Audience reviews
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Helene18
Junji Ito: Collection is an animated anthology that adapts different chapters from the works of the famous horror manga artist Junji Ito. Each episode offers one or more independent stories, each blending psychological horror, the grotesque, the absurd, and unease.
The series directly adapts the manga's stories, but often in a simplified or abridged way.
Ito's horror relies heavily on extremely detailed and disturbing illustrations. The animation doesn't always manage to reproduce this graphic intensity.
Strengths:
• Very faithful storylines, few deviations. • Some scenes retain Ito's characteristically bizarre and unpredictable atmosphere.
Weaknesses:
• The lack of visual polish reduces the horror impact.
• Several iconic drawings appear flat or underdeveloped in the animation.
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"ot terrifying, not perfect… but definitely not garbage either.
This anime is pretty underrated, honestly. Of course, it's not the second coming of Christ or anything groundbreaking, but it's decent. Junji Ito's original stories are already creepy and strong on their own, and Studio Deen did what they could to adapt them.
Some episodes actually manage to capture that weird, unsettling vibe the author is known for. One that stood out to me was Fashion Model. In the manga, it's terrifying. In the anime, it's not a perfect adaptation, but they pulled off a solid scene with the monster — enough to give me a little scare.
Also, the voice acting was on point. The seiyuus really helped bring that eerie feeling to life.
It’s not a masterpiece, but if you're a fan of Junji Ito or into strange,…
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I thoroughly enjoyed the series but gotta admit that the animation could've been much better. There were certain details that were missing but it didn't bother me much or cause any serious problems. The soundtrack is really good and adds to the eerie atmosphere of the stories and gets you in the mood. The anime is not scary in the traditional sense that you won't be able to sleep alone at night after watching it rather its a collection of grim and grotesque tales that I for one really enjoyed. For me, this show is somewhere between 7.5-8.0 on a scale of 10 :D
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Junji Ito Collection: A Glimpse into Grotesque Genius, with Room for Improvement
As a Junji Ito fan, I eagerly devoured the "Junji Ito Collection" anime, hoping for a chilling translation of his iconic horror manga. While it didn't quite reach the fever pitch of terror the source material conjures, it offered a glimpse into the unsettling brilliance of Ito's mind, leaving me both wanting more and appreciating the challenges of adapting his work.
A Symphony of Shadows (But Maybe Needs a Bass Boost)
One of Ito's greatest strengths is his mastery of black and white. The stark contrasts, the play of light and shadow, all weave a symphony of dread that burrows into your subconscious. The anime, while not a slavish copy, attempts to capture this essence. While the vibrant palette occasionally…
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Junji Ito is one of if not my favorite manga artists of all time and his short horror stories are amazing to say the least. However I don't believe that the anime portrays what made his stories so effective and horrifying. Reading Ito's works shows a common practice he does very well of having pages build up to a page turn with highly detailed horrifying art that becomes instantly iconic by how effective and eye widening the reveals are. The anime unfortunately fails to capture this and ultimately wastes your time. I'm only giving this anime a "mixed feelings" and a "6/10" because despite my grievances with these adaptations I do think simply seeing his work translated to animation is a great thing to see and makes me very excited for the future as well as knowing those who simply don't ha…
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I rated this show a 7, but I definitely have mixed feelings on it.
Ito's works are some of the best horror works ever written. Period. However, this show struggled with some elements that bogged down the final product.
The biggest issue with this is its selection of stories. As with all writers Ito has some hits and some misses and this series adapts more misses than hits. It also adapts only parts of some stories, such as the Oshikiri stories, which are some of my favorite, but it would have been better to adapt the full Oshikiri stories. It also adapts two chapters from Tomie.
The thing that is going to bother people more than probably anything else about the show is the animation style. The animation is very static and there are lots of still images used in the animation. I personally t…
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Being a massive fan of Junji Ito's manga, i'm terribly sad to be giving this adaptation such a low score. The same as for the more recent Netflix Maniac.
