Horror anime fans got perhaps the biggest scare of all in Episode 2 of Uzumaki due to a massive drop off in animation quality.

The ‘Uzumaki’ anime adaptation on Max gets harshly criticized as its second episode releases with subpar animation.

Adult Swim's senior vice president of anime, Jason DeMarco, said they were “screwed over” by the sudden quality drop in the animation of the second episode of Junji Ito’s “Uzumaki” anime adaptation. The episode,

Uzumaki is getting slammed for production quality dropping between episodes, leading to one of the producers revealing what happened.

In what will likely go down in history as one of the saddest developments in anime, Adult Swim‘s long-delayed anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki went from critical acclaim to utter disappointment in two episodes because of a staggering drop in animation quality.

"It's fine, we knew this would happen," reads the apparently since-deleted post. "I can't talk about what went down but we were screwed over and the options were A) not finish it

The executive producer of Uzumaki reveals what went wrong with the anime version of Junji Ito's famous horror story after Episode 2's drop in quality.