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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- They are really not messing with deaths in this show. Just straight out throwing it with the eerie feeling of despair... Just when I thought they might make this episode feel a bit lighter in tone with the circus act, the episode still draws in a feeling of insecurity. Didn't surprise me that the show performance would have some problems. |
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Acernos said: Did you watch by WOWOW channel? after last week, I'm worried about crunchyroll displaying a censored version. The TV version is mostly uncensored. Idk about CR's version but this had blood although personally, I didn't think the episode was really gory. |
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| First story was creepy AF,but second one was pretty lame. |
| This was a good episode and the first story was one of the few that I found very creepy. I'm slowly starting to like the art style as well. Looking good |
| the first story is pretty good, pretty much faithful to the manga, mainly becuase the story is really simple and straightforward, but the inconsistency of the character faces art is really bugging me. the second one is just straight weird man, Junji Ito is at it again, making us questioning every single thing that happened here, but it’s still kind of entertaining, a lot of dead this time, unlike the previous episodes |
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| The first story was very creepy with all those heads connected like that. So many people died in the second story. That was no ordinary circus. Those poor performers. |
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| holy shit the first story was fucked up! |
| Memo to myself, don't eat anything while watching this anime, I did that during the slug girl and now the forehead/brain caterpillar and it grossed me out. The second story wasn't scary at all but watching all the "accidents" made me feel really uncomfortable. |
| What happened to the art in this episode?? I was so distracted by the inconsistencies that I couldn't enjoy it at all :( |
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| Sorry ringmaster, I'm gonna need a better woman than that to join. Honored ancestors is pretty lame too, what's even the point of all those memories when they do nothing with it. |
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| First one was creepy like in the manga, the second one is pretty funny and lame but in the manga you get to see how the ringmaster actually looks like as a demon. It's a bit creepy, pity they didn't add it to the anime. |
| There were a lot of inconsistencies in the animation this episode and I found it really distracting, if the animation was better I feel it really would've made the first story a lot creepier. Second story wasn't really scary or creepy at all but it was still sort of enjoyable at least for me. |
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| The animation quality is absolutely horrendous this time around. Both stories was nice enough but they are brought down by the absolute horrid that is the animation. Guess only the easily pleased crowd and those that doesn't drop stuff is still around right now watching this. I'm just gonna stick with it until the end but I may as well give this a 5 once the whole show is finished. Can't really complain about the overall aesthetic though because horror as a whole doesn't sell when it comes to anime for years. Still can't believe Marchen Madchen has worse score than this. |
| The art was so bad, but the stories were good, especially the circus |
| EL PSY KONGROO!!! |
| Lol that second story was more funny than scary, made me laugh more than actual comedy shows |
| The first story was cool, I always did like that one in the manga. My friend and I were laughing at the second story quite a bit. That one didn’t really seem to go anywhere at all. I don’t remember reading that one very well so I may go back. |
| ok wow they people were litrally dying and the girl is in disstress... I am startig to think he can't even die if she wants too |
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| Bad art and animation , boring stories without true conclusion and both of are very predictable results. Getting worse every week. |
| Story-wise, I liked the first episode. I found it very creepy. Circus has always been a thing I don't like, so the episode was meh. I agree that the artwork was kinda off too. There were frames in the first half where I went "really?" because the faces were crooked or something like that. |
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| I'm still surprised that they decided to adapt 'My Dear Ancestors'. Weakest episode along with the previous one |
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| Both stories were pretty lame. I think if the animation was better or more stylised at least, the first one wouldn't have been so bad but yeah this show is such a mixed bag. |
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| The first one was creepy af. That caterpillar and then all the faces attached were disturbing. To think they had to walk like that afterwards... yikes. The end of the story was very bleak. The second was enjoyable, but I found it rather weird and funny instead of creepy or disturbing lol |
| wow... the art of this episode was extremely bad.. even low budget hentai have better art then this ep.. what the hell is the studio even doing? even the character desgin sucked.. . the 1st part was somewhat creepy but i actually quite like the 2nd part.. if only the animation was a little better |
| I was pretty disappointing in this episode, I mean some episodes where misses in terms of story but I could look past that cause of the animation. But with this one the animation took a serious nose dive into just awfulness that it just couldn't recover which is sad especially considering the source material it was working from is by far better looking. I'm not saying that it has to be one to one but it should at least be fateful to the original. Anyways I don't wanna go for a rant or anything but I through the first story was okay though needed longer to flesh it out and with the second story I thought it was a bit meh but had some dark humour to it so it was alright. I give it a 3/10 basically a big old meh... |
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| I binged the episodes last night, and I don't know about the animation (seems as cheap as possible), but the stories themselves are pretty inconsistent. Some are really creepy and thought provoking, but some definitely fall short. Overall, I'm still really interested. This episode was very unsettling. The first part was creepy and weird, because Makoto seems very normal and almost like a good guy, but then we find out that the girl's mind intentionally displaced those memories. The circus one was only good because of ending. Is Lelia a demon too? Is she in cahoots with the ringmaster? Or is she honestly someone who needs to be saved? The poor clown dying at the end did it for me. Was it Lelia or the ringmaster who made the knife fall??? |
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| The art was so bad this time it hurt |
| You'd need a much hotter woman than that to sell me an idea that several guys sacrificed their life for her. This is one of the very few moments that I have an issue with lip-syncing in Japanese dub. It looks horrible and doesn't even fit with his dialogue. |
