Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre Anime Counts Its Curses in New Trailer

 

As if the 2020s haven't cursed the number enough already, the upcoming Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre anime is compounding 20 of the horror master's most iconic stories into a haunting anthology. A new trailer showing a clip from each with their respective titles was released today ahead of the series' worldwide debut on Netflix.

 

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The stories being adapted are as follows (in order of appearance):

 

• The Strange Hikizuri Siblings
• The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel
• Ice Cream Bus
• Hanging Balloon
• Four x Four Walls
• The Sandman's Lair
• Intruder
• Long Hair in the Attic
• Mold
• Library Vision
• Tomb Town
• Layers of Terror
• The Thing that Drifted Ashore
• Tomie: Photo
• Unendurable Labyrinth
• The Bully
• Alley
• Headless Statue
• Whispering Woman
• Soichi's Beloved Pet

 

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Based on the various horror stories by Junji Ito, Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre is being directed by Shinobu Tagashira (Junji Ito Collection), who also serves as character designer, at Studio DEEN, with scripts by Kaoru Sawada and music by Yuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia).

 

The series is scheduled to release on Netflix worldwide on January 19, 2023.

 

Source: Comic Natalie

 

 

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