It wasn’t bad. No one’s noticing these slight differences in animation, and I doubt the director made the choice to include more pieces of the story in the second episode than the first. Which wasn’t a bad decision. It didn’t feel rushed at all.
@@alexiscool8474 fuck the animation, the pacing is COMPLETELY fubar. Each arc from Uzumaki's Manga can be its own 15-minute story and if you're really stretching it you can have 2-3 stories be told per episode. With Episode 2, they wrapped up FIVE plotlines in the span of like 20 minutes, and it's laughably bad because Kirie barely survives the Hair Spirals and before she can even catch her breath she's already walking to finish the Snail arc... AND immediately after finishing the Snail Arc she finishes the Lovers Spiral arc in like two mintutes. I'm about to go Karen mode because I want to speak to the dipshit director who thought this was a good idea.
1:44 From what I understand the first episode wasn't using cgi, they were using rotoscoping. And when they aren't rotoscoping they're tracing 3d models (So nothing you see is 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 3d).
Yeah clearly whoever was funding this show didn't have enough confidence in it to make it a proper series with proper funding. The pacing even in episode one just from a newcomer/anime only standpoint is incredibly fast and overwhelming. From a manga reader perspective even more so because like you said they're skipping so much. These next several months you're going to see every animetuber making their own "Uzumaki is a disappointment" video essays.
my man episode 1 was everything i was hoping for but episode 2 was just a punch in the face. why? i was so happy to see the guy that made flowers of evil actually do something new and then they only have him do one fking episode...
It would’ve worked if it was a 12 episode series, heck, even 8. I wanted more atmosphere and it was missing a huge part of that which makes it so jarring and not in a good way.
I don’t understand why it took so long and kept getting delayed if it’s literally just four episodes long. It shouldn’t have taken years to produce eighty eight minutes of animation at the quality level we’re getting.
My main problem with this isn’t even the animation. It’s the 2nd point you brought up about the pacing. I was so worried about the 4 episode idea. I knew if they were gonna cut something it would probably be the “Jack in the Box” story. But they didn’t. They gave us maybe 15% of that arc. It should have been an entire episode. This is why Uzumaki can only work as a fully fleshed out series. Hell, maybe even a two-season deal. 16 episodes in total. I hate it when adaptations decide to completely ignore “smaller plot points” that are actually crucial to the overall narrative.
I think the first episode was fine even with the quick pacing, but the animation downgrade in the second episode really kills the mood. It hardly justifies itself as an adaption. Well I guess Mononoke is still the #1 horror anime
@@valysheev No it is definitely horror. It's a drama horror basically. Some probably don't see it at first either because it's slow, they blink away the horror, or because of how things are resolved in each arc. Or they have a different opinion of how horror is. I do recommend watching Mononoke, the animation art is really good with utilizing texture and design that it looks like you're looking at tapestry or paintings somewhat. Also just bear with the stories as there's build up. Start with the original Bakeneko arc (3 episode arc shown in ayakashi tales of Japanese horror) as it gives a foundation for the following anime. (There's nothing wrong with skipping this but there are nods to the arc in Mononoke.) Ayakashi tales of Japanese horror is an anthology horror anime with different stories and it's also worth watching through imo, but not necessary.
Okay that’s what felt off to me when I was watching episode one. I felt like “this is crazy and looks wild and would be very scary, but why am I not feeling it? Why does it feel like it’s not landing?” It felt unearned and I’m glad someone else feels the same way
I strongly DISAGREE with what you've stated. I'm a long time advocate of the Uzumaki and have obsessed with it for years and even now. I loved the anime. They did serve justice and bear with me till the end. I know about the drop in animation quality and watched to ep3 from now on. But Uzumaki is not your typical horror story with supposedly jumpscares and stuffs. It's not even a horror! As I read uzumaki, there were only few scenes where my blood runs cold. Then what's uzumaki? It's a NIGHTMARE genre. I heard people complaining 'how stupid is this anime' or 'if things are horrible, why not run away'. Clearly they're not aware of the mood of Mr Ito's works. Especially Uzumaki when you read further and further. Uzumaki IS a Nightmare. It is a horror of trends, unexplicable mysterious trends in the world that encompasses the violences and misfortunes. Ever had a feeling like all misfortunes that ever happened to you is connected by unexplicable phenonmenon? Like a nightmare spuralling down? That's Uzumaki. It's not supposed to make SENSE. It's irrational. Fear IS irrational. After two chapter of manga, I wasnt quite into the story but later I got absprption to the story which I find distant are smoothly connected by unexplicable phenonmenon known as Uzumaki. And the feeling of dread and trapped is the true feeling. A whole uneasy feeling is present in every chapters and even in the anime's episodes. Now I've explained what uzumaki supposed to feels like, let's go to anime. Unlike most people have hype in first episode, I know this anime isn't for everyone. Like come on, there are people complaining because this anime has no colors! I didnt like the rotoscope thing to be honest and I found it revulsing since first episode. So I got to the notorious episode 2 where most people quit... It was actually great. Lemme elaborate. Uzumaki's setting is about an isolated town from 90s in mountainsides of japan. Personally i liked such towns because I was born in one. Uzumaki has such ambience. From the sound of drowsy train from daylight to the eerie silence except crickets' sounds. They DID it perfectly. I had the same feeling of uneasiness like in manga. About the drop in animation quality. It's not that bad. There're only few and brief scenes where animation quality dropped. Not much. But as an artist, I understand them. It's not always easy to draw every lines on faces and clothes to shade especially in an animation. It's actually hard to maintain so they put some scenes of grey graphite coloring which is not bad. It. still could give me the feeling of a nightmare. So it's quite okay. Even for the scenes of human running which is weird. Also I love their artistic choice of subtly putting the retro film style everytime there's a disturbing scene. It's like the fabrics of your consciousness is breaking at that point. But so many strange thing happening in kurozuchou that people got indifferent to them and also it gives a nightmarish feeling so everyone's kinda insane in their own way. And the Music!! Even the haters have to admit it! I'm still hearing it in my mind as I'm typing. It such addicting. It's absolutely fit the nightmarish feeling. It gave me uneasy feeling yet feeling attracted to the source of fear which is represented as uzumaki in this story. I think uzumaki is scary because we dont know what it is and we'll never know about it. A mere human can't know the origin of uzumaki which is probably the mystery for existence of everything too... #justiceforuzumakianime
We need another nepo baby to use their infinite money to faithfully adapt Junji's manga, like how the son of the founder of Nike uses his family fortune for exceptional stop motion films.
I'm mixed on this. The first episode left a strong impression and I had zero complaints and a lot of excitement. Then I did not understand why, but the second episode was just... not interesting. The tones were off. Some dialogue felt forced. The good parts of episode 2: The snail stuff was just gross at first, but after I finished the episode, I couldn't stop wondering about the hidden logic and the subtle foreshadowing behind it. The story is at its best when it is haunting and sticks with you. Tones are off: The guy who stalked Kyrie this episode was goofy. He did what Jim Carrey would do in a comedy. But sudden comedy just takes me out of the story. The previous stalker of Azami may not have done much, but his presence was much stronger. Forced dialogue: The explanation about why the lovers' parents hate each other made no sense. They wanted to explain it with spirals, but the result was just a dry and baseless exposition, which did not actually explain anything. There was also a scene at the beginning, where the main guy showed a photo to Kyrie about a dead body, then he started drawing conclusions. That dialogue also felt forced. Uninteresting story: They already did the stalker thing with better characters just an episode ago. Then the swirly hairs were just goofy and had no consequence. Finally, during the entire story of the runaway lovers, I only felt unsettled once at the beginning, when I assumed the coiled snakes might attack them. But they just talked a bunch, ran for a while, then made wet spaghetti. It was neither imaginative nor unsettling.
