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‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – “Tomie – Photo”
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing That Drifted Ashore”
Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Tomb Town”
Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Mold” / “Library Vision”
“Mold”, a story adapted from the seventh volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Slug Girl, is another creeping tale of rapidly-worsening circumstances that revolves heavily...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “Intruder” / “Long Hair in the Attic”
“Intruder”, taken from the ninth volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Hallucinations, has a clever concept that is horrifying in a low-key, imaginative way, and...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Hanging Balloon”
The third episode of Junji Ito Maniac is my favorite so far, a hauntingly horrible bit of work adapted from the fourth volume of Horror World of...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” / “Ice Cream Bus”
The second episode of Junji Ito Maniac is the first of the anthology’s two-parters. “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” is the title story in...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings”
The first episode of the Netflix anthology Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre adapts a single story from The Circus is Here, the fifth...
‘Tomo-chan Is a Girl!’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Best Bud’s Secret/Let’s Go on a Date!”
Tomo-Chan is a Girl! stepped it up in Episode 2, providing viewers with more substance while giving them more reason to care about these characters....
‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Review – A Mixed-Bag Anime Anthology
Some horror creators have a knack for imagery and concepts that make the average viewer worry for their sanity. How often, for instance, have you...
‘Bungo Stray Dogs’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap – “Secrets of the Founding of the Detective Agency”
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4 Episode 2 left viewers with a lot to think about, especially after ending the episode on a major cliffhanger. Just...
‘The Interest of Love’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – A Tantalizing Love Story
This has, somehow, turned into an intriguing love story between two work employees who are flagrantly pining for each other but, for whatever reason, cannot...
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Who Wins the Riot Race?
“Faster” is, essentially, a standalone episode of The Bad Batch. Echo and Hunter aren’t even in it. It has no bearing on the wider overarching...
‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – Who Is Salazar Really?
As we approach the end of National Treasure: Edge of History, we’re starting to get that feeling of the stakes being heightened. I mean, look...
Riot Racing In ‘The Bad Batch’ and Its Comparisons to Podracing
Episode 4 of The Bad Batch Season Two introduces a new style of racing to the galaxy, riot racing. This new and extremely dangerous sport...
The Story Behind Mission Majnu’s Filming Locations
Mission Majnu is an Indian Hindi-language thriller that owes a lot to the spy genre. It was directed by Shantanu Bagchi and produced by Ronnie...