The Junji Ito Collection is Disappointing Garbage

The Junji Ito Collection is a disappointment, as an anime, as a piece of horror, and as an adaption. Lets talk about it
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Song List:
Memory of Waters- Silent Hill 2 OST
Float up From Dream - Silent Hill 3 OST
End of Small Sanctuary - Silent Hill 3 OST
Lifefromed - Undiscovery
Pool - It Follows OST (Disasterpiece)
Original Personality - Killer 7 OST
Sonic Mayhem - Futureland (Featuring Power Glove)
The Junji Ito Collection ED - Jyocho

[@supermouse73]

I read the title as “Junji Ito is Disappointing Garbage” and literally had a heart attack

[@whenyounutinhermouthandshe]

Yeah you can't read.

[@supermouse73]

That’s right, I am illiterate 😌

[@user-kw5vz2vb4j]

@@whenyounutinhermouthandshe Yeah, sometimes your brain hardwires itself to read what you expect it to say- Like how when you read "dig bick" lots of people automatically reads it as big dick instead*.

[@SuncliffEnjoyer]

@@user-kw5vz2vb4j That got me lmao

[@midnightartist43]

e48 FUCKING- I read it as big dick-

[@mhamieyoo]

I think everyone surely agree on one thing. "The manga was better."

[@jery3385]

Always is

[@jery3385]

@revilo 2000 fair enough

[@retroz3757]

@@jery3385 and poopy farty owe

[@Raccon_Detective.]

It always is.

[@dawn3589]

Nope Not always

[@Darkpsy97]

Junji Ito's manga style would've fit perfectly in the 80s - 90s. Back when things were more realistic drawn and darker anime actually felt creepy by atmosphere alone

[@xxZwei]

Yes, actually i see it. Something with a more serious and dark atmosphere as for example cowboy bebop or akira.

[@Infamous.booberry]

Well I don't see why it cant fit now. 80's-90's ot would have fit with the more realistic style I do agree however personally I love the uncanny valley of it being realistically accureate in trails of blood. Like how horrorfying it can be for knowing people in your everyday lives that you love and trust could be more then what you originally thought and knowing they they can be monsters like the ones your told not to acknowledge as a young child could be closer then you think or know. I personally do wish the style was more anime esc type of style (cartoonie) but again personally I like the realistic style because of how it makes me feel when things do get alittle tence and bone chilling. Ik you never said you didn't like it I just wanted to say my two sence on the matyer lol

[@samueldeadman5733]

Comparing the Berserk 97 adaptation to modern adaptations is a great example of this

[@rokamayono2312]

That actually sounds pretty cool!

[@weedweeb9211]

Well, you can thank the economic scale of Japan in those years. Its called the golden age for a reason. The amount of money they have let them to animate in detail and free to choose what to animate and do projects out of passion and not worry about money. Nowadays, even if you decide to animate them in those style, you just don't have the luxury that time period provides for them

[@youngnblue9279]

the thing that frustrated me the most while I was watching the series, is that they literally didn't even ACTUALLY animated the characters, there were just a bunch of shots in many scenes where the creatures were just static with an off voice saying the dialogues, it felt like they just painted the manga panels and stitched them onto the chapter. so disappointing

[@hoefornanami8863]

Fr

[@jae_came34]

Ya

[@peterang78]

It kinda remind me of those 1966 Marvel Cartoons. Except in those, they at least try to animate certain parts and find ways to give some action, even with a lower budget. It has a charm to it. Except for this anime. This barely has any charm or substance. You could pass this off as a color version of Juni Ito and it would be more appealing than this mess.

[@Misamane648]

Shut up and go watch Naruto😂

[@Misora7303]

Tbh, if they would have colored and narrated the manga, it would have look better

[@MRmagicmuffins]

Junji Ito fans: gets bad animation Berzerk fans: First time ?

[@juannaym8488]

I will never get over the Berserk adaption

[@kclarke421]

@@juannaym8488 😭😭😭

[@janogabor7697]

Hey atleast the third Golden Age movie was good. The 1997 anime was also kind of good.

[@juannaym8488]

@@janogabor7697 that's true, I really love 97 anime, despite it being kinda low-budget. I think it captured the manga very well and all the VAs from the dub did a fantastic job portraying the characters But I always wanted to see the other arcs animated. The mock eclipse is probably my favorite moment from any manga ever, and I would love to see it adapted well

[@janogabor7697]

@@juannaym8488 I would love a well done lost children chapter, but I guess mass child murder makes it hard to adapt. Which is I guess why berserk 2016 skipped it and thank god for that because I would have hated to see one of my favourite mini arcs be ruined.

[@crryptic]

Let's hope Adult Swim does some justice with their Uzumaki adaptation.

[@henry7696]

its 2019. itll be dogshit. approach these adaptations with as much scepticism as possible, then if its even 1% of the manga you can say it was better than expected

[@engravidavel]

it looks like is going to be amazing,and the fact of being black and White gonna make this scarier

[@engravidavel]

@@henry7696 i think is going to be really great

[@Evielicious]

@@henry7696 with as much "scepticism" as how you pronounce skepticism?

[@dcta51]

@@henry7696 fuck 2019 gotta do with it?

[@StumpedIDIT]

Junji Ito makes you disgusted due to how good his art is. The Collection makes you disgusted due to how bad it is.

[@lv4519]

The junji Ito collection is like when you put a metaphor into Google translate. It's not like the original, it's lost is meaning, it's similar in a way, yes, but it isn't gonna be the same no matter how you adapt it.

[@halffacedbone2998]

this is actually beautiful

[@audioribs1005]

What I hated about the show was how bad the acting was with people literally getting their necks getting nawed off by a woman with shark teeth and they just go "aah"

[@salara2748]

Thank you for your input, primo mafioso

[@bloppa9784]

The English dub does better screams, but sometimes to the point of overdoing it.

[@skyekelley8080]

@@bloppa9784 "The English dub does better screams" is a phrase I never, ever expected to read

[@TWolf-gt6if]

@@skyekelley8080 have you heard of our dubbed lord and savior, "Ghost Stories"?

[@Crobat7269]

@@TWolf-gt6if its good to see that youhaveacceptedghoststoriesasourlordandsaviourofdubs

[@ROCKSTAR3291]

Problem is Junji Ito's art style is very detailed, to fully animate his works, every single detail, is extremely expensive and time consuming. But his art style is crucial to the horror, it just won't work if the details are not in the anime. Instead of making a show, spend the budget on a few short & high quality anime films. I've seen some incredibly detailed short anime films, I think it's possible for Junji Ito's works.

