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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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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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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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As a first time contact with junji ito this is magnificent! I'm now reading the mangas since I became utterly obsessed with souichi thanks to this anime, so I hope this helps:)
Now I can see why some reviews of old readers are low. Meanwhile the anime can give you chills, or moments that you think "wow gross, that's scary" etc. you are not really scared but more interested. When you read Junji Ito's original art it gives you more creeps, a purest feeling of terror, in my opinion a kind of art that can't be animated to be as scary.
Don't worry!! you don't get as much as terror, but double of fun. The job they did animating Souichi's curses was really amazing, his character essence was at his highest version. The laughs, voice, animation... everything fitted perfectly, making shine the funn…
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If you're looking for a comedic, bad art style collection of things not to do in any horror situations then congratulations, you've got a 10/10 anime right here, go ahead.
If you're looking for an anime creation of some of Junji Itou's sickest works then you'd probably have better luck creating it yourself.
Now, a lot of fellow Junji Itou fans warned me off watching this. Being a relatively new fan, I took their warnings into consideration but I still chose to watch this with a friend as something for us to do in the evenings. Part of me really wishes I'd listened to other fans of Itou, but part of me is also now glad - at least I know now that when I read the mangas I have yet to read, I'm going to enjoy them ten times more.
Although the storylines in this are spectacular and follow…
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I wanted to write a small review explaining why I gave this anime a 7/10. There are very few decent horror anime, and while it is definitely true that all these stories work much better as manga, it was still enjoyable and scary to watch compared to other horror anime. It is all credited to the creativeness of Junji Ito's mind. If this anime used this same format with less compelling stories, I would have rated it MUCH lower. Fortunately for the producers, they were using Ito's stories and character designs. Ito's genius is the only thing keeping this anime from being trash.
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an absolute failure of the source material in every aspect. Junji Ito Collection tries to copy Ito's panels beat for beat but loses so much tension and character in it's poor execution. I feel bad for anyone exposed to this show before having read the manga. Ito's mastery deserves a more fair amount of gravitas and care in order to translate to animation. This extremely sloppy rush-job of a production is obviously meant to cater to Ito fans, but the staff who has handled this project seems to have little to no passion for what they're putting out there. Ito's stories are carried by his stark artistic style; shadows are black as can be, blood spatter looks like it came from a real crime scene, he always pushes the uncanny valley with his monsters so that when they are revealed in the manga…
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Status: Finished
Ito Junji Collection - You know, of ALL the production team in ALL animated studios in ALL the world, and you just HAD to choose Studio Deen!
I know people, which include even me, like to joke about how Toei animation isn’t that top notch when it comes to producing animated shows. But unlike Toei that could create quality content every once in awhile, Studio Deen seems to have a problem on creating an adaptation that is on par nowadays. For those who wants to defend Studio Deen, this anime is not the hill you want to die on.
Ito Junji Collection is a collection of Ito Junjis work that works as an anthology series. This means that we will see a collection of separate horror stories. Now as this anime might seem to have no problem regarding having continuous story with ju…
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Awful adaptation of a bunch of Junji Ito's stories. Most of them have been cut short and have no conclusion whatsoever. The artwork is incredibly poor compared to Ito's originals (sans a few), which heavily minimizes the shock factor. Most of the stories involving monsters are awful because if this. Needless to say, the best of the bunch are the ones which center around a concept rather than on shocking imagery (mostly due to Ito's storywriting).
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this. Only to Ito fans, but only because there are no other animated adaptations of his works (Gyo was even worse than this).
Notable stories (both good and bad):
- Fashion Model: Destroyed because of the mediocre animation.
- The Long Dream: The definite best of the stories. The concept is great and the execution…
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First of i'm a huge Junji Ito fan, but this is utter garbage!
If you like horror and/or trash even then i woudn't recommend this to you.
All the love you feel in the Mangapages is non existing in this lazy adaptation.
This Anime recreates the panels of the manga almost perfectly, but with a poor artstyle and lazy CGI. At no times i felt the same horror when reading the manga, only the horror of wishing it would end already.
This is just a huge waste of time and i hope the works of Junji Ito get one day the adaptation it deserves.
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if I could give this anime lower than the score of 1, I would.
it's honestly the worst anime I've ever watched, a huge waste of time and an abomination for the manga
it was just awkward to watch
please do yourself a favour and DONT watch this anime.
Story - the story (in the manga) is decent, but the story telling in this anime is atrocious
Art - one of the worst and most generic and boring art styles I've seen.
Sound - nothing much to say about it, though the voice acting and screams were awfully awkward to listen to
Characters - none memorable characters, the only somewhat decently animated arc was "Nagai Yume"
Enjoyment - it was a nice joke, but thats all there is to it
Overall - dont bother, staring at the wall sounds like a better experience.
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I was really hopeful for this adaptation, I really was. Unfortunately it fell short, and I apparently felt so strongly about it I was urged to write my first review here.
When it was announced there was to be an anime adaption of Junji Ito's work, I think we can all agree there was a lot of anticipation, Ito being one of the best horror artists in manga. There was, however, many disappointments. As the anime progressed, I desperately hoped it would pick up or find its rhythm, but it never did.
