Itou Junji: Collection (2024)

RebelPanda

Not Recommended

Junji Ito deserves better than this.

As he is one of the most talented horror creators, I was eagerly anticipating when his work would finally be animated. It pains me to say this, but Studio Deen fucked up this adaptation big time. It was inevitable that at least one of his mangas would be adapted, and they chose to adapt dozens of his best stories. Any fan of his works would be just as hyped as I was… but as we now know, these adaptations aren’t even half as good as the originals. Even with some of his most beloved stories like Long Dreams, Tomie, House ...

Ericonator

Mixed Feelings

I…think you forgot to add a comedy tag, MAL.

Ito Junji: Collection, despite what the MAL score might lead you to believe is actually decent. Based on the collection of manga of the same name, these stories depict various abnormal occurrences and happenings. From what I know, there isn’t a pattern as to which stories were picked.

Ito Junji surprised me in many ways, one of those being the creepy atmosphere. Many of the stories are quite unnerving at times, especially with how crude the artstyle is. The fact that the overall art looks quite bad, as in the character models aren’t anything special and the backgrounds ...

TheBlackCrow

Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Jekins

Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

When an anime makes such a drastic turn in quality, enjoyment and fear factor to the point where you're compelled to write a review about it is proof that you should give it at least a shot.

As you can guess from the name, The Ito Junji collection is many of his short stories turned into anime. If you're completely unfamiliar with any of Ito Junjis work, I highly recommend you read "uzumaki". It's not very long however gives you a great starting place for understanding Junjis world.

When placed into anime form, it honestly looks like his imagery and art have come to life, ...

josh_d

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

I was excited to see Junji Ito's work come to life, but after a few episodes I just couldn't take it anymore.

The animation is SO FAR BELOW standard, it's literally atrocious. I stopped in the middle of the 8th episode. You can take a look at other people's positive reviews, and see when theirs was posted.

Between missing frames and still images with the mouth barely animated, Studio DEEN managed to outdo Berserk 2016 and grace us with the most terrible anime I've seen in years.

Not only is the animation subpar, they also managed to pick some of Junji Ito's not so good stories (to ...

Antisocialoli

Not Recommended

if I could give this anime lower than the score of 1, I would.
it's honestly the worst anime I've ever watched, a huge waste of time and an abomination for the manga

it was just awkward to watch
please do yourself a favour and DONT watch this anime.

Story - the story (in the manga) is decent, but the story telling in this anime is atrocious
Art - one of the worst and most generic and boring art styles I've seen.
Sound - nothing much to say about it, though the voice acting and screams were awfully awkward to listen to
Characters - none memorable characters, the only somewhat ...

Karhu

Mixed Feelings

What is man's favorite word? Starts with an M and end with Arriage. A miscarriage. Ayyyyyy, This joke never gets old, and neither does the baby.

This joke is quite accurate way of introducing just about anyone to Itou Junji's anime. It offers similarly tasteless jokes about rather abstract events that are presented as a horror comedy. It's a collection of tales that varie from snail using a human head as a shell to a person drinking so much grease he turns into grease himself. Lovely. This was my favorite story for sure. His palms were sweatier than Eminem ever thought was possible.

Approaching this ...

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Preliminary (12/12 eps)

So...what the verdict for the justification of the King of horror Itou Junji: Collection? Nothing...nothing at all.

If you've thought that a mere 12 episodes can cover the VAST majority of works of Itou Junji throughout the years, don't expect too much: it's up to the studio helming the project (that is Studio low-budget Deen) to pick the stories and feedback from the creator himself to see which stories are worth watching onto the main screen.

The first nitpick that (not only) I (but others too) see is that the stories are picked at random, and the reason for that is actually the idea of Itou Junji ...

LegendAqua

Recommended

LA always has been fine with the supernatural "cosmic horror" at times like ghosts and curses, however LA has a morbid fear of zombies because they are human yet not, LA KNOWS they can't exist but there is that future logical extreme where humanity kills itself off...with humanity itself and this is where there is a lingering sense of horror from both the mundanity taken to the logical extremes and the unknown...Junji Ito KNOWS this and absolutely runs with it.

Junji Ito: Collection right off the bat for LA is by the title itself a collection of Junji Ito's horror works in 22 minute episodes and ...

OgTo

Recommended

rinki7ori

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

I was really looking forward to this anime... and I was quite disappointed after watching 7 episodes.

