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| Even though I didn’t read the manga, I saw several panels, and it was worth it for the shock I experienced. I loved it! The animation and the decision to use black and white were brilliant, and I was amazed by it. I'm going to enjoy it more than you can imagine. It's a different kind of horror, driven by discomfort and eeriness. |
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Reply to RawrOfTheEmo
kinda odd they speedran through some story
| @RawrOfTheEmo @TaifSux I felt the same way. I loved the manga, so the pacing in this first episode felt way off. The acting and animation was great, but the pacing really... just was NOT it. I wanted way more ambience, dread and the such, to linger with moments. But instead it felt like we were instantly transported from scene to scene to move forward. I'm hoping it's just because they want to get to the meat of the story and that the pacing will feel better in the coming, longer, episodes. @olivebowlr Strong disagree. The pacing was... just... I barely even had time to feel like I had landed in the anime before things started to... spiral. Heh. But for real, if the whole anime will be like this I won't be getting much from the show beyond seeing what things might look like in motion. The pacing is the only thing I feel was off in this episode. If the whole thing is only meant to be 90 minutes I have trouble figuring out how they're going to do it justice. The animation will be nice to look at though. |
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| Looks stylish on the one hand but this bw artstyle completely ruins the mood on another afm. Be done i style of 90's anime it could look waaay more emotional. Also, this is not what happened to Dreamcast. |
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| Amazingly creepy, the soundtrack and sound design work well with the art style. |
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| @DragyG Give it a shot if you're into horror. |
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| wow this is already a perfect adaptation of the manga. Finally they're doing Junji Ito justice |
| I don't usually comment much here, but in this case I felt obliged. More than 4 years of production for a copy and paste of the manga? Many people are praising the 'art', which is practically the same as the manga's frames but with inferior lines, static frames, and not very fluid animation, which many say is a unique artistic style, but they used this sloppiness to camouflage their laziness. They don't understand that an adaptation shouldn't be 100% faithful to the manga, especially a 'unique' work that obviously wouldn't work very well in other media. |
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| well that was fucking terrifying |
| honestly i think as far as an junji ito adaption goes, this is probably the best were gonna get and im enjoying it tbh!! |
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I was vaguely reminded of the "Aku no Hana" anime here. I had no idea it was the same guy lol!
| @erikkamirs woah i was thinking the exact same thing while watching, that explains a lot! |
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| Another peak horror anime. Never thought black & white screen feel so great, looking forward for next episode. |
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@Prox1mately It's kinda the pacing of the manga too though.
I think they adapted almost everything from chapters 1 and 3, often times every panel on the page too. For chapter 2, they skipped most of it including the pay off, so either it will be skipped or adapted next episode.
The manga is the same, like quickly gets everything out of the way for the horror scenes to come in. The only thing slowing the pacing is perhaps your reading speed, otherwise it would be just as fast or faster.
The manga equivalent of what was adapted takes less than 10 minutes to read imo. (unless you're pausing on a page)
Just for a refresher of memory, chapter 1 already covers everything with the dad, including his death, up to the point where they notice the smoke in just 44 pages.
Chapter 3 covers everything with the scar girl, including her death, in only 32 pages.
I think they adapted almost everything from chapters 1 and 3, often times every panel on the page too. For chapter 2, they skipped most of it including the pay off, so either it will be skipped or adapted next episode.
The manga is the same, like quickly gets everything out of the way for the horror scenes to come in. The only thing slowing the pacing is perhaps your reading speed, otherwise it would be just as fast or faster.
The manga equivalent of what was adapted takes less than 10 minutes to read imo. (unless you're pausing on a page)
Just for a refresher of memory, chapter 1 already covers everything with the dad, including his death, up to the point where they notice the smoke in just 44 pages.