The first flaw was splitting up multiple stories into ten minute pieces. As a result of this decision, it often feels lackluster - things don't come to any sort of conclusion (which I know is sometimes a feature of some of his stories), it left me feeling dissatisfied and made the stories seem almo…
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What is man's favorite word? Starts with an M and end with Arriage. A miscarriage. Ayyyyyy, This joke never gets old, and neither does the baby.
This joke is quite accurate way of introducing just about anyone to Itou Junji's anime. It offers similarly tasteless jokes about rather abstract events that are presented as a horror comedy. It's a collection of tales that varie from snail using a human head as a shell to a person drinking so much grease he turns into grease himself. Lovely. This was my favorite story for sure. His palms were sweatier than Eminem ever thought was possible.
Approaching this series with open mind and owning a sick sense of humor will definitely help oneself to enjoy this DEEN's newest animated masterpiece. The series comes with a lot of quality differences and w…
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I'll of course start this by saying I am a huge fan of Junji Ito's horror work, so there is a slight bias in my review because I both really wanted to enjoy this and genuinely did.
However, I can't help but wish some aspects had been taken full advantage of. The Anime Man describes some of the problems with manga to animated translations in general. A large portion of the shock and horror factor in Junji's horror manga is that you can go at our own pace, absorb all details, and should the next page turn be suddenly disturbing, it's a small jump scare without being as cheesy and overused as an actual jump scare. Without this pacing, it is entirely on the anime's shoulders to effectively shock and scare, because now rather than imagining how this page would look in detail or color, or how i…
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Yeah, it's bad.
To talk about why Ito Junji Collection is a terrible mess is to talk about what makes a horrible anime adaptation. I'd like to first establish what was expected of it, and explain why it failed (even if most of it is obvious at first glance).
The bottom line for a decent anime adaptation is to provide an alternative way to experience the original work. More often than not that means a panel to panel adaptation with worse pacing and art, but now in color, fully voiced, scored and animated. Might sound fine on paper but it usually doesn't make the manga obsolete as anime rarely manage to adapt entirety of the story, and for many people the lack of detailed and stylish art can be a massive downside.
At best it can become something like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. An a…
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Horor anime for most people have almost always been labled as not very good on genuinely lacking the atmosphere or scare tactics of most other media the genre provides. There's something about a creature being animated, or a body getting ripped apart that just doesnt have the same affect as the real thing. Most horror anime almost always have to resort to be labled as: "action suspence" to get any fans attention. Shows like Helsing, Tokyo Goul, Parasyte, ect all rely on action and ultra gore to get any viewers. Then comes the work of manga artist Junji Ito. The man responsible for so many creepy pop up images that make people just go "The 7#(% am I looking at?" His art has a purpose to make anyone who views it genuinely uncomfortable, whether through gore, gross out, or basic confusing end…
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JUNJI ITOU COLLECTION (24/3/18)
This anime is to Junji Itou’s work is what Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender was to Nickelodeon’s Avatar series. It’s an adaptation so crude in its execution that the original’s fandom will deny it ever happened.
ART (0/10)
The Junji Itou Collection has what is easily the worst “animation” I have seen in anime, that is to say there is barely any. Most of the shots are static and the illusion of movement is created by camera pans or sudden shaking. What little animation feels obligatory, like adding a couple extra frames to make a character’s mouth look like it’s moving, and often looks convulsive and unnatural. Characters will either shake violently to make it feel ~scary~ or if the animators are feeling especially lazy then some characters may slide across…
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I…think you forgot to add a comedy tag, MAL.
Ito Junji: Collection, despite what the MAL score might lead you to believe is actually decent. Based on the collection of manga of the same name, these stories depict various abnormal occurrences and happenings. From what I know, there isn’t a pattern as to which stories were picked.
Ito Junji surprised me in many ways, one of those being the creepy atmosphere. Many of the stories are quite unnerving at times, especially with how crude the artstyle is. The fact that the overall art looks quite bad, as in the character models aren’t anything special and the backgrounds are rather cheap-looking only adds to the tone, which is fitting for a show like this.
One good thing I can say about the characters, or rather, character in this case, is that…
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Junji Ito deserves better than this.
As he is one of the most talented horror creators, I was eagerly anticipating when his work would finally be animated. It pains me to say this, but Studio Deen fucked up this adaptation big time. It was inevitable that at least one of his mangas would be adapted, and they chose to adapt dozens of his best stories. Any fan of his works would be just as hyped as I was… but as we now know, these adaptations aren’t even half as good as the originals. Even with some of his most beloved stories like Long Dreams, Tomie, House of the Marionettes, and many more, it still turned out being a pile of garbage.
What’s interesting about the Junji Ito: Collection is how faithful it is to the source mangas, but simultaneously awful. I’m not saying I dislike the manga…
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LA always has been fine with the supernatural "cosmic horror" at times like ghosts and curses, however LA has a morbid fear of zombies because they are human yet not, LA KNOWS they can't exist but there is that future logical extreme where humanity kills itself off...with humanity itself and this is where there is a lingering sense of horror from both the mundanity taken to the logical extremes and the unknown...Junji Ito KNOWS this and absolutely runs with it.
Junji Ito: Collection right off the bat for LA is by the title itself a collection of Junji Ito's horror works in 22 minute episodes and because of this format LA really can't talk about the plot as there are multiple plots that really doesn't connect (one does but semantics), so the best way to talk about Junji Ito is by his signa…
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