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Oct 8, 3:21 PM
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Dec 2020
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i hate the idea of this 600+ page work being crammed into four episodes, but i could've looked past the sped up pace had the animation looked good, but this episode was atrocious
Oct 8, 3:21 PM

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Aug 2007
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We all know about the quality in this episode. I am sad.
Oct 8, 3:48 PM
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Aug 2009
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I do love the art of this series. Junji Ito is so powerful in black and white ... but everything happens just SO FAST. Stories from the manga just got thrown in so quickly.
Oct 8, 5:05 PM

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Jan 2019
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I don't think I've ever seen something fall off this hard, this fast. And it's not like it's a pilot for a 12 episode show, it's only 4 episodes!

The turn from horror to comedy is almost impressive, I can't drop it because it's still so entertaining.

Oct 8, 5:10 PM
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Mar 2019
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The Snail stuff is more elaborate in the Manga, this was rushed through.
Shame!!!
Oct 8, 5:29 PM

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Dec 2019
950
This is horrendous and pretty saddening. No way in hell is this the Production I.G I've been praising all along
Oct 8, 5:48 PM

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Nov 2023
51
bro WHAT happened
My candies!!!:
Oct 8, 5:52 PM

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Nov 2023
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I get that the level of animation showcased in the first episode must be incredibly difficult to maintain throughout the entirety of a series, seeing as it was so detailed. Still, I thought that given the fact that this is only a 4 episodes long series, and it has been in production for what feels like forever, the drop in quality wouldn't be SO astonishing. Truly, one of the biggest fumbles I've seen this year.
My candies!!!:
Oct 8, 6:53 PM
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May 2017
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score dropped a bit, likely due to the animation decline. But fck it, i love this weird shit
Oct 8, 8:55 PM

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May 2010
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There is a noticeable drop off in the animation but its not as bad as everyone says. It still has style and it feels like just the snake romance scenes were mostly the ones that were off.
Oct 8, 9:40 PM

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Jan 2022
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I only saw a few clips, but I can tell Uzumaki died for Kimi ni Todoke S3.

And does the source material really have 600+ pages and this has four episodes? You know what, there's a good chance The Promised Neverland S2 would look like absolute cinema in comparison.
Oct 8, 9:41 PM
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May 2020
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Honestly it was bad but I still loved the story the animation quility might have dropped but thats nothing to stop the scary stories from scaryng me stright
Oct 8, 10:30 PM
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Mar 2021
111
Meu deus do céu.... Que merda foi esse episodio??!! Não tem fluidez, não tem qualidade, parece que foi feito por uma equipe minúscula, agora realmente parece como um anime de 90S
Sinceramente, sabotaram o anime ou o que????? O que me impressiona é que isso está sendo feito há mais de 4 anos
Oct 9, 6:46 AM
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Jan 2019
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Awful animation especially considering the first episode was so well animated using rotoscoping. There was the one rotoscoped scene with the teacher which was the only good looking one. It also feels rushed.
Oct 9, 10:14 AM

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Jun 2022
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The story is still creepy but the animation was in a downward "spiral".
VickyAlexOct 9, 10:18 AM
Oct 9, 10:27 AM
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Oct 2015
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This is my personal opinion and I'm not sure what is going on with the production.

However, this show was delayed multiple times and and was in produciton for over 5 years if I remember correctly.

Episode 1, as many other people I think would agree with me, was great and truly art/a masterpiece.

Yet, they still had to cut costs and went full-on budget mode in episode 2, which was insane to me. Episode 2 animations, pacing and also the content that was adapted, felt very rushed and to my disappointment, just not that good (of course in comparison with episode 1)
Oct 9, 1:57 PM
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Sep 2024
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I did notice the animation quality drop this episode - but the climax points are still done well!
I also find that the pacing of this episode to be as rushed as the first - which dilutes the horror and suspense the original manga had.
The manga had been effective because it felt a lot more personal (in a way) like you are watching your neighbor's psyche descend slowly from the spiral - but the series
is more like an acid trip of events squashed in 30minutes TT (in the politest way possible.)
Oct 9, 3:17 PM

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Mar 2020
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just bomb the whole town atp
Oct 9, 5:38 PM
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Feb 2022
32
Animation quality took a turn but at least we’re still finally getting it, I’m not mad
Oct 9, 6:49 PM
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Jan 2017
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falta um cor ta mutio foda
Oct 9, 7:21 PM
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Feb 2019
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Guys this cannot be the author that everyone says is really good at doing horror things, like I even saw the manga, this doesn't even give you goosebumps, nothing, that's just art of making distorted things, like can we talk about this?
Oct 9, 8:15 PM

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Why is everyone running the way you run in dreams? ๐Ÿ˜ญ

But seriously... wow. And here I thought Episode 1 was disappointing because of its awful pacing. Now I kinda wish that was the only issue with this adaptation.
Oct 9, 9:20 PM
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Oct 2024
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while the noticable drop in quality is there, it's still a great episode, and i feel bad that the creators couldn't put the amount of effort they wanted to into this anime.
Oct 9, 9:50 PM

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Dec 2019
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What the fuck?

