Junji Ito Maniac unveils a new creeper poster

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Horror in anime hasn’t had a heavy role in the industry throughout the history of the medium, though there is one name that has stood above many others when it comes to sending shivers down the spines of manga readers. Junji Ito is widely regarded as a master of horror, creating some of the most chilling stories over his long career. With a new anime adaptation bringing about two dozen of his stories to the small screen, a new poster has arrived Genji Ito Crazy: Japanese Tales of the Terrifying.

On top of releasing this new poster featuring a seriously terrifying scene, Netflix also took the opportunity to confirm the twenty terrifying trailers that will power the series set to arrive this January, including:

  • “The Strange Siblings of Hikizuri”
  • 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”
  • “musty”
  • “vision of the library”
  • tomb town
  • Layers of Terror
  • “The thing that washed ashore”
  • “Tomie 惻Photo”
  • “unbearable maze”
  • “bully”
  • “alley”
  • Headless statue
  • “woman whispering”
  • “Soichi’s adorable pets”

Junji Ito’s Headless Staff

The official Netflix Anime Twitter account shared a fresh look at the upcoming anthology series hitting the streaming service on January 19th, with a focus on this new skin-crawling avatar featuring all of its cast. They are missing an important part of their body:

Maniac isn’t the only adaptation of Junji Ito currently being worked on, as Toonami continues to work on the highly anticipated series, Uzumaki. Unlike the upcoming Netflix series, Uzumaki Not quite an anthology as it focuses on a single story that takes place in a remote mountain town, although, rest assured, the scares that occur in this spooky tale are quick and repetitive as Ito decides to fuse the spine-tingling mania with spirals into the story. While Uzumaki Delayed several times due to the coronavirus pandemic, the anime that was released has fans more than happy to wait as many agree it did the impossible in capturing Ito’s dynamic style.

What do you think of this scary new poster? Which Junji Ito story would you like to see adapted into an anime? Feel free to tell us in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk all things comedy, anime, and horror.

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