Story: 2/10
Each short horror story in this anime never fulfills my expectations. This is mainly because every ending to a story is anticlimatic and makes no sense; it's not satisfactory. Most stories are not understandable and each story gets more and more ridiculous. However, the best story i've seen in this anime was Long Dreams; it had a really interesting plot and idea, therefore I really enjoyed it... until I watched the story "Slug Girl." Not only did this story have a ridiculous plot, but also had a ...

garyborken

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

So far (Episode 6 ) I'm pretty disappointed with "Ito Junji Collection" for two reasons:

Firstly, the pacing is not very good, I think it has a lot to do with their decision to force two stories into every 22mins episode, therefor a lot of minor points got cut out, which hurt the atmosphere building drastically.

Then the art varies form passable to just bad, I don't know how much budged they had making this show but it doesn't seem to be much. And the overall color palette is too bright, not moody enough.

Needless to say this doesn't do justice to Ito's work.

6de6ad6

Recommended

As a first time contact with junji ito this is magnificent! I'm now reading the mangas since I became utterly obsessed with souichi thanks to this anime, so I hope this helps:)
Now I can see why some reviews of old readers are low. Meanwhile the anime can give you chills, or moments that you think "wow gross, that's scary" etc. you are not really scared but more interested. When you read Junji Ito's original art it gives you more creeps, a purest feeling of terror, in my opinion a kind of art that can't be animated to be as scary.

Don't worry!! you don't get as ...

Gundroog

Not Recommended

Yeah, it's bad.

To talk about why Ito Junji Collection is a terrible mess is to talk about what makes a horrible anime adaptation. I'd like to first establish what was expected of it, and explain why it failed (even if most of it is obvious at first glance).

The bottom line for a decent anime adaptation is to provide an alternative way to experience the original work. More often than not that means a panel to panel adaptation with worse pacing and art, but now in color, fully voiced, scored and animated. Might sound fine on paper but it usually doesn't make the manga obsolete ...

TheOfficialSun

Not Recommended

JUNJI ITOU COLLECTION (24/3/18)

This anime is to Junji Itou’s work is what Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender was to Nickelodeon’s Avatar series. It’s an adaptation so crude in its execution that the original’s fandom will deny it ever happened.

ART (0/10)

The Junji Itou Collection has what is easily the worst “animation” I have seen in anime, that is to say there is barely any. Most of the shots are static and the illusion of movement is created by camera pans or sudden shaking. What little animation feels obligatory, like adding a couple extra frames to make a character’s mouth look like it’s moving, and often looks convulsive ...

eeyk

Mixed Feelings

Am a bit confused with this one, Because the episodes are short a bit too short almost all stories have no real ending.
it's a plot that start with something creepy and than on the climax it quits and goes to the next story, and this happen 24x.
Every episode has 2 stories. i was recommend this anime by different websites because i like horror, but beside some creepy/gory things there is not really any horror to find here.

in my opinion it could be better, less childish and more adult like less humor and more drama would work.
i give it a 7 because i liked the art ...

gayanime420

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (8/12 eps)

Mike_McFly

Mixed Feelings

Awful adaptation of a bunch of Junji Ito's stories. Most of them have been cut short and have no conclusion whatsoever. The artwork is incredibly poor compared to Ito's originals (sans a few), which heavily minimizes the shock factor. Most of the stories involving monsters are awful because if this. Needless to say, the best of the bunch are the ones which center around a concept rather than on shocking imagery (mostly due to Ito's storywriting).

Overall, I wouldn't recommend this. Only to Ito fans, but only because there are no other animated adaptations of his works (Gyo was even worse than this).

Notable stories (both ...

lifemare

Not Recommended

Being a massive fan of Junji Ito's manga, i'm terribly sad to be giving this adaptation such a low score. The same as for the more recent Netflix Maniac.

Horror is quite a peculiar genre, requiring a lot more suspension of disbelief than others and is usually much more effective the more it leaves to the imagination. Which is why it tends to work much better in prose, or graphic novels, where your mind has to fill in a lot more between each sentence or panel with your own personal terrors. This is true for all the greatest horror writers like Poe, Lovecraft, or Stephen King, ...

SaikiTheWeebian

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (10/12 eps)

//This is the first review I have written on this App. Just for trivial sakes.

There is no doubt that Junji Ito's is one of the best horror writers in Japanese Media. He can captivate an eerie feeling in all of his stories, even if the horror itself isn't obvious. A lot of this is tribute to the way he draws, it all just has a darker feel to it, not comparable to today's recognisable 'horror' Manga. So an anime adaptation is really tricky to pull off. I reckon, if it was given under the right hands, this would be very successful and possibly inspire animation ...