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| I waited four years just to get an amazing first episode, only for the rest of the series to fumble (well, who knows). I guess an exception is Kirie's spiraled scene was something but her walk, for example, compared to Episode 1, it went from detailed 3D animation to a static PNG. What happened?! And let’s not even talk about the running scenes. The pacing is terrible too. Episode 1 covered only a few chapters, but now they’re cramming in five chapters at once. 4 Episodes in total, really concerning. |
| I thought at first that I was watching the episode in 360p quality but it's just that the animation quality dropped somehow, I can't exactly define where but it really feels different from the eye candy that Ep 1 was. |
| this was probably the worst anime episode ive seen, what the fuck is going on? The pacing is horrendous , dont even get me started on the animation, how much time did they take for this shitpiece again? |
| The drop in quality is sad, but thats just the curse of Junji Ito Adaptions I guess. Still peak Psychological horror |
| Fuckkkk, this actually breaks my heart. Episode 1 obviously wasn't perfect, but at least it really nailed the atmosphere and animation, so its obvious flaws weren't that grating. But now that the production quality took an absolute nosedive, it really is one of the worst imaginable adaptations. What an awful bummer. When the adapation was announced, I was very cautious, especially after it had been delayed many times. But after the first episode, I was very optimistic. Now, I'm kinda just devastated. Thank god it's only 4 episodes long, cause I wouldn't be able to finish it if it were any longer. |
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| Garbage episode I was already very skeptical of Episode 1 pacing overall, but this is just another thing entirely, a complete different show. Like, you could hardly recognize their faces. Damn. |
| Could became a good fighting game, duh! They already got superpowers, Lack interesting locations though. |
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| dogpiss episode.. |
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| Ah, so they used all the money up on the first episode alone hahaha. God, that quality drop is so rough but I'm still invested. |
| The episode just kept getting worse and worse as it progressed. The worst part of the episode in my opinion was the snail students and whatever they were doing when they were put together. |
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| RIDE THE SPIRAL TO THE END IT MAY JUST GO WHERE NO-ONE'S BEEN SPIRAL OUT KEEP GOING I just watched both episodes with my dad. Damn good stuff so far. Animation took a hit in this episode, but frankly, that just amps up the spooky factor. |
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| considering the outsourcing, this is a big middle finger to all the naive ones saying China was gonna replace Japan in terms of animation. |
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| lost all longevity the show would have with this episode |
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| People being socked by the dip in animation quality is amusing, but the show was like this since episode 1. Frankly the thing its adapting was not that good to begin with. People just overrate Junji Ito like crazy cause they were exposed to his work when they were kids, rate it highly cause its popular so they dont wanna stand out, or are just easily spooked by gore due to individual or cultural reasons. They ignore/disregard the hilarious comedic timing of his work and the absurdity of the concepts, which just end up pulling you away from any horror mood that was attempted. It takes serious work to make Junji Ito stuff scary, adapting it faithfully wont work cause the work was designed for manga panels, animation is its own monster. Most of the adaptations are also bad, riddled with typical bad Japanese CGI that just make things worse, this one is no different. Its not the kind of CGI that enhances the horror aspect, it detracts from it. Also the pacing is awful, it speedruns through the different scenarios, doesnt give you time to digest any of the creepy moments on their own. Again, this was a problem from the first episode, but somehow people are only noticing it now. But hey, I guess the rating of the work spiraling down is thematically appropriate. |
 "Don't let your memes be dreams."- Ancient Japanese proverb, probably |
| i am not gonna complain about the animation quality i've seen worse btw whats the ed is called i love it is it on spotify ?? |
| For a story about spirals, it was surprising to find out that they had so many corners to cut. I don't want to think that they spent 3 years making that masterpiece of a first episode only to run out of budget and made the others as an afterthought but it seems to be going down that route. Loved how tense the lighthouse scenes felt at least. The Junji Ito curse continues. Just hoping they're holding back the budget to make the last episode look good like they do in One Piece instead of it spiraling downwards in quality every week. It's a ridiculous ask for a goddamn 4 episode-long show of all things but I just want to believe... |
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| Is it just me or did the running scenes look like they used AI as a reference... I see a lot of videos online where people use AI to recreate old Vines and almost always, the AI makes the people in the video run, and in a very odd way, like what was shown in episode 2 of Uzumaki. |
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| They fucked up a FOUR episode show? It wasn't unwatchable but this will definitely be remembered as one of the adaptations of all time.. |
| Man, the animation in this episode was...rough, to say the least. What the fuck was that punch? Really hope their entire budget didn't go on the first episode. |
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| What the heck happened to the animation?? |
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Man, the animation in this episode was...rough, to say the least. What the fuck was that punch?
Really hope their entire budget didn't go on the first episode.
Really hope their entire budget didn't go on the first episode.
| @Satyr_icon Again, that's not how budgets work in anime. The production committee sets the budget for the entire project. The main issue here was both the studio and director change. In episode 1 we had Hiroshi Nagahama and Studio Fugaku, while in episode 2 we had Yūji Moriyama as director (who is known to be mid as fuck) and Studio Akatsuki, outsourcing parts of the animation to Chinese animators, that's probably why not only the animation but the storyboard and directing fell hard in this 2nd episode. |
| Is it ok that I laughed thru all of this? Its like a parody lol |
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@Satyr_icon Again, that's not how budgets work in anime. The production committee sets the budget for the entire project. The main issue here was both the studio and director change. In episode 1 we had Hiroshi Nagahama and Studio Fugaku, while in episode 2 we had Yūji Moriyama as director (who is known to be mid as fuck) and Studio Akatsuki, outsourcing parts of the animation to Chinese animators, that's probably why not only the animation but the storyboard and directing fell hard in this 2nd episode.
| @fudish123 wdym again, I don't even know you lol But thanks for the info. |
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@fudish123 wdym again, I don't even know you lol
But thanks for the info.
But thanks for the info.
| @Satyr_icon I've been saying this repeatedly in various Uzumaki threads, that's why I wrote again XD. There's more dirt in this story, though: check this thread here https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2183171 |
| Junji Ito's works always been like a dark comedy to me. It's horrifying, but has dark humor in it. So, this episode is more like a comedy. And whole series with it's pacing issues and overwhelming expectations just confirms it. |
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| well that is some shit tier animation what the hell |
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