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| Junji Ito. The man needs no introduction. What also needs no introduction is that when it comes to adaption of his works, they're not the most faithful to the original source. And there's a reason for that. Simply being, his work's aren't something that are easily translatable into anime. Hell, this work itself already had an iffy enough live action movie. Many years later though, after constant delays and the such, here we are. Right off the bat, you can clearly tell this ain't your average anime. From the black and white aesthetic, to Hiroshi Nagahama's INFAMOUS rotoscoping. You may know him as the one who brought you the infamous Aku no Hana, and holy hell did he improve his game in the time frame from that to now. Visuals aside, it's clear that this ain't your average anime even besides the visuals. Main dude's dad is obsessed with these "Uzumaki's". Not to be confused with Naruto Uzumaki or anything lol, but the literal translation of it, a spiral. And he's more than just obsessed, I mean this dude just embracing it. Dude legit just turned his tongue into a Uzumaki itself LOL. Then we got miss crescent moon on her forehead, who is just bugging out because main dude was the first to ever reject him ever since she got it. As if it wasn't weird enough with that whole ordeal, we go to the funeral of main dude's dad, to which we get the backstory leading to his death, and yeah, it's a Junji Ito manga all right. Only he would be able to think of WHATEVER THE HELL THIS IS  And from there it just gets even creepier and eerier. It's clear that this "Uzumaki" is just the second coming of the devil or some shit, because people in this anime just want to throw everything away at the sight of one apparently. Though, some do make sense why they would freak out, like whatever the hell was going on with Kirei's face.... AND IT WAS WORSE THAN JUST A SIMPLE UZUMAKI, THE SHIT JUST SUCKED EVRYTHING INCLUDING HER OWN BODY IN??? HUH????? So many questions, so many.. I don't even know what I just watched. But I'm hooked. BRING ON MORE. |
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| kinda odd they speedran through some story |
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| Incredible. Perfect choice to premiere this to kick off Halloween/spooky month. Them using CGI/motion capture definitely enhances the uncanny valley of some scenes. And things definitely "spiraled" out of control really fast |
| it hit the nail on the head so hard with this adaptation, and ngl the pacing is almost the same with how i read it a few years back. Regardless im hyped for next week |
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| You're yearning for an incredible horror anime at long last? Junji Ito truly stands as one of the masters of horror. Uzumaki is nothing short of a masterpiece horror manga, crafted by this legendary figure. Each of his works sends exhilarating chills down your spine, leaving you utterly unnerved. He is the japanese Stephen King. The animation style is so beautifully suited to Uzumaki, and the decision to keep it colorless heightens the eerie atmosphere and tension, perfectly aligning with the dark and suspenseful narrative. It may have taken ages, but the animation quality is astonishing. It feels as though the manga has truly sprung to life, right off the page. This is precisely why it’s far better to delay a product than to hastily meet an original deadline. This is the adaptation that Junji Ito deserves. Thank you, Adult Swim. And Colin Stetson was simply the perfect choice to compose the soundtrack for this, whoever had the brilliant idea to bring him on deserves a Nobel. I can't wait for the , thanks for the meal. |
YuyuichiOct 13, 12:52 AM
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| The first episode looks good. I think the music really adds to the experience. |
| Definitely worth the wait. Everything is perfectly put togheter, I can't remember seeing somthin that lived up to my hype this well. Also kind of glad it has no OP, it doesn't even need it. |
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| I laughed a lot, nice comedy horror. Never understood why people like junji ito but this anime feels funnier than some actual comedies like shikanokotan |
kataneerSep 29, 12:49 AM
| Such a bizarre story with the uzumaki/spirals which is going out of control and making people go mad. Funnily enough the story is just only that, the spiral will just keep spiraling. Horror is weak and not a big fan of the manga but the I did like the first episode and the black and white approach. Though watching it only made me more sure that this would be also work very well with colors, the horror specially would have been more horrifying but it would have also taken considerable amount of more funds and proper work to do so. Anyway should be a decent watch with the anime. |
MegamiRemOct 1, 8:05 AM
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| The style of this series is amazing! Probably the one and only Junji Ito adaptation that actually looks something like the source material |
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| It’s finally here, animated manga |
Reply to Park_Pierce
Watched this at midnight and I have to say, I'm kind of disappointed with the way this was paced. while the realistic animation and rotoscoping was good to look at, it was rushed to oblivion. Everything just happened without any build-up or fear. I'm just sitting there, like 'Oh, that happened okay.' It's just a bunch of scenes mashed together without any structure. Azami's reveal of what's under the hat is accompanied by complete silence with no audio cue like what. I don't feel the same uneasiness as I do when I read the manga. Sad, I was excited for a true Junji Ito adaptation, but it is what it is. I am going to watch the rest to see how it goes. 7/10
| @Park_Pierce A lot of what you said, I felt the same way with the manga lol, so it's even more noticeable here. The music and visuals are nice though. |
Reply to RawrOfTheEmo
kinda odd they speedran through some story
