Uzumaki Episode 3 Discussion

That spring zombie kid was REALLY not needed to be crammed at the end with this overstuffed episode. Last episode obviously won't reach destruction of town unless skips whole bunch of stuff like whirlwind pirates and eating snails.

@bastek66
They managed to cram everything into the last episode :D It didn't make any sense, but neither did the original manga. This isn't horror, this is comedy like most of Junji Ito's work.

The animation is better than episode 2 but man... that pacing just absolutely destroy the entire hospital segment.

okay this show gave me yet another reason to stay away from pregnant women

The combination of the chapters of Shuichi's mother in the hospital and the mosquitoes was sensible and logical, after all both situations took place in the hospital. The only thing missing for me was the information that Shuichi's mother, after the damage to the cochlea in her ear, had problems with her vagus and therefore felt like the whole world was spinning, which drove her mad - in the manga this was clearly indicated and overtly stated. Her death was also very vaguely shown and passed unremarked. Similarly, in the manga, Shuichi was already getting crazy through grieving for his parents and spirals, which is why Kirie invited him for dinner with her family where they served him food on those cursed plates and why he reacted so strongly when he realised what he was eating from - again, this context was missing in the anime. Evidently, the anime creators misplaced their emphasis and looked to save money in the wrong places, cutting out important parts of the plot that rushes forward without any order or composition. One second Kirie's father's workshop is on fire, the next second they're sitting at a table as if nothing had happened, a hurricane comes along and sucks them in and throws them into a pond where they almost drown, and the next scene they're sitting at the table again as if none of this had happened, and so on. And then there's the "jack in the box" guy tacked on at the very end with no order or composition, they didn't even show how he gets out of the coffin, ugh. This is what happens when you try to cram 20 chapters into 4 episodes.