No doubt you've all be waiting for my opinion of the latest tv adaptation.
This is the same plot of the manga, spiral slowly overtake a town and all kinds of Junji Ito weirdness happens. In this version, they mash a lot of the stories together, so going to the school might encounter the snail people and the attracting hair, going to the hospital deals with Shuichi's mom and the mosquitos. And for me, that is fine. I know the stories well enough that I know what bit of plot goes with what. Some of the actual manga stories are rather short, eg jumping jack, so we don't want to spend a lot of time drawing that out, although that particular story ends up as a few weird moments scattered around other episode.
A lot of comments have been made about the animation itself, about how episode one is so much better. Um, yeah... the later episodes do have a lot of dodgy moments, but there are dodgy moments in the first episode to, so while it is clear where the effort went, it's not like the first episode didn't show its cheap hand. Given that Ito adaptation tend to be straight putting on the screen what was on the page, this worked about as well as other attempts I've seen.
Like other people, I wanted this to be great... but as been pointed out many a time by other people disappointed by adapations: the manga still exists! And that is always worth a re-read!
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