uzumaki is about a town spiral into madness, everyone felt the same in the manga as the story progress, noting makes sense, it's stupid it's ridiculous, but it gets better once u know why it happened, it will gets darker and darker, I didn't see the episode 2 yet, but judging by ur comments seems like it's just genuinely worse in terms of animation, pacing and dialogue, again my conclusion is it might be fine since the manga did the same, the snail and spiral hair is goody at first,but it just one of the chapter where ppl goes nuts and ilogical, they developed weird obsession, one might think these chapters were unnecessary, but no, it just part of the charm in manga. and again I didn't watch the episode 2 yet, so it could probably just the pacing and animation quality than got ppl complain. cuz in the manga it's not about the pacing it's about random events that goes crazier and crazier, true madness where ppl laugh uncontrollably while our main protagonist is the only one who feel terrified. that kind of vibe, but as for the animation, I can understand if they could ruining the pacing. make it feels too rush. but idk didn't watched it yet
@@GeraldWallsthe first one about first terror, mystery while the second episode is about something ridiculous, nuts, lots of laugh, next episode would be about survival, the last would be about depression, giving up, and sadness, or loss. if spiral into madness have stages like grief, it would be like that
It is defintely wayy too fast paced. Especially when watching the scenes of the "twisted love" chapter. It was so weird to me that they decided on running away that fast. We barely saw anything of them. Just their parents fighting once and the snake matting scene, before they decided on it. I also would have liked it if they adapted more scenes that cover the whole drama of the parents. The story with the newborn babies lacked proper build up aswell. The mention of the newborns all being unusal beautiful, kiries cousin introducing her baby to her and kirie's suspicion about the babies bellies would have been great for a proper build up, however all of that didn't get animated.
Self-report you have never worked on a creative product for a company before. No one "gave up" dude. They were given too little money by the higher ups and cut corners where they had to in order to get something finished, and overall it's not even close to the worst anime out there. People acting so dismissive of the show clearly have never actually had to produce art with a set budget before
@@eicoo2 You made an ignorant statement, got corrected, and now you're acting all dismissive about it, as if they're somehow in the wrong for correcting you and suggesting that you do research? Maybe you're the one who should get over yourself :o
The big disservice being done, is that THIS is what 90% of audiences are going to experience from Junji Ito's Story. And it will 100% stop them from looking into more of his Stories, because of how lackluster the presentation has been.
8:50 I guarantee the scene involving Shuichi's mother stabbing her ear will happen later on. I remember the director saying in an interview that a character who dies early in the story will have a bigger role. I am certain he was referring to her.
When the Jack in the box boy jumped infront of the car, I just laughed. It´s not creapy at all its just hella random and doesnt make sense. Apart from that I have no Idea what the story of this Anime is suppose to be. Maybe I will give the Manga a shot
You're not going to get more sense from the manga the point is most of it does not make sense. It's spiral madness baby. And jack in the box has not, and will never be, scary. Unless you're like 10 years old maybe.
@@duckheadbob I mean the whole thing feels kinda old, in the sense of the writing being underdeveloped I guess. Just like in older anime where the story is just fucked up to be fucked up. With 2 dimensional characters and unnatural reactions for them. Like why are most of the students just chilling with a dude that turned into a fucking snail. They are like "Oh what happend to you?" And then proceed to call him fat snail boy and put him in a cage. In newer media like idk Fire Punch or CSM or even JJK i guess, there is always a point behind the horror or violence. I just don´t see it in this one.
@duckheadbob it does actually have a story that does make sense and fear is subjective, the fact you said "unless you're like 10" tells me you are a child yourself 😂
See, I thought episode 2 would cover the mom's descent into madness, but it seems like they'll either combine it with the other hospital chapters, or just cut it entirely.
Hey Otaku, i never watched or read uzumaki, but i decided to try it out... I read the manga first, read the first two chapters, then episode 1 and im ready to leave out my thoughts THEY CUT OUT SO MUCH SHIT LIKE YOU SAID, WHERE DID IT GO WRONG
though props to the animation, voice acting, and sfx and music, to be fair, even with the bad pacing I still felt a bit uneasy with those, i kinda should give credit
Sooooooooo glad I didn’t add Cartoon Network back to my cable plan and just decided to wait for next day on HBO. I’m convinced they pushed this crap out and only showed us clips from episode 1 to get people to resubscribe to CN. Bait and switch.
@@damdamfino First episode was made by the original studio, after episode one the original studio/director was swapped with a shitty studio/director. Very well documented
I haven't seen episode 2 yet but episode 1 I thought was great. I thought the rigidness in episode 1 was a stylistic decision. I'm terrified to see episode 2 now, I'll go check it out and come back I guess 😕so sad
a little spoiler, the pacing in ep 2 sucks. It tried to do something like ep 1 where the different chapters in the manga where mashed together so that each "unusual event" is happening almost simultaneously. but ep 2 was a drop off. Im just coping that the first half will be just the worst of it since this is the part in Uzumaki where Ito was just telling short stories. Its by the second half when chapters start to be more cohesive as the entire town is turning into a spiral that hopefully the pacing in the anime gets better.
Ok... I think I recognize part of the problem with episode two.Even though I know that the animation studips switched between episode 1 and 2 due to budget issues and the pandemic (but still same writers) I have the manga, and ine of the biggest issues I noticed between episode 1 and 2... was the pacing. 1. One thing that stood out to me as someone who read the manga was that they spliced earlier chapters with later chapters (in the manga, we dont get one of the side stpries until several chapters past the stories first three chapters). They also took THE MOST DETAILED PANELS IN THE MANGA and STUFFED THEM IN THE FIRST CHAPTER... and ROTOSCOPED THEM. So you are just whammed with some of the most beautiful imagey in Uzumaki. 2. Then, when you get to episode two, you notice the biggest problem...the pacing. They splice several more chapters out of order in chapter two (I wont say which (seriously, read the manga)). However, the lower budget becomes much more noticeable in that they reduced the rotoscoping...they also used some of THE LEAST DETAILED STORIES IN THE MANGA FOR EPISODE TWO! I mean, there are some excellent animation sequences in that episode...They're just not as detailed in themanga as the ones in the first episode. Its just so noticible because not only do you have a quaility drop due to the lack of rotoscoping, but you also go from THE BEST PANNELS to OH THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST SIMPLE PANNELS IN THE MANGA. The biggest critism I have for the series so far, is the pacing, not just with the scene splicing...but with the bigger focus on the art versus the story of uzumaki itself. A lot of the stories are so spliced together that some of the themes in the individual stories become lost. I wpuld have much prefered if they had simply gone in order of the mange versus splicing different chapters together. It would have spread out the animation and made things much more cohesive in animation quality.
The next episode has the hospital and the mom scissors scene...... There are some rough animations, but it looks overall fine. I have 3 sets of friends watching it who havent read it before and they are loving it. While ive read it a few times, and am aware of the changes, the pacing is subjective. My friends, and myself, have liked the breakneck pace of the show. Horror can be slow burn or fast madness, and the fast madness infact works for something like uzumaki that is a town spiraling into madness. The problem with the original work is alot of stuff is paced so slow to the point where you wonder why there isnt a larger response, bringing it all together makes for the feeling everything is spiraling out of control. And they frankly didnt have the budget to do otherwise. To focus on each individual chapter as an episode wouldve been too much money (thats the sad reality) and frankly some of the sections like jack n the box man wouldnt work as a stand alone episode. Sometimes chapters of a manga, despite being roughly the same page numbers, dont always neatly translate to predefined episode times. Basically, i dont think this is nearly as bad a show as the diehard anime uh... losers are making it out to be. Normal people are watching the show and are enjoying it..... it wasnt even until i went on the subreddit and saw people dogpiling on errors seen in the background for one second did i even know people were acting like this is berserk 2016 all over again. Ill say it, the people going "we waited 5 years for this!?" Are people devoid of any personal creative talent and have likely never worked on a monetized creative/artistic project once in their lives. Youd frankly never talk about other artists (artists working on a corporate budget) work that way if you had.
