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Uzumaki - Episode 1 discussion (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Uzumaki, episode 1

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ก้นหอยมรณะ, The Spiral, Uzumaki. Spirala, أوزوماكي*

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wasn't impressed by this.

The art is great and faithful to the manga, and keeping it in black and white preserved the look of the manga, some good framerates in the animation, but...

It felt static and lacking in filmmaking artistry, like they decided to animate manga panels, without zooming and panning and all the other stuff that films do, instead of taking advantage of the animation/filmmaking medium.

Also no soundtrack. Some atmospheric music could have made this a lot more effective, instead of presenting manga panels in almost-silence.

The narrative structure of flashbacks felt distracting: "Oh yeah, my father was obsessed like this..." I'm not sure if this is how the manga story is written.

Cultural note: The wooden tub...

spoiler

that they find the father curled up in a spiral inside resembles a traditional Japanese coffin/burial tub.

Another illustration.

There was a show (that I can't remember the name) where there was a serial kidnapper who kept their victims inside wood soy sauce fermenting vats that resemble larger versions of Japanese coffins.