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Junji Ito 'Collection' Anime's English-Subtitled Trailer Streamed

Crunchyroll began streaming an English-subtitled version of the trailer for Junji Ito "Collection", the television anime of manga by famed horror author Junji Ito, on Thursday.

Crunchyroll will stream the series with English subtitles as it airs in Japan, and Funimation will stream an English dub.

Satellite network WOWOW will premiere the anime on January 5 at 10:30 p.m. on its Anime Premium block. The anime will then debut on Tokyo MX on Sunday, January 7 at 10:00 p.m. Ito and voice actor Yūji Mitsuya (Sōichi) will appear at an advance screening event for the anime in Tokyo on December 23.

The anime will adapt stories from both the 11-volume Itō Junji Kessaku-shū (Junji Ito Masterpiece Collection) series and the Fragments of Horror book. The site will not reveal which stories will be adapted, so that viewers will be surprised. The key visual and the trailer show the following Ito works: "Soichi's Selfish Curse," "Fashion Model," "Slug Woman," "Further Tales of Oshikiri," and "The Beautiful Boy of the Crossroads."

Shinobu Tagashira (Diabolik Lovers) is directing the anime and serving as the character designer at Studio DEEN. Kaoru Sawada (Diamond Daydreams) is writing the scripts. Hozumi Gōda (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai) is serving as sound director and Yuuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia) is composing the music.

THE PINBALLS will perform the show's opening theme song "Shichitenbattō no Blues" (The Writhing in Agony Blues). JYOCHO will perform the ending theme song "Tagai no Uchū" (Mutual Universe) for the anime.