/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>777071

>Studio DEEN

Im already spooked

The first episode wasn't too spooky, it was more Souichi acting like an asshole with a small clip of another story at the end.

>>777084

I thought it was pretty fun, the end credit scene not so much

This adaptation looks like shit. I rather just read the manga again.

Unless they pull of the Ito endings (or rather, the lack thereof), it's not really authentic.

>>777190

I was waiting all episode for that.

The shouichi parts were my least favorites so i hope we see more of the rest

>>777242

Souichi is by far Ito's weakest series to be honest.

When do we get to see FartGirlfriend?

>>777071

What is it about?

>>777254

Gyo already has an animated film adaptation. It's too long to appear in an episodic series.

>>777071

I really don't think Ito's art translates to animation. I like it much better in black and white and large contrasts. Gyo was much better on the page than on the screen, and I think this won't be much different for me.

>>777286

I completely forgot about the movie.

>>777516

It's not a must watch but it's better than the Uzumaki live action

>>777522

Is it as goofy as the manga, or did they fuck it up by trying to play it straight?

I wonder if we get an episode featuring his cat-mango.

It feels like the tone is completely wrong, I wanted something scary not this goofy silly shit.

>>777561

The tone is exactly like the story it is based on. The character sucks on nails because he's anemic, this isn't really a serious character.

>>777712

It's impossible to adapt the entire thing in a 13-episode anthology show

>>777524

It was some time ago but I mostly remember it being thoroughly unremarkable, just a straight adaptation of the first few chapters with some special effects that were not terrible. I'm pretty sure the actors played it straight.

>>777561

Welcome to Junji Ito.

>>777712

Whole show should just be about Tomie honestly.

Who got

>>777777

>>777858

Nah, tomie gets old really fast. Ito's at his best with short self contained stories.

>>777849

But I've read plenty of his stuff and I've never got the impression that the anime was giving off which is kinda clowny.

Jesus how low of a budget did this show get? anything besides lipsyncing is just a slideshow or an image being dragged across a screen

Second episode was much better, I actually like the art but the animation was distractingly bad .

Still haven't been spooked by anything in the series as of yet. I'm not sure if it's just that the stories themselves aren't particularly scary, or if it's just the animation. Compared to the manga, a lot of the scary imagery feels a lot less striking and I'm going to chalk it up to the animation looking pretty poorly overall.

>>780532

>being spooked by drawings

>>780536

maybe spooked isn't the best term, but some of Ito's art really sticks with me in a way that I don't think the animation is doing justice so far. I'll have to wait and see which other stories get adapted to be absolutely sure.

>>780678

noice

>>777522

Uzumaki adaptation was so shit.

>>777286

>>777516

Let's forget it ever existed, it's for the better.

>>778223

Personally I think the problem with this anime is that they use the manga as the storyboard to the point that a lot of the scenes just feel incredibly lifeless. At least when we read the manga, we can imagine the movements one way or another. But animation is all about movement. We want to see the horror characters one way or another come to life, but with what we got it just feels more like an interactive manga.

>>781678

If the second episode is any indication their animation is about to go south real fast.

>>781680

The Hellish Doll Funeral was pretty Junji Ito in the whole "making the linger unsettling" but again, it helps to have a little more animation.

>>781678

>interactive

I get what you're trying to say but that's not what that word means.

I quite liked the second episode, it gave me the same sense of dread that most of the manga chapters gives me. The one with the endless dream was my favorite of the two, kept me thinking about the concept for a while.

>>782281

Finally.

>>782281

about time

>>781705

My mistake.

>>782281

Good.

The new episode is out, and it made me miss the storytimes of ito's work on /a/, and the amazing non-endings it had, and the unwanted hilarity.

Ito, for me always manges to be either horrifying or hilarious no middle ground, except maybe for Souchi.

