Salutations, and hello once again.
The title I'll be giving my impressions on today is Ito Junji: Collection which, as the name implies, is a collection of short stories by popular horror mangaka Ito Junji. The first episode is based upon Souichi's Convenient Curse, which is surprisingly not the first story to feature this character, were the previous ones not seen as worthy? Or perhaps they are simply saving the others for later? Either way it does strike me as odd but as long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of the series, I'll be willing to overlook it.

• The episode begins with Souichi nailing a voodoo doll to a tree which causes pain for one of his classmate to the point of them being hospitalized. The next day it is shown how mentally disturbed Souichi really is with him talking to himself, going on about how great his voodoo powers are and how he was responsible for what happened to his classmate, which one would have to question why he would let that slip, not that anyone is going to believe any of it is true. In fact, all of his classmates think he's a weirdo and don't talk to him. Because of this, he probably spends a lot of time just listening to what his classmates are talking about which is how he makes the connection the change in atmosphere around a group of three friends and leads him to believe there is tension Ishikawa and Kawai, which is not only reading too deeply into it, he also jumps straight to Ishikawa wanting Kawai to die. After cursing Kawai he reveals to Ishikawa that he was the culprit and despite his words it is clear that he wants some sort of compensation for his "good deeds" from him, but instead is rebuked by him. He also has a brother and sister who, despite them seeming like good people, he hates probably because they're more good-looking then he is.
• There is also a old man who owns the forest area where Souichi plants all of his voodoo dolls, much to the old man's dismay and it would appear to me that he is just as if not more crazy then our protagonist is. Late in the episode, when Souichi is pulling a prank on Ishikawa for revenge, he gets caught in one of the old man's traps and is left by Ishikawa to be dealt with by the old man, who tries to kills Souichi and would of if not from his brother showing up to save the day, which is a bit plot conventional, I mean it's never explained what he was doing there.

In the end Souichi still hates his brother and does not realize how he himself is wrong. The story did not contain a whole lot of scary moments but it was interesting to see a story from the perspective of someone who is disturbed. There is another short story at the end which manages to be much more disturbing then the entirety of the first one in about a tenth of the time, it doesn't give much in the way of a introduction and the lack of a reason behind the context both add to the creepiness. In conclusion, if all the stories are to be like Souichi's Convenient Curse then this won't be a very scary series overall which would not be good, on the other hand if they are more aligned with the other story I mentioned and are only a few minutes long each, then this will be a very good horror work of fiction as I felt that it was worth watching until the end if only to see that story.
I'll leave it to you to decide whether it is worth your own time or not. That is all for this post, but be sure to check out my impressions on Toji no Miko , and tomorrow I will be taking a look at Hataraku Onii-san!, Grancrest Senki and Citrus and Sanrio Danshi. Until then, have a wonderful day.