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I harbor such a deep distaste for this series it spurred this review, if that's worth anything. Its bad enough to have a bad adaptation, but we have had bad Junji Ito adaptations before. But to show that the talent was there to do it, then drop the ball so hard with episode 2 and 3. I truly hate that. The first episode shows talent in weaving chapters together, translating the manga panels to moving, horrifying images. Everything was fantastic, but there was a small hint of pacing issues that could easily be overlooked. The second episode though. Good god the second episode. The ... animation dropped off a clip, using cheap, stilted run cycles that just faltered so hard. The rotoscope became lazy, and everything fell apart. The thing I have seen less of though being discussed is the drop of in pacing. The first epsiode weaved together stories, horror beats and set up to future storylines well. The rushing of chapters, cutting of scenes that add/setup horror for future scenes was so poorly done the story becomes incomprehensible. The thing that set me off the most though was straight up cutting of major scenes, iconic panels not even translated, and CENSORSHIP. on ADULT swim. Adult Swim should be ashamed to have even released this.