What the actual fuck?

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK OF EVERY SINGLE THING IS THIS?

I swear to God there is so much to dig into here that I am having a stroke. The whole thing with the snail humans got me a bout to fucking puke.
Pretend there's something flashy and cool here.
Oct 9, 10:21 PM

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May 2019
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Man, I don't know why but as others have pointed out the animation and production values really fell off from the first episode. Also, it wasn't as impactful as the first episode and just like that this is turning out into a more average show.

Having said that hopefully things improve for the remaining 2 episodes but even if they do I began finding myself annoyed that the 2 main characters are staying in the town despite what has happened to themselves and those around them.
Oct 9, 10:53 PM
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Jun 2024
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Terribly done. A disgrace
Oct 10, 5:00 AM
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May 2021
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There’s really too much going on, the pacing ruins this more than the animation
Oct 10, 5:22 AM

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Mar 2019
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its not good, they shoud have go for one story at the time, not combine them all together
Oct 10, 5:42 AM
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Sep 2020
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I can't believe the higher ups had lightning in a bottle with this studio making episode one, and then forced them to rush it. Also it's pretty obvious at this point that 4 episodes wasn't enough to fit everything from the book into this mini series. This could've been the greatest adaptation of all time, and instead, it's going down in history as another mid Junji Ito adaptation attempt, with a really good first episode.
Oct 10, 6:48 AM
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Aug 2024
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???????????????????
Oct 10, 8:21 AM
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Sep 2021
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That was some serious drop in quality, disappointed.
Oct 10, 8:52 AM
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Mar 2017
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More insanity, it's great
Oct 10, 9:47 AM
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Sep 2020
7
'twas a good show.
Oct 10, 10:16 AM
Absolute Zenith

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Mar 2016
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The CGI animation toom a massive dip in today's episode, especially that chase scene in the middle of the ep, lmao so goofy.

Anyways, more spiral-induced fear! However this time as opposed to literal spirals, the phenomenon has branched out to figurative forms of spirals, such as the connection of love, the entangling of fates and the personality of being twisted. We see that these spirals have some sort of consciousness of their own with how Kirie's hair acts of its own will. This lead to that hilariously out-of-place shojo-shonen battle scene between hair vs hair, wut.

What is most creepy of all is how the spirals have the capability to transform humans, not just inflict them with obsessive paranoia but physically transform their physiology to something like those freaky snail-humans.

The moral of the story?
Don't bully your classmates or else they and you will get turned to giant snails and make eggs together. Yuck
Oct 10, 12:47 PM
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Feb 2023
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The adaptations are legit cursed.
Oct 10, 12:56 PM
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Jun 2024
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worst anime episode ever
Oct 10, 4:57 PM
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Apr 2022
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it suck
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Oct 10, 9:47 PM
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May 2024
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unique and suspensful
Oct 11, 2:27 AM
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Oct 2019
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Well people really overreacting for sure, sure the quality of Animation was drop but only on few scenes.

Episode 2 still creppy and disturbing enough to me, Hair Spiral battle, Human Snail, the fcking Lighthouse that burn people.
I just want to know what kind of weed that Junji Ito consume why he writing this? lol
Oct 11, 8:15 AM
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Feb 2018
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The animation went down the toilet
Oct 11, 8:26 AM
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Nov 2009
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As usual, 90% of MAl cares only about animation quality. Story, voice acting, direction are meaningless around these parts
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Oct 11, 9:41 AM
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Mar 2018
146
rating low only because of the animation quality dip
Oct 11, 12:13 PM
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Mar 2020
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Powerpoint animation.
Oct 11, 12:52 PM

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Dec 2021
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How the mighty has fallen
๐Ÿฅฒ

Hello Aru is here
Oct 11, 8:14 PM

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I've been enjoying this series so far, it's actually been really creepy watching each chapter come to life!

I don't think the animation is bad, tbh I think these animators are not being compensated for their worth and are cranking these anime out at the expense of their health, and it's dumb af complaining about it when this energy can go towards shaming the big corporations for the financial scraps and mental health dilemma they put aimators and studios through.
desu desu binches
Oct 11, 10:22 PM
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Aug 2023
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Regular animation
Oct 12, 7:55 AM

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Feb 2019
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my reaction of ths episode: ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ I lol'ed at kirie vs black haired girl fight
Crazy for Siyun Baek and Park Yunsu


Oct 12, 10:44 AM

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Jan 2018
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Reply to Farabeuf
As usual, 90% of MAl cares only about animation quality. Story, voice acting, direction are meaningless around these parts

@Farabeuf

The story is literally incomprehensible with the pace they've chosen, it feels like it's a random smashup of events one after the other lol.
Oct 12, 1:18 PM

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May 2009
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Aside from animation downgrade, they crammed too many chapters in this episode.
Oct 12, 11:55 PM
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Jun 2024
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pathetic animation....
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