Junji Itô: Korekushon

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 Itou's work perfectly, the art style in this let it down. The only word I can use to describe it is just. Lazy. Terrible pan shots, notable repeated uses of the same frames, and just some generically bad drawing where some characters didn't even have their full noses drawn on. Each episode seemed to drag on longer and longer and the only reason I continued watching this was to avoid dropping an anime and having my first red mark on my MyAnimeList statistics. It was simply shocking. Although the sound work and seiyuu's brought this to life, the artwork fully ruined it. As many other's have said - this is somewhat of an insult to the beautifully constructed art frames that Itou spends so much time and energy to create. Maybe they were rushed and that's why it just seemed limp and pale, but there was no excuse for this to be rushed. They should have tried to hire Itou on board as the art creator and director, frankly. This was just an abomination and I wish Splatter would work on sections of the brain so I could forget I ever forced myself to sit through this.

I think truly the thing that most disappointed me in this was just that I ended up laughing through a lot of the scenes. I ended up sitting and laughing through scenes that were meant to be sad or disturbing because the artwork was so bad and - if I'm honest - that actually hurt a little bit. I shouldn't be laughing through the work of one of my favourite authors for his disturbing and intriguing work. It's just not right.

Miss this, if you're an Itou fan, truly miss it. Learn from my mistake and run for the hills like every other Itou fan in this review section is warning you to do.

I really liked the stories that each chapter presents to us, in each one I could feel different sensations such as fear, repulsion and chills because in several scenes I was experiencing trypophobia. This is because the representations of drawings in the manga became very good and similar. The bad thing is its animation, at times it looks static and lacks fluidity, that are saved thanks to the great work of the voice actors. Its soundtrack is good, what stands out the most is its adapted script from Junji Ito's manga. If you like anime and want to try something new other than shonen, you should try watching it.

As a Junji Ito manga reader iv'e been waiting for one of his stories to get animated and when i realized that he in fact does have an animation i was excited but in the end i was disappointed the animation and the voice actors were not able to show us how creepy the characters are and the emotions were portrayed very poorly compared to the manga. But personally i never expect the Anime Adaption to be as good as the manga ever its very rare in that case. But i'm still giving this an 8/10 for the story line and Souichi ;))

I won't lie, Junji Ito's work is amazing! He puts a lot of time and effort into making his work as best it can be whilst making sure everything is unsettling. However, Collections is not a good way to show how amazing is work truly is.

At first I was excited to watch this back in 2018 since I am a massive fan of Junji Ito, I won't lie I wish I didn't. Collections has some of my favourite short stories of all time yet all of them just felt so off and didn't do any of them justice to how amazing they truly are. As the episodes go on the budget just seems to slip aswell and everything just starts to get worse and worse.

If you're a new Junji Ito fan, please just go read the books.

Ok I'm new to junji ito's work, I saw a trailer of junji ito Collection and said to myself ok that looks spine tingling and watched it, absolutely loved it, the reason why people aren't liking it is because the manga (books it was based on) looked more detailed but if youre like me and don't really know about junji ito's stories, you will love it I promise