The horror here isn't designed to scare you in the moment, it's designed to sit with you after. Ito picks twenty stories that find the grotesque in the mundane, the tragedy in the supernatural, the human cost buried under every body horror setup. You'll watch something genuinely disturbing, then realize what actually broke you was the quiet moment before or after it.

Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre is a twelve-episode Netflix horror anthology that brings twenty stories hand-picked by Junji Ito to animation. The selection draws on works including Tomie, Souichi, The Hanging Balloons, The Long Hair in the Attic, Bullied, Ice Cream Truck, Tomb Town and Headless Statue. Mixing psychological horror, mystery and the supernatural, the collection gathers some of his strangest and most unsettling tales, many adapted for the first time.