

The anime was first announced June 30, 2017, via Junji Ito's page on the Asahi Shimbun website. The series was co-produced by Crunchyroll and began broadcasting on that service worldwide outside of Asia in eight languages on the same day. The series premiered on January 5, 2018, and ran for 12 episodes, accompanied by the release of two OVAs.

Animated by Studio Deen, the anime adapts stories from several of Ito's collections. Junji Ito Collection ( Japanese: 伊藤潤二『コレクション』, Hepburn: Itō Junji "Korekushon" ) is a horror anime anthology series adapted from the works of manga artist Junji Ito. Uzumaki is due out sometime in 2021, but in the meantime let's expand on more of Ito's scariest stories.12 (24 segments) + 2 OVAs ( List of episodes) Updated on March 22nd, 2021 by Bailey Jo Josie: It's been almost a year since this article was first published, and in that time horror manga fans are still waiting for the premiere of the Adult Swim anime adaptation of Junji Ito's Uzumaki, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing production to shut down. But sometimes, his stories linger in the back of readers' minds as they're trying to sleep at night or enter a dark room. He takes ideas from normal, everyday life and exaggerates them, crafting jumpscares as readers flip the page from horror to horror. Most of it is unexplainable and borders on the line of "weird and unexplainable" rather than actually scary. Junji's work is different from most horror media. RELATED: 5 Junji Ito Short Stories You Must Read (& 5 To Skip) Junji Ito has become a horror icon and can scare anyone with his unruly plotlines and horrific panels. He started in the mid-80s with Tomie being his first published work. Junji Ito, the master of horror, has made terrifying horror manga over the last three and a half decades.