[@catyoinnoriakitty1994]

then don’t animate it, if you aren’t gonna put in the effort. let people enjoy the manga

[@dcta51]

Right, it needs Studio Ghibli level animation.

[@lizar6488]

Uzimaki is gonna be a 6 ep special and coming out 2020 they have enough time for healthy animation and we don’t know how long they’ve been working on it plus it’s coming on toonami so big hype and love will be shown

[@kynguyenvinh3661]

@@lizar6488 I've seen the teaser of Uzumaki anime and as I had predicted, the art is suck. No one will and can transfer his masterpieces in animated frame.

[@iambobo227]

Watch this anime and realize that courage the comdery dog is done better

[@kelstro1757]

I was in fifth grade and found a manga lying on the track field, at first I was full of joy, little did I know it was a Junji Ito collection... And The Window Next Door scarred me for so long... T_T

[@ej-jz5rc]

r.i.p.

[@gabriellecalebq4410]

Rip

[@kucingcing]

Same thing for me but at other place. Its weird how these horror mangas appeared out of nowhere like it is asking us to read it

[@TruePT]

@@kucingcing Sounds like an anime, and Death Note.

[@onyourleft9273]

bruh i was in fifth grade and my friend from seventh grade lend me the manga telling me i could enjoy thar (r.i.p fifth grade me’s innocence also it was Uzumaki lol)

[@nekophilia1487]

Imagine if this was made only in black and white shading/palette? With great lineart details? Like a moving manga? Nobody do that nowadays and its so unique.

[@rachelb.684]

black and white i think would be too close to the manga, i think the anime adaptation could have made really good use of colour, but unfortunately it's just dull midtones

[@fighttheb8500]

@@rachelb.684 as a person who has never watched or read junji ito, i can say that it might look WAY better if it was black and white

[@noneofyourbusiness1114]

You're getting your wish with uzumaki

[@snowikitt1558]

Uzumaki is going to be in black and white! It looks so good from the trailer!

[@beetlegeuse1961]

GIRL ITS HAPPENING NOW LOOK AT THE UZUMAKI TRAILER 🎉🎉🎉

[@blockyoxwinkle5829]

Turns out the only thing more cosmicly horrifying than Ito's work is anime production

[@Spingerex]

He should make a parody about that.

[@melialialee5445]

600th like :)

[@yt-sh]

haha

[@avantikaroy5146]

It's anime production*

[@justanothergamer7918]

Lmao

[@momadank]

The whole budget of the show went to the opening and thats it💀

[@mysticbazuso36]

The visuals remind me of Dragon Ball Super, with the same blurry outlines and boring, washed out colours

[@pemuda7075]

i lost any interest as soon the intro started. like seriously, a rock song for a junji ito anime? fucking hell.

[@Misamane648]

Shut up and go watch Naruto

[@dsouza7206]

@@pemuda7075 bt i liked it bruh... And I'm waiting for 2023 series coming on Netflix

[@zeusolympus1664]

@@dsouza7206 i saw the uzumaki trailer. I think they would nail this one. The anime is in black and white which I think is best for ito's style of horror.

[@nalathelioness338]

Imagine staying in his house and finding a huge pile of his horrifying artwork 😱

[@timothytosser288]

Theres junji it's collection at our library, scary

[@truelyme0]

That would be fascinating! I would admire his work in every single details and asking the meaning all of his works! Man... That would be a dream come true

[@Persephone01]

I'd be fangirling over the artwork and ask him lots of questions especially about his love for lovecraft.

[@gaspardp7314]

I have to admit, the idea of finding the old stuff of someone who was here before you can be a wonderful horror thing. You first find some twisted, horrifying, truly scarring drawings of things that once were human, but now barely qualify as beast, instead monsters. You find dozens of them, everywhere, and you have no explanation. Surely they are just the work of a particularly imaginative mind... right?

[@rokamayono2312]

I’d love to read through them with his permission, maybe ask about the process

[@Deuteromis]

I would love to see Junji Ito's take on The Addams Family.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

So basically something like eraser head

[@jonathanathor117]

I magine his interretation on John Carpenter's The thing or Slither.

[@rokamayono2312]

Yes yes yes yes

[@JonReremy]

The bizarre hikizuri siblings kind of reminded me of it

[@grugonk]

His wife Ayako Ishiguro did a painting of The Addams Family as cats.

[@diseasedworm8377]

I would call his style “holy Shit, omg, it’s three in the morning, I don’t want to die- oh god I’m gonna die”

[@freindmaker4473]

Or, in the case of long dream, "oh God I dont want to be immortal being immortal seems horrifying what the fuck"

[@San-san6499]

@@freindmaker4473 i understood that reference... Nice.

[@veronicasardo76]

I would call it "ok its 3 am im gonna watch peppa to chill biach"

[@Vaultboy101]

"Oh God, I hope there's not a me shaped hole."

[@PIB2000]

@@Vaultboy101 "I NOW HAVE A PHOBIA OF CINNAMON ROLLS. HOW CAN A SPIRAL BE SO TERRIFYING? HOLY FUCK."

[@hellokairuu]

junji ito: *spend 9 hours on one art piece* me: *gets impatient ten seconds after starting an art piece*

[@therealstarMoses]

That Weird Kid this man is like exactly what I aspire to be in terms of Art. I adore his style, I just suck at drawing stuff how I want to. I use tons of little lines for fine details and control, and hold the Philosophy of “The Key to making Good Art is to Sink a Lot of Time Into It”, and he’s like the realization of that. 9 hours on a page to make a masterpiece.

this is not funny, try to work on it :D

[@Legomicroman]

@@therealstarMoses well, in my case it was Hirohiko Araki, who inspired me to be more detailed with my drawings.

[@sythepie]

@@Legomicroman Yeah me too

[@saltyboi2435]

Most artists take longer than 9 hours, usually artists take 7-48 hrs

[@Tavdogg11]

Uzumaki is being adapted into an anime, and it is actually being handled by Junji Ito himself. It is announced to come around 2022. I hope this can bring his work to life.

[@pundertalefan4391]

Uzumaki. That's the story of his that intrigues me the most, so I'll probably check it out. I'm not an anime or manga fan, but I like horror.

[@Ruthie.333]

Uzumaki is the best manga I ever read, I am glad that he is handling it himself

[@Nirrini]

Uzumaki is the one that started it all for me. No horror manga has come close to it. I am very interested in its anime adaption, but I more or less already know that the manga will remain the best.