I don’t know man. I thought the first episodes was excellent but that second episode gave me a really sour taste in my mouth. The animation was a bit to rough/lacking and the pacing felt even worst. I can understand some problems with the pacing but the animation definitely could have been way better than what we got. I don’t think we should excuse problems with productions in anime.
@Wallie33. The exe producer said the other option was it was just canceled or just the first episode airing... soooo yah im going to disagree there: I'd rather we have the 4 episodes and finished story, warts and all, than nothing. they didn't have the budget to do much better. Sure the pacing and animation could've used another pass, and we can talk about broader issues with producing animation/art for money..... but let's be real here, those discussions are not happening around uzumaki. It's a bunch of man-children hyperbolicaly whinning about how "this was the worst adaptation ever" "its trash" "worthless" etc while they hyperfixate on background details and poor animations that are seen for maybe a minute in total. And thats such a disservice to the many good aspects of this show. Like I said originally, the show even in it's current state is captivating my friends and getting them interested in the story and reading it after, as well as providing me fond memories of the first time I read it. And still (in both episodes so far) having moments of genuine horror or feelings of unsettledness (and outright shock from my friends who dont know whats coming). All from a overworked team with too little budget and time while also grappling with a pandemic.... I just cant imagine what my worldview or state of mind would have to be for me to consider that some "horrible failure" which seems to be the community consensus
@yoshishuhaist uh no. I haven't posted on reddit at all lol - it may shock you, but you're in an echo chamber and I'm not the single individual that differs from your opinion lmao. touch grass dude, jesus....
@@duckheadbob uh why so mad? I just thought you're the same because I've seen the same comment on reddit. I think you need to take a chill pill or something. Jesus
I 1000% agree. And ive noticed the people who have defended the pacing either didnt read the manga or did and didnt understand the story. Episode 3 does add some missing stuff but its so out of place they shouldnt have even bothered adding it.
I couldn't even finish episode 3. They ruined the scariest scene of the entire manga, the hospital and all the pregnant blood sucking women. It was AWFUL!!! And that one haunted shot of her cousin coming out of the delivery room with her mosquito tongue out was totally botched. I'm also not finishing this disaster series.
It seems to me that the first episode was _mostly_ psychological horror while the second was more body horror. I enjoyed the first episode a lot more but it's not like the second episode was dogwater. I understand that things were rearranged so you may yet see things in future episodes that have already been passed in the manga. CGI quality is a different topic...
I had skepticism when it was announced just 4 eps for the whole serial manga. When i read it it was like a collection of stand-alone stories told in one place at the same time while the last volumes are connected everything together. I passed on this as i was satisfied reading the manga.
The way you describe it reminds me of the difference with Ringu and Ju-on americans adaptations, more focused on the jumpsacres and not the ambiance of the story. But yeah, I agree with you, I sensed it too. The problem with episode 1 already was adapting 4 stories into 1 episode. They are jumping to plot point without real build up and it feels like the people in the town are just stupid not reaction and staying where they are. While in the manga, since it's a bunch of short stories without real thread between them, it's easier to accept in my opinion. I will finish it (it's only 2 more episodes) but I don't think it's gonna deliver in the end.
You know, when I look at episode 1, the stories they decided to tell and cramp in it and show with the big budget animation, it kinda feels like they put the most famous panels up first (like the ones you often see printed on tshirts and merch). It makes the whole thing feel watered down and cashgrabby. So in a sense not much different than the merch of the manga panels, all style and no substance because of the lack of context and proper build-up. People will love episode one and then get disappointed by episode two and likely not finish. Which is so frustrating because the second half of the book just reaches new levels of messed up cosmic horror levels that people will miss out on
I wish they could’ve at least done the stories in order. I was so mad when they skipped the part in Jack in the Box when Mitsuru jumped out of his grave.
The pacing in this series compared to the anime is horrendous. I read the manga in preparation of the series coming out and the difference is absolutely criminal.. I don't care about the visuals but the pacing... HoRrIbLe!!
3d animation has RUINED the anime scene, it looks AWFUL (unless a ton of time is put into it) but it's so cheap in comparison to fully handle drawn works.... and thats set the price points for the bean counters. You wanna make a genuine masterpiece? Can you do it on the cheap-ass 3d budget of worse shows? Because that's what the higher ups are gonna give you to work with.
Also the character movements and background animation are better in the first. The filter on the hair isn’t the only thing that is making episode two look bad.
I haven’t read the manga so I can’t speak to the story, but I’ve actually really liked it so far. I noticed a change in animation between episodes (I saw that the first is rotoscoped and the second is 3d?) but I’d be lying if I said the 3d looks bad. This isn’t even close to as bad as something like the Berserk adaptation. I think the black and white makes it work better than most 3d anime and there were some really good/creepy looking scenes. I think the show has been able to stick to Junji Ito’s art style pretty well especially compared to adaptations of his other works. I’ll probably read it after the show ends to see how they compare!
I have several sets of friends who are watching it and haven't seen it before, they all are of your opinion.... it's only like diehard anime..... ahem. freaks that are acting like this is the worst thing ever. Pacing is subjective and alot of my friends have like the story so far, everything happening at once feels maddening. And the animation is fine. It only gets really bad if youre actively looking for stuff. one of my friends commented on how some stuff looked wonky, but called it a nitpick. Everyone acting like this berserk 2016 are out of their minds.
I'm someone who regularly complains when I get bad 3d in my anime. This was not that bad, and I don't even really feel the quality drop everyone else is on about. The black and white visual, and the uncanny nature of the story do a great job masking that 3d look. If it was colored in, I'd probably have some complaints, but it just feels right. The scenes look exactly like the panels do, but in motion, and they move exactly how you felt they would have moved when you read the story. I'm impressed so far. I worry that I've heard it's only four episodes, and I worry public perception is gonna warp the average person's views on its quality.
I have nkt read the manga yet so i dont really know about the story That being said i dont even care about these characters like the whole dad part was cool but okay bro died and the ayase girl with the scar was just felt rushed It looks good but the story very like a frber dream that keeps on going and going without giving us a moment to breathe Maybe i shiuld read the manga lol
For Anime only I don't think there is such a big deal.... like me, I'm a anime only guy for me it doesn't matter they are skipping parts in manga.. anime looks creepy and cool for me... but I can understand how manga readers feel when their favorite panels from manga get skipped 😅
I don’t do horror, but I considered watching this, since it’s only 4 episodes long. Ultimately, I decided not to watch it, so I’m glad I haven’t been missing much. 😄
Just read the manga if you interested, atleast it's much worth it. The manga quite interesting at the beginning and after that it got quite boring in mid chapter to end in my opinion, it's just getting more goofy and generic like any other horror story.
Damn. I enjoyed episode 1 (I haven't read any manga in years btw) and along with Bartender : Glass of God, Dandadan and hopefully Tower of God (I just read about it) I was hoping for a big rekindling of my interest in anime. With all the damn isekai (sp?) dominating the market, I think the last anime I enjoyed was ID Invaded and Sonny Boy. Oh well, I guess we'll see if the downward spiral is inevitable or not...
When they got to the light house part is when it disappointed me I feel like its rushed too much like the mom is supposed to be dead and learn about her ears by now
That's not how this works....... yall have never worked in a job that requires you to produce art on a budget. They didn't not understand it or weren't left alone, they werent given a big enough budget. With tight budgets you eventually just have to stop working on scenes, whether or not they are the level of quality you want, the budget demands you move on to actually get this out. This entire show was incredibly close to just being canceled entirely due to the budget issues. I think knowing that, the team did a pretty solid work with what they had.
