What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
14.6%
73
4Liked it!
22.4%
112
3It was OK
32.3%
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2Disliked it
22.0%
110
1Hated it
8.6%
43
Average 3.1
499 votes
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| Average Episode overall, It feels so long. But animation is improved from collection and sound track was good. I still have mixed feelings with opening song, but ending song fits with the weirdness of this show. I hope Other Episodes perform better, cause this ep was overall decent and boring at some places... |
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| i went in blind and didn't know what to expect but that was... wow |
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| A rather strange and curious episode I liked! |
I'm not a critic or anything like that but I like to give my opinion |
| 'The Strange Hikizuri Siblings’ Stay as far away as possible from this family. They are all quite repugnant. Sound effects of the father at the end seemed out of place —- more comedic in nature rather than scary. All episodes (12) dropped together on Netflix. Series can be binged, but I think I’ll take my time with it. |
LaPokotaJan 19, 2023 7:14 AM
jTiKey said: In Spanish is not badi'm suing them for that awful girl scream. I would never think I'd hate someones voice more than Faputa's |
| I think this story wasn't a good choice, even more for a first episode. Too slow and too boring, and I hated Misako, she just screamed all of the 24minutes of the episode. Hoping that the other episodes are better. |
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| There was not much to like in the story to begin with, but what is worse the visual style of th episode reminded me of how the cartoon network cartoons looked like ten years ago. It was nothing like the hypnotic and unique style the trailer of this show had promised. I am dissapointed. |
IshitatesoJan 19, 2023 9:49 AM
夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡  |
| This family makes the Addams look bright. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Ep1 felt like comedy |
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| Hikizuri siblings is an odd choice for the first episode. If you're making an Itou anthology, why start with comedy-horror? It fits better in the middle if anything. The OP is short but trippy. I found the JYOCHO ED too mellow and out of place in Collection, and feel the same this time as well. |
KatayoneJan 20, 2023 3:03 AM
| Great first ep, so glad we actually got this after how annoying some people were about Collection. Way over hated. |
| I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers |
| I was expecting more horror, tbh. It was pretty bad. |
| I loved it. Wasn't familiar with the story that was adapted so I really enjoyed it more because it was fresh to me. Really funny episode. |
| What the fuck is this? How is this supposed to be horror? The story is goofy and the characters are annoying. |
| not the right choice for a first episode. the tone doesn’t feel right for what the series was trying to accomplish. props to the dub voice actress that played the young girl though… assuming she was directed to sound as glass shatteringly annoying as possible. i don’t think this is a bad episode but not a good one to start the series with. |
| What... what was that... I wasn't expecting anything. I knew no adaptation could've adapted Junji Ito's works because those masterpieces are just out of this world. I learned my lesson from the first adaptation. But... but what was this?! This was too comical. There were a lot of options. But why did they have to make THIS the first episode? Why?? TvT |
RedfoxAkameJan 22, 2023 7:33 PM
 HuaLian <3 |
Ishitateso said: There was not much to like in the story to begin with, but what is worse the visual style of th episode reminded me of how the cartoon network cartoons looked like ten years ago. It was nothing like the hypnotic and unique style the trailer of this show had promised. I am dissapointed. Junji Ito's work never was focused on story but on legit scary nightmare fuel. His short stories are more 'art' than manga in my opinion. The real ghost coming out fell completely flat unfortunately on this episode. |
| I don’t mind this as the choice for the first episode. In my opinion, this story portrays Junji Ito’s goofiness in all its beauty. But the fact that they only adopted second half of it ruined the story. And they skipped the best part, too! If they were going to only adopt half, then they should have went with the first bit at least… |
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| i'm 5 minutes into this episode and the subs are driving me absolutely insane. since when does every single goddamn noise need a caption????? [grunting and slurping] ???? why?????? fansubs where are youuu edit: i can't watch this anymore, everything about it is annoying me so much. just leave itou junji's work as manga ffs |
amagirinomikotoJan 27, 2023 5:06 PM
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| Wow, the OP visuals are insane. What a f*cked up family xD |
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| I’m going in blind but the first episode was interesting. I assumed it would get darker, like with blood or gore, something along those lines. Hopefully the series picks up and it’s more scary |
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| The little sister was the most annoying lol. Damn what an odd first episode, poor Ito he will never get a worthy adaptation of his works :/ |
| This story is not really scary... I think it's more scarier on the first season. |
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| Adaptation is piece of hot garbage. It's embarrassing that authors like Junji Ito get adaptations like this shit. He and his work deserves much better treatment than that. And what the fuck is this opening bro, LSD shit lookin mirages and some trap-rap or whatever this is. And the music is only the peak of the whole mountain of bullshit and laziness. I can't man, the mangas are great and I love horror genre but this and the previous abomination by the same studio "Itou Junji: Collection" is too much for me. Just go read manga man I beg you. |
| This was a rather confusing and lack luster starting point, but I hope it gets better |
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| This is supposed to be a horror, right? The first episode seemed way too silly and lots of yelling and just wasn't entertaining and didn't make me feel afraid or suspenseful at all. |
| ……….wtf was the point of this? Um, did that beginning part where it looked like the family was burning a girl get answered at all? This…. Literally went nowhere and I am a tually confused bc they did5 explain that beginning part where the girl got burned AT ALL. |
| Was BOG STANDARD my luv. Nothing special. Did the job tho. Preparing me for Spooky Season 🎃 |
| Strange first short about a family composed of 6 members without parents and bizarre situation!!! kekeke |
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