[@saintgein]

It’s 2024 still no sign of this show 😐😓

[@shelbyg.8867]

10:32 "Now just look at this same image from the manga" Me: No... I don't think I will.

[@pkj4173]

i saw a comment saying "what if they animated it in black and white" and honestly?? such a good idea... it'd be so unique, an anime in black and white (if you know of any black-and-white anime tell me!!) and it'd almost be more horrific if they did it that way. you'd feel like you went back in time and it'd give the readers more imagination to think of "what colour might her dress be?" etc. PLUS it would just make the anime more eerie in general

[@TheZutter]

should've gone to shiratorizawa I thought it would be hard to animate something like junji’s work in colour, as the whole black and white thing really makes it so much more disturbing Plus it would be hella cool if it was a literal animated manga

[@pkj4173]

@@TheZutter yess lmao

[@Jon-wi4jh]

Ik what u mean it would be excellent like what the directors did with schindlers list

[@SaintJimmy379]

They need to make an OVA at least this way, freaking amazing idea

[@LadyIno]

I think this would have been the perfect approach for adapting his work. Some months ago, I watched a video that compared the original first episode of Dororo with the new adaption from 2019. I know this isn't even a horror anime, but for some reason, the 60 years old black and white series looked very scary too me. This is also sometimes the case when you compare older games with their remakes. For example that fight in the very first Tomb Raider game, against the gigantic dinosaur. The place where you encountered him in the original game was almost entirely black due to technical limitations (your visual range was very short) and when he suddenly appeared out of pure darkness, it was one of the scariest things I ever saw in video games. Then came Tomb Raider Anniversary: The place was full of details, very bright, colorful and you got a lame cut-scene that carefully warned you, that you are about to fight a dinosaur. A scary moment, completely ruined in the remake. I wonder if the scary atmosphere in the original game was even intended or not, but I still feel so disappointed with this particular moment in the remake.

[@tru3-r0y4lty]

I Was Worried This Was About Junji Itos Actual Manga For A Second

[@kathleenhoiriis4395]

Tru3-R0y4lty omg me tooo!!!

[@Uyuayoung]

Same I came here to nicely put him into place but then agreed lol

[@boatymcboatface4120]

Me2

[@ashleys122]

Same

[@shaunyjimenez9637]

SAME

[@JoshkatMetalPunk]

Junji Ito's work is like Lovecraft's. It's very hard to create and adapt to the big screens and animations.

[@guywhosellsvapes4595]

11:10 Ito really knows how to draw the creepy picture you get when you look at something long enough that it starts to morph and turn eerie. It's similar to the creepy morphing your brain does. When you look between two pictures as they flash and change on screen. All the ordinary faces you see start to turn ugly. You could even say it's the sleep paralysis demon in the corner of your eye Ito is drawing.

[@LL-tr5et]

it's even better. at first glance it's scary. then it truly becomes horrific

[@iquemedia]

They tried to animate that woman but everyone who tried fuckin died dude

[@antmaster360]

wait wut

[@TheIzaya100]

Ique what?

[@nurhannah8334]

which one

[@ModyTheOne]

hahahahaha

[@iquemedia]

Dynuzard look behind you

[@orairambles]

I feel like the guy that did Perfect blue could have handled this, as he was very good with transitions and atmosphere

[@aarianasmith8122]

R.I.P Satoshi Kon.

[@user-wn5iy5us7x]

@@aarianasmith8122 Sadly, indeed. :-( But he will be remembered.

[@jayasuriyas2604]

He's dead

[@orairambles]

js790 welp! He needs to be reincarnated stat😭

[@EdongranII]

YES BRO I LOVED PERFECT BLUE

[@sereindelacruz9782]

1:49 Oh my goodness, they really did Tomie dirty with that.

[@ImpuritiesShown]

I can't believe i actually met this man

[@pajtimo23]

What was he like?

[@ImpuritiesShown]

@@pajtimo23 I couldn't speak to him bc of language barriers but he seemed so kind and was always smiling during the meetup. He's very different from his drawing and narrating style ahah

[@pajtimo23]

@@ImpuritiesShown id like to talk to him just to be able to dissect his mind and figure out how he comes up with all this creepy stuff lol

[@samuraisharkie]

that’s so rad, where’d you get to meet him?

[@oo4667]

@@pajtimo23 theres great videos of him on KZbin, I think on the crunchyroll channel but not sure

[@galacticdevil]

I imagined this anime would have look so much better if it was made in the late 80's/ early 90's as an OVA series.

[@galacticdevil]

Original Video Animation

[@sporeham1674]

I agree. The hand drawn animation would’ve worked so much better. Plus the more rough edges and lines of that time would’ve worked with Junji Ito perfectly!

[@afonsoga6]

Due to the large budget back then and the overall aesthetics of that particular time in japonese animation... couldn’t agree more!

[@cibor07]

I agree totally, the quality wouldn't be half as bad as this one.

[@johnfortnitekennedeez]

Exactly, considering Akira and Genocyber etc all came out during that period we would probably get a masterpiece

[@irmadizon3330]

5:55 just image a girl covered in blood levitating while repeatedly saying "uwu"...terrifying

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

@Sanaai Bahr Frankly, cute sounds from something terrifying can make a nice juxtaposition to make something either less threatening or more disturbing.

[@r4hsn18]

Truly

[@kizilm5315]

"Kya!" -Satan

[@Wackymushrooms]

Watch Internecion Cube and you'll be terrified

[@RycoreXIII]

:3 pwepwere to be consuwmed by the dawkness UwU

[@Hopper_Arts]

What i would do if i was art director for a Junji Ito adaptation would be: -make all the backgrounds black and white -make the horrible creatures and mutations black and white -make the humans colored, but with very dull, lifeless palettes, to give them some kind of life and contrast to the horrifying things that happen to them -make the characters ACTUALLY ANIMATE -try to maintain at least some of the detail of Ito's creatures -the translation would be pretty much the same

[@Chewberto]

An extra subtle step could be to give the monsters more frames in their animation than the humans or vice versa, further demonstrating how otherworldly they are.

[@sarahl9398]

You hit the nail on the head. I've been rereading his manga works lately, and the art and atmosphere truly are inimitable. Also LOL at the animator of the anime having last worked on Diabolik Lovers previously.

[@giovannawebster9149]

That explains everything

[@corncobbob2326]

@@giovannawebster9149 why what's Diabolik Lovers like?

[@_CL]

oh, Diabolik Lovers... what an anime

[@bamse7958]

Disrespectful to adapt such masterful works in such a lazy manner.