Horror is quite a peculiar genre, requiring a lot more suspension of disbelief than others and is usually much more effective the more it leaves to the imagination. Which is why it tends to work much better in prose, or graphic novels, where your mind has to fill in a lot more between each sentence or panel with your own personal terrors. This is true for all the greatest horror writers like Poe, Lovecraft, or Stephen King, with very rare exceptional adaptations actually doing justice to the original work. In the case of Lovecraft, i'm still waiting for a good one, despite all the attempts.
When the suspension of disbelief is stretched…
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This collection was one of my most anticipated anime projects at the time and when it released it was the biggest pile of shit ever junji Ito has always been the greatest mangaka there was at writing bone chilling stuff with some of the greatest art I've seen and this is just a stain that carries none of the impact.
Furthermore the art just feels flat it's a massive nothing burger with no soul behind the art just a cheap imitation of something superior. The voice acting is also lackluster and doesn't fit well it's like watching the Schneider cut of Batman Vs superman in German.
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Long story short, the animation studio did the author dirty and the anime should have been of a higher quality. That is why if you initially thought the stories were decent at first but, comes off as spookier in its original manga format or even retold as a campfire story. If you want to support Junji Ito I would suggest purchasing his manga instead of watching this poorly made adaptation. As another anime connoisseur once said, ("Junji Ito's manga has a unique black and white style to it in the physical manga that cannot have the same effect when you read it online or even in animation. It is designed to cause suspense, dread, or a surprise when you flip to the next page.") Luckily, the author is getting some of his other works animated the right way. There will be a movie based on his sh…
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Junji ito deserves more recognition, he's undoubtedly one of the best horror anime writers !
The first episode was funny but later in the anime it gets dark to the point where i couldn't even sleep but he did a good job because that's one of the main objectives of a horror anime.
Would definitely recommend !
But should read the manga first cuz it has more details and looks scarier than the anime .
It contains traumatizing tales of different stories like a snail growing out of a girl's mouth , an attractive women making men fawn over her , making them crazy over her then awaits something horrifying or an attractive spirit at the misty crossroads that grants cursed advice !
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Am a bit confused with this one, Because the episodes are short a bit too short almost all stories have no real ending.
it's a plot that start with something creepy and than on the climax it quits and goes to the next story, and this happen 24x.
Every episode has 2 stories. i was recommend this anime by different websites because i like horror, but beside some creepy/gory things there is not really any horror to find here.
in my opinion it could be better, less childish and more adult like less humor and more drama would work.
i give it a 7 because i liked the art and it's isn't terrible just not really horror as was promised.
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This is one of my favourite horror series, it's so good i'm craving for another season. Few weeks ago Netflix announced Junji ito Maniac & from the trailer it seems that it's going to be a Tomie focused anime, the opening just gives of them vibes. I mean she's the whole trailer. I was hoping that it was going to be like the first season where nearly every ep is a new story. But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be that way. I'm still excited for it even tho it's most likely going to be evolved around Tomie.
Here's some horror series recommendations: Theatre of darkness: Yamishiba & Kowabon. If not watched then you should get to it.
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Short Review (Spoiler-free):
Itou Junji: Collection is better described as a motion manga with decent voice acting rather than an anime. These adaptations of Junji's short stories have varing qualities, mostly from awful to serviceable, with a few good ones in the mix. I am not a horror fan to begin with, but I was able to finish Junji's original manga anthology out of some morbid and OCD-ish curiosity. This anime series can be a serviceable introduction to Junji's extensive works, provided that you can stand the unstable art and barely-moving animations.
There are many problems plaguing this anime series. Though to be honest some of these issues are inherent to Junji's original manga. Junji might have created a new genre (or that he perfected a certain style pioneered by H.P. Lovecraf…
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I have mixed feelings about this anime. Junji is amazing at Horror but this anime was just not it for me. I heard great reviews about this anime and decided to watch it but when I did it wasn't all that enjoyable for me. Sure there were some scenes that were disturbing but it wasn't scary or frightening in my opinion, it was bland for me.
