more episodes to slow down with the pace |
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| oh man those babies were creepy as hell...they were talking to each other...and the ending...what the hell was that spring guy...im so hype for ep 4.. |
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| i now hate mosquitoes even more than i already did |
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| imo that was better than e2. that's my comment on the episode. remaining is my comment on the project. i think the true criminal out of all of this is whomever decided to limit this to 4 episodes. Jason DeMarco talks a lot of shit but he's the one with Executive Producer next to his name. maybe he went to the mat fighting for more, maybe we'll never know. i don't think anyone who takes stock of Hiroshi Nagahama's body of work would expect him to be happy with being tasked to make a good adaptation of Uzumaki in only 4 episodes. the idea is utterly farcical to anyone familiar with the work, so much so that i have to wonder what the real motivation for that limitation was. Nagahama could have made a stunning adaptation given a full cour and the shitton of money neccessary. if that's not what you wanted to produce, why even embark on the project that you know is gonna be not even half-assed. |
| This anime is great, it's simply marvelous how fucked up it gets, but there are a few issues that are bothering me a lot: 1. The animation is too smooth but also lacking enough frames and detail, so it often ends up feeling awkward and robotic. 2. The pacing is really fast and so it becomes increasingly harder to understand what is going on. Whatever happened after the two got swallowed by the typhoon? I don't get it. 3. There's a lot of suspension of disbelief involved here, in regard to how the characters react to what's going on; really? Fucked up shit is happening all over town, like, extremely fucked up shit, and nobody goes "something's really wrong here" or "why don't I just leave?". This is not like these are rare occurrences, they're happening constantly, I mean, just when a fucking person turned into a snail is when everyone should have gotten the fuck out of that place. |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
| The show bounced back a bit on the animation quality. I'm glad to see it. I thought this episodes plot line could not get any weirder when the pregnant women turned into vampire mosquitos. But all of those spiral antics afterwards left me speechless. However this show wraps up next episode, it's clear the phenomena behind the spirals is going to be toying with Kirie for as long as possible. It's too fixated on her! |
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| The animation was at least functional (big improvement from episode 2), and the pacing was uneven but at points decent (again...). This puts it way above episode 2 but still not enough to be good and quite far from the first episode. In addition, I haven't read the manga, but it feels like it keeps trying to copy its visual storytelling and panelling. This is a mistake. The typical "jumpscare" full frontal view of the monster/abomination may work in the manga format, but the anime needs to make use of some buildup to make these moments effective. These scenes feel static, like a brief reaction and then the horror, and every time it does not work and it looks corny. Creepy, yes, but barely unsettling and not horrifying at all. The atmosphere and the feeling of anticipation are consistently ignored and it seems like the series doesn't want to acknowledge the sense of time, space and movement that is offered by the animated format in contrast with the manga. |
| Ironically, the lackluster visuals are still the least of the problems with this horrendous adaptation. |
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| It frustrates me that after seeing everything that has happened they still get shock or deny monsters and the supernatural. Plus they still havent tried leaving the city. |
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| Why don't people leave town are they stupid? |
| Not as good as episode 1, but not terrible like episode 2 either, maybe this show will manage to end up being somewhat decent despite all? |
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| The animation improved from last episode, but still is a little lacking. Still I'd accept it any day. The hospital scene was actually horrifying to see and we're on pace towards the grand finale. |
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