Nagahama’s adaptation of Uzumaki isn’t the only anime based on Junji Ito’s work on the horizon, as Netflix recently announced the anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, set to premiere next year. The Uzumaki anime is being directed by Hiroshi Nagahama of Mushishi and The Flowers of Evil fame and being produced by animation studio Drive, with a score by Hereditary composer Colin Stetson. Junji Ito: A few months before the 1994 adaptation of Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh debuted in Japanese theaters, Asahi Sonorama’s editorial department caught wind of it and proposed a. The four-episode miniseries is set to retell the story of Ito’s original manga, which follows the lives of several citizens of the fictional city of Kurouzu-cho who are afflicted by a supernatural curse involving spirals. Originally announced in 2019 for a 2020 release, the production of the anime was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and later rescheduled for October of this year. No premiere date has been announced yet, but a new one will be announced sometime in the near future. The story concerns the people of a small Japanese town by the name of Kurôzu-cho, and how they become obsessed by the occurrences of natural and artificial spirals around them. An important update for our Uzumaki Anime. Spiral) is a horror manga by Junji Ito, serialized in Shogakukan s Big Comic Spirits.
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