2:42 That looks to be the size of a Vizbig, so there’s probably 3 volumes in that is there? Most anime are 2-3 episodes per volume, although I’ve seen some anime like High Rise Invasion adapt a full volume per episode, and they didn’t skip anything.
i dropped it halfway into episode 1. just a complete butchering of his work, i hope too many dont watch the anime and think "that was odd, guess ill never read the manga"
I LIKE IT! yes its not what current anime people like, but im in my 60 and have been following anime and manga since the early 70s and I'm s a big fan of Ito's manga specifically TOMIE, REMINA and also UZUMAKI. I have no problem with what they did. To me its ok to good. They left stuff out, but its like a 600 page series. I like it. Do I need to remind this wipersnapers how bad 1970's anime animation was? This looks like a work od art compare to most of those.
I disagreed with your take last review couse I thought the changes were well made to keep up the pacing of the story for TV. Episode two derailed that for me. The pacing is so rushed. They just wanted to show the shocking scenes from each of the stories without any of the creepy build up. I would've rather they took some stories out and made the other ones they decide to keep have more time to breathe. What a let down.
I'm kinda shocked the negative feedback when you take in fact all the other adaptations. Horror anime is tough and honestly I really am enjoying this anime.
@@scythe9734 Exactly right about Pluto! It was fantastic. And CN couldn’t do four episodes of Uzumaki. I think they got the first episode back and saw the budget and nerfed episodes 2-4.
@@nickn271 Yes, best case scenario is episode 3 and 4 are of the same or better quality than episode 1. Worst case scenario only episode 4 is great. But I don't think all the rest are gonna be as bad as episode 2.
@@Amazingshorts3463 If they couldn't get the budget and time necessary for the second episode in the years since 2019, I doubt they'll be able to get the budget and time necessary to triple the lengths for every subsequent episode, sadly.
I thought that episode 1 was perfect, the rushed parts of it i felt was fine because it was a good hook, but its now clear they are not getting the point of the manga, very sad...we may never get a good adaptation now :(((((
How is this ruined? This is a great bizarre show. Edit: actually I think you're right. It could've been better but I don't think its an overall failure, I just think they should've built more on it than just 4 episodes.
If you haven't read the manga, it's understandable liking it but you must understand why the manga readers are disappointed, the butchered. Episode 1 animation was a masterpiece tho
What are they skipping? In the first episode they covered the Dad in the tub, the Azami story, and half the snail story. That’s 2.5. In the second episode they covered the snake kids, the hair thing, half of the lighthouse thing, half of the jack-in-the-box thing, and the remainder of the snail thing. That’s 3.5. And the mother who lost her mind is still alive, so we don’t know how much further they’ll go with her. The manga is longer and more detailed, but it’s no less jarring and bizarre, and the actions of the characters are no more nor less rational. What is so essential for us to know about Azami that the anime didn’t cover?
At this point, Junji Ito's manga is _more_ "unadaptable" than back then when people thought *Dune* & *TLOTR* were unadaptable. At least Berserk had the 1997 anime and the not-too-bad *Golden Age* one.
@@androyus Telling someone to watch the Berserk animes is the last thing on earth I’d ever do. They do such a terrible job that they should only be watched after you’ve read the manga. Anyone wants to get into Berserk you tell them to read the manga, don’t even mention the anime exists.
@@fan4every1lol89 I never said they’re “unwatchable”, maybe reread what I said. What I DID say was they’re terrible adaptations of the manga. Something every single Berserk fan will tell you, it’s my favourite manga, I’ve read it multiple times, I have all the anime on bluray, they’re bad adaptations. And the one that actually adapted the story the best is the one that’s most hated, the other 3rd anime, the 2016 anime.
anime is not the msp here , they just want to overhypped some series that people by its source material . same things happens with some light novel also.
the drop off from episode 1 to 2 needs to be studied.
It's well documented apparently. The original director was kicked off after EP 1, an infamous director was put on and production in general was hell
It wasn’t bad. No one’s noticing these slight differences in animation, and I doubt the director made the choice to include more pieces of the story in the second episode than the first. Which wasn’t a bad decision. It didn’t feel rushed at all.
@@alexiscool8474 you’re on crack or trolling. Almost no one likes episode 2x
@@alexiscool8474 fuck the animation, the pacing is COMPLETELY fubar. Each arc from Uzumaki's Manga can be its own 15-minute story and if you're really stretching it you can have 2-3 stories be told per episode. With Episode 2, they wrapped up FIVE plotlines in the span of like 20 minutes, and it's laughably bad because Kirie barely survives the Hair Spirals and before she can even catch her breath she's already walking to finish the Snail arc... AND immediately after finishing the Snail Arc she finishes the Lovers Spiral arc in like two mintutes. I'm about to go Karen mode because I want to speak to the dipshit director who thought this was a good idea.
@@alexiscool8474 Well I am noticing the absolutely nonsensical plot so far. Is the manga the same or was this just a dogshit pacing moment?
1:44 From what I understand the first episode wasn't using cgi, they were using rotoscoping. And when they aren't rotoscoping they're tracing 3d models (So nothing you see is 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 3d).
they put 90% of their budget into episode 1 🤣
Pretty sure the producer and animation studio changed
They change the animation studio.
Yeah clearly whoever was funding this show didn't have enough confidence in it to make it a proper series with proper funding. The pacing even in episode one just from a newcomer/anime only standpoint is incredibly fast and overwhelming. From a manga reader perspective even more so because like you said they're skipping so much. These next several months you're going to see every animetuber making their own "Uzumaki is a disappointment" video essays.
my man episode 1 was everything i was hoping for but episode 2 was just a punch in the face. why? i was so happy to see the guy that made flowers of evil actually do something new and then they only have him do one fking episode...
The episode was animated by a different studio. But it was written by the same studio as episode 1.
What an idiotic adaptation. Horror is a genre that relies on buildup. Without that, it just becomes unimpactful violence.
@@Sobbleboy27 Fr, the biggest problem is the pacing is lightning fast
It would’ve worked if it was a 12 episode series, heck, even 8. I wanted more atmosphere and it was missing a huge part of that which makes it so jarring and not in a good way.
1st episode had no cgi usage
was all rotoscoped
cool, i didn't know that
But why though, couldve allocated detail more elsewhere
@@MrJacobnoel tf are you even trying to say lmao
@Seibahh could've had denser frames. No one asked for rotoscoping. Or at the very least could've been saved for more intense scenes
@@MrJacobnoel Tf are you talking about bruh?
the lack of Kirie's narration annoys me the most, we miss so much context of EVERYTHING
I didnt know it was only 4 episodes being how long the book is insulting HOW THE HELL CAN THEY CUT IT THIS SHORT like come on
I don’t understand why it took so long and kept getting delayed if it’s literally just four episodes long. It shouldn’t have taken years to produce eighty eight minutes of animation at the quality level we’re getting.
@@garygearboy1358 We need the whole studio ghibli if y'all wanna see all of the scenes💀 (it might be finished in 10 years or more)
My main problem with this isn’t even the animation. It’s the 2nd point you brought up about the pacing. I was so worried about the 4 episode idea. I knew if they were gonna cut something it would probably be the “Jack in the Box” story. But they didn’t. They gave us maybe 15% of that arc. It should have been an entire episode. This is why Uzumaki can only work as a fully fleshed out series. Hell, maybe even a two-season deal. 16 episodes in total. I hate it when adaptations decide to completely ignore “smaller plot points” that are actually crucial to the overall narrative.
I think the first episode was fine even with the quick pacing, but the animation downgrade in the second episode really kills the mood. It hardly justifies itself as an adaption.
Well I guess Mononoke is still the #1 horror anime
@@Ash_Wen-li is it actually horror? I might check it out
@@valysheev No, it's not
@@_maliciousIntent oh so what would you call it
@@valysheev No it is definitely horror. It's a drama horror basically. Some probably don't see it at first either because it's slow, they blink away the horror, or because of how things are resolved in each arc. Or they have a different opinion of how horror is. I do recommend watching Mononoke, the animation art is really good with utilizing texture and design that it looks like you're looking at tapestry or paintings somewhat. Also just bear with the stories as there's build up. Start with the original Bakeneko arc (3 episode arc shown in ayakashi tales of Japanese horror) as it gives a foundation for the following anime. (There's nothing wrong with skipping this but there are nods to the arc in Mononoke.)
Ayakashi tales of Japanese horror is an anthology horror anime with different stories and it's also worth watching through imo, but not necessary.
Okay that’s what felt off to me when I was watching episode one. I felt like “this is crazy and looks wild and would be very scary, but why am I not feeling it? Why does it feel like it’s not landing?” It felt unearned and I’m glad someone else feels the same way
I strongly DISAGREE with what you've stated. I'm a long time advocate of the Uzumaki and have obsessed with it for years and even now. I loved the anime. They did serve justice and bear with me till the end. I know about the drop in animation quality and watched to ep3 from now on. But Uzumaki is not your typical horror story with supposedly jumpscares and stuffs. It's not even a horror! As I read uzumaki, there were only few scenes where my blood runs cold. Then what's uzumaki? It's a NIGHTMARE genre. I heard people complaining 'how stupid is this anime' or 'if things are horrible, why not run away'. Clearly they're not aware of the mood of Mr Ito's works. Especially Uzumaki when you read further and further. Uzumaki IS a Nightmare. It is a horror of trends, unexplicable mysterious trends in the world that encompasses the violences and misfortunes. Ever had a feeling like all misfortunes that ever happened to you is connected by unexplicable phenonmenon? Like a nightmare spuralling down? That's Uzumaki. It's not supposed to make SENSE. It's irrational. Fear IS irrational. After two chapter of manga, I wasnt quite into the story but later I got absprption to the story which I find distant are smoothly connected by unexplicable phenonmenon known as Uzumaki. And the feeling of dread and trapped is the true feeling. A whole uneasy feeling is present in every chapters and even in the anime's episodes. Now I've explained what uzumaki supposed to feels like, let's go to anime.
Unlike most people have hype in first episode, I know this anime isn't for everyone. Like come on, there are people complaining because this anime has no colors! I didnt like the rotoscope thing to be honest and I found it revulsing since first episode. So I got to the notorious episode 2 where most people quit...
It was actually great. Lemme elaborate. Uzumaki's setting is about an isolated town from 90s in mountainsides of japan. Personally i liked such towns because I was born in one. Uzumaki has such ambience. From the sound of drowsy train from daylight to the eerie silence except crickets' sounds. They DID it perfectly. I had the same feeling of uneasiness like in manga. About the drop in animation quality. It's not that bad. There're only few and brief scenes where animation quality dropped. Not much. But as an artist, I understand them. It's not always easy to draw every lines on faces and clothes to shade especially in an animation. It's actually hard to maintain so they put some scenes of grey graphite coloring which is not bad. It. still could give me the feeling of a nightmare. So it's quite okay. Even for the scenes of human running which is weird. Also I love their artistic choice of subtly putting the retro film style everytime there's a disturbing scene. It's like the fabrics of your consciousness is breaking at that point. But so many strange thing happening in kurozuchou that people got indifferent to them and also it gives a nightmarish feeling so everyone's kinda insane in their own way.
And the Music!! Even the haters have to admit it! I'm still hearing it in my mind as I'm typing. It such addicting. It's absolutely fit the nightmarish feeling. It gave me uneasy feeling yet feeling attracted to the source of fear which is represented as uzumaki in this story. I think uzumaki is scary because we dont know what it is and we'll never know about it. A mere human can't know the origin of uzumaki which is probably the mystery for existence of everything too...
#justiceforuzumakianime
@@yorusan007 it was a decent adaptation. Some people must have 103% satisfaction or it’s trash.
We need another nepo baby to use their infinite money to faithfully adapt Junji's manga, like how the son of the founder of Nike uses his family fortune for exceptional stop motion films.
Man we waited for years for this anime just for this.
I guess this is the GoT S8 treatment for us anime lovers, except for this medium it's sadly expected.
1:44 It's not CGI , they have used rotoscoping
I'm mixed on this. The first episode left a strong impression and I had zero complaints and a lot of excitement. Then I did not understand why, but the second episode was just... not interesting. The tones were off. Some dialogue felt forced.
The good parts of episode 2: The snail stuff was just gross at first, but after I finished the episode, I couldn't stop wondering about the hidden logic and the subtle foreshadowing behind it. The story is at its best when it is haunting and sticks with you.
Tones are off: The guy who stalked Kyrie this episode was goofy. He did what Jim Carrey would do in a comedy. But sudden comedy just takes me out of the story. The previous stalker of Azami may not have done much, but his presence was much stronger.
Forced dialogue: The explanation about why the lovers' parents hate each other made no sense. They wanted to explain it with spirals, but the result was just a dry and baseless exposition, which did not actually explain anything. There was also a scene at the beginning, where the main guy showed a photo to Kyrie about a dead body, then he started drawing conclusions. That dialogue also felt forced.
Uninteresting story: They already did the stalker thing with better characters just an episode ago. Then the swirly hairs were just goofy and had no consequence. Finally, during the entire story of the runaway lovers, I only felt unsettled once at the beginning, when I assumed the coiled snakes might attack them. But they just talked a bunch, ran for a while, then made wet spaghetti. It was neither imaginative nor unsettling.
I posted separately that it seems that E1 was psychological horror (and well done) while E2 was body horror. I enjoyed E1 much more.
uzumaki is about a town spiral into madness, everyone felt the same in the manga as the story progress, noting makes sense, it's stupid it's ridiculous, but it gets better once u know why it happened, it will gets darker and darker, I didn't see the episode 2 yet, but judging by ur comments seems like it's just genuinely worse in terms of animation, pacing and dialogue, again my conclusion is it might be fine since the manga did the same, the snail and spiral hair is goody at first,but it just one of the chapter where ppl goes nuts and ilogical, they developed weird obsession, one might think these chapters were unnecessary, but no, it just part of the charm in manga. and again I didn't watch the episode 2 yet, so it could probably just the pacing and animation quality than got ppl complain. cuz in the manga it's not about the pacing it's about random events that goes crazier and crazier, true madness where ppl laugh uncontrollably while our main protagonist is the only one who feel terrified. that kind of vibe, but as for the animation, I can understand if they could ruining the pacing. make it feels too rush. but idk didn't watched it yet
@@GeraldWallsthe first one about first terror, mystery while the second episode is about something ridiculous, nuts, lots of laugh, next episode would be about survival, the last would be about depression, giving up, and sadness, or loss. if spiral into madness have stages like grief, it would be like that
It is defintely wayy too fast paced. Especially when watching the scenes of the "twisted love" chapter. It was so weird to me that they decided on running away that fast. We barely saw anything of them. Just their parents fighting once and the snake matting scene, before they decided on it. I also would have liked it if they adapted more scenes that cover the whole drama of the parents.
The story with the newborn babies lacked proper build up aswell. The mention of the newborns all being unusal beautiful, kiries cousin introducing her baby to her and kirie's suspicion about the babies bellies would have been great for a proper build up, however all of that didn't get animated.
Genuinely baffling how they just gave up on episode 2
Self-report you have never worked on a creative product for a company before.