[@turtleanton6539]

Very

[@rewind7017]

I agree

[@skullcrusade3436]

This is why I appreciated Wolf mentioning Berserk. Berserk's landscape and Spreads are always so detailed you can only imagine the time Miura put into it. And for most of it to be devoid its just painful. It's hard seeing another manga get treated the same, but what are we gonna do?

[@gunfiend5175]

Its still very hard to animate Junjis work He dosent really draw simple shapes Honestly only he could animate his own manga

[@calcramer]

Yup, “lazy” is the perfect descriptor. #SAD

[@purmello]

Here's all they had to do: make the anime black and white. That'd get them the budget to do more detailed art, more complex animation, and add to the surreal factor of Ito's original work. Not only that, but it would've definitely stood out among contemporary anime.

[@tatianaelagina8980]

purmello I just wrote the exact same thing in my comment, scrolled down and saw yours. That must mean we're right, aren't we? :'D

[@a.hakimfatehali1493]

That's a really interesting idea.

[@ThunderNinja12]

That's actually pretty brilliant. Simple and efficient. I'd love to see this done, but black and white also feels like horror shorthand, almost like a cop out. The way color is used in animation is one of the reasons I love the medium. Its a lot to ask, but I really want to see a director who pushes the strength of animation on all levels in order to create a compelling horror anime

[@jodhod1498]

purmello I had that exact same idea while watching the video. Colour gets in the way of the shading and small details. I always think horror should be done in black and white, including films.

[@LapanNaxela]

It didn't have to be black and white, but it really needed to use contrasts more. Ito's art mostly uses the sharp contrast of black and white and very few grays. Even disregarding the lacking detail this makes the anime's art look like a washed out version of the original.

[@Milkra]

“What if they animated it in black and white?” Toonami: I got you fam

[@23hird3ho2]

15:47 Bruh, that was just goofy lol

[@onyourleft9273]

Lmao yeah I laughed sooo hard when I saw that for the first time

[@TroubleMuppet]

Watch me do a lil jig hehe hoohoo

[@rokamayono2312]

😂😂😂

[@scottynightbell1393]

in the part where you talk about the window scene the anime did look pretty scary but when you switched over to the manga version it actually gave me chills

[@Kasmorder]

It's the eyes. While the Anime was definitely bad, if they just did the eyes more faithfully to the source, I guarantee every monster would've been much scarier.

[@coachrenaldo]

Yeah. The source was truly scary. When I first saw that, I swear, it actually blinked back at me.

[@TheSimplyDivineBlack]

Reading this manga at 12am is a bad idea but also the best way to enjoy it

[@SUPERMATT5546]

I figured the window lady as a shrived old dark woman, so seeing the color applied threw me the fuck off. If you combined the detail with the color, it's be even freakier in my opinion.

[@lalboimanlun1230]

I was getting that feeling when I first read it.

[@triplelgod6310]

Me reading junji ito: Me having to itch myself because my shoulder itches: Also me: I’m going to die aren’t I?

[@Sara3346]

We all are if that helps.

[@henry7696]

@@Sara3346 hopefully not in ways depicted in the manga

[@magdalenadharmaputra]

I JUST FELT MY SHOULDER ITCH TOO

[@charlenekaczynski9023]

I automatically thought about that scene from Jojo part 4

[@omgred8884]

@@charlenekaczynski9023 aye I I'd too

[@JP-1990]

One thing that REALLY bugged me about this anime was the lack of good camera work. I couldn't feel the least bit immersed in anything because it always felt like I was just merely looking AT the scene rather than ever feeling like I was there with the characters.

[@beatleboy3196]

At 3:00 the way he describes Junji Ito's horror sounds like he's describing Lovecraftian horror. From the grotesque body horror and the incomprehensible entities that it appears you can never escape from, all the marks of Lovecraftian horror but when it comes to the works of Lovecraft himself and the many other writers who worked on his mythos or simply attempted the same genre or style of horror, its more cosmic and almost always has some connection to the ocean stemming from H.P Lovecraft's own fear of the ocean and what lurks in it. I'm not saying Junji Ito made Lovecraftian horror, I'm just pointing out some similarities between them and I think it's cool how Lovecraftian influence can be found in so many different places.

[@renmakesthings8106]

In all fairness animators in Japan don’t always get paid more than a few bucks for each frame they make

[@muskatDR]

Then make it 120 frames a sec

[@renmakesthings8106]

@@muskatDR that’s not how this works

[@iareolmedo7838]

@@muskatDR that would only make the production take like 2 extra years for something completely unnecessary

[@prim0016]

@@muskatDR same energy as "if youre homeless just buy a house"

[@catus-cactus]

We acknowledge everyone on this project worked hard but we as fans just don’t like the interpretation of the artwork as a cartoon. Remember, Ito allowed them to bring his work to life.

[@empressrobin2280]

Did anyone else see the new Toonami trailer for Uzumaki and automatically thought of this guy?

[@Sir_Saki]

Yup yup lol. The moment I saw this in my feed, I had to come see the comment section

[@WingItMan217]

Hope the new special is good

[@NEON-XMV]

When I saw it I just kept thinking "This animation style is absolutely perfect to adapt Ito's works the way Wolf mentioned"

[@blackfurio2381]

I think the most terrifaying episode is the one with the never ending dream. I mean, you cannot run from fatigue and every time you go to sleep, your dream last more and more longer, until you cannot remember who you while nobody understand you because it's only in your head

[@RecoveringLoLAddict]

I remember seeing some of his work, it was top notch visual horror. I couldnt get sleep, because every time I closed my eyes I could still see some key parts of his works, thats the best kind of horror.

[@treesurgeon2441]

First we lost the chance to see what he could have done in the universe of Silent Hill and now we have an embarrassingly bland animated adaptation of his manga.

[@Ravaholix]

we lost Berserk, now Junji Ito... whats next? Gantz?

[@CryingZombie666]

@Midnight Toxin Next? We lost "Blame!"

[@oanhho8267]

@@CryingZombie666 really? I thought blame! was pretty good as far adaptation goes.

[@awper901]

Silent hill (live) , berserk and Junji Ito can now only be saved by Netflix

[@CryingZombie666]

@@awper901 Go to hell with your shitflix.

[@lovesickness1274]

I'm surprised that he's not scared of his own art😂

[@orangecat9559]

It's probably because he loves doing it . And that's truly terrifying and beautiful at the same time

[@xtina5castro782]

I can imagine him so engrossed in transfering what was on his mind his imagination into art. Hes probably not scared at all.

