| 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. |
| It wasn't bad because the quality drop turned it into a comedy. |
No, this isn't my signature. |
| Nah, it was terrible. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Reply to shogosatsuki
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. |
Reply to seths23
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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| might I remind you: (Albeit, episode 1 was okay)  |
| 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? |
| Caveman draw anime girl on cave, Caveman happy. Cityman angry at cave drawing, Caveman throw club at Cityman. epic candy :   |
| Many have already said it, but nah it was bad. Well 1/4 of it was alright at least but the rest was some great disappointing dogshit. Shouldn't be to surprising knowing that all the other Junji Itou's manga adaptation suck as well. |
 MAL is the perfect place to shit talk about people's opinions. |
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