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| Seesh right off the bat this looks better than anything the past two episodes have given us, all thanks to the original team returning... though it was short lived because after the tunnel scene it just went to shit. The short lived hope of the final episode being as good as the first was down the drain as soon as they left the tunnel. And the story was looking no better. I mean, it makes little to no sense anymore, with way too much going on at once to process it. What started as scary and eerie Uzumaki sightings just turned into randomness for shock value that made just no sense... and god, those Uzumaki hurricanes or whatever just looked so bad... Though, from what I could get from the episode, is that these guys are just as unlucky as us, with when they finally think all's good with the rescue ships on the way, they got swept up by the Uzumaki's... great lmao. These guys are eating as bad as us as well, from hard and stale ass bread, to the snail people... just wtf man. Gotta give props where props are due, backgrounds and drawings stayed pretty consistent this episode icl. Actual characters themselves though... lmao. I mean, that scene with Shuuichi falling down with the snail in the Uzumaki staircase should be enough to tell and show you that. But yeah, in terms of the little plot that made sense, ofc it had to end with Shuuichi and Kirie turning into a Uzumaki together along with the whole town, not really any other way around it. Though, at least the town reverted back right... yeah no just ended up in the cycle as the old... or should I say Uzumkai... sigh. The Junji Itou anime curse thus continues. I'd go as far as to say that this is the worst one yet, besides the first episode that is. Which is what this show should've stayed as, just that one episode, nothing more. Ninja Kamui v.s. this in Toonami misses, don't know which would win ngl. |
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| Typical eldritch horror ending but it was a hell of a terrifying ride. |
| This anime was just weird and uncomfortable, especially when they were eating those snail people. Like I get this is supposed to be a horror but I'll like a better explanation on why weird shit was happening and not just blaming it on an ancient curse. At the very least, this anime gave us this fun coincidenental little bug on MAL  |
Cestlavie_Oct 19, 11:20 PM
| Idk why was I even kind of excited for this, should have known it'd end up like this. |
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| What a twist of fate. Literally. |
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Idk why was I even kind of excited for this, should have known it'd end up like this.
| @MegamiRem soooooo true I feel like an idiot for getting hyped all these years |
| Man, that was average. 5/10. |
| Feels like I’m stuck in the spiral with the takes I’m seeing about Uzumaki episode 4. Yes, it’s better animation than the previous 2 eps but with the amount of time and hype that went into this show it should’ve been way better. Pacing was horrendous as well. Needed at least 2 more episodes. I’m also just not a fan of how this is ended, I haven’t read Ito’s stuff so I’m not sure if this is the norm, but wasn’t a fan. Our two leads just accepting the spiral and then the cycle repeating feels.. meh to me. The snail and body morphing shit got me uneasy too lol. Idk I don’t like horror stuff so I’m biased, but I also just don’t think this was a good anime. 2 out of 4 episodes were bad to mediocre, pacing was wack, animation was subpar to decent for the most part.. just not good enough considering the build up to release. Episode 1 was amazing tho for sure, but if you’re only doing 4 eps you can’t have 2 mediocre ones. Miura and Ito are probably just never gonna get good adaptations because of how talented they are and the artistic detail in their manga. |
Marinate1016Oct 20, 2:41 AM
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| Can we please fund fan made animated works in the same way Indi games are developed |
| If you want to reply to my posts, come up with valid arguments instead of ad hominem HIGHER LEVEL THINKERS ONLY |
Last episode, The scariest part was when they ate the human-snails, the rest was very simple! 7/10 in general Bad animation, poor adaptation! kekeke |
| Some was cut out of this part like how some brats were behind destroying the town which maybe was taken out for seeming a bit silly or maybe wussing out over their fate, but the changes aren't too bad aside from taking away the poetic monologue in the end of Kirie and Shuichi being entwined for feels to be an eternity but the pacing is really bad messing up any possible tension. Only thing this really had going for it is the unique animation style making it like a manga come to life which sometimes looks bad but other times it is pretty smooth and entrancing. Though the manga ending the pacing I didnt like either with how it just quickly jumped into a future moment with the whirlwinds which was more silly than anything but i dont think the whirlwind riding and all was meant to be scary just extending the theme of spirals. They maybe took some monologue out about the eternity thing because it made no sense with how time slowed down away from the spiral as well as in the centre but the edges of the spiral time sped up relative to the time outside the spiral and if time did come to a still the spiral shrine would have no need to regenerate itself. I feel the underground ruins was more pretty in the manga maybe because more time to look at it and see the details of the line work but the glowing effect I think worked how that was done, im sure it is difficult to portray that in greyscale, the warping kind of took away from the artistry. Not sure what to rate this because the quality is so mixed a bag and not every change is all that bad but some were