Adapting any of Junji Ito’s terrifying works has proven to be one of horror’s greatest creative challenges. His stories aren’t frightening simply because of their grotesque imagery, but because they unravel ordinary people through obsession, love, vanity, and compulsion before descending into outright nightmare. That’s proven hard to accurately render in animation and, following the disaster that was Adult Swim’s Uzamaki, Ito’s creative ingenuity is in need of a serious reboot. Based on its Anime Expo premiere, Junji Ito: Strange may finally have found the right formula, but not in the form of an anime.