Chapter 3 covers everything with the scar girl, including her death, in only 32 pages.
| @henwens you are gaslighting youself if you think anime covered everything in chapter 1....They even skipped the first of Kirie seeing Sunichi's father in the dark allyway, there was more conversation between Shinichi and Kirie ,they skipped an entire scene of them sitting in a parl, there was more interactions between Shinichi's Family and his dad spcically where shinici's mom throws everything and a scene where Kirie goes to visit shinici's house and see his dad spiraling eyes.... and about chapter 3 they barely showed anything including the boys rising the mystrey of Azami's head and only after than Kirie curious seeing her at head, and there were two entire scenes where Azami goes to visit Shinichi specially the one at the night.... Manga followed a solid methodical approach, at first they hinted some mystery, then they build the mystery by showing us some interactions between the central characters and others and only after than they hit with the main horror stuffs to end the chapter..,,The anime just covers the chapters main panels and skips the majority of the pretext leading upto those panels.. |
| Fantastic episode, wasn't going to pick this up but i'm enthralled. Watching the eye get swallowed up was insane, and I was actually impressed with the art/rotoscoping. --- Dr Weird had the first occurrence of the spiral tho.  |
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| HOLYYYYYY Junji Ito you are a masterclass istg and the animators who worked on this did a phenomenal ass job on this, the 2D animation is so well done that this shit sometimes looks like cgi with how smooth the characters be moving and shit and the creepy factor was just *chefs kiss*π©π€π½π₯π₯π₯π₯ I forgot how creepy this shit was until I saw Shiuchi’s dad roll his tongue into a spiral and Azami and her spiral right eye was the iconic scene that I forgot until she was about to reveal herself but man it’s so cool seeing in spirals in action instead of seeing them in manga formπ€©π€©π€©π€© I see a lot of ppl complaining about the pacing and tbh I thought it was fine + there’s only like 19 chapters in this series and we’re only getting 4 episodes so I’m sure the production crew thought of this already and know that 4 episodes for 19 chapters will be enough SO STOP SHITTING ON THE PACINGπ Anyways can’t wait for the second episode I’m definitely tuning in every week for this :Dππ½     |
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@henwens you are gaslighting youself if you think anime covered everything in chapter 1....They even skipped the first of Kirie seeing Sunichi's father in the dark allyway, there was more conversation between Shinichi and Kirie ,they skipped an entire scene of them sitting in a parl, there was more interactions between Shinichi's Family and his dad spcically where shinici's mom throws everything and a scene where Kirie goes to visit shinici's house and see his dad spiraling eyes....
and about chapter 3 they barely showed anything including the boys rising the mystrey of Azami's head and only after than Kirie curious seeing her at head, and there were two entire scenes where Azami goes to visit Shinichi specially the one at the night....
Manga followed a solid methodical approach, at first they hinted some mystery, then they build the mystery by showing us some interactions between the central characters and others and only after than they hit with the main horror stuffs to end the chapter..,,The anime just covers the chapters main panels and skips the majority of the pretext leading upto those panels..
and about chapter 3 they barely showed anything including the boys rising the mystrey of Azami's head and only after than Kirie curious seeing her at head, and there were two entire scenes where Azami goes to visit Shinichi specially the one at the night....
Manga followed a solid methodical approach, at first they hinted some mystery, then they build the mystery by showing us some interactions between the central characters and others and only after than they hit with the main horror stuffs to end the chapter..,,The anime just covers the chapters main panels and skips the majority of the pretext leading upto those panels..
| @TaifSux yeah, I feel that everyone who's praising the pacing either never read the manga or is just a fanboy. The animation is great and it's nice to see some scenes in motion, but they're skipping too many scenes, it feels like a summary of the manga instead of an adaptation |
| 10/10 OMG! this is TERRYFYINGLY awesome!!! |
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| They really nailed it! This black and white style looks appropriate for adapting Junji Ito's stories |
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| I liked it! it was a great first episode I do like the art style too it gives it a more creepy feel to it. it did a great job at making the episode a little creepy. looking forward to the other 3 episodes. |
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| Wasn't really creepy or unsettling so far, but i'm curious to see how it progresses. |
| Amazing atmosphere; maybe we finally have an answer as to how Berserk may be adapted? Though, and it's probably because of the pacing, I think there could be a bit more set-up and I'm sure the horror will land harder. |
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| Nah, man. What's with this shitty sense of pacing? They practically nailed every aspect but the pacing. What a disappointment. Not to mention Azami's chapter was my favorite in the manga and they fucking ruined it. sigh* |
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