It seems very faithful to source material. They're paying proper homage to Junji Ito's art with the strongly contrasting black and white visuals. A full color adaptation would have dulled the horror of the spiral.
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The art and the animation was great.
Will they did the first and the third chapters. Hopely, they can make the seventh better. It's the weakest of the chapters to me.
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.
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.
One of the things I was most curious about with this series was the animation style they were choosing to use. Hiroshi Nagahama used rotoscoping to make Flowers of Evil, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The mouth movements would have been better - they actually look pretty rough in spots here. Motion capture or vtuber tech maybe?
The end credits mention 3DCG and motion capture so you might be right.
Surreal. Never read any of Junji Ito's works. I've only seen his artworks through social media. I don't like horror much, but let's see how long I can keep up with this one.
spirals spirals the never ending spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals spirals
The animation is so smooth, I wonder if they did rotoscoping for the movements. The black and white really brings out the body horror. It really captures the Junji Ito vibe perfectly.
Done!