>>783201

>the amazing non-endings it had, and the unwanted hilarity

I think the voice acting leads to more hilarity in this adaptation. I don't remember laughing when I read slug girl but this version made me laugh a bit. I think that's part of the problem some anons have when they are saying the tone seems to be off with some of the stories.

>>783288

It's not even that, most of them killed themselves because another person told them they were going to get rejected.

>>780678

I think this adaptation ruined the punch of this episode because they just find her eating the girl instead of fat friend telling the audience and giving them time to process it.

Also the quality is worse than I feared. It's a shame since this story spooked me the most except for Woman Next Door and Balloons Now I hope this series doesn't touch those.

>>783344

Maybe you finder her in another galaxy, anon.

>>783201

Pissed that every night scene doesn't look or feel dark. It's like to these fucks, lighting doesn't exist or create a dark and creepy atmosphere that horror is all about.

In fact, they should have started the anime series with something creepy to set the stage on what to expect. Soichi's Curses would have worked best in a "comfy" episode midway personally.

Who do you guys think would be a better production company to handle Junji Ito's work?

Will they adapt Real Poop Memory?

I wonder if there's a possibility for a Uzumaki, Gyo or Hellstar Remina anime series to be created.

the assumption that Junji ito deserves better than this is quite wrong, he really doesn't.

His stuff is hit and miss with a lot of duds, even good duds, but they are still duds.

Has anyone figured out what the numbers at the end even mean? There's already a Junji Ito Collection in the form of a manga anthology series, but the numbers don't match the numbers in there, and nothing else seems to fit either.

>>783948

I don't really know where this idea that Junji Ito is a master of horror, I enjoyed Hellstar Remina, but not for the horror, maybe Uzumaki a bit, but generally it's more about the surreal shit, and they absurdness of it. Most of my enjoyment comes from either what I mentioned or how unintentionally funny it turns out.

>>783481

Are they going to do the rest of this in a part 2?

>>777071

Honestly Ito's style just does not work in animated form. For one, the art isn't ever going to be able to have the same level of craftsmanship and detail, as for every smaller action Ito does per page, needs to be drawn multiple times to animate. That and the use of color detracts from it, in a similar way to how MOB, while actually still looking fantastic, loses a bit of the art direction when you no longer have that high contrast of just black and white. There's also the lack of noise. Reading is an act intended to not have any music or sound, paired with it. By removing that element of silence, instead of your mind filling in all the blanks, you're suddenly just observing a situation unfolding in front of you. But most of all, Ito relies heavily on the act of turning the page, to deliver the scares to you all at once, at your own pace.

Without all of these, you're left with just some, admittedly still pretty creepy, pale imitations of the original thing.

The only thing I can see potentially being improved is the cat stuff, and that's only because hearing a good voice actor, voice Ito, could potentially elevate it to hilarious levels.

Which is a damn shame, as his work deserves to be as prolific as it can potentially be, but I see this series doing more harm than good, to the reputation. With people likely walking away thinking it was underwhelming, instead of understanding just how much of a fucking master at this, Ito is.

>>784722

What if they made an anime in a style similar to the MGS animated graphic novels?

>>785985

in other mentions, god damn that puppet story, totally forgot about it and surprised me with the ending

>>786082

That hole story reminded me of a doujin where a girls finds holes on her ass cheek and decides to fill it with stuff for the ultimate orgasm.

Then more holes show up and it becomes body horror but not really since women want to fill their holes.

>>784722

Then again Ito's adaptations were often pretty miss. The live action Tomie Movies were eh at best, Live Action Uzumaki was horrible, and Gyo sucked and missed the entire point of the manga.

I think the only adaptation that was pretty okay was the Live action version of Long Dream since it expanded upon the story a bit by giving the doctor a motive involving the phenomenon.

>>786140

Probably my favorite out of what they've done so far, though it's also the only one I recall having read before.

I hope they do the grease one or the one where people are sewing themselves together. I don't know if those are popular or what, but they're the ones that have stuck with me since reading his stuff a few years ago.

