This one splits rooms, and it should. Ito's horror lives in ink density, in crosshatching so thick the page feels wet, and Deen's flat digital line drains half of it out before the first cut. Then an episode like Hanging Balloons lands, giant faces bobbing over the neighborhood calling your name, and you remember why you came. Souichi with his mouth full of nails is either the best or worst thing here depending on your tolerance for gag horror, and Fuchi the fashion model still works because the concept is unkillable. The voice work carries more dread than the frames do, which tells you everything. Watch it as a trailer for the manga, then go buy the manga. That's the honest pitch, and Ito fans already know it.

Each of the twelve episodes adapts a different piece of short horror fiction by mangaka Junji Ito, drawn from his multi-volume collected works and from Fragments of Horror. The stories stand alone, mixing supernatural menace, mystery and psychological dread. Among them: a cursed jade carving that riddles its victims' bodies with holes, nightmares that stretch across decades, a lovely spirit at a foggy crossroads whose advice carries a curse, and a slug that grows inside a girl's mouth. The horror is grotesque and relentless, and not for the squeamish.