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I'm not a big manga guy, but I'm looking forward to this. Having Colin Stetson doing the soundtrack is a plus, and a part of me hopes that it's actually in black-and-white.
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Uzumaki - Could this be the first good Junji Ito adaptation?
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I'm not a big manga guy, but I'm looking forward to this. Having Colin Stetson doing the soundtrack is a plus, and a part of me hopes that it's actually in black-and-white.
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That will be a first in anime. There hasn't been any black & White anime since back in the 1940s before color was a thing. Because the last time Japan animated a horror manga anthology series in it's home country the animation sucked. Being this is being worked on with a collaborative with Americans this time. This horror series could be the breakout hit for Junji Ito in the mainstream media. Look out, Oda? A true master of horror is coming.
All I can say is *fingers crossed*
This looks really cool. I can't wait to see all those spirals in motion. Plus, I've been meaning to show a friend Junji Ito but they don't read manga, so this is nice.
(Junji Ito horror collection was disappointing shit and his work deserves better. This better be fucking good.)
(Junji Ito horror collection was disappointing shit and his work deserves better. This better be fucking good.)
I think you mean 1960s.
Tetsuwan Atomu a.k.a. Astro Boy (1963) was in black and white. I think many other early 1960s anime series were as well but Astro Boy is the most obvious example.
ADDENDUM: Here's an article about the last black-and-white TV anime made.. Two shows can make the claim to be the last. Moretsu Ataro was the last to be made in black-and-white with the final black-and-white episode airing September 25th, 1970. However, the last black-and-white TV anime to air in first run was Chingo Muchabei, which was made in 1968 but didn't air until 1971 due to fewer and fewer time slots being available to black-and-white shows.
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Holy shit they got Colin Stetson and I’m having a near death experience. Hereditary is my favorite horror movie!
This was one of my favorite manga in middle school and one of the first manga I remember borrowing from the library
I read the manga once and it was fucking awesome, hopefully this will deliver.
Wasn't there something in the 00s like "Tamala A Future Punk Cat" or something? Also there was the part of Gunbuster in black and white.
I vaguely recall the live action of this to be okay even if it stopped way early into the story.
This looks like it could be cool.
I only saw it once at a festival around 15 years ago and I remember it being black-and-white but with red blood and Professor Google says that there are a few shots in full colour.
Don't cut shit out, don't censor shit and you got my full attention. That's all I need.
For those of you familiar with the manga...
What the heck was up with the mysterious city below the town?
Think about the layout of it all as representative of descending layers in the human subconscious. At our very core, even our DNA is a spiral. Ito is referencing the innate human desire to struggle towards the unnameable. It's what's granted us our seat atop the food chain, but it can drive us to madness all the same.
You can't really be literal minded with Ito's work, it's all stuff that doesn't really hold water logically, but works in a dream logic, allegorical way.
And I think you're onto something with the meaning behind Uzumaki.
Think about a black hole, that's a great spiral. Venture in far enough and you get torn apart, because the forces of gravity compound exponentially. It's like that with everything. It's like that with love, or with interests that mutate into obsessions. We know we should maintain safe distance but at the same time, we're tuned to always seek the center of any phenomenon, to follow it to its end. Icarus behavior is baked into us.
I hope third time's the charm (animation-wise, should we even count live-action?). Gyo was meh since ufotable did some weird things to it, and Studio Deen being the fuck-ups they are fucked up the Junji Ito Collection last year, plus the Tomie specials. Doesn't look like Studio Deen was involved with this, at the very least, although interesting choice they're sticking with black-and-white. Probably will be for the better.
There was a short anime series a few years ago that was an affectionate parody/shout-out to anime of old, Kurayami Santa.
EDIT: (I don't know if the PV is even going to work, sorry if it doesn't.) Got it.
There was a short anime series a few years ago that was an affectionate parody/shout-out to anime of old, Kurayami Santa.
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IMO, Ito doesn't work in motion but I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
I want to be cautious but I can't help but be hyped. I absolutely love the manga.
What Studio Deen did with Long Dream was unforgivable. I'm happy Uzumaki will be animated by Production I.G. instead.
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