| @RawrOfTheEmo I dare you to: Buy yourself another copy of Uzumaki, cut out each panel, then sit your ass in front of a board and try to make a proper storyboard for 4x30-min episodes of mediocre funding, that conveys this brainfuckery of a story and then say that again. Remember that movement takes time. In an ideal world an episode would take as long as it needs and it would be as many episodes as are needed to tell the story with limitless funding. But some guy (at Toonami) paid for this and he wants to be paid back from the resulting product (and ideally make more money, than he invested). It's crazy already, that he was able to postpone the release this much, without getting his production shut down completely. Imagine the pressure. |
| as expected, WAYYY too fast. It’a rushing through content at an incredible pace with no build-up or whatsoever to any of the stories told. I like that that they’re mixing the stories altogether, but they were too many at once and it just didn’t work out. I wish they would have taken at least a first 5 minutes of chilling and then get it going and tell one story less. Pacing aside, Shuichi’s mom cutting her fingers was hard to watch. Animation was gorgeous as expected, especially the last few minutes, it was even smoother. I wish they would’ve built up Akebi’s story a little more to deliver the climax next week, considering how iconic that girl is. Snail is next! |
XenocrisiSep 29, 12:42 AM
| i dont know what you lunatics are disappointed with. watch the ito's short story anime before you get into episode 2 and you'll see the light! its a masterpiece like no other! 10/10 |
| After it seemed like this was never going to come out, Uzumaki is finally here. I like the animation style, it really adds an unsettling atmosphere and contributes well to the creepy vibe. Everything being in black and white also helps. Pretty good start so far. |
| 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. |
| Hook, line and sinker. Gorgeous art direction and music. It actually feels like I'm seeing the manga come to live and move. |
| I'm not even a fan of horror since it gets to me but something about these Junji Ito-sensei stories just feel like creepy and uncomfortable stories. I'm better at handling this than jump-scares so I've been wanting to give this a shot but after all that teasing for ages, and I feel like a lot of things were happening but there just wasn't enough buildup. Definitely still curious to see where this'll be going though. |
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| I really do not appreciate them rushing through so much of the story like this, it genuinely takes away so much of the tension and impact of these scenes. The animation itself in some segmentions looks very good but in a lot it looks like an old flash game. Also, the english voice cast is cooking, the Japanese one felt weirdly unenthusiastic. |
| I had been hearing about this anime for years. I thought it was a unicorn. But it finally came out. I never read any of Junji Ito's works or watched the "less than stellar" adaptations that came out before this. So, I was excited to watch this anime without knowing almost nothing about it except what the trailers showed. And boy did it deliver. The artwork and music are gorgeous. There's really nothing like it in the industry, which is probably why it took so long to come out. I'm glad they went with black and white and rotoscoped animation. It gives an unsettling vibe to the animation. The animation is so smooth which I think is because of the rotoscoping. If the official twats ever make a good Berserk animation I hope it'll be in black and white too. The Japanese voice acting was phenomenal too. I did listen to the dub a little bit and like most dubs it didn't intrigue me. So much shit happened in the first episode. It felt like they adapted a bunch of manga chapters together in one episode. I think a horror series like this needs appropriate build-up which is sadly missing here because of the fast pace. I think it's cause this only has 4 episodes which isn't a lot. Could've just made a movie then. Ig it makes sense cause this was probably extremely expensive to make. Can't wait to see the rest. |
| This is the first anime adaptation of Ito's I'm looking at, since that's the one I know that I've read before and everything else has a pretty terrible reputation. Going by the comments here, I guess I'm not alone in feeling like it's looking pretty good so far?? The effort in the visual alone looks like the manga itself came to life (I don't agree at all that the CGI detracts from it), and the integration of different chapters into a singular episode without it feeling like chopped up shorts was pretty risky but kind of paid off, I think. I will agree that pacing feels like an issue. That being said, if the order itself was Uzumaki in 4x~30min episodes, then I understand that's a small L we have to take. Otherwise, it feels pretty good and overall similar to the source. And to some other comments who never liked Ito's work to begin with and see this as a horror comedy... why are yall here? I get that he's a big name, but very obviously you should know ahead of time that this isn't for you. |
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They literally cut off every pretext, eeriness and mystery build-up each stories has squizz 4 stories into 22 minutes......All I saw was cut to jumpscares, but those jumpscare panels were fear inducing and iconic bcz of the pretext and build up in the first place, writter seemed to missed the part Example (Spoiler Alart)---- Azami's story was completely ruined, No foreshadowing about her forehead, no letting the audience see how she views boys, no letting meeting in Sunichi's home at night.... Literally there was to pretext, just few glimpse and jump to the final scene of her story... Same for Sunichi's families story, which was one the most important chapter of the manga relating to Sunichi's character development... |
TaifSuxSep 29, 1:44 AM
| only one word PEAK glad i waited for this worth the wait |
| I was very much engrossed, they nailed the atmosphere |
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