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Uzumaki Ep 4 (Patreon)

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2024-10-21 22:26:02
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Its over. Couldnt tell you anything about this story or characters other than spirals. Nightmare adaptation

Comments

EnragedFliqpy

They gave the story board to looney tunes characters tf was this

Jaballah Osman

TIME TO WATCH ( ORB OF THE MOVEMENT'S OF THE EARTH )

Conflictor

With OG Naruto also getting 4 special episodes, I just hope more than anything that this travesty doesn’t happen to that, especially with how long we’ve been waiting at this point and is expected to come out by March of this next year apparently.

Prxj3ct

After this dumpster fire, I would recommend the Terminator Zero anime on netflix. Perfectly animated, great story, twists, and a return to form for the Terminator franchise.

PJ Rivera

4 episodes and sold immediately, even ninja kamui had good animation for 3 eps

Zay C.

Fuckery bruh am dreaming bc wtf 😂

Limini

The manga was so good, im so disappointed

Prxj3ct
>>152985976

Thats crazy, they really couldn't pull it together for only 4 episodes

Newerk

Im so sorry we put you through this 😭

Tre

Adult swim getting rights to any anime should now be a huge red flag

Tre Staples

The utter disrespect to Junji Ito by this animation studio needs to be studied for generations to come. Absolute dog shit adaptation

Kevin Kovacs

Lazarus is looking good at least but we have to wait how the story and all is gonna work out. I give Adult Swim one last chance. Plus the studio behind the series is MAPPA and 90% of their anime is well made so I have more hopes for it.

sotonye ogan

Damn........ Bumping hard to Marvin's Room on repeat, anime in 2024 has been utterly ass, me personally dgaf about any anime anticipation other than Jojo Steel ball Run will they fuck that up too for the sake of money bruh idfk at this point lol.

Raider

Episode 1 was goated The rest was clown shoes smh

King of New York

Okok one thing though is Mappa is making this new anime called Lazarus and it’s also gonna be on Adult Swim. Please don’t write it off, it probably won’t be a Ninja Kamui or Uzumaki situation because it’s by the creator of Cowboy Bebob, Samurai Champloo, Carol and Tuesday, Terror in Resonance and all those bangers

TChang23

Hoping for a your lie in April trio reaction someday 🙏🏻

Tenroku

Didn’t even watch the last episode. This was such a shame bro damn

Omar Bautista

I think it's time to realize junji isnt a good writer. All his animes go down the toilet and people want to blame animation. Maybe we were blind to the truth

Carlos

Lazarus better not be another Adult Swim flophouse. Don't do that to my boy Watanabe.

Sham3ful
>>152986366

Ong, I'd have to sue the studio to hell & back for that kinda disrespect

Quinn Balsam
>>152986934

you are smoking CAWK if you think he isn't a good writer, it is legitimately plausible that adult swim fumbled this like they did ninja kamui

BlondeSpud

I feel so bad for the fans the dedicated animation team who had budget cuts and couldn’t continue the potential we saw in episode 1 and for junji ito. The manga is so good and I hope people go read it. One of my favorite mangas. 😞

Kisuke01

Why have the anime this year been super wonky Ninja Kamui, Uzumaki, Blue Lock, Tower of God, and Shy is another anime done by 8bit it looks good at base but then looks like garbage when the action happens don't let 8bit cook again

Url Robbo

WHEWWWWW Ninja Kamui, Blue Lock, Tower of God, and Uzumaki truly going down this as the “the had us in the first half” animes of the year

Alexis Peck
>>152987221

The newer episodes of ToG are getting better animation-wise. Still a bit inconsistent, but at least some of the fight scenes look decent now.

King97

This some looney tunes shit

Xenoprism

So sad cuz it's one of my favorite manga but mannn this adaptation was trash🥲

King97

5:27 Why is there a random Gamera toy?!

Ayman Gebrail

It was scuffed asf, just sad y’all missed the end credits scene lmao

Mack

I'm not saying this adaptation isn't bad, but a lot of y'all seem you wouldn't enjoy the Manga either.

GigaDirt
>>152986934

You my guy must have some good stuff to be tripping this hard. Junji ito is a phenomenal writer and his Mangas are one of a kind, but the adaptations never get it and cut things, ruin pacing, misunderstanding ambience and on top of that that animated like 10 year old on Microsoft paint. It's the studios, not the author

YungZeus
>>152987126

Is that the one that supposedly comes out next year, that kind of feels like cowboy bebop?

Ryu

Well, that was a terrible show and i agree with you. That show was one of the worst ive ever seen, i give it a 🐌 out of ten. Your reaction made it pretty funny ngl, thank you! :)

Austin S

the bits of the story carried, interesting concept, but yeah

Austin S

entertaining tho

madmax

just dont release shit if its not great or a mixture of really good, cause atp idgaf what the manga is like, this is buns.