[@zestobrandino]

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"

[@JostDraws]

If you see the start of the sketch it doesn't frighten anymore, as you know all steps of the art and the simple forms it was before the creepy details

[@dolandark8333]

@@zestobrandino i feel like this is a reference from everywhere at the end of time

[@kirarichan69]

Now, with Maniac coming out, I only hope that no one will ever take Junji Ito's work into their hands to animate it. I honestly feel bad about the people who watched Collection and Maniac without reading the manga.

[@undoxxbruh9804]

Honestly, I didn't like it, it wasn't good, a lot of times i started laughing because instead of scary it felt goofy, it instantly broke any tension with weird shots and poor animation, in the Balloons ep, i couldn't take it seriously because the shots of the heads looked goofy and obviously done in 3d, and I'm sorry but the voices lacked any emotions, I'm like disappointed with all of it

[@undoxxbruh9804]

And on the same Ep, the boyfriend's cadaver was LITERALLY A RAGDOLL

[@cruddddddddddddddd]

One of my favorite horror stories of all time is the Enigma of Amigara Fault. That story still creeps me out. I also love the Gyo story that was published with it. I've never read a horror comic, American or otherwise, that is so effective at giving me the chills. And I completely agree - the low quality was probably a money decision, hoping the name Junji Ito would give it the attention they were looking for without having to actually try.

[@RebelTaxi]

10:30 Maybe that still image would have been better if they did one of those gross overly detailed Ren & Stimpy close ups for animation

[@TsuyoiOfFreedom3]

A whole new level of unsettling. Now I can't help but imagine it with a cartoonish soundboard.

[@kingmane908]

L

[@ManicKiwii]

RebelTaxi Love your Channel

[@python_l5367]

Didn't expect you here but it doesn't really surprise me either.

[@vexium8127]

Didn’t expect you to be here... oh hell who I’m I kidding 😏

[@catbot158]

I kinda feel bad for the staff. I heard that the director spent a while studying Ito's work and trying to emulate it for animation. But if you don't have the resources, time, or support from the higher ups to make the production as technically unique as the manga, then it's going to fail, and that's just sad.

[@johnlordlegara6380]

I appreciate the director's efforts to actually understand the source material, but if he felt he didn't *get* it then he shouldn't have tried to portray his own depiction of another's work. Yes, these instances can lead to great things (Heath Ledger's Joker), but he should have been more careful with it. The bad animations, for one, is inexcusable

[@remochii]

:(

[@fanaticaH]

I said it in another comment, that instead of a "collection" they should have animated a pricey OVA of a very famous one shot.

[@Roh0io]

I've seen gore and scary stuff always and never had problem eating during and after it... But Some of Ito's pictures genuinely made my stomach churn and stopped me from eating..i guess that's the power of Ito's artwork

[@eaa2959]

now i get why when i watch the anime adaptation i didnt feel much fear, i thought to myself what is all the fuss about this junji itto guy.. i thought that u have to have a good imagination to actually appreciates it, now i know why

[@jacksonflood9344]

Anime fans: What inspired you to make a Junji Ito anime adapation? Studio Deen: I like money

[@anangryaustralian8518]

Wait what, out of all the studios to take on itos work it was deen? The same studio who brought us seven deadly sins season 3?

[@jacksonflood9344]

@@anangryaustralian8518 They're a good studio but they don't have a perfect track record or anything. Log Horizon is great but not a particularly well funded venture which is pretty much true with everything they make.

[@Septurm_andstuff]

Anime fans: hi there Studio Deen Studio Deen: hello I like money Anime fans: what inspired you to make a junji ito anime adaptation? Studio Deen: money

[@Outlaw7263]

"What if they animated it in black and whit?" Boy do I have good news for you, Toonami is going to do a full black and white animated adaptation of Uzumaki

[@sorintinei3327]

So the... It been a year... Is it out yet?

[@JamesGilbert_]

@@sorintinei3327, not yet. It was supposed to come out last year, but COVID delayed it. No release date yet.

[@NotTured]

@@JamesGilbert_ i want see ballon head on animation i think it gonna be horror unlike other episodes

[@DM-zh2kt]

Every time a new trailer for Toonami Uzumaki come out I get back here just to remind what the rock bottom is and how hyped I really am.

[@RandomDude647]

Toonami is coming out with a new adaptation and it looks much more visually faithful! i saw the trailer for it on adult swim's youtube channel

[@mbcchoudhari885]

yay!

[@zeemod1556]

Studio Deen's production is the real horror story

[@Ikigaru]

Zeemod155 Fate/Stay Night which they adapted so many years ago looked far better than this

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

This was made by DEEN?! Say no more. It all makes sense now.

[@zeemod1556]

Hey not to mention they made 2 great seasons of KonoSuba and Rakugo Shinju within the last two years. Then there's the total flop projects like this and The Reflection. Makes it feel like they got an A-Team and a B-Team.

[@nickypoo52]

deen ruined umineko and higurashi too, shame

[@brasteen1]

Nanlover 96 They also made Samurai Trust and Betrayal which is gorgeous

[@deathproof8732]

The anime looks like it is copying Ito instead of translating Ito to a different media. Some stuff doesn't come out the same way when going from still pictures to moving pictures.

[@lawansasithorn]

"no es que el anime sea malo, es que el manga era tan bueno que a su lado el anime parecía basura" "it's not that the anime is bad, it's that the manga was so good that the anime looked like trash next to it" - Danna Alquati

[@Dankreaper124]

1:20 what’s bizarre about a sword sounding like a bunch of pots and pans

[@cozybones4644]

Between this anime, the god-awful Uzumaki film and Silent Hills being cancelled by Konami, my man Ito can't catch a fucking break. Dude is a living legend, definitely deserves better treatment.

[@jodhod1498]

CozyBones there was an uzumaki film? How long ago was it released?

[@cozybones4644]

Sixteen years ago. If you're a diehard fan then it may be worth a watch just to sate your curiosity but it really isn't very good at all.

[@BodySprayMan]

I mean, the ending is about as good as the manga's. As in, the creators threw their hands up and decided, eh, I'm done. Conclusions are for suckers anyways. :P But yeah, it says something when the Gyo OVA was better than the Uzumaki's film and Gyo suuuuuuuucks.

[@tibiademon9157]

Uzumaki didn't have a conclusion? What do you mean by that?

[@BodySprayMan]

Fabrizio Illuminati I mean in the sense the manga and movie stopped without much resolution.

[@LauraDKM]

The anime version of the woman from Window Next Door looks like one of the Beatles I SWEAR I...

