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You have to admit it! It was not that bad... Our expectations were high!

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Oct 30, 2024 5:55 AM
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Anime according to me was not bad at all the problem was we expected tooo much!
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Oct 30, 2024 6:00 AM
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nah it was pretty terrible
Oct 30, 2024 6:04 AM
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Ben10ison said:
Anime according to me was not bad at all the problem was we expected tooo much!

yes i think it's was over hyped and a little bit bad, both at the same time, it didn't shocked me how bad it was
Oct 30, 2024 6:14 AM
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I don't think it was as bad as people made it out to be. I gave it a 4, but it still wasn't abysmal. Pacing was a bit off, and animation past episode 1 dropped in quality, but the story itself was pretty solid in my opinion.
Oct 30, 2024 6:15 AM
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Nah it was Really bad
Oct 30, 2024 6:16 AM
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the problem is we were promised a high quality adaptation since the start until covid happend and the scumbag CEO at Warnerbros fucked everyone over
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Oct 30, 2024 6:17 AM
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it was that bad stfu
Oct 30, 2024 6:21 AM
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Mr_Sai said:
the problem is we were promised a high quality adaptation since the start until covid happend and the scumbag CEO at Wernerbros fucked everyone over

THIS is the real reason so I swear if I see one more post abt this shit
Oct 30, 2024 7:14 AM
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nahhh I was not expecting ANYTHING out of this one but still got shocked at how terrible it was. Shit was just sad.
Oct 30, 2024 7:20 AM
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the thing is. if it was this animation from episode 1, it wouldn't have been that much of a problem. But the first episode set our hopes high
Oct 30, 2024 7:31 AM
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am I the only one who liked it? It wasn't that bad, yes the animation was off sometimes but still I've seen worse. If you don't have high hopes you won't get disappointed, that's what I always do
Oct 30, 2024 7:40 AM
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I agree, Honestly, I don't like the bad ending in the anime. But if we look at it again, the ending actually makes sense. For example, when the city of Kurouzu is hit by a curse continuously without stopping, which of course is strongly related to the title "Uzumaki" which means "spiral" or spinning.

You're right! It's just our expectations that are too high.
Oct 30, 2024 7:42 AM
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I think the same, it was bad but I can't be sad because all the adaptations of junji it are bad, this is the only one that is decent
But like others i really had expectations for the others episodes after the first one .
Oct 30, 2024 7:42 AM
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AokiHan said:
I agree, Honestly, I don't like the bad ending in the anime. But if we look at it again, the ending actually makes sense. For example, when the city of Kurouzu is hit by a curse continuously without stopping, which of course is strongly related to the title "Uzumaki" which means "spiral" or spinning.

You're right! It's just our expectations that are too high.

finally someone sensible spoke 🥹
Oct 30, 2024 7:52 AM
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I agree, it wasn't that bad. Maybe it's because I don't pay attention to details but I never even noticed the animation change.
Oct 30, 2024 8:12 AM
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Honestly the studio hyped it up some too.... It felt like everyone was really emphasizing that they spent 4 YEARS on this.. 💀

Honestly, I think it's decent. It's watchable, but is it anything good / special?? Nah, not at all. It'll be forgotten about in a year or two.
Oct 30, 2024 8:15 AM
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Ben10ison said:
Anime according to me was not bad at all the problem was we expected tooo much!

Nah, I don't think so. I agree it was over hyped but I had no expectations from the very beginning because I haven't read manga or heard about it before and even before listening reviews about it, it was already terrible for me. I am a fan of horror either it's anime or movie. But this was below average anime. Let me point out things and then tell me if these are not terrible then what are they supposs to be:

first, terrible pacing. Pacing was fucked up and so was the story. It completely failed to adapt the horror that manga delivered even with still images.

Second, the production issue. Which is the biggest and the most terrible among all. No expressions from episode 2 and onward. Bad animation quality made it worse due to which I felt not a single fear or creepiness while watching it.