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| I liked both stories, but I'm disappointed by how they kill the performers in the second story, I mean, it's better if it hits the head right? than the chest part so it's a bit anticlimatic :/ still pretty good though. |
Bakanzu said: The art was so bad this time it hurt I totally agree and some parts where unintentionally funny cause of the low quality animation. |
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| Honoured Ancestors was a very faithful adaptation with good sound design to boot. Even the janky animation managed to compliment the unnerving atmosphere IMO. In terms of the plot the ending in particular always left me feeling incredibly unclean, with poor Risa's mind breaking at the end. It's a terrible implication that sticks with you 🤢. On the other hand The Circus is Here was a more mixed bag. The janky animation just couldn't keep up with what should of been a segment with lots of kinetic movement and while the adaptation hit most of the crucial story notes, it removed things like the circus troupe interacting with one another a bit and the main character's sister who comes late and just stumbles across the dead bodies. It's not bad, but definitely could've been better. Overall this episode was better than last week's episode. This one gets a 4.5/5 out of me. |
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Ashleigh_Akari1 said: Bakanzu said: The art was so bad this time it hurt I totally agree and some parts where unintentionally funny cause of the low quality animation. The part in The Circus is Here that made me laugh really hard was the part where the three guys fell off the tightrope and those two clowns carried them off, but they used the same animation of those two clowns carrying the red clown from earlier. It made it look so bad I thought it was a joke. |
| Ahh I didn't notice that they reused that animation hehe I guess they where cutting more corners than I thought. Personally I just want more of the body horror stuff like in the story Shiver in episode 4 cause that one really got under my skin and had pretty decent animation. Anyhoo I just hope the next episodes are better than this. |
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| I'm gonna be completely honest. I found myself liking almost every other episode up to this point in some way, but never being particularly horrified. I think the only time I was actually spooked was the episode with the dreaming forever story. While I seen people critique the animation, it was never a notable issue when I just viewed it casually. In the sense that I had to actively LOOK for animation flaws. Yes, they were there but not in the sense that they were overabundant like some other particularly terrible shows. Still not a great thing, though. However, I read some of the discussion forum posts for this episode ahead of time and wow. I was surprised. I noticed 3 animation flaws that were very visible in the second story of this episode. Let me explain how this episode made me felt. The first story was OK. I wasn't super creeped out, but it had a little creepy of an atmosphere. However, the MC got me kind of annoyed. In a lot of Ito's stories, the character can't escape because the monster/antagonist outspeeds them or they just physically cannot get away. In this story, I realized that her 'husband' was physically not very strong and had to pretty much crawl everywhere. This led me to two conclusions. Why the hell didn't she just run away instead of going to look at him put his ancestor's craniums on his head? It was more than obvious that's why he went into that room. She SHOULD have just run away then since she was already trying to run away before? Why did she suddenly care? And secondly, she should have EASILY been able to escape if she hadn't fallen down from fear. I don't get that at all. Yes, you can argue that she is an easily frightened person and she fainted, but it should have been obvious to her that she could get away from him and get to safety? Seemed like a lazy conclusion by Ito, if that's how the original ended. Annnnnd the second story. Really? That one was really weird. It didn't come across as scary at all. I think the story fell flat because people died every 2 minutes into the circus. Once you knew that the performers would just keep dying, you knew most of the story. The only way it really could have gotten creepy was by playing with the ringmaster a little more since he was apparently a 'demon' of some sort. I mean, he pretty much used magic to make that knife kill the clown. I feel like I was supposed to feel bad for the people in the crowd, but how the hell would they fall for that? Who would want to partake in a circus where you'll obviously die because some old dude says he'll let you marry somebody who isn't even his daughter? what the fuck? |
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| Really enjoyed the first segment. Ridiculous sure, but seemed like an interesting way by the author to be dealing with marriage pressure. Second segment was too predictable and the suspense just didn't work. Maybe if they either managed to sell us on why the circus was fun before going into killing it's acts and revealed its secret more slowly or just went full on comical with the idea, how incompetent the circus employees are, that they all just end up killing themselves, it could have worked better. But the way it was, it was just a mess. |
| Jesus, the animation in this episode was atrocious. What the hell happened? |
| Solid episode, but it seemed the production quality was a lot lower than usual |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| Both shorts were very nice!!! The first, the hereditary head was horrific!!! The second, the eternal circus was a surprise!!! |
| MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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| Poor animation this episode :o well well, i did like the circus part |
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| Dunno what to think of the first part, felt very weird and with very little explanation. Second one was more clear i think. Some demon cross dressed as human, saw a very beautiful girl and lured her into helping him, put her on top of that platform not letting her go and asking others to help save her, since she is so beautiful, and the idea of marrying her, baited everyone into helping her and using tricks. Demon probably doesnt see humans very highly, he only sees them as a way to entertain him, which they did by hoping to marry her and then seeing their hopes and dream crush when they are killed by some trick. And the girl seeing so many deaths is just left in despair. I think its one of the most "realtiic" stories because most other ones it feels like the character is getting mindcontrolled-mindfucked, while in this one its a mere manipulation and pushing the right strings to get what he wants. The other question tho is why the hell was the guy in the second story even shown ,he was commenting how beautiful she was on the side while watching the show, but it didnt go anywhere, i thought he would try to help her, but no, he just kept sitting in one place lol. |
| watching the first part made me want to use a sledgehammer and squash all those attached brains |
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