[@pedroidbr3960]

Holy shit is this Howard from Big bang Theory ?!?!?!?

[@myrond8612]

@@pedroidbr3960 😂😂😂💀

[@smugqing5164]

You mean, George?

[@gingeetheginge6071]

Pedroid Br *B A Z U N G A S*

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

i thought it looked like Jim Carrey from dumb and dumber

[@AnthonyRusso93]

One of the elements that goes underappreciated comparing him to different stylistic derivatives that share the same inspiration. And it really lends itself to the printed medium. Lovecraft himself doesnt have it despite the similar "this doesn't make sense am I going crazy" That is the feeling the main characters of "does nobody else see this! How can you not see this! Are you kidding me? Is this some kind of sick joke?"

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

This is why I never just accept something being "unlike the source material" as criticism. Whether the source material is excellent or mediocre, if you translate it exactly, you miss so much because the best manga/comic books use the medium to their advantage (Alan Moore talks a lot about this, especially with Watchman, and especially with entire chapters like "Painful Symmetry,") which is MORE IMPORTANT than just putting exact panels onscreen. You can see this in Zack Snyder's "perfect' adaptation of Watchmen, which completely misses the point and especially the politics of the original. When you miss the point for the purpose of being "faithful to the source," all you're doing is building another gate for nerds to keep while removing all context, reducing it to yet another "point" to earn in a trivia contest.

[@klg9549]

I found out something extra disappointing about the anime as well: the version sent to crunchyroll is CENSORED. The shock value is made even weaker because certain parts of gore are blacked out (especially clear in Town Without Streets).

[@vivianhudson9145]

Kirsten Großmann I hate censored anime. I tried watching the first episode of the Deadman Wonderland anime after reading the manga and the most impactful shots from the manga were literally a black screen. Someone who watched the anime before reading the manga wouldn't know that the protagonist was reacting to seeing his friend's decapitated head because they didn't show it at all. It really just takes away from the story.

[@MerxXxiILe]

girl I just watch mine on fb. Updated on the same day.

[@guezzwho8000]

"let's make an anime about one of the most disturbing horror manga BUT CENSOR IT!"

[@Dead_End_Angel]

Jack Blackthorn not necessarily, mob psycho is good and DBS, sure there are better places to watch anime, but crunchy roll is still pretty smooth if you have a free sub or don't mind paying.

[@drakevaliance3536]

watch it on funimation.

[@Vladeeer]

moral of the video: never let your work be adapted by someone who doesn't understands it ( especially if bureaucracy is at question )

[@davidabest7195]

Most artists don't have any say so in who adapts their work. You have to roll the dice when you sell the right to have it animated. The studios rarely even have any specific person in mind when negotiating for animation rights.

[@undercoverbackup9134]

New adaptation was a mixed bag and it suffers from a lot of the same problems, but I think they took advantage of the medium much more this time! The only moments where the show dipped for me were when they used cg models, and even then I was too busy laughing to be angry!

[@sofkanecrovodka7072]

They cut the part when the slug girl tries to cut her tongue but it grows back... sad choice...

[@brandonontama2415]

When I think about it that was the problem with the Killing Joke movie, they copied scenes from the comics but didn't understand why they worked so they looked bland in comparison.

[@ahmadalhashmi8940]

Sonic Badass Yeah I've seen some people that simply blame the first part and claimed the second part is great as that's where the adapting parts of the killing joke start appearing while ignoring how the adaptation lacks the nuance of the original. (Granted thats a low minority as the mediocre animation couldnt hide that fact)

[@DeadKraken]

Animated lazily, panel by panel adaptation with halfassed editing, absence of any understanding of how the original product worked or what was its message.Yup, they're very similar. The first part of the Killing Joke movie was absolute trash, but so it was the second part, a movie that merely copied the superficial concept and ideas of the Killing Joke, without paying much attention to anything. An empty shell. At least in the Junji Ito Collection they tried to copy the artstyle, instead of using a stupid "lol so random Ben10" one.

[@jorgevazquez1197]

Same problem the watchmen film has

[@monoplush1257]

LadyKraken honestly the only part was the end after joker refuses Batman’s offer to which that line just felt perfect but yeah the movies was pretty trash

[@SeymourDisapproves]

Sonic Badass Tbf there were a lot of problems with Killing Joke

[@emanuelcr7207]

8:35 you can even notice by her expression that she just realized it, but then in the anime she just looks like she is thinking "this tastes normal".

[@CRydon200]

Which story is that just wanna know

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, I noticed the difference in the facial expression too.

[@joescannoli7660]

05 -1 late reply, but it’s The town without streets.

[@MrMarinus18]

Not just her. In the manga her father and brother have really unpleasant and even slightly evil expressions and complexions while in the anime they look completely normal and harmless.

[@germ187]

Yeah I watched the first episode today and felt nothing. I went on YT to look for a video that explains why this show feels bad and found yours. It’s a shame, but I really hope they get Uzumaki right, that story was disturbing and stayed in my mind for weeks

[@kittycorn7865]

I think they should have kept it completely in black in white instead of colour

[@maxtateforest]

i think that junji ito's horror is cosmic horror, not a new genre. cosmic horror themes are based around perversion of the physical/psychological idea of humanity, horror beyond understanding and hopelessness/pessimism.

[@Ravaholix]

uzimaki is basically a perfect representation of that

[@josep3866]

I'd say body horror, too. He's Japanese Lovecraft but better.

[@imdone8243]

Is there a genre for psychologically deep confusion that makes you question yourself and reality? Like the question, am I alive? Am I real? What is real? Are numbers real? Simulators real? If we are 1's and 0's isn't it still reality? In that case are we products of a larger being, being the blood cells in a uncrompehensive specie. Uhm basically, trippy,drug hulicination based confusion. Mimicking schizophrenia. Sorry if I described something that already exists lol, but I do wanna know

[@nudeerah]

I'm done cosmic horror, i think there’s a video on youtube discussing how lovecraft’s work emulates that kind of fear.

[@marthlink5015]

@@imdone8243 Most of this stuff doesn't stem from psychology which is a very new science.... and I'll just leave it at that out of respect for those who practice it. Anyways generally you will find MANY of these type of ideals in early history with many Philosophers and religions. For example Plato with the Cave , or Egyptian mythology of the afterlife reflecting most of everything here, Hinduism with the world soul/world dream and reincarnation, Chinese philosophers had alot of talk about existentialism as well as later poets in japan. It's about everywhere and usually stems from religion or philosophy~ later I suppose psychology as it is invented becomes more easy to apply to works like these.