Now tell me if these things are in an anime isn't this what we call mediocre or average anime or even below average.
Oct 30, 2024 8:23 AM
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i didn't know junji ito before 2024 but still i think the animation on ep 1 & last few minutes of ep 4 was great, the rest is not as good as expected!
Oct 30, 2024 8:43 AM
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ahh yes it's our fault for expecting too much when this shit has been in production for like 5 years make it make sense it was downright horrendous not just bad
Oct 30, 2024 8:45 AM

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It wasn't bad because the quality drop turned it into a comedy.
Oct 30, 2024 9:08 AM
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I thought it was alright it’s something creepy to watch this spooky month.
Oct 30, 2024 9:22 AM

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Nah, it was terrible.
Oct 30, 2024 10:58 AM
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Compared to the manga, it's bad
Oct 30, 2024 11:11 AM

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Agreed.

I realize the animation in episode two was pretty bad at times but I still think that the important bits were animated well enough. And in the latter two episodes I only noticed that certain parts were unnaturally sped up.

Besides that, nothing really to note in my experience. I think the series was serviceable for what it was and even somewhat enjoyable.
Oct 30, 2024 2:15 PM
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bro you high on copium
Oct 30, 2024 2:55 PM
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Tbh as much as the animation annoyed me and let it down a tad. Driving around towns near where I live, all I could notice today was spirals. Ppl put it down, but if you’re still thinking about a manga/anime some time after then it couldn’t be so bad could it
Oct 30, 2024 3:02 PM
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i was not expecting anything as i came in with no idea what this is about.
the animation was as bad as ppl say and with a story relying a lot on visuals and animation it becomes really sh t.
also a lot of plot points i didn't really like.(if there was any plot at all)
i haven't read the manga so i think this is an unbiased opinion.
i also think horror anime in general isn't really scary compared to actual movies or in this case it wasn't really creepy. i think a colored version of uzumaki would be creepier, anyone agree?
Oct 30, 2024 3:09 PM
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Nah, it was bad. Not terrible, but bad and that's really sad :(
Oct 30, 2024 3:15 PM
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They think disgust is fear, that's very bad
Oct 30, 2024 3:21 PM

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It was not wrong to expect a good anime in this case. Several years of working on 4 episodes was one thing, but the first episode, which was absolutely fantastic, was another reason to be really positive about the whole project, and thus to have high expectations.

This anime was not bad per se. It was mediocre. If not that ridiculous quality drop in ep. 2, and the fact that the rest of episodes still were inferior in comparison to the first one, people wouldn't be that much frustrated about this anime, I feel.

Good take on the art style (monochromatic, with realistic designs), faithfulness to the story and themes as it was presented in the manga, were can not be enough when faced with issues such as terribly animated scenes right after cinema we had in the first episode.

People are gonna talk about this anime once this anime season ends, that's for sure. But I have a hunch most of those discussions will be about how good this anime could've been, and how bad it happened to be in reality.
Oct 30, 2024 3:24 PM

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Compared to the manga, it's bad
@shogosatsuki It's as faithful to the manga as it can be, given it lasts only for 4 episodes. Many scenes are literally manga panels turned into animated bits, lol. The biggest issue is that while faithful, it was badly animated in most of scenes. So if you're saying that it's bad, compared to the manga, then depending on what made you think so you risk saying that the manga itself was bad as well.

Oct 30, 2024 3:51 PM
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it was pretty bad dawg, they had 20 studios work on a single episode, the quality in ep 3 was absolute garbage. adult swim ruined a great anime due to greed lol
Oct 30, 2024 4:01 PM

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it was pretty bad dawg, they had 20 studios work on a single episode, the quality in ep 3 was absolute garbage. adult swim ruined a great anime due to greed lol
@seths23 Episode 3 was actually better than the previous one. Yeah, it was mediocre at best in some moments, but hey, it was improvement over what we could "admire" in ep. 2, haha. xD
Oct 30, 2024 4:34 PM

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The story was okay, but the pacing and animation was not.
It could have worked with 6 episodes and being animated by a decent studio and not promoting it while being just a producer in the end, while having two small and weak studios doing all the job, like, I literally never heard of Akatsuki and Fugaku till I watched Uzumaki. One studio literally made only one anime, and the second studio only made a few anime with low to mediocre scores.

