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

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I wish more people would've harped on the show more for its shitty pacing due to taking stories out of chronological order and smushing stories together in that blind attempt to be "coherent". Like holy shit why the fuck wouldn't you keep in Shuuichi's parents going mad in the first episode and actually show his mother literally spiraling out of control after stabbing out her cochlea? Instead they wait until episode three to show that and even then they had to cut back-and-forth between the mosquito women and the mother having her fits at some separate ward. Absolute heresy.

DeMarco should never fund another anime ever again. Full stop. Or at least take the hint that someone at Production I.G. just doesn't like him. [as] has a terrible track record and I don't get why no one's putting their foot down.
I think the worst offense is the Jack in the Box story being incorporated, like why even have it at all. It just feels incredibly pointless and out of place, like episode 2 could've handled the stuff with Shuichi's mom, but even then the pacing is just terrible.

I think DeMarco is just terrible at managing funding for anime, like none of his projects are any good, or are necessary with the audience being only for himself.
 
Wasn't there a live-action Uzumaki movie that was pretty good?
There was, but it was made while the manga was still being written so it's an incomplete adaptation. The movie covers around half the chapters.

For anyone wishing to hatewatch this one last time, Adult Swim will air the complete series on Saturday starting at midnight. After that I imagine it will be deleted from all of their servers and any mention of it will be redacted.
 
There was, but it was made while the manga was still being written so it's an incomplete adaptation. The movie covers around half the chapters.
IIRC the movie also comes up with a completely different explanation about what's going on in this town, and the explanation the movie gives that being that a shrine dedicated to a snake god got damaged and a sacred mirror broken is very blink-and-you'll-miss-it.
 
It just hit me that we have a Junji Ito story that actually would've been perfect for four episodes or even less, and it's still a cosmic horror story.
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But everyone just keeps making bad decisions that I don't think even Remina would've been safe.
 
It just hit me that we have a Junji Ito story that actually would've been perfect for four episodes or even less, and it's still a cosmic horror story.
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But everyone just keeps making bad decisions that I don't think even Remina would've been safe.
Fuckers dropped the “Hellstar” from the title? Why?
 
Late to the thread but why is this being called "The first good Junji Ito adaptation?" Wasn't there a live-action Uzumaki movie that was pretty good?
I wouldn't call the ending they conjured up particularly good, if I'm remembering it correctly.
It was basically a slideshow of events that happened, including the medusa hair overtaking buildings.
It came across like they said "Oh shit, the runtime is at xyz minutes and we haven't thought of how to end it. AND THE MANGA ISN'T FINISHED! Quick, let's cobble some shit together based on what's already been published." I had already read the manga at that point, so I knew what the actual ending was, but I feel like they could have come up with a real ending rather than a bunch of pictures that don't answer any questions about the curse of the spiral.
 
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It just hit me that we have a Junji Ito story that actually would've been perfect for four episodes or even less, and it's still a cosmic horror story.
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But everyone just keeps making bad decisions that I don't think even Remina would've been safe.
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing an anime about Hellstar Remina. I'm watching Uzumaki right now.
 
Geoff Thew put out an Uzumaki video to capitalize on the disaster, as is his MO. I'm not gonna link it, though, because I think he's a two-faced retard who loves bad anime unironically, tells people to skip Jojo parts, and dislikes SAO for reasons so stupid they rival Mr. Enter's autism over Putting Your Hoof Down and Turning Red.
 
Allegedly another part for Uzumaki's shit production is the new management in Warner Bros not providing enough money.

So we got a lot of incompetence up top to fuck this adaptation up.
As I understand it, someone has the brilliant idea of merging funding pools for Uzumaki and other projects, like the Rick and Morty anime.

Beyond Smiling Friends adult swim has no good original animated programming and Tim Heidecker is still sucking up funding for his shit.
 
I didn't mind the epilogue because the original implies it's happened before in history too. This time the man and woman are flipped though. I guess there's no real point but I thought it was OK.
The glaring issue behind the epilogue is that Uzumaki's events happened in modern times.

Nobody would just rebuild a town in the same place where it's population disappeared.
 
The glaring issue behind the epilogue is that Uzumaki's events happened in modern times.

Nobody would just rebuild a town in the same place where it's population disappeared.
Unless there's a literal time loop and not just "time is a flat circle".
 
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