[@rogerfvb]

Imagine what this could've been in the hands of Bones or Mad House...

[@Ravaholix]

i imagine that about berserk or Gantz

[@raymondaninipot2994]

Or opm season 2

[@thingsnstuff7526]

Mad House though 😂 I know death note isn’t horror but that one shinigami with the bandages...

[@bait5257]

@@thingsnstuff7526 you know about what happen to light? Here the answer: Everyone say he became shinigami but no. In the anime called death parade he made an appearance. He was just sitting on sofa. It said he has to sit there for eternity just like the death note said that the user wont be sent to heaven or hell.

[@CeleryMan666]

Yeah but those studios are too busy animating boring uninspired shit

[@koolkel00]

As an animator myself, this is a disgrace to the craft. Especially to the work of someone like Junji Ito. One change I would make if I was at the helm of the production... Make the anime black and white, or the most minimal colors. Increase the quality, and rely on better line work, and less on color, and use a higher frame animation style. You have to make the animation bring the best of the original, not just slot it into the general animation machine to be spat out and served up. I don't know if it was the funding or the lack of quality in the studio or what, but there is so much more you could do with this!!!! Do better!! Be better!! Innovate for Gods sake, Itos work is perfect for it!!

[@Trashpanda_trailmix]

As we near the Uzumaki Anime adaptation on Adult Swim I hope that they balance the faithfulness to the original work and merge the strengths of animation instead of simply just adding them as in these examples

[@BabbyGGGgG]

I saw one frame and thought to myself: Well this doesent look *too* bad! But then I remembered what the original shot looked like and I just: ):C

[@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc]

):C

[@literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992]

):C

[@user-rf3zb5bk4g]

):C

[@ADHDgoldfish]

):C?

[@anayshah3349]

):C

[@TEHFOOK]

one of the things i love about ito's work is that he doesn't care about keeping monsters hidden to increase the suspense of seeing them, he just makes them absolutely horrifying to look at.

[@lain13]

I was so scared when I read the title because I didn't realise that it's about the anime. But besides that. I completely agree I love the mangas but I'm not really a fan of the anime.

[@kapil3627]

for me the thing that makes junji ito's work so good is the line value. the thickness of the line, the skillfulness of how he carefully lays down each line with its unique thickness and the empty space vs the occupied space really just makes for a truly unsettling and stimulating panel. you cant achieve that in color, much less in rapidly paced shots to create an animated show.

[@ulzrintheswift715]

Better take than this entire video

[@BlainesMagmar]

I feel like a much better creative decision would have been to do the entire Junji Ito collection in black and white.

[@ualarga]

wow, im so mad that they didn't think of doing that...

[@sasha6908]

That would have been so awesome

[@fanaticaH]

jomaruyart If they did they same quality of animation, only in black and white, it would certainly look lazy, b/w would only look good if it had the same kind of intricate detail shading like the manga, otherwise it would just had been some random black and white anime with badly drawn monsters. Maybe what they should have done was to animate one OVA and do it right.

[@ualarga]

didn't the actual anime of junji ito colletion doesn't seems lazy to you?

[@DragonfameDracas]

I always forget about your amazingly hansom face actor.

[@Hinasil]

I'd never seen his face before and I was like, "Whoa, Tom Cruise on Super Eyepatch Wolf's video?"

[@theothertonydutch]

Don't you mean actor face? Don't worry, his amazingly handsome actor face tends to mess up anyones grasp of language.

[@froggylegs1499]

Right. He is very handsome. And has a soft voice.

[@Odinsday]

Looks like Guts has taken up making KZbin videos.

[@ThinkingAtheos]

Graham Specter *a you illiterate fuck

[@eglantinepapeau1582]

poor junji ito , he's so talented but he struggles to find the right people to adapt his work properly .

[@idkwhy_imstillup1274]

13:42 WTF IS THAT ANIMATION SjJKDJASDJADADXCA

[@Kirby-Krios]

XDD

[@fjoa123]

I think the problem here is that Junji Ito's horror relies a lot on heavily detailed and precise drawing. Heavily detailed drawing happens to be very expensive and difficult to animate. I guess its very similar to what happens with H.P Lovecraft's work made into film. It works so well on prose that it anything else simply works worse. Ito's stills are so perfect that they look dull on any other medium.

[@greenstuff3706]

My personal problem with the Junji Ito anime is how a lot of the stories seem to skip important details from the manga they adapt. Don’t get me wrong, I know these details can’t be called “plot points”, since Ito doesn’t follow a regular kind of plot when it comes to his works, but I still feel that when you skip over certain details, you can still lose something important. What do I mean? Well, after reading some of his stories, I got the feeling that there were some hidden meanings in them. Ideas that were conveyed by giving very small and subtle hints. For example, in one of the stories called “Hellish Doll Funeral”, a couples’ daughter turns into a doll because of a bizarre disease that only infects children, and most parents burn their own children once they find out. The main couple find the idea of killing their only daughter foolish, and decide to let her live as a doll, until they find out that, over time, the disease mutates their daughter’s body even further to the point where she’s now a hideous scarecrow-like abomination with a centipede neck; at which point, they change their minds about burning her. Reading all of that, you could interpret “Hellish Doll Funeral” as an allegory for people who suffer long and hard from severe illnesses to the point where the only way to cure them is to finally put them out of their misery. However, the anime adaptation completely omits the fact that the daughter’s transformation is due to a disease that was spread on an epidemic level, so that kind of potential message is all but lost. I guess what disappoints me the most about this anime is that much of the interpretive aspect of Ito’s works is gone, and makes it hard for me to really tell if he’s trying to give some commentary or just trying to give a scare.

[@cheriquebutterfly]

True i also notice that,They also choise the Most boring horror part of the manga it self ( i dont know how to say it diffrent for boring more lame) but if they did use the best one the anime whould be much more worse. To me but many others

[@cheriquebutterfly]

How you explained about the doll, i had Big problem with "peeking", as "the mystery street boy" who tells you if your chrush will fall for you, as the "Endless dreaming" For the "peeking" one i got the massage that Some people on the world Love to Bother into someone else prive withoud respect and want to know everything.// another massage was more like although you try to hid things or try to keep your privé for your self People will still try find a way to find out. ////////// By the "Endless dream" Feels like the massage people who are scared of dying rater wish never to die although they know they will come this makes them even more scared then before and wish to stay alive forever, instand of afraid of dying the docter though of using the crystal for those patient to let them Sleep forever so they never can be scared of dying and have at least a peice and happy ending. Like here in this world Nobody wish to die and latter wish to sleep forever or life forever and it afraid them even more when they think about it or that to think to do just suidcie to deal it faster it more based of Being afraid to dissapair in this world will you didnt comeplete much in your live you still wanted to do

[@greenstuff3706]

The White Wolfos I haven’t seen the animated version of Glyceride (mainly because I don’t want to give my stomach a hard time again), but I don’t doubt what you say.

