Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre
伊藤潤二『マニアック』
“First anime adaptation of 20 Junji Ito horror manga stories, including Tomie and Souichi.”
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Episodes · 12
12/12 aired
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Synopsis
First anime adaptation of 20 Junji Ito horror manga stories, including Tomie and Souichi.
The anime series will adapt 20 stories from a number of Itou's manga for the first time, including Tomie, Souichi, and Kubitsuri Kikyuu (The Hanging Balloons). (Source: MAL News)
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Community consensus
Derived from 41 sampled reviews
5.0/10
What 41
viewers
settled on.
25% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 1.82 · split reception
The polarity gap
3.9 ptsRecommenders 7.5 · others 3.6
Yes
7.5
No
3.6
Score over time
2.05Verbosity
Short · 49%
Medium · 32%
Long · 20%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7/10 “While the animation style and color choices diminish the creepiness of Ito Junji's original manga, the later episodes successfully recapture the source material's atmospheric horror. The early...”
- 8/10 “The anthology showcases well-structured stories that excel at being weird and creepy rather than purely macabre, though this makes the "Japanese Tales of the Macabre" subtitle misleading. Several...”
- 7/10 “Junji Itou: Maniac is an enjoyable horror anthology and a clear improvement over Studio Deen’s earlier Junji Itou Collection, thanks to smarter story selection that favors concept and dialogue over...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-22211
- Format
- 12 × 24′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 4h 48m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Jan 2023 – ongoing
- Winter 2023
- Source
- Ona
- media type
- Rated
- R
- 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref.
- BS-22211
- catalog