No one "gave up" dude. They were given too little money by the higher ups and cut corners where they had to in order to get something finished, and overall it's not even close to the worst anime out there.
People acting so dismissive of the show clearly have never actually had to produce art with a set budget before
@@duckheadbob you need to do some breathing exercises lol
@@eicoo2 breathing heavy and breathing truth.
Keep consuming though chief, I'm sure you're about to release your own masterpiece any second now.
@@duckheadbob You don't need to moral grandstand on a random person in the UA-cam comments. Get over yourself XD
@@eicoo2 You made an ignorant statement, got corrected, and now you're acting all dismissive about it, as if they're somehow in the wrong for correcting you and suggesting that you do research? Maybe you're the one who should get over yourself :o
The big disservice being done, is that THIS is what 90% of audiences are going to experience from Junji Ito's Story. And it will 100% stop them from looking into more of his Stories, because of how lackluster the presentation has been.
those uzumaki rant videos are really therapeutic to me 🙏 they really help
I just hate that they crammed stories in one episode no build up happening at all
They took a snail pace to make this .😂
8:50 I guarantee the scene involving Shuichi's mother stabbing her ear will happen later on. I remember the director saying in an interview that a character who dies early in the story will have a bigger role. I am certain he was referring to her.
Is 100% happening since it was slightly shown in one of the trailers.
@@enigma2513 You nailed it.
When the Jack in the box boy jumped infront of the car, I just laughed. It´s not creapy at all its just hella random and doesnt make sense. Apart from that I have no Idea what the story of this Anime is suppose to be. Maybe I will give the Manga a shot
You're not going to get more sense from the manga the point is most of it does not make sense. It's spiral madness baby.
And jack in the box has not, and will never be, scary. Unless you're like 10 years old maybe.
@@duckheadbob I mean the whole thing feels kinda old, in the sense of the writing being underdeveloped I guess. Just like in older anime where the story is just fucked up to be fucked up. With 2 dimensional characters and unnatural reactions for them. Like why are most of the students just chilling with a dude that turned into a fucking snail. They are like "Oh what happend to you?" And then proceed to call him fat snail boy and put him in a cage.
In newer media like idk Fire Punch or CSM or even JJK i guess, there is always a point behind the horror or violence. I just don´t see it in this one.
I mean, to be fair, i laughed at that point while reading the manga, too
@duckheadbob it does actually have a story that does make sense and fear is subjective, the fact you said "unless you're like 10" tells me you are a child yourself 😂
First episode was alright I guess, but the second episode was rough. Flowers of Evil was way more “unsettling” in general.
Im so happy to see someone liking that adaptation. Most people hated unique art style of it.
I tried reading the manga and I found the anime way more unsettling, and I loved it in a unsettling way😅
See, I thought episode 2 would cover the mom's descent into madness, but it seems like they'll either combine it with the other hospital chapters, or just cut it entirely.
Hey Otaku, i never watched or read uzumaki, but i decided to try it out...
I read the manga first, read the first two chapters, then episode 1 and im ready to leave out my thoughts
THEY CUT OUT SO MUCH SHIT LIKE YOU SAID, WHERE DID IT GO WRONG
WHERES THE SEQUENCE WHERE KIRIE FINDS THE DAD STARING AT A SPIRAL CREEPILY
though props to the animation, voice acting, and sfx and music, to be fair, even with the bad pacing
I still felt a bit uneasy with those, i kinda should give credit
Sooooooooo glad I didn’t add Cartoon Network back to my cable plan and just decided to wait for next day on HBO. I’m convinced they pushed this crap out and only showed us clips from episode 1 to get people to resubscribe to CN. Bait and switch.
@@damdamfino First episode was made by the original studio, after episode one the original studio/director was swapped with a shitty studio/director. Very well documented
I haven't seen episode 2 yet but episode 1 I thought was great. I thought the rigidness in episode 1 was a stylistic decision. I'm terrified to see episode 2 now, I'll go check it out and come back I guess 😕so sad
a little spoiler, the pacing in ep 2 sucks. It tried to do something like ep 1 where the different chapters in the manga where mashed together so that each "unusual event" is happening almost simultaneously. but ep 2 was a drop off. Im just coping that the first half will be just the worst of it since this is the part in Uzumaki where Ito was just telling short stories. Its by the second half when chapters start to be more cohesive as the entire town is turning into a spiral that hopefully the pacing in the anime gets better.
Terima kasih.
Ok... I think I recognize part of the problem with episode two.Even though I know that the animation studips switched between episode 1 and 2 due to budget issues and the pandemic (but still same writers) I have the manga, and ine of the biggest issues I noticed between episode 1 and 2... was the pacing.
1. One thing that stood out to me as someone who read the manga was that they spliced earlier chapters with later chapters (in the manga, we dont get one of the side stpries until several chapters past the stories first three chapters). They also took THE MOST DETAILED PANELS IN THE MANGA and STUFFED THEM IN THE FIRST CHAPTER... and ROTOSCOPED THEM. So you are just whammed with some of the most beautiful imagey in Uzumaki.
2. Then, when you get to episode two, you notice the biggest problem...the pacing. They splice several more chapters out of order in chapter two (I wont say which (seriously, read the manga)). However, the lower budget becomes much more noticeable in that they reduced the rotoscoping...they also used some of THE LEAST DETAILED STORIES IN THE MANGA FOR EPISODE TWO! I mean, there are some excellent animation sequences in that episode...They're just not as detailed in themanga as the ones in the first episode. Its just so noticible because not only do you have a quaility drop due to the lack of rotoscoping, but you also go from THE BEST PANNELS to OH THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST SIMPLE PANNELS IN THE MANGA.
The biggest critism I have for the series so far, is the pacing, not just with the scene splicing...but with the bigger focus on the art versus the story of uzumaki itself. A lot of the stories are so spliced together that some of the themes in the individual stories become lost. I wpuld have much prefered if they had simply gone in order of the mange versus splicing different chapters together. It would have spread out the animation and made things much more cohesive in animation quality.
I'm hoping that this dip is a one time thing because episode 1 was a beauty.
It might be a false memory, but I'm pretty sure I saw the mom with the scissor in the trailer.
So... maybe in episode 3 ?
yes I saw that too
The next episode has the hospital and the mom scissors scene......
There are some rough animations, but it looks overall fine. I have 3 sets of friends watching it who havent read it before and they are loving it.
While ive read it a few times, and am aware of the changes, the pacing is subjective.
My friends, and myself, have liked the breakneck pace of the show. Horror can be slow burn or fast madness, and the fast madness infact works for something like uzumaki that is a town spiraling into madness. The problem with the original work is alot of stuff is paced so slow to the point where you wonder why there isnt a larger response, bringing it all together makes for the feeling everything is spiraling out of control.
And they frankly didnt have the budget to do otherwise. To focus on each individual chapter as an episode wouldve been too much money (thats the sad reality) and frankly some of the sections like jack n the box man wouldnt work as a stand alone episode. Sometimes chapters of a manga, despite being roughly the same page numbers, dont always neatly translate to predefined episode times.
Basically, i dont think this is nearly as bad a show as the diehard anime uh... losers are making it out to be. Normal people are watching the show and are enjoying it..... it wasnt even until i went on the subreddit and saw people dogpiling on errors seen in the background for one second did i even know people were acting like this is berserk 2016 all over again.
Ill say it, the people going "we waited 5 years for this!?" Are people devoid of any personal creative talent and have likely never worked on a monetized creative/artistic project once in their lives. Youd frankly never talk about other artists (artists working on a corporate budget) work that way if you had.
I don’t know man. I thought the first episodes was excellent but that second episode gave me a really sour taste in my mouth. The animation was a bit to rough/lacking and the pacing felt even worst. I can understand some problems with the pacing but the animation definitely could have been way better than what we got. I don’t think we should excuse problems with productions in anime.
