What do you think about the Uzumaki anime?
| It could be fine at this pace if it was adapted properly, but obviously beyond ep 1. it's a complete dumpster fire. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| The manga is a pretty short story in general, and it's not very good either. The reason why Junji Ito's adaptations fail is because his manga is carried entirely by his art. What's left when you take out the great artwork... is this. |
| The manga's better but not for any of the reasons mentioned or what you are talking about. The anime looked very promising and well done from episode 1. If the production hadn't fallen apart from episode 2 it could have been much more entertaining than the manga. Also no it wouldn't have made a full cour season unless they streched it as the manga's short. Maybe 6 episodes at best. |
| I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Junji Ito collection was better. Sure, the animation sucked, but the writing and scenes were taken word-for-word, page-for-page from the manga, so the build-up and payoff were intact. Some people say Ito's writing isn't that good and that his stories are entirely carried by his art, but I disagree. Yes, some of his stories are dumb, hell even some of the subplots in Uzumaki were stupid (spiral hair being one of them), but a lot of his works are genuinely well written, so much so that they held up quite well in the Junji Ito collection anime despite the mediocre animation. I can tolerate mediocre animation, bad graphics, etc, as long as the writing and acting are good. The Uzumaki anime's writing is terrible, it's rushed and messy, so much so that I couldn't even fully enjoy the first episode's stellar animation because of it. I don't know what those studios were doing for 5 years, but they messed it up. Ito deserves better. |
| There are very few things redeemable about Uzumaki, the manga and especially the anime. It is not that as good of a horror story as people make it out. It has potential. The concept of the spiral in the hands of better story writer(s) along with the artistic talents of Junji Ito would have truly created master class works of horror. As it is, its a very nicely visualized horror shlock with inklings of greatness wasted. As for the anime specifically, it wastes the potential of elevating the work in a different medium. It would probably have benefited from having veteran industry creators that have enough knowledge of the genre to contribute in improving the work, rather than just adapting straight from the comic. It would probably take someone who has a broad knowledge of horror from different cultures and time periods in order to understand how to tackle the existential dread that Uzumaki wants to portray at its core. Now purist will always complain about an animated work not being 100% faithful to the source material, but in this case I believe it would have benefited the work deviated a bit as the original source material was not that good. If the show was incapable of doing a full season adaptation of the work in any standard seasonal level, then you shouldn't have crammed all the stories in so few episodes. It doesn't give any scenario its the time and care needed to hit the landing. Or better yet, should not have adapted the work in the first place just cause its popular. Berserk had a similar problem where its adaptations were horribly mismanaged by teams and creators that were not right for the job. Uzumaki, and a lot of Ito's works have that sorta bad luck streak. Its not that they cant be made into something good, its just its own popularity on top of adaptation mismanagement keeping from truly shining. It makes me equally angry and sad how works like these are wasted. |
TechnopunkOct 18, 8:30 PM
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Reply to Dip_jyoti
TBH it might be a hot take
but uzumaki manga was not that scary at all
like how people hyping the manga is
but uzumaki manga was not that scary at all
like how people hyping the manga is
| @Dip_jyoti No horror manga is scary (same for anime), drawings can't be scary. They can be spooky or disturbing but not scary. Uzumaki adaptation would work better as live action with lot of practical effects and decent cgi. |
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