Ito Junji: Collection despite what the average 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 isnt 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 arent anything special and the backgrounds are rather cheaplooking only adds to the tone which is fitting for a show like this. One good thing I can say about the characters or rather character in this case is that our main protagonist Souichi is a nice addition to these stories. His peculiar and bizarre nature makes everything just a little bit creepier especially with how he behaves around others. Whenever hes on screen he does something weird or funny and it wouldnt be the same without him. Even though Ito Junji is a horror anime it has a surprising amount of outright hilarious moments like the whole circus story. The way everything played out felt like an unintentional comedy of sorts although it worked in this case since it was genuinely funny and not just ironically funny like some so bad its good shows which dont try to be funny but end up actually being funny. All in all I quite liked Ito Junji: Collection and I plan on checking out the manga in the future.
60 /100
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