RBGTalk

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 to think we had hopes for this shit

Carlos
>>152987126

Yeah by the director of Bebop with fight scenes coordinated by Chad Stahelski.

Denickart
>>152987221

Because more and more anime get produced every year and there aren't enough animators to go around

Vhxstle

Actually thought this was gon be sum top tier after the first episode bruh😀

Hwiyeop Kim

i never thought that i would say this but...boku no pico is more fun to watch than this shit

Denickart
>>152986366

Why would he sue them? Everytime one of his anime flops it gets more people to read the manga.

Gwyn

Well, this was... a show. So, between this and Agatha, and the possibility of Tomb Raider taking a slot, yall are slowly killing the Mr. Robot fanatics. Can you please, just give the pilot a shot and see if it hooks you?

hayden 💟

bro this shit is pure comedy 💀

Gimme Dem Ankles

If you get the chance, PLEASE read the manga. Good lord this is awful

Lash

Recommending Orb: on the movements of the earth it’s really good. New anime made by madhouse on Netflix

YungZeus

5 years for this

Kd

Day 5 of asking to watch Monster

sotonye ogan
>>152987126

oh it is alright lmao but Mappa is making it but still that adult swim tag is like herpes lmao.

Kingslord

like sheera just said, just drop first episode to promote the manga then rest next year

Anto
>>152987221

The industry is fucked. The studios that are actually doing shows with healthy schedules are still working on them.

BZD

There’s an after credits scene. It’s basically the start of the whole show again but Shuichi’s role is taken by a Girl and Kirie’s by a Boy. I don’t know why they expected people to stick around for after credits. You need to have an actual good show for that. I will say, aside from episode 1 this was probably the next best adapted episode. But it still skipped a bunch of stuff. This manga was 19 chapters, they could have done much better if they just added even 2 more episodes.

Expired Breast Milk

I'm with Roshi 100%. This has been so bad its good, unironically a hilarious for all the wrong reasons. I consider this a successful adaptation

Shockzz1234

"Nightmare adaptation" ah so it WAS scary after all!! They got us.

Kupo

I enjoyed it, for all the wrong reasons but i enjoyed it anyways, thats gotta be worth something i guess

Sillybilly123

I really wish the company from the first episode did all the episodes because this manga is actually scary 😭

Chibi

All junji ito stories are kinda trash ngl. It’s just body horror.

Imari

When Roshi thinks something in a show that’s happening is unserious he makes this face that so fucking hilarious 💀

Weiss Schnee

Last time I saw these faces was ninja kamui

Leandrosioty

Junji Ito in shambles right now

NovaVortex

Escargot??? More like Escar-NOPE!!! 🤢

DatBoi Lol

Yea Lazarus got me scared too. Adult swim cursed.

Jazmyne Mattucci

Can i officially say this is The Room of animes? so fuckin bad its good. But i agree, Adult Swim should never EVER get involved in the anime industry ever again. Fuck David Zit(i dont care to look up the dickheads name)

Ukaede

As much as I loved Junji Ito's horror stories, the studio animation didn't do them justice. I had high hopes after watching episode 1, but then it went down so quick. I would've had a hard time to watch this on my own so thankfully you guys were there to bring out the good of the bad ngl That's a shame..

Requiem_Phantom

Yall should check out the suicide squad anime as well. Its actually pretty good and wild.

YaboyQ

4 episodes and not one alan wake 2 it's a spiral joke from roshi I'm surprised lol

generous wallet

Yeah, they really butchered the adaptation. With it being just 4 episodes, so much of the story and lore of it all had to be compressed. Hopefully, with spare time. You could give the manga a read of what went down with the whole spiral lol

Friendly Elites

Problem is with adapting any of Ito's work is that all of his stories have extraordinarily simple themes, the theme for Uzumaki is about how people in small towns get trapped in a cycle during their lives and never do anything to escape it. Arguably his best quality is taking these extremely simple themes and then adding the horror through his art and the connection the reader has to the story physically as they read it that just can't translate to animation, the act of the page turn puts the unveiling of the horror in your hands, even the 1st episode as nice as it looked had that same problem and was directly inferior to the original work because of that regard. He can write a fantastic short story about what if people drank from this tree and it tasted super good but they could randomly get smacked to death by some giant invisible force where the metaphor is literally "what if humans were like Mosquitos wouldn't that be fucked up?" and make it work because his art in the specific artform works as well as it does. The show was doomed like every adaptation of his work before and every adaptation after not even a good production schedule could have saved this project, just go read his manga I recommend Tomie, Long Dream, Layers of Fear, and The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

Delinda Arts

Hear me out: trash adaptation....but a great drinking game show lmao

ko ling

recommending shangri-la frontier

Fuji

best thing about this show was that its only 4 episodes, what a shitshow

Brendan Arntz
>>153002007

The studio slashed their budget. They made the pilot and were force to either scrap the whole project, only release the first episode or try to cobble what they had already animated for the rest of the series into something passible to honor the work people put into them. They went with the last one. The head animator has gone off about it a lot on twitter. These cats talk about it in the post-show discussion

Co

better or worse than blue lock season 2 so far?

