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

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I knew this was going to be shit. It's like a curse, works adapting Junji Ito stuff will never hold up to their predecessor.
 
It's a shame they almost got close to a good adaptation but they mismanaged hard to have underpaid Chinese animators fuck it up
 
Guess who's decided to finally go on damage control. In response to a dumbass apologist on Bluesky tweeting deflection and lies:

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Defaggit decided to echo that sentiment:
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Jesus Christ, "We did the best we could"...
 
Clearly the animation tanked as hard as it did because the animators working on it have fucking Twitter on their phones.

What the fuck is their plan here?
 
Big Ito fan, missed the first episode and saw the second. Fucking ouch, that was bad. When they were "running" on the beach, I had to throw in the towel and admit to myself that it wasn't good.

Just get the guy who made the World of Horror trailer to make Ito vignette and call it done.
 
Jimjamflimflam powiedział(a):
Big Ito fan, missed the first episode and saw the second. Fucking ouch, that was bad. When they were "running" on the beach, I had to throw in the towel and admit to myself that it wasn't good.
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Given you already watched half the second, maybe you should check out episode 1 (its on nyaa) and see what a drop ep 2 was. It wasn't perfect but it was much better
 
Caesar powiedział(a):
Given you already watched half the second, maybe you should check out episode 1 (its on nyaa) and see what a drop ep 2 was. It wasn't perfect but it was much better
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I plan on it when I get around to downloading it. I just caught the second episode on a chance. The running animation broke me and I'm usually bad at picking up that sort of stuff. It just really stood out to me at that moment.

I heard generally great things about ep1 which I guess made the quality drop even more apparent.
 
“We were screwed over!” -guy who’s responsible for producing Uzumaki.

I’ll always appreciate Toonami for introducing me to certain shows, sucks that the guy who made the block is a culture war loser who spazs out online when challenged about issues like his various greed-fueled attempts at re-capturing the lightning in a bottle of FLCL via a series of increasingly awful sequels that barely anyone watched, or his being a WB studio exec who goes online to preen about being an epic anti-capitalist revolutionary.
 
So many people saying Demarco shouldn't be fired because it would mean the end of Toonami. It's like they can't imagine that
1: Change can sometimes be a needed detail, and
2: The block is currently in an absolute dearth of content. Three shows are leaving the block at the end of October, every slot past 2AM is a rerun, and the only replacement lined up is NOT ANIME. What the hell could anyone do at this point that could be worse than either the current state or just ending the block entirely?
 
Is there like some agreement between Toonami and FUNimation Crunchyroll or something? If they would just give Sentai Filmworks the time of day like they did for Parasyte because of popular demand, they wouldn't have run out of anime to air for a while longer.
 
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>when the fan made black and white cartoons look and sound more scary than the botched second episode of a famous and popular Junji Ito work
>just in time for Halloween

Yeah, you guys were not kidding. It’s a bad sign when independent creators share more passion and love than the direction team that was instilled to make this not look bad.

I might as well just stick to reading the manga.
 
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You guys weren't kidding, the animation is a huge downgrade from the first episode. It looks like complete and total shit. From the art itself, to the walk, running, and fighting animation, it's all bad. Kirie doesn't even look the same in this episode. And some of the animation legit looked worse than a hastily made old school flash animation made by a bored teenager. That scene where the runaway couple and Kirie were running away from the parents at the train station looked absolutely ridiculous. The light house scene also looked stupid as hell.

Don't even get me started on the actual story line. They tried to cram in so much that you'll be confused unless you already read the manga.

No wonder they kept pushing the release date further and further back, they probably spent most of that time trying to salvage this episode, and it still looks bad.

Here's some screenshots, though still images really don't do it justice. Things look way worse in motion.
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You forgot this gem
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I didn't even notice that because I was too entranced by the God awful running. Good lord.

There are other background elements sticking out in the episode, when Kirie and her friend were walking through the grave yard, and another time when Kirie's hair was growing bigger are two scenes that come to mind. AWFUL.
 
Thank you whoever it was that decided that the rest of this was to be shown to the public out of “respect for their hard work” that will inevitably be the subject of mass ridicule and laughed at.
 
Uzumaki kind of shows something that Junji Ito's work is capable of being adapted well with how good episode one is, but at the same time, it shows why there has never been a truly good adaptation of his work which is more out of incompetence.

I feel the same can apply to Lovecraft's work where it can be handled well in the right hands, but incompetence can always ruin it
 
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