18 Jun – The highly-anticipated anime adaptation of horror mangaka Junji Ito's "Uzumaki" has been delayed to 2022. The project, which was announced back in 2019, was originally scheduled for a 2020 release, but faced production halts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The four-episode miniseries will stay true to its black-and-white original comic in respect of Ito's style - making it much more eerie than if done in colour. There has been a live-action adaptation of the highly popular title, though many believed that it did not fully capture the horror of the actual story. "Uzumaki", which was released as a serial on "Big Comic Spirits" from 1998 to 1999, follows Kirie Goshima, a teenage girl who lives in a remote town called Kurouzu-cho where the residents are afflicted by a horrifying spiraling curse.
A snippet of the upcoming mini-series can be watched here: