I hope Uzumaki will be a success.

I don't know, The first episode was good and enjoyable but in terms of horror, I think the first episode of shinsekai yori was a lot more scary. I've read the manga of uzumaki and it was 9/10 cause the peak of horror for me is still shinsekai yori, and I don't think Uzumaki will rich that point.

I hope so too, at least to be known as a pretty decent adaptation for once. Some criticisms are warranted, like the pacing, but others I feel are not, like that I believe the uncanny animation from the rotoscoping is intentional and works to the anime's benefit.

At the very least, it sits at a MAL score of 8 right now, which it will probably float around for the next couple episodes. I anticipate a dip upon release of the last episode, as I know some people won't like the way Uzumaki's story ends. After that, I'll just be happy with it being at least a 7 after it's done airing and everything settles down, assuming I feel the same about it then. From what I heard about the other Ito anime (which I haven't watched yet because I'm still blind to a lot of the manga), I think this will turn out to be the best among them, as low a bar as that may be, and I would really like that to be reflected if it holds true.

@MoonSpider Personally I loved the animation because Ito's work need something different, like his art, and this kind of animation gets the job done perfectly (and its great to watch of course). Now about the ending, I think the majority of people know what they are watcing and this is a cosmic horror anime, with Lovecraft written all over it, so yeah the ending is gonna be...well...strange! If you are talking about the Netflix Ito anime STAY AWAY, its trash.

@EzioMorte bbg I have the power of autism within me - when I get hooked into something, I look into all avenues. The Collection/Maniac series, the horrible Gyo movie, live-action adaptations, all of it, anything I can get my grubby little hands on. Probably not worth my time, but I neeeeeeed to see for myself o.o The only reason I haven't yet is because I need money to buy the manga, and I promised myself I'd read all the manga before watching their adaptations for this man's work in particular.

That being said, since his name is so mainstream in the anime/manga community, I'm guessing there will be a lot of people tuning in who never followed this man's work before to know how abstract and open-ended the story concepts often are, and even though I really enjoy it even I felt pretty thrown reaching Uzumaki's ending for the first time. I don't have much hope that the "majority" of people know that it's cosmic horror coming their way, so I feel like that dip with episode 4 will be inevitable, but that's just my personal speculation.

It will be for sure, the anime looks so good till now.