@Wallie33. The exe producer said the other option was it was just canceled or just the first episode airing... soooo yah im going to disagree there: I'd rather we have the 4 episodes and finished story, warts and all, than nothing. they didn't have the budget to do much better.
Sure the pacing and animation could've used another pass, and we can talk about broader issues with producing animation/art for money..... but let's be real here, those discussions are not happening around uzumaki.
It's a bunch of man-children hyperbolicaly whinning about how "this was the worst adaptation ever" "its trash" "worthless" etc while they hyperfixate on background details and poor animations that are seen for maybe a minute in total. And thats such a disservice to the many good aspects of this show.
Like I said originally, the show even in it's current state is captivating my friends and getting them interested in the story and reading it after, as well as providing me fond memories of the first time I read it. And still (in both episodes so far) having moments of genuine horror or feelings of unsettledness (and outright shock from my friends who dont know whats coming). All from a overworked team with too little budget and time while also grappling with a pandemic....
I just cant imagine what my worldview or state of mind would have to be for me to consider that some "horrible failure" which seems to be the community consensus
Aren't you the guy on Reddit who always defend this even though the exec confirmed that they know it's not good for the rest of the episode.
@yoshishuhaist uh no. I haven't posted on reddit at all lol - it may shock you, but you're in an echo chamber and I'm not the single individual that differs from your opinion lmao. touch grass dude, jesus....
@@duckheadbob uh why so mad? I just thought you're the same because I've seen the same comment on reddit. I think you need to take a chill pill or something. Jesus
8:52 They’re probably keeping the scissor part for episode 3.
I agree with everything you said except what you said about them using cgi. They just used shockingly impressibe rotoscoping.
drink every time you hear "yes"
I 1000% agree. And ive noticed the people who have defended the pacing either didnt read the manga or did and didnt understand the story. Episode 3 does add some missing stuff but its so out of place they shouldnt have even bothered adding it.
I couldn't even finish episode 3. They ruined the scariest scene of the entire manga, the hospital and all the pregnant blood sucking women. It was AWFUL!!! And that one haunted shot of her cousin coming out of the delivery room with her mosquito tongue out was totally botched. I'm also not finishing this disaster series.
It seems to me that the first episode was _mostly_ psychological horror while the second was more body horror. I enjoyed the first episode a lot more but it's not like the second episode was dogwater. I understand that things were rearranged so you may yet see things in future episodes that have already been passed in the manga. CGI quality is a different topic...
what else did she do with the scissors?
WHY CANT THERE BE JUST BE 1 SINGLE GOOD ADAPTATION OF JUNJI ITOS WORK?!?! IS TOO MUCH TO ASK? WAITING 5 YEARS FOR THIS CRAP?!
I had skepticism when it was announced just 4 eps for the whole serial manga. When i read it it was like a collection of stand-alone stories told in one place at the same time while the last volumes are connected everything together. I passed on this as i was satisfied reading the manga.
The way you describe it reminds me of the difference with Ringu and Ju-on americans adaptations, more focused on the jumpsacres and not the ambiance of the story.
But yeah, I agree with you, I sensed it too. The problem with episode 1 already was adapting 4 stories into 1 episode. They are jumping to plot point without real build up and it feels like the people in the town are just stupid not reaction and staying where they are. While in the manga, since it's a bunch of short stories without real thread between them, it's easier to accept in my opinion. I will finish it (it's only 2 more episodes) but I don't think it's gonna deliver in the end.
You know, when I look at episode 1, the stories they decided to tell and cramp in it and show with the big budget animation, it kinda feels like they put the most famous panels up first (like the ones you often see printed on tshirts and merch).
It makes the whole thing feel watered down and cashgrabby. So in a sense not much different than the merch of the manga panels, all style and no substance because of the lack of context and proper build-up.
People will love episode one and then get disappointed by episode two and likely not finish. Which is so frustrating because the second half of the book just reaches new levels of messed up cosmic horror levels that people will miss out on
The unsettling is the whole point!🫶✨
I wish they could’ve at least done the stories in order. I was so mad when they skipped the part in Jack in the Box when Mitsuru jumped out of his grave.
@McDerp8732 that was In the very end credits of the 2nd ep for some reason
@@bankaispirits Oh ok thanks I stopped watching at the lighthouse chapter
@@bankaispirits Aw man I thought they were gonna show show when he fell apart.
I only just learned that they condensed it down to 4 episodes…yikes
The pacing in this series compared to the anime is horrendous. I read the manga in preparation of the series coming out and the difference is absolutely criminal..
I don't care about the visuals but the pacing... HoRrIbLe!!
"the other thing she does with the scissors", that was even in the trailer right?
Yeah, I think he has alzheimer, i don't know.
ive only watched people reacting to the episodes so i was wondering why it seemed so jumpy, was hoping that it was weird editing
Anime animation has been garbage for years now that needs a video in itself honestly
3d animation has RUINED the anime scene, it looks AWFUL (unless a ton of time is put into it) but it's so cheap in comparison to fully handle drawn works.... and thats set the price points for the bean counters.
You wanna make a genuine masterpiece? Can you do it on the cheap-ass 3d budget of worse shows? Because that's what the higher ups are gonna give you to work with.
Also the character movements and background animation are better in the first. The filter on the hair isn’t the only thing that is making episode two look bad.
Yeah episode 1 looks so fluid and alive.
Good review ! I'm mixed on this but you're right there not build up. I gonna read the manga
ep 2 is so disgustang
Lmao soon as I watched ep 2, you were one of the first people I was anticipating a video from.
4 EPISODES IS NOT ENOUGH AND PACING IS TERRIBLE IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS SO
I haven’t read the manga so I can’t speak to the story, but I’ve actually really liked it so far. I noticed a change in animation between episodes (I saw that the first is rotoscoped and the second is 3d?) but I’d be lying if I said the 3d looks bad. This isn’t even close to as bad as something like the Berserk adaptation. I think the black and white makes it work better than most 3d anime and there were some really good/creepy looking scenes. I think the show has been able to stick to Junji Ito’s art style pretty well especially compared to adaptations of his other works. I’ll probably read it after the show ends to see how they compare!
I have several sets of friends who are watching it and haven't seen it before, they all are of your opinion.... it's only like diehard anime..... ahem. freaks that are acting like this is the worst thing ever.
Pacing is subjective and alot of my friends have like the story so far, everything happening at once feels maddening. And the animation is fine. It only gets really bad if youre actively looking for stuff.
one of my friends commented on how some stuff looked wonky, but called it a nitpick. Everyone acting like this berserk 2016 are out of their minds.
I'm someone who regularly complains when I get bad 3d in my anime. This was not that bad, and I don't even really feel the quality drop everyone else is on about. The black and white visual, and the uncanny nature of the story do a great job masking that 3d look. If it was colored in, I'd probably have some complaints, but it just feels right. The scenes look exactly like the panels do, but in motion, and they move exactly how you felt they would have moved when you read the story. I'm impressed so far. I worry that I've heard it's only four episodes, and I worry public perception is gonna warp the average person's views on its quality.
I have nkt read the manga yet so i dont really know about the story
That being said i dont even care about these characters like the whole dad part was cool but okay bro died and the ayase girl with the scar was just felt rushed
It looks good but the story very like a frber dream that keeps on going and going without giving us a moment to breathe
Maybe i shiuld read the manga lol
I could forgive the animation if the episodes were 40 minutes long.
Who knew a 3d anime would fail what a shocker.
For Anime only I don't think there is such a big deal.... like me, I'm a anime only guy for me it doesn't matter they are skipping parts in manga.. anime looks creepy and cool for me... but I can understand how manga readers feel when their favorite panels from manga get skipped 😅
What the fuck happened? Did they changed studio to Queen Bee?