MOKUSHI KUSHIMO SHIMOKU KUMOSHI MOSHIKU SHIKUMO.
Oct 30, 2024 5:23 PM
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Buckshot_ said:
Mr_Sai said:
the problem is we were promised a high quality adaptation since the start until covid happend and the scumbag CEO at Wernerbros fucked everyone over

THIS is the real reason so I swear if I see one more post abt this shit

the big issue is the steep decline. its probably on the upper end of average if you were to add everything up but experientially that adding up isn't happening
Oct 30, 2024 8:20 PM
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whenever i see snails around it reminds me of this series
Oct 30, 2024 9:31 PM

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The rating really continues plummeting, doesn't it?

One of the bigger swings I've seen ratings-wise for a series' page on MAL in such a short timeframe. To think that after the first episode it was well up over the 8 range and held up as high art.
Oct 30, 2024 11:45 PM
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I half agree.
The animation was awful but all the nonsense and the story do not change. I literaly laugh a lot with both... BUT the art style in some pages on the manga make me see why it's so famous

To me Tomie and Uzumaki are terrible in terror or story (the two I read), but Junji Ito has an great special talent for drawings
his drawings are too insane and very creative

the anime must to be a masterpiece art work to have any comparison with what he do with draws and like this is not the case...
Oct 31, 2024 5:46 AM
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might I remind you:
(Albeit, episode 1 was okay)
Oct 31, 2024 6:45 AM
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ive read everything junji ito has ever made, the uzumaki anime perfectly captures his horror and also adjusts his storytelling to the medium. the pacing feels a lot better than the manga itself did and i enjoyed the ending. it gave me the same shudders the manga gave me 3 years ago.

i think people overestimate anime in how it will show itself, when this seems more like a love letter to junji ito's art, which in itself is flawed in its own ways. but thats also part of the beauty in art.
Oct 31, 2024 7:44 AM
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It was bad not only in animation but in storytelling too as there is too much random jump of events. If they make more episodes I guess it would be a little more good and animation is definitely terrible (if you have seen about ep 2)
Oct 31, 2024 9:11 AM
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the thing is, if ep1 didn't have god tier animations, ep2 wouldn't have felt like shit

also they've been working on this for YEARS ain't no way you expect me to keep my expectations low
Oct 31, 2024 12:01 PM

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Read the manga after people here saying to read it. The only thing this adaption did worse than the manga was the pacing of the first story being too fast, the animation being bad doesn't matter at all because everything else is bad. Junji ito couldn't bother making a short story for 20 chapters and gets praised for it while the anime gets trashed. If the manga was good and didn't only rely on gore to disturb nobody would care about the animation.

I was quite scared reading the first story, until it became a compilation of short non-sensical stories with inconsistent characters. I am still mad at the bit where the dumb girl goes to the barber to get her hair cut but then her hair attacks the barber. But then Shuochi casually walks up to her and cuts off her hair?
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Oct 31, 2024 2:52 PM
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I didn't know the manga and I watched it without knowing anything about the story and honestly, it was too bad to watch this
Oct 31, 2024 8:08 PM
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nah it was pretty terrible

couldnt agree more
Nov 1, 2024 1:22 AM
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Ben10ison said:
Anime according to me was not bad at all the problem was we expected tooo much!

nah , you admit it . the first episode was a masterpiece , but the second episode , the whole pace got destroyed , and the whole animation became a microsoft panel.
Nov 1, 2024 3:53 AM
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it's still possible to get the essence of the manga into animation since episode 1 is good so better budget next time i guess
Nov 1, 2024 7:01 AM
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man the episodes were literally incomplete
Nov 1, 2024 1:58 PM
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Nope, hadnt read the manga before watching and it was pretty bad.
Nov 1, 2024 8:30 PM
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I agree. the animation was disappointing but other than that it really isn't as bad as people are saying, ppl are just overdramatic
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