and some animation just didnt look right. I dont think it deserves over 7 but not less than 6 for some of the good parts making up for shoddy pacing. I dont understand why they took so much time to make this but did not invest a little more into it to put in at least five episodes for better pacing and less need to merge stories some of which really didnt work well together. With 6 episodes they could have possibly avoided having to change anything much. Though there still would be issue of quality inconsistency. No one would want to wait a full decade to see this even if the end product were to be very good. I feel they shot themselves in the foot by announcing it as early as they did. Now for story even as it was in the manga I didnt quite like how things ended since it feels like a buildup that feels incomplete but I also dont hate it because it gives you that sense of hopelessness and beauty. Now I dont think a horror makes sense ending completely happily but I do wonder if a different ending would have been more or less satisfactory such as if Kirie and makes it out but Shuichi dies to save her which would be an ironic fate because she was who was hesitant to leave and he wanted to go first, or if they both make it out but disfigured, how would that have felt. Cestlavie_ said: This anime was just weird and uncomfortable, especially when they were eating those snail people. Like I get this is supposed to be a horror but I'll like a better explanation on why weird shit was happening and not just blaming it on an ancient curse. It's cosmic horror. It's about the unsettling nature of powerful forces beyond human understanding or control. If it were explained you would not feel so much that lingering uneasy feeling jumping through your mind different possibilities but no real answers. Would it really make it better to just slap in a solid "it's a god feeding on the energy of cycles of life and death" or "it's alien lifeforms just continuing their survival by their weird reproductive cycle". It gets done so many times it doesnt feel like understanding makes something this weird better, an explanation would lead to nit picking on how certain things dont match the explanation in a logical way or try to come up with ways to defeat it. Understanding is something you more need in plots where understanding gives you a reason to care about the motives of characters good or bad but when the motive is nothing but survival from a force that doesnt seem to act in rational ways you dont need to understand so much. How you can tell it isnt rational is the people of the town were needed for the spiral ruins to be built new but many people perished without becoming a part of it and sometimes Kirie was a target to be killed and others she was a target of obsession for the spiral wanting to bring her in. I do think that would have been better to have some consistency on how the spirals wanted Kirie narratively but it also would have made things more predictable taking away some possible ways she could die. |
traedOct 20, 12:55 AM
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| It's a typical horror show ending it's all a big spiral. I mean loop. Well story is peak and creepy but adaptation was a bit meh. Atleast ep 4 was good imo. |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
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Honestly what was the point of adapting this story? the story sucks
| @nwbodie Because the industry is driven by popularity of the work, not necessarily if its a good story or not. Horror is pretty tricky to adapt when jumping mediums, a 1:1 adaptation wont work, nor will a condensed version done by people lacking talent and creativity. Overall this work is a waste of potential. 2/10 just for some of the visuals, otherwise it would have gone in the trash pile with the likes of Gate and Gibiate. |
 "Don't let your memes be dreams."- Ancient Japanese proverb, probably |
| I don't think the adaptation would have ever lived up to the hype anyways. The trailer set the bar too high, and it was all in the first episode. I find the source material itself slightly cheesy, so maybe I can't be the best judge of the show, but the pacing was in fact horrible. What I liked: Episode 1 The concept of adapting in a black and white setting The way some of the horror aspects were animated were pretty good What I didn't like: Pacing, Execution, the wait for a sub-par product, some of the animation ended up quite shoddy What I hated: Episode 2 Overall, a very average show. The pilot had me giving an 8/10 expecting things only to get better, but i ended up giving a 5/10 out of respect for the work, and how good episode 1 was. |
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| A colossal waste of time. The source material itself is pretty bad too, yet I gave this adaptation a chance and in its defence, I have to say I was very enthusiastic after watching the first episode. The rest is another story. 2/10 |
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| The first episode was genuinely great so it's very sad and disappointing to see how the rest of this turned out. All the delays probably should have been a sign, in hindsight. Though you'd think delaying it multiple times would have the opposite effect, right. I think I'll give this a 5/10, but that 5 is HARD carried by the first episode. Without that, this would be a 3 at best. |
thebrentinator24Oct 20, 11:35 AM
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| was never a fan of the source material but they overhyped the anime, and it ended up being even worse than that. all those delays for this lmao. |
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| The first thing I thought was that it was amazing how Kirie and Shuichi could still be sane under such circumstances... especially Kirie. Seeing Shuichi ate that "escargot", I thought he was going to eat Kirie's brother too but it turns out that he did help him. They ended up dying together, in a condition that, I think, was a bit more normal compared to most of the people there. I hope the couple in the after-credit can escape the cursed city soon. |
