Reviews

an absolute failure of the source material in every aspect. Junji Ito Collection tries to copy Ito's panels beat for beat but loses so much tension and character in it's poor execution. I feel bad for anyone exposed to this show before having read the manga. Ito's mastery deserves a more fair amount of gravitas and care in order to translate to animation. This extremely sloppy rush-job of a production is obviously meant to cater to Ito fans, but the staff who has handled this project seems to have little to no passion for what they're putting out there. Ito's stories are carried by his stark artistic style; shadows are black as can be, blood spatter looks like it came from a real crime scene, he always pushes the uncanny valley with his monsters so that when they are revealed in the manga you will be frozen in surprise in the presence of the image. While I can say that the color palette used is relatively accurate to his own color choices, the "style" used by studio DEEN is rather understated and cheap. It's obvious the animators did not want to stay true to Ito's style, as characters will frequently snap in and out of states of generic seinen style and ito style, often being in the same scene, in adjacent frames; that is when anything is being animated at all. Get used to long dragged out scenes aimed at being atmospheric, ultimately coming off as a thinly veiled excuse to pad out time so they don't have to put in any effort. Every moment of this show feels like they're cutting corners just to make the deadline. The features of the characters change drastically as you can plainly see the animators becoming bored with a project that's way over their heads. I hate this anime so much because the source material is really important in the scope of Japanese art, and people who are new to the guro genre would see what could've been a classic and instantly dismiss it for being conveyed so poorly. 1/10 do not watch. It's even worse than Gyo. Just read the manga.