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| Ahh yes... Junji Ito, the man needs no introduction to me for I've known of his works for a long time, albeit I have never actually watched any anime adaptation of his works... Until now. Right off the bat, we got a combination of monotone color and CGI as the visual that we'll see from henceforth, It's as though the manga panels itself is coming to life and the quirkiness that you'd usually find revolting actually plays into the overall creepiness of the episode in a whole. ESPECIALLY when the uzumakis (Not Naruto Uzumaki~obligatory jokes) started to appear in people's body and distort their own limbs, this is particularly visible during moments when Shuuichi's father's insanity and obsessiveness over the Uzumaki are shown, especially when he's moving his eyeballs, yoo that was freaky. Nevertheless, I felt that everything happens really quickly, was the pacing really this quick? Seeing the number of episodes that will adapt this adaptation totalling only 4 normal length episodes made me realize that perhaps it's not a long story to begin with. I love the creepiness of the entire episode, the OST and sound effects really played into that atmosphere for the good, though nothing is explicitly 'scary' I still appreciate that the vibe is consistent throughout. The story itself is engaging enough, this suspense and the implication that the town has been cursed with an unknown phenomenon had me hooked to know more about... 🍥 U Z U M A K I 🌀 |
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| I am used to horror stories taking a slow time to start and build up to its horror. But this just was 100 mph right off the bat. And this shit was genuinely disturbing. The worst part is that knew of three images from Uzumaki... all of them were in this episode, so I dread what comes next. At first when I saw that this was CGI I was slightly disappointed, that was until I saw how well it imitated the feel of a manga page, and how the slight uncanny vally of some of the movements just helped me to be uncomfortable and shocked by the horrendous imagery. So as an anime only watcher, let me have this one bit of speculation. "The Spiral" is some lovecraftian being trying to turn (heh) the world into its image. |
| I feel like this first episode is a great demonstration that even the best animation in the world can't save god-awful pacing. Like, what were they thinking? This episode felt more like a demo reel for an animation studio than an TV episode trying to tell a story. for me this is like a 4/10 or 5/10 I think it also proves that people will heap endless praise onto any subpar show so long as it has high-quality animation and hate on anything with more limited animation. In my eyes, Junji Itou: Maniac is way better. At least Maniac preserves the excellent pacing of the stories it adapts. |
Mega_MegaOct 4, 6:15 PM
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| Finally, after five year of waiting through various delays. Junji Itou's Uzumaki has finally been adapted into an anime and so far its just as scary as is advertised. It seems like an episodic anime that ties into the main plot of the small town loosing itself to the spirals starting with Sunichi's father being obsessed with spirals and ended up dying to become one. Production I.G. as one of the producers made sure the studios took their time to adapt Junji's work properly and it looked like it paid off this time. |
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Reply to Landonime
@sxrpente I mean I have. Kinda overrated honestly..
| @Landonime Lol. Lmao, even. |
My candies!!!:      |
| The interconnection of the stories have been done so perfectly. |
| Absolutely top notch adaptation of the manga. Nails the atmosphere and art style completely |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Impressive art and Junji Ito does not fail to give me the creeps. Perhaps it's better for me to save these episodes for Halloween? |
| Watching a bit late now. It really had my attention with this kind of animation it kind of feels hypnotic to see. Character movements look strange where they get that uncanny higher frame rate at times but it works. |
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OMG! Ouch! Growing up, I had a friend who had intrusive thoughts doing this shit. Also...  The girl with a scar on her forehead who had a passive charm to draw in guys should've had her story fleshed out more than just pace through it. At least have her arc end in 2 or 3 episodes. She's introduced as calm and indifferent to the guy's attention, then by the end of the episode She's a raving lunatic. |
Janethan23Oct 6, 4:03 PM
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| A great first episode to this splendid manga. They did a good job of replicating the atmosphere of the manga and it certainly looks and feels eerie and scary atleast. |
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| I've seen too many spirals for a day. |
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| Wow, that was amazing! |
| Well, this was quite an acid trip for only 1 episode. The horror in this was spectacular imho with Azami's whole spiral situation being really gruesome and also the dub was pretty good I say. Looking forward to the next ones! |
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