Junji Ito anime anthology Maniac coming to Netflix in 2023

Netflix’s Geeked Week anime livestream revealed Wednesday that they are currently developing a new anime, based on stories by horror manga artist Junji Ito. Ito gave a brief introduction and showed some production design details for the new anime.

The series was titled Juji Ito Maniac – Japanese Tales of the Macabre, adapts 20 stories from Ito’s body of work that will be animated “for the first time.” More specifically, this new anime adapts stories from the Tomie, SōichiAnd Hanging Balloons manga. We don’t know yet what stories are specifically taken from this manga. Tomie SōichiThe manga is not yet available, however more details will be made closer to the release of the anime.

This isn’t the first time Junji Ito’s work has been adapted into anime, as Ito’s 2001 supernatural horror manga Gyo was adapted by Ufotable into an animated film in 2012, while a previous animated anthology of Ito’s short stories, titled Junji Ito Collection,Released in 2018. The anime version of Uzumaki, Ito’s 1998 supernatural dark fantasy horror manga, is slated to air on Adult Swim this October.