Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Season 1)

Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (2023) is a Netflix horror anime anthology you can watch online on iFILM. Across its episodes it adapts twenty short stories from Japan's reigning master of horror manga, Junji Ito.

Every segment is its own nightmare. The bratty boy Souichi lays petty curses on everyone within reach, the deathless beauty Tomie drives men to obsession and murder, and unsuspecting people stumble onto things that simply shouldn't exist — spirals that swallow a whole town, holes carved into a mountainside, mannequins that stir after dark.

The animation keeps Ito's signature line work, thin and obsessive and deeply unsettling. Forget jump scares; the dread here creeps in slowly, and the calm narrator's voice unnerves more than any creature on screen. It's for readers of Ito's manga and anyone who likes their J-horror without a tidy ending. Stream Junji Ito Maniac (2023) online on iFILM.