The Uzumaki anime feels like a WoH run

[IvanIceSpike]

Been enjoying the Junji Ito anime quite a lot, the feeling of seeing a WoH run in anime form to me is quite a testament on how greatly this game has captured the dread and aesthetics of it's inspiration to a T. Most likely i'll start sinking more hours on the game between episodes

[jacei1]

I've heard some animation in uzumaki is very sub par. Maybe try reading the manga, i've heard it's very good and more unsettling.

[hardy_conrad]

I saw a chart detailing the changes in animation directors for each episode. Episode 1 had two animation directors. Episode 2 had about fifteen animation directors, approximately 70 percent of whom were Chinese.

Speaking as a guy who's been following anime since before a lot of folks were even born, the industry has been a total gong show for years and I don't see any hope of things turning around. They obviously have neither the ability nor inclination to draw up proper budgets so you constantly have production values falling off a cliff after the first episode. Morale is nil as although animator exploitation isn't exactly new, the prestige which compensated for stuff like low salary and long hours has evaporated. Watching things go from the likes of Akira and Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor to whatever puerile isekai fetish is popular this month has been agonizing.

Sorry for the rant, heh. The ironic thing is that at least a small part of the decline of anime is due to its inability to compete with other media such as gaming. It was easy to surpass rivals for attention when what passed for prestige television was Hill Street Blues or Buck Rogers. Weighing some glorified shounen toy commercial against the likes of Breaking Bad? Bit more tricky. Oh well. At least manga is fantastic (I just read Ajin. Superb).