Uzumaki - Could this be the first good Junji Ito adaptation?

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Correct. The black lighthouse was briefly mentioned in part one. The scene pictured here is Kirie has gone into the lighthouse to rescue some boys who went inside to explore. The medusa arc is featured heavily for part two so I'm thinking the lighthouse will be in part 3.
 
grump dijo:
I haven't read the book.

My main issue so far is how everything goes from 0-99 in a few minutes and everyone is so nonchalant about it. Also much of the dialogue and interactions seem stilted and awkward. Its a real shame that this brings down the fantastic imagery.

It seems that this is symptomatic of a story that has been hacked up and crudely reassembled in the interest of saving as much time as possible with poor localization being a distant secondary factor. Can someone who has read the original confirm this or do these problems exist there as well?
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I haven't seen the show, but these problems don't exist in the story, imo. There's very obvious changes that are made in the society when a public event happens. For example, when the smoke from cremation starts forming spirals, people stop doing cremations entirely. Most of this is only revealed in conversation scenes between the main characters but it's made very clear.
 
BrodyDaMan dijo:
I haven't seen the show, but these problems don't exist in the story, imo. There's very obvious changes that are made in the society when a public event happens. For example, when the smoke from cremation starts forming spirals, people stop doing cremations entirely. Most of this is only revealed in conversation scenes between the main characters but it's made very clear.
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It’s very Lovecraftian in that these mundane reactions to supernatural events never come from society-wide consensus, but as a natural, individual, response to the unfolding events.
 
Ill be honest. I pussied out when some people I was with put this show on. It was too freaky for me at that moment; however, I thought the first five minutes was very interesting. It's like that society had a collective mass hysteria event and this is the aftermath.
 
Boss Hawg dijo:
Ill be honest. I pussied out when some people I was with put this show on. It was too freaky for me at that moment; however, I thought the first five minutes was very interesting. It's like that society had a collective mass hysteria event and this is the aftermath.
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You go back and watch it right now so the fingers scene gives you nightmares. Then report back at 0030 hours for the Toonami premiere. That's an order, frogposter!
 
Trollblade69 dijo:
You go back and watch it right now so the fingers scene gives you nightmares. Then report back at 0030 hours for the Toonami premiere. That's an order, frogposter!
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OH HELL FUCKING NO, I heard that scene and saw my friends horrified faces when it happened. I ain't gonna ruin my mood for a whole week for fun.
 
Watched it last week with my girlfriend, and also read the manga. Very very optimistic about it.
Idk how I feel about mixing all the stories together, I feel like it would work better as a series of shorts, but the stories do become sequential later on so I think it'll work better then.

The animation is so smooth I almost wonder if it's rotoscoped in some scenes. I still like it, I am so glad to see an anime with consistent and detailed frame by frame animation in each scene.

People saying it's too scary or not scary at all, just wait. The magic of Junji Ito is that he can combine incredibly disturbing content with incredibly silly and stupid gags and it still works. Uzumaki the manga has stories that are both too stupid to be scary and too scary to be stupid. Not everything will land but the ones that do really do.
 
I can't believe there were people actually putting faith in Toonami/[adult swim] to fund an anime that wasn't shittily done. It was super telling that all the studio would show for it was the literal goddamn first episode to get people to praise them for it.

The eyeball spinning scene looking goofy as shit was the sign of things to come. I bet they're skimping over the mosquito women chapters because fuck you.
 
A second studio did this one, didn't it? And what happened to episode 2 and 3 having 45 min slots?

I could have lived with the entire things being at the quality level of episode one. Not brilliant but a nice little short stylistic adaption I could rewatch a few times.

I'm not sure I blame [as] either. It really seems like the studio they contracted over promised and massively under delivered. After all the delays they didn't even do all 4 episodes themselves?

Sigh
 
Caesar dijo:
A second studio did this one, didn't it?
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And according to reviews for Dog Signal, animation isn't even good but it didn't affect the series' writing and enjoyment that badly probably because of how laidback the show is to begin with.

Lol. Lmao even.
 
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