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| too bad for the animation and pacing, but the ending was as good as I remember and I think they did a good job with it, at least for this last episode. will the new couple escape the curse? 4/10 |
| It's finally over. Animation-wise, yeah it's better than the last 2 episodes. But it doesn't come close to the production value of episode 1. So, the early rumor of the last episode being done by the same studio/people who made episode 1 was false. Or maybe it is true and the episode was just rushed like the other ones. Idk which one's worse. There were traces of some good art here and there. Animation aside, although the pacing was bad since episode 1, this episode probably has the worst pacing out of all of them. Even tho this was an extended episode, there was basically no room to breathe for anything. It was just characters yapping one line after another. The direction was horrible too. It felt like there were scenes missing from one scene transition to another. Idk what it's called. But if you notice it once, you can't unsee it. This episode's story alone could've been 2 or 3 episodes. If not, they easily could've cut some scenes to make the pacing better. Now I understand why some adaptations cut scenes from the source material instead of trying to adapt everything. This series would've been way better if it was just a movie. Why even make 4 episodes? How did they fuck this up so badly? Well, if I have to give props to something it's that the sound design was still amazing and so was the voice acting. The background artworks were also gorgeous. But with that animation and pacing it feels like they were wasted. It's just sad how this adaptation was handled. Episode 1 showed that it could've been something special. But no, internal drama had to ruin everything... It sucks because the story is genuinely interesting. I like how this town is basically cursed and the cycle will continue no matter what. Horror series' rarely have a good ending and this one was no different. It's sad that in the end Shuichi and Kirie couldn't run away... But at least they were together till the end. That's the closest we can get to a happy ending... I feel bad for the author. I think I'll just start reading Ito's mangas. I don't think I'll give a chance to another Junji Ito adaptation. |
0451Oct 20, 6:08 AM
| Except for episode 2 I think the animation Was consistely great and the story Was skincrawling good, I gave it a 9/10 :) |
| EL PSY KONGROO!!! |
Reply to ShamaN_02
The manga was better than the anime.
| @ShamaN_02 Literally every anime adaptation ever. |
| “๐จ๐ฟ ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐พ ๐๐พ๐๐พ ๐๐๐พ๐ฝ๐๐ผ๐๐บ๐ป๐ ๐พ, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐พ๐บ๐๐พ ๐๐ ๐ป๐พ ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐พ ๐บ๐๐ฝ ๐ป๐พ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐.” – ๐ค๐ ๐พ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐พ๐ ๐ |
| Probably best episode, shame it wasn’t as good as I thought it was going to be. Still really creepy watch. |
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Except for episode 2 I think the animation Was consistely great and the story Was skincrawling good, I gave it a 9/10 :)
| @BLaCkGuN69 Damn. You're such a rarity. |
| “๐จ๐ฟ ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐พ ๐๐พ๐๐พ ๐๐๐พ๐ฝ๐๐ผ๐๐บ๐ป๐ ๐พ, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐พ๐บ๐๐พ ๐๐ ๐ป๐พ ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐พ ๐บ๐๐ฝ ๐ป๐พ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐.” – ๐ค๐ ๐พ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐พ๐ ๐ |
| When even time itself started spiraling on Shuichi and Kirie, I was certain this was going to end right back at episode 1. I guess facsimiles of the two work too! This was an enjoyable watch. I was really rooting for the MC's. But the wicked phenomena just toyed with them until they became the new center of its grand design. |
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| I didn't hate this. Was this the adaptation that Uzumaki deserved? No, but it wasn't the trainwreck I was fearing after seeing second episode. Even if the second episode was actually fine, this would still be hard to recommend to someone who hasn't read the manga, due to them having to rush and cut thing's, but the part's that worked, did work pretty well. I guess I'm satisfied with just that. Shame that they had to add that little narration to the end, because the ending would have been better without it. |
| The last episode actually turned this series something memorable, the whole story turned out to be some kind of lovecraftian eldritch horror. |
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| I hope I'm alive to see a good adaptation of a Junji Ito manga, because until now... เญญห. แตแต |
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| Episódio 4 o mais triste e doentio. Pessoas que tiveram mutações em caracol, viraram alimento para pessoas sobreviver, os habitantes ficaram loucos para comer lesma, isso é uma metáfora ao canibalismo. Através dos atos físicos e da mente a maldição alcança as pessoas. Kirie começa a perder a família. Ficar fora da cidade faz a velocidade do tempo acelerar, referência a Dragon Ball Z, uma sala do tempo reverso. Como imaginei havia uma entidade por trás do Uzumaki, uma estátua espiral no abismo da cidade, e infelizmente os dois protagonistas sem forças, no ato de carinho com as mãos são pegos pela maldição, e termina a maldição Uzumaki. Por fim, a história demonstra a se repetir, em uma reencarnação de outras pessoas. |
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