Adult Swim’s Uzumaki delayed from October, no new release date

Adult Swim’s anticipated anime adaptation of UzumakiJunji Ito’s highly acclaimed horror novel, titled, has been again postponed.

Official Twitter for anime announced that the adaptation, originally scheduled to debut in October this year, would be moving again. The statement cited the production team’s request for additional time to faithfully recreate the designs and line work of Ito’s magnum opus.

Although no premiere date has yet been set, we will soon announce a new date. The original release date was set for 2020. However, production was stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, it was rescheduled to October.

This is the The four-episode miniseries is set to retell the story of Ito’s original manga, which follows the lives of several citizens of the fictional city of Kurouzu-cho who are afflicted by a supernatural curse involving spirals. The UzumakiHiroshi Nakahama directs anime Mushishi The Flowers of EvilFame and production by the animation studio Drive with a score from It is a hereditary matter Colin Stetson, composer

Nagahama’s adaptation of Uzumaki isn’t the only anime based on Junji Ito’s work on the horizon, as Netflix recently announced the anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac – Japanese Tales of the MacabreFilm premiered next year.