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NEWS: Junji Ito 'Collection' Anime Listed With 12 TV Episodes, 2 OVA Episodes

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Part of the reason I was so hyped for this was the prospect of animated Tomie and her episodes are the damn OVAs?!

Just gotta hope CR works their recent OVA magic and got these episodes too.....

Koda89 wrote:

Are you freaking kidding me?! Part of the reason I was so hyped for this was the prospect of animated Tomie and her episodes are the damn OVAs?! Just gotta hope CR works their recent OVA magic and got these episodes too.....

If you ever read Tomie, you’d know that story is too f***ed up for TV.

Looks really promising, I'm looking forward to whatever tale they might want to adapt from that collection.

Tomie in 2 episodes though...
I hope these are long episodes, otherwise I don't see it working properly.

danpmss wrote:

Looks really promising, I'm looking forward to whatever tale they might want to adapt from that collection. Tomie in 2 episodes though... I hope these are long episodes, otherwise I don't see it working properly.

What's wrong with Tomie in 2 episodes? Tomie is episodic and most Tomie stories are unrelated, so they can just choose 2 Tomie stories and animate them.

Tomie would work better as a separate full adaptation, as said "unrelated" stories just work greatly together as a multi-scenario plot connected by a specific threat (much of an appeal that would later influence greatly the Ju-On series in a peculiar fashion, regarding most of the movies' storytelling as a whole).

Were they to adapt Tomie in this scenario, I would argue the better approach would be adapt all (or at least as many as they can) of the first and second manga collections in long OVAs separated by sections representing each chapter adapted (I would again mention Ju-On as to how this storytelling technique could work in the medium). If they go with only "Tomie" and "Tomie part 2" chapters specifically, I think it would fall flat of the big picture the other chapters create for the titled character's own little urban horror lore.

danpmss wrote:

Tomie would work better as a separate full adaptation, as said "unrelated" stories just work greatly together as a multi-scenario plot connected by a specific threat (much of an appeal that would later influence greatly the Ju-On series in a peculiar fashion, regarding most of the movies' storytelling as a whole). Were they to adapt Tomie in this scenario, I would argue the better approach would be adapt all (or at least as many as they can) of the first and second manga collections in long OVAs separated by sections representing each chapter adapted (I would again mention Ju-On as to how this storytelling technique could work in the medium). If they go with only "Tomie" and "Tomie part 2" chapters specifically, I think it would fall flat of the big picture the other chapters create for the titled character's own little urban horror lore.

But we know the lore, don't we? The Tomie chapters can stand on its own for people who only watch the anime and they will be a little treat for the people who have read the manga and wanted to see Tomie animated.
Of course, Tomie would need its own series to get fully adapted into anime. 2 episodes in a short collection anime are more than enough, though. At least I want to see other things than Tomie in an anime that is not primarily about Tomie.

DarthSomebody wrote:

danpmss wrote: Tomie would work better as a separate full adaptation, as said "unrelated" stories just work greatly together as a multi-scenario plot connected by a specific threat (much of an appeal that would later influence greatly the Ju-On series in a peculiar fashion, regarding most of the movies' storytelling as a whole). Were they to adapt Tomie in this scenario, I would argue the better approach would be adapt all (or at least as many as they can) of the first and second manga collections in long OVAs separated by sections representing each chapter adapted (I would again mention Ju-On as to how this storytelling technique could work in the medium). If they go with only "Tomie" and "Tomie part 2" chapters specifically, I think it would fall flat of the big picture the other chapters create for the titled character's own little urban horror lore. But we know the lore, don't we? The Tomie chapters can stand on its own for people who only watch the anime and they will be a little treat for the people who have read the manga and wanted to see Tomie animated. Of course, Tomie would need its own series to get fully adapted into anime. 2 episodes in a short collection anime are more than enough, though. At least I want to see other things than Tomie in an anime that is not primarily about Tomie.

I don't really like this argument, to be honest. Precisely, WE know the lore. It's 'because' there are newcomers hoping for a proper adaptation of one of the most famous of Ito's work in anime form (most likely to jump into the manga reading depending of how pleasant was their experience with it) that I would say that it would be better to fully adapt Tomie (or at least most of it) in these 2 OVAs, if they are long enough (said newcomers would then want for more, which could lead to an increase on our rather cult fanbase, and maybe even increase the chances for more future anime adaptations if all this go well).

There's no reason to fall flat just because it's easier to please a fanbase who already know about the whole thing (that doesn't quite work anyway, the fanbase would be disappointed as well seeing one of their favorites not living up to what it could be in anime form, much like myself, although I'm still keeping my hopes up even with these 2 OVAs as we don't know how long they are).

Tomie in my opinion could easily be adapted in a nice and slow-burn pacing into a 1-cour anime (all of it, even the "Again" manga), but even 2 OVAs could do the job too, as long as they are long enough.

They are already putting Tomie into a separate thing anyway (the 2 OVAs are exclusively Tomie material), so I don't really know what are you worrying about, nobody said this anime would have any more Tomie than the already established OVAs focusing on it (reason why I would doubt there are any other Tomie chapters in the actual anime, but yeah, you still never know).

Nice to see the Souichi stuff getting animated. Still not a fan of who's doing this, though.