>>789006

You know, with all the apparent budget trouble, this goofy fucker is kind of growing on me.

>>789198

His ineptitude makes him more of a trickster than the malicious bastard he could be.

>>789204

I forget, is it canon reality that he marries The Model or was that all a Souichi delusion.

>>789309

NANI?! He's using the wind pressure created by his rapid punches to knock out his opponent.

that's some seriously low effort animation. getting worse by the episode.

>>789309

This the true horror.

>>792577

This is the ultimate form of ugly oldhags. Was first time I felt discomfortable with this show.

>>792577

They're showing the woman's house stretching?

That sucks, was scarier with it suddenly just being closer in print.

>>795466

This is what I mean where Junji ito does not deserve a quality anime if he is just doing random stories and not just his best. Most just leave you with the feeling of "well that was fucking stupid".

I wonder if they will do Balloons.

>>795744

I really want the grease one. but also DRR DRR DRR is possible even though thats from gyo so not holding massive hope for that one.

Regarding the end of the second part: Wasn't the girl walking downstream?

>>795666

That's one foxy oba-san.

>>796129

If this series ends without DRR DRR DRR I might fly to Japan and kill someone.

>>798253

Dumb circus bitch could just kill herself.

>>800646

I do want the anime to at least do (or recreate) the first Tomie comic to ease us in on what we're in for. But eh.

>>800725

Yeah, having her weird quirks spilled out crudely in one story makes me think this is the only Tomie story this run will touch.

>>800733

Its ok enough as a stand alone story, as it stands I hope for another Souichi.

Swear to god though we got 3 Episodes left and if there isnt DRR DRR DRR or Glyceride. I'm gonna feel cheated, knowing how this Anime is going they will probably do Hellstar Remina but only part of it.

>>801905

That story has ruined that haircut for me.

>>784717

The spirals is pretty good.

>>801923

Most of Uzumaki is ok, some such like the hair battle one or the snails even though the snails show up later on. The hospital and the warts ones are the best of the lot.

>>800733

I totally forgot this till now but the DVD's will have Tomie OVAs on v2 and v3.

>>800766

I expect we'll get Glyceride and Hanging Blimp, cause the rest of the stories from Shiver have been done already.

>>802031

Both would fit an episode, the one with the giant fish full of bodies would also be a good one.

New episode's out, didn't even get much of a laugh out it, this adaptation is really shitty.

>>802813

The facepress still makes me feel disgusted.

>>802918

That remember me a long time ago.

>>802933

I like the story, its one of the more dumb but kinda good Junji ito stories.

>>795640

>This is what I mean where Junji ito does not deserve a quality anime if he is just doing random stories and not just his best.

That's really not how writing works, especially when you have to keep making stuff for a living. Being at one's best is not only a matter of effort. Some things are going to be half-assed, sure, but some great ideas will turn out disappointing. You also have to consider what the author thinks is great and what the audience thinks is great often differ.

>>803027

I have no clue why they decided to give him muscle, he looks like he's ripped beneath that fat, which kind of took me out of it.

>>804822

This non-endings really make me miss the Ito story threads on /a/, they were a blast.

>>804846

They should have just devoted the entire episode to the transfer student story

>>804846

Something about pacing and horror is stronger when you have to turn a page, but yeah endings have always been Ito's weak point.

>>805003

Fuck off with that super eye faggot shit, Ito has rarely produced good horror, he is very successful at making creepy/disturbing/bizarre imagery.

>>806930

>the last scene of the 12th episode implied some /ss/

>they also have a confirmed child together

>>806930

Ito's stuff always had shit adaptations and this is no different. Personally if this is made by a studio who knows how to lighting and atmosphere or at least not overrely on the manga to be your storyboard, it would have worked better.

>>807154

Are they of the same family?

I thought it was fun

I'm just glad it's over.

>>809380

Why the long face? Because she knows she's 3DPD.