[@greenstuff3706]

Fatalbutterfly Those are decent interpretations. I wish more people would interpret Ito’s individual stories.

[@greenstuff3706]

Fatalbutterfly Which ones are you talking about?

[@BelovedCaptain]

I hadn't seen much of Ito's work before watching this series and I will admit, I enjoyed the show, as I found it creepy and something I hadn't seen before. Now that I have some of his work in my possession, I can understand why people disliked this show. Still, I gotta say I found the Model and Next Door episodes quite creepy and I will like the series for introducing me to Ito's manga.

[@rolanslide8509]

thankfully, the upcoming Toonami adaptation of Uzumaki looks promising,, please, we need one good Junji Ito adaptation, we're hungry

[@Sitruk86]

the big rumour going around was that the Ito collection was just "the cheapest ito stories we could get a license for." it was a pure cash grab. and the fact that even the stills are low qual really reinforces it.

[@chromaticgreys8320]

10:33 “just look at the same panel from the manga” you know what? I’ll keep my eyes closed thanks

[@KonoschABC]

pressed the time and got a feeling i never had

[@B0K0691]

@@KonoschABC Got a feeling so complicated

[@saeedsenpai5530]

Konosch ikr dude just looking at it is just so uncomfortable and disturbing yet i still have the feeling off "i wanna see more" lmao

[@katherinezhu1793]

it just occurred to me that maybe i shouldnt watch this while snacking lmao

[@enigmadrath1780]

10:32 You know when tattoo artists who can't draw realistically are asked to ink a realistic tattoo based on a photo of someone the client brought with them ... ?

[@KryptKicker5]

It's OK, Stephen King has been struggling with studios not taking effort or care with his stuff for decades. Then when a director finally comes along and gives it the treatment the work deserves; i.e. Frank Darabont; and it blows up like gangbusters those same studios just don't know what to say.

[@N_Nameless]

I agree. I watch a lot horror movie and The Mist still to this day scar me for life.

[@bplup6419]

I.E Stanley Kubrick and then King shits all over it

[@jasonmillsom2981]

@@bplup6419 it's bc Stanley Kubrick did something unique with the source

[@sinko3811]

@@bplup6419 Being fair, that's mostly because his adaptation was very, very loosely based on the novel. And even then, I think I read somewhere, that King actually apologized years later for the stuff he said about the movie and Kubrick.

[@amandajenkinson2342]

At around 11:25 you talk about how this shot could be understood if it was for the simplocity of animation, except that this is just a still. Compare this to spongebob, where sometimes they use very detailed still shots to illicit a reaction. Something like that could have been done in these junji ito shorts.

[@RubiixCat]

He straight up mentions this himself in the comment section: "The production company should have hired the people who do the high-detail (and often gross) Spongebob stills to have made the "animated" versions of the full-page monster reveals."

[@Abdega]

That or Misadventures of Flapjack or Courage the Cowardly dog

[@m1jk44]

I thought about that too!

[@erubin100]

The new series is almost as bad. A mild improvement I'd say, but not by much. The imagery still isn't grotesque enough, and for once I think they cut out TOO MUCH exposition, which is normally the opposite of how I feel for other anime!

[@bahmot9501]

Another big problem for me is something that I never ever want to see in an Anime adaptation of a manga. The fact that I can see every manga panel in every episode. You can look at pretty much every scene and rather successfully guess exactly how the original panel looked. In all of my favorite animes I can‘t do that at least not to such accuracy. It means that the animaters are just lazily tracing over the existing work and only add vague and sporadic „movement“ every now and again. What I mean by this is that scenes don't really flow into each other. They feel too seperated because they don't have any pieces of actual animation to bridge the space between them.

[@danellaelisya564]

I've read all the junji stories. All of them. 70% I read when I was a kid. And I guarantee all the stories are scary, and creepy at the same time. Most of the stories don't end well for the main character, and that's the reason why I always end up depressed and feel uncomfortable for several days after I finish reading the story. I'm fine with a spiral face, humans being sucked into holes in the mountains, endless labyrinths whose walls are made of monks who are silent and fast to death, I endure with humans hiding in sofas, and others. Most of the stories above, only gives an uncomfortable feeling for a few days or even a few hours. But. There is one. There is one title that still makes me feel uncomfortable, even now after a very long time when I last read this story. The title is 'The Bully.' Little Belown Spoiler: The Bully, really makes me still ask about the fate of the child. Coupled with the quality of pictures of junji ito who managed to provide a panel that revealed the figure of the mother of the child that I had to admit, I was still afraid of that figure. In fact, it was the figure who often appeared when I closed my eyes while bathing.

[@reapermaster1233]

I've seen this word for word in another comment section

[@johncaseles6301]

What figure?

[@onyourleft9273]

@@johncaseles6301 Jesus please don’t, just no...

[@Persephone01]

For me it was the hanging balloons, it gets me every time I re read it. Earthbound, Amigara Fault and Army of One too!! But yeah Bully freaked me out too! Ugh that last picture 😭

[@yun8920]

OH HELL NAW!

[@RibbyCribby]

What's up with stuff like berserk and junji ito's stuff being given to inexperienced directors? It's well known stuff, why not give it to someone who is proven?

[@Nisshoku]

Still hoping they get the Jojo treatment, maybe in 10 years time.

[@treehann]

Berserk and Junji Ito's works are two of my favorite manga series and this makes me want to die. At least Akira was done right (even though it's woefully short).

[@derrilazkia1002]

Super Eyepatch Wolf already explained it, the fans would still WATCH IT ANYWAY

[@markkoetsier6475]

Berserk wasn't given to an inexperienced director, unless you mean inexperienced with CGI.

[@ethan6277]

Rib Crib Berserk...

[@vitoleskur]

What is special about Junji Ito's manga for me is the smell of the physical volumes. Every time I see a work of Ito's digitally, I sense that smell that reminds me of all the horrifying imagery. With the anime I smelled water.

[@kirirolls]

when i watched this with my boyfriend i was disappointed, but i also took in account that animators are underpaid. At the end of the day i got my book to read if i want to experience that real horror that junji ito has created. i only hope that animators get their fair pay so they can animate to their fullest potiental.