When it comes to the depiction of truly terrifying and inescapable horror, none achieve this more than the work of renowned horror manga artist Junji Ito. Across works such as Uzumaki, Tomie, and a list of other stories so long it would be impossible to properly list here, Ito explores suffocatingly bleak themes such as obsession, loss of humanity, and the impartiality of horror through genres such as body horror and cosmic horror. He creates macabre and sometimes absurd horror spectacles that haunt readers long after they see his highly detailed panels. So, when it was announced that Ito's work was getting anime adaptations in the form of Junji Ito Collection and Netflix's Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, audiences, new and old, were going to be introduced to these beloved stories in motion, but unfortunately, both of the animes struggled to properly capture the intense and...