Netflix Tudum Japan livestream revealed the premiere date for the anime Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre as January 19, 2023. The event also revealed new cast members.
The anime will feature 20 stories by the author, including Suima no Heya (Where the Sandman Lives). Furthermore, the stories featured in the anime are being adapted for the first time, bringing a different content from the previous anime, "Ito Junji: Collection." The anime will include stories from the manga series Tomie, Souichi, Kubitsuri Kikyuu, and others.
Furthermore, the most anticipated adaptation is Tomie , a series of stories about a high school student named Tomie who has a perverse personality: using her beautiful appearance to manipulate her victims, mostly men. The high school student's purpose is to toy with people to the point of stripping them of their sanity and, ultimately, making them want to cut the girl into pieces.
Cast (Unofficial romanization of names)
- Riho Sugiyama as Kazuko Morinaka (Kubitsuri Kikyuu)
- Daisuke Kishio as Shinya Shiraishi (Kubitsuri Kikyuu)
- Iori Nomizu as Kagumi Fujino (Kubitsuri Kikyuu)
- Rie Suegara as Tomie (Tomie)
- Yumiri Hanamori as Tsukiko Izumisawa (Tomie)
- Taku Yashiro as Yamazaki (Tomie)
- Tomokazu Sugita as Tachi (Tomie)
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Kimata (Tomie)
- Yuji Mitsuya as Souichi (The Room With 4 Walls)
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kouichi (The Room With 4 Walls)
- Yuka Saitō as Sayuri (The Room With 4 Walls)
- Yutaka Aoyama as Tagaisu (The Room With 4 Walls)
- Hiro Shimono as Oshikiri (Intruder)
- Hisako Kanemoto as Sayoko (Unendurable Labyrinth)
- Youko Hikasa as Chiemi (The Long Hair in the Attic)
- Natsumi Takamori as Kuriko (Bullied)
- Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Hikizuri (The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance)
- Romi Park as Kiko (The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance)
- Hajime Iijima as Shigorou (The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance)
- Risa Shimizu as Narumi (The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance)
- Ayaka Asai as Hitoshi (The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance)
- Tomoko Kaneda as Misako (The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance)
Junji Ito 's work already received an anime adaptation in 2018, "Ito Junji: Collection," by Deen . The anime had 12 episodes, each with a different story, but despite good intentions, the animation was "rushed" and also received criticism for "not having the same art as the manga." However, the anime is a good entry point for newcomers to Junji Ito's twisted world. Finally, "Ito Junji: Collection" is available on Crunchyroll .
Finally, Ito previously revealed that his work was in the works. The manga collection, which highlights some of the author's most famous works, has 11 volumes and was published between 2011 and 2013.
Source: Comic Natalie
