Junji Ito Collection

I am a big fan of Junji Ito and familiar with almost all of his works. The background music and the vibe of Junji Itô: Korekushon anime is not as much scary as the manga is. Just okay.

I won't lie, Junji Ito's work is amazing! He puts a lot of time and effort into making his work as best it can be whilst making sure everything is unsettling. However, Collections is not a good way to show how amazing is work truly is.

At first I was excited to watch this back in 2018 since I am a massive fan of Junji Ito, I won't lie I wish I didn't. Collections has some of my favourite short stories of all time yet all of them just felt so off and didn't do any of them justice to how amazing they truly are. As the episodes go on the budget just seems to slip aswell and everything just starts to get worse and worse.

If you're a new Junji Ito fan, please just go read the books.

Two stories per episode showing interesting and weird horror stories. Some are going to make you close your eyes, revolt your stomach and keep you watching for more.

Could be better, but remember that japanese culture have a diferent concept of horror.

I really liked the stories that each chapter presents to us, in each one I could feel different sensations such as fear, repulsion and chills because in several scenes I was experiencing trypophobia. This is because the representations of drawings in the manga became very good and similar. The bad thing is its animation, at times it looks static and lacks fluidity, that are saved thanks to the great work of the voice actors. Its soundtrack is good, what stands out the most is its adapted script from Junji Ito's manga. If you like anime and want to try something new other than shonen, you should try watching it.

As a Junji Ito manga reader iv'e been waiting for one of his stories to get animated and when i realized that he in fact does have an animation i was excited but in the end i was disappointed the animation and the voice actors were not able to show us how creepy the characters are and the emotions were portrayed very poorly compared to the manga. But personally i never expect the Anime Adaption to be as good as the manga ever its very rare in that case. But i'm still giving this an 8/10 for the story line and Souichi ;))