Uzumaki

Uzumaki is a series which I had very high expectations of to be the best horror anime of the famous manga artist Junji Ito. I was excited when the anime's first episode was released; even after the atrocious pacing, I loved the animation, sound design, and voice acting. I was hoping they kept the slow pacing just like manga or at least a close enough pacing... But who am I kidding? If you want to complete a whole manga in 4 episodes with just 20 to 30-minute episodes, the pacing will be worse. Let's go to the 2 nd episode... Bro, everything changed except pacing. Well, the pacing went even worse, and the animation was worse than any studio could have made. The animation felt like animators were given mere days to complete the episode. Well, also, guess what? The studio was changed after the first episode, and they gave it to the worst animators out there... How could you!?!?! You made the fans wait for years, and you gave us this; it's pathetic; I am so disappointed not only in the anime but also in myself for expecting the masterpiece manga to get a well-justified anime adaptation... Now I have no hope...the rest of the 2 episodes will be worse, and it won't even be worth looking at...

This is a great adaption so far based off one episode. It takes about 4 or 5 chapters of the manga and tries to string them together as if they are all happening simultaneously. The two main stories in episode 1, the Dad's spiral problem and the girl with the crescent tatoo, are completed in this episode but they also throw in the spiral boy that goes to school and add some of the Mom chapter. I can already see the chapter they are going to pair the rest of the Mom story up with and I'm excited to see how they do it.

If you don't know what I'm talking about that's fine, just know these stories unlike the manga are now all being told next to eachother instead of the primary focus of each chapter that they were in the manga.

This... is an interesting choice. I think they pull it off fine. It makes more sense that these things would be going together. Unfortunately this makes the series seem rushed, and at 4 episodes you know there will be some cut content from the manga. So how much is cut in episode 1... well not much, almost everything from the first chapter is in there, but with so many things going on it feels rushed.

Animation, sound, and voice acting are all top notch, so despite me feeling the series is rushed I"m looking forward to how they weave everything together as they move on.

Most of the good reviews are of the 1st ep. Which by itself, wasn't that good considering the pretty bad pacing, the only thing that saved it was the music and animation. The second ep is out now and oh boy... the pacing... is absolutely terrible, even worse than the 1st, they skip chapters like I skip my homework. They just put creepy scene after creepy scene after creepy scene witouth much care of how they each play with each other, its almost like they're just trying to meet the quota or notebook checking what creepy scenes they got to include, instead of trying to make any kind of buildup to make them actually work. The animation took a real nosedive too, and this is all on ep2... (to note that the anime has 4 eps only and was postponed like 3 times or something...) how is this even possible, did they waste all their budget on ep 1?

I will be watching the final 2 eps, but honestly, I just really hope that I'm wrong and they didn't waste all their budget on ep 1 animation.......... damn, I'm really disappointed.

If episode 2-4 were the same quality of the first episode I'd be willing to rate this an 8 or 9 but the quality fell off a cliff after the first episode. And the pacing ruins any tension the show is trying to build. So it just goes from wacky thing to wacky thing.

This should have been a non-traditional run length with stories that needed to be longer would be longer episodes and stories that were more side stories wouldn't feel the need to maintain a full episode length. But at least then the story would be contained.

Instead this anime adaptation feels like it happens in a matter of days instead of a longer period. It's just a shame because this manga of all of Junji Ito's works deserved a faithful adaptation.

Well I really want to give this a 7 because this isn't horrible, but I can't. This is a okayish series, but the worst thing is that it's just super disappointing.

It started well with the first episode. It was in my opinion pretty great. Then the drop in quality in episode 2 was very disappointing. Then the quality never got better for the rest of the series.

Animation quality dropped the most, but the pacing also got worse. I have to say though that episode 3 did have okay pacing, but still the animation quality was poor. Episode 2 and 4 felt pretty rushed in my opinion and had pretty bad pacing.

So is this series worth watching? Maybe. It's a short series and if you want to watch a okayish horror anime it might be worth checking out otherwise don't bother.