The first EP had gottenn me slightly hooked. I wasn't expecting comedy in it since most of the anime articles talked about it being a horror anime only, the comedy was alright but the firstr ep wasn't bad. I have seen other animes that don't have the genre of horror yet it comes off as a horror anime, but this wasn't it for me. There was a slug scene that was disturbing and it was decent but other than that it was just boring. I can't remember the rest o…
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Intro
I have taken some time to give a proper review of this anime. As a self-proclaimed fan of Ito-sensei’s creations, I consider it a responsibility to make my opinions known about his creations.
In this article, I will be discussing the first anime adaptation of the master of horror manga, the Junji Ito Collection.
Story
I think all fans of Ito’s work will agree with me on one thing: this anime had everything to be great and yet it wasted the opportunity. Lots of manga don’t make it to anime because of their delicate content or high level of detail. And that’s why Ito’s works have not been adapted… until now.
I don’t feel like I have much to say about the story. To me, most of Ito’s work are undeniably good. They are characterised by their brevity and abrupt endings. Personally, sh…
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I'm disappointed. Then again, it's extremely hard to translate the intricate art of Junji Ito into anime, especially when a lot of the horror is left up to the readers and the timing of scares is originally left up to them, too. It makes me sad, this could've been a lot better. However, if Ito himself said he was satisfied with the end product, I guess I kind of am, too. I just feel that a lot of the weight some of the art and scenes had were taken away in this adaptation. It's not good, but it's not really terrible or unwatchable, and someone who isn't really all about Ito and his works can still enjoy this and get scared if it's their first viewing.
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English version:
My opinion as a person who has never read the manga (just a few random tales). I say it was just an interesting experience to read the manga. My first impression of Junji ito's works is that they were the works of ghosts and demons that possessed or haunted people, but he proved to be more than that. Junji Ito messes with people's psyche rescuing phobias you didn't even know you had and transforms them into a real fear.
Among the episodes, there were some stories that I liked more, others less, some caused me horrendous discomfort and others made me laugh.
The design doesn't look anything scary compared to the manga designs. At first, I thought it was pretty unique, but then it seems like the quality was dropping and done in a hurry.
Portuguese version:
Dando minha opiniã…
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I'm not extremely familiar with Junji Ito's work.
I've mostly read the Tomie stories made by Junji Ito, So when I found out his work had been made into an anime. All I can say is that the Junji Ito: Collection is extremely underwhelming. The stories presented portray Junji Ito stories to a satisfactory level but some stories don't make sense without other chapters related to that story. The animation too me is eerie and captures the art style of its source material. the soundtrack is easily the best part and seeing characters brought to animation is extremely satisfying.
While each story is unique and creepy, I'm not certain whether they were well presented in animation. As I haven't read those stories. However, the Tomie episode to me felt like it didn't contain enough. Tomie at first i…
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I am not familiar with the work of Junji Itou and this may render my opinion irrelevant for most. However, the series was suggested to me by someone who knows Itou's incredible manga as "an introduction to his works" - something that will give me a good overall idea of what it is all about story and idea-wise. As such, I can say, the series did their job. I am absolutely hooked and willing to know the actual stories behind all those wonderful "teasers" called episodes. I am eager to see the detailed and graphic art behind those stylised and simplified characters. Of course, it is beyond my comprehension why that many wonderful and deep stories were cut and condensed to a teaser-trailer length of 10 mins each and stuffed together in a random mixture. I have no idea why some characters are r…
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Compared to other reviews which compare the anime to its original material, I have not read any of Ito Junji's mangas and watched this anime with no expectations presented beforehand.
For me personally, I mainly enjoyed the second part of the anime (7-12 episodes), the ones prior either didn't seem that intriguing or all that enjoyable to indulge in, of course, I'm not saying that the stories were particularly bad, some of them were enjoyable, but most of them weren't that interesting.
The animation sometimes felt underwhelming especially in scenes where they were supposed to be crucial (i.e. Honored Ancestors and Supernatural Transfer Student for example).
There were stories which I really enjoyed, such as Painter (ep 9), Smashed (ep 12), Used Record (ep 7), and Town of No Roads (ep 7).…
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