I don’t do horror, but I considered watching this, since it’s only 4 episodes long. Ultimately, I decided not to watch it, so I’m glad I haven’t been missing much. 😄
Read it.
Just read the manga if you interested, atleast it's much worth it. The manga quite interesting at the beginning and after that it got quite boring in mid chapter to end in my opinion, it's just getting more goofy and generic like any other horror story.
I mean... I'm enjoying the show a lot...
Damn. I enjoyed episode 1 (I haven't read any manga in years btw) and along with Bartender : Glass of God, Dandadan and hopefully Tower of God (I just read about it) I was hoping for a big rekindling of my interest in anime. With all the damn isekai (sp?) dominating the market, I think the last anime I enjoyed was ID Invaded and Sonny Boy. Oh well, I guess we'll see if the downward spiral is inevitable or not...
Yatagarasu was really good. Frieren, Pluto, Heike Monogatari, Apothecary Diaries, Vinland Saga and Heavenly Delusion are worth checking out
@@Ash_Wen-li Thanks. A couple of those I've already been meaning to look into.
When they got to the light house part is when it disappointed me I feel like its rushed too much like the mom is supposed to be dead and learn about her ears by now
On point! Like the people who worked on E2 didn't understand the piece or were not let to do their jobs
That's not how this works....... yall have never worked in a job that requires you to produce art on a budget.
They didn't not understand it or weren't left alone, they werent given a big enough budget.
With tight budgets you eventually just have to stop working on scenes, whether or not they are the level of quality you want, the budget demands you move on to actually get this out.
This entire show was incredibly close to just being canceled entirely due to the budget issues.
I think knowing that, the team did a pretty solid work with what they had.
I read 3-4 chapters last year, I agree they jumbling up 3-4 story lines in each episodes.😅
Ep2 director was changed and it went a different direction with more CG and more outsourcing, thus the animation quality nosedive.
2:42 That looks to be the size of a Vizbig, so there’s probably 3 volumes in that is there? Most anime are 2-3 episodes per volume, although I’ve seen some anime like High Rise Invasion adapt a full volume per episode, and they didn’t skip anything.
i dropped it halfway into episode 1. just a complete butchering of his work, i hope too many dont watch the anime and think "that was odd, guess ill never read the manga"
Brah, the whole manga in four 20/30min episodes? I was certain it would be multiple seasons. Smh
They would've been better off making Frankenstein a 4 episode adaptation
I LIKE IT! yes its not what current anime people like, but im in my 60 and have been following anime and manga since the early 70s and I'm s a big fan of Ito's manga specifically TOMIE, REMINA and also UZUMAKI. I have no problem with what they did. To me its ok to good. They left stuff out, but its like a 600 page series. I like it. Do I need to remind this wipersnapers how bad 1970's anime animation was? This looks like a work od art compare to most of those.
I just want a colored version
Why do so many anime ruin the story? This is why nearly all my free time is spent reading manga & not watching anime.
Finally someone pointing out the butchering of junji ito’s structured
It's so much of an issue with a ton of adaptations these days, they wonna cash in instead of going all the way.
I thought the animation was the bad part but, they skipped stuff too, bruh -_-
I disagreed with your take last review couse I thought the changes were well made to keep up the pacing of the story for TV.
Episode two derailed that for me.
The pacing is so rushed. They just wanted to show the shocking scenes from each of the stories without any of the creepy build up. I would've rather they took some stories out and made the other ones they decide to keep have more time to breathe.
What a let down.
I'm kinda shocked the negative feedback when you take in fact all the other adaptations. Horror anime is tough and honestly I really am enjoying this anime.
Yes. They took 4 to 5 years and they couldn't do 4 episodes in that time? Pluto took 5 years and they made eight 1 hour long movie quality episodes.
the problem is
this one took them so long
to cook but still messed it up
@@scythe9734 Exactly right about Pluto! It was fantastic. And CN couldn’t do four episodes of Uzumaki. I think they got the first episode back and saw the budget and nerfed episodes 2-4.
@@nickn271 Yes, best case scenario is episode 3 and 4 are of the same or better quality than episode 1. Worst case scenario only episode 4 is great. But I don't think all the rest are gonna be as bad as episode 2.
hey otaku, idk if you see this, but what if all the episodes were 40 minutes - 60 minutes long
I guess then they'll be able count all the details and whole 19 chapters into 4 episode without any big cuts
@@Amazingshorts3463 If they couldn't get the budget and time necessary for the second episode in the years since 2019, I doubt they'll be able to get the budget and time necessary to triple the lengths for every subsequent episode, sadly.
I don't see what's wrong with the anime. I've enjoyed it so far.
Uzumakiiiiiiiiii 😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you for warning me the anime is skipping a lot of stuff, after the obvious visual downgrade of episode 2 I think I'm gonna buy the manga.
I thought that episode 1 was perfect, the rushed parts of it i felt was fine because it was a good hook, but its now clear they are not getting the point of the manga, very sad...we may never get a good adaptation now :(((((
It's been 24 years since the manga ended. This was do or never.
@@falconeshieldhuh?
How is this ruined? This is a great bizarre show. Edit: actually I think you're right. It could've been better but I don't think its an overall failure, I just think they should've built more on it than just 4 episodes.
I mean haven’t watched episode 2 but from the small snippets I’ve seen it doesn’t look good. Don’t understand how it took 5 years to make that.
If you haven't read the manga, it's understandable liking it but you must understand why the manga readers are disappointed, the butchered. Episode 1 animation was a masterpiece tho
I think we all are really disappointed 😢
What are they skipping? In the first episode they covered the Dad in the tub, the Azami story, and half the snail story. That’s 2.5. In the second episode they covered the snake kids, the hair thing, half of the lighthouse thing, half of the jack-in-the-box thing, and the remainder of the snail thing. That’s 3.5. And the mother who lost her mind is still alive, so we don’t know how much further they’ll go with her. The manga is longer and more detailed, but it’s no less jarring and bizarre, and the actions of the characters are no more nor less rational. What is so essential for us to know about Azami that the anime didn’t cover?
Buildup is an essential part of horrir
Maybe the real horror was friends made along the way.
Episode 1 didn't use CGI lmao.
At this point, Junji Ito's manga is _more_ "unadaptable" than back then when people thought *Dune* & *TLOTR* were unadaptable. At least Berserk had the 1997 anime and the not-too-bad *Golden Age* one.
Neither of those Berserk adaptations are good, they’re both bad, really bad when compared with the manga.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__-Eh, they're fine for newbies & anime-only peeps. This Uzumaki, however, is bad (so far) even for them.
@@androyus Telling someone to watch the Berserk animes is the last thing on earth I’d ever do. They do such a terrible job that they should only be watched after you’ve read the manga. Anyone wants to get into Berserk you tell them to read the manga, don’t even mention the anime exists.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- Those two are decent enough adaptations, you saying it's unwatchable is just being an elitist here now
@@fan4every1lol89 I never said they’re “unwatchable”, maybe reread what I said. What I DID say was they’re terrible adaptations of the manga. Something every single Berserk fan will tell you, it’s my favourite manga, I’ve read it multiple times, I have all the anime on bluray, they’re bad adaptations.
And the one that actually adapted the story the best is the one that’s most hated, the other 3rd anime, the 2016 anime.
I dont understand the criticisms... I liked this generally
Unfortunately, it looks like episodes 3 and 4 are going to be shit, too 😩
Perfect example of not being able to adapt to the new medium
anime is not the msp here , they just want to overhypped some series that people by its source material . same things happens with some light novel also.
I couldnt watch the rest of episode 2. Episode 1 was ok, but if this is what the rest is going to look like then I'm dropping it.