Sailing
>>152988064

Yeah the manga is comparable in quality. Biggest difference is pacing

Reckless Company

Yeah I would have not voted this if this was polled lol but it is what it is at this point I’m just here😂😂😂confused forever

Victor

Many shows made me disappointed before, but this is the second time I feel this mad watching anime adaptation from a manga. You're right Roshi. I won't watch nothing from this studio ever again.

Eduardo Ibarra

Read the manga/graphic nivel, its so much better

LiquidXGravity
>>152990368

Definitely should not say that you would rather watch little boys getting their cheeks clapped

DrPlague9

From reading to watching this series is such a big difference the manga had a slower pace than the show so you get a better understanding with what’s going on but the show is so fast with the events it make it so goofy at times that you forget how disturbing it’s supposed to be

DrPlague9

The part with the brother turning into a snail had me crying with how lupa just sat there with disgust on his face

Vincent S Deluca

It is a hard situation for the studio to some degree, especially when it’s cause stuff went down mid production which can shift timetables ALOT. They have contracts, deadlines etc riding on the show, sometimes they can’t take that extra time or just release the 1 ep and wait for the next 3. Their contract probs includes a release schedule, and if they don’t follow it, it’s breach of contract and they not only don’t get paid but can be sued for that breach. Perfect world would be the producers give them the room they need but that doesn’t always happen. More often they are put under crazy pressure to get SOMETHING out, then at least they get paid something for their work as opposed to being in the hole for however many months of work.

Sham3ful
>>153007083

Show really turned something creepy & beautiful (writing & art wise) to a whole comedy rivaling Ninja Kamui

Sham3ful
>>152996740

Shit I'd be too if my stories were getting high praise only to get hoed in anime adaptations

Fobbles

This and Lovecraft horror, and other authors as well are called “Weird fiction” One of my favorite kinds of fiction! The story revolves around something but it isn’t necessarily ever explained but you get a hint at what it is. -The king in yellow is a play that makes people go crazy and die. Why? Who knows but the goal is to just NOT READ IT! -Uzumaki is about something turning the town to spirals, or perhaps the town was a spiral itself and is returning back to how it wishes. We get a glimpse that some messed up Antideluvian cosmic otherworldly city. Is that the reason? Maybe. Doesn’t matter though what can you actually do to stop it? It’s like stopping gravity. -Shadow Over Insmouth is about a town if people that are odd and look like fish, but eye everything you do. Like they’re all in on something. Gang Stalking. And they are! But you can’t stop it because it’s bigger than everything that even the police can’t help. -Sinister! The movie about families and their children dying from some unknown force and someone recording it. -Longlegs! A mystery about how this serial killer is killing all these people and why turns out to have dark forces on his side. -Hereditary! I could go on. It’s a horror because it’s something you dont understand and happens for unknown reasons. You may or may not stop it but why is it cause? We never quite get a glimpse, we’re left with clues for us to try and find out. What was that spiral city? Why is it under the lake? Why now? Why spirals?! Why does it make people go crazy first?? Something is MAKING THIS HAPPEN! But we don’t know what and when it will strike or how. The fear of the unknown.

Fobbles

I love how shuichi this whole time is just the guy going “THIS IS COMOLETELY INSANE!!!! WHAT?! WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE FREAKING OUT???” And by the end he’s just numb . He just relents and says “Fuck it. I wanna see what’s at the bottom of this. I’m curious. It’s affected me so much I may as well find out.” The epitome of “Fuck it we ball I guess.”

Ren Lichtfoot

I always go into things not expecting top tier anything. I think so many people are so busy comparing series to other things they've seen that they fall into the trap of searching for the next content high. That prevents them from enjoying something based on it's own merits. I realize this is a bad adaptation of Ito's work, but so far I've never seen a good one. Every single story of his that I know of, that got adapted , had some "Weird stuff" happen to make it less stellar than the manga / books. So, I just enjoyed this for what it was - and the idea is pretty cool. If anything, maybe this poor adaptation will help sell more books.

Fobbles

Also. Again! Sheera’s been saying the plot the whole time. “It’s cooked now.” 🤣

PersonaFyde

There was bad animation at times. But overall, it didn’t really bother me that much, so I’d say I liked it overall.

DIOR

Fuck Adult Swim and Jason Demarco. Western companies need to stay the fuck away from anything anime related. Shame on the dumbfucks praising this too

Fobbles

Man I love this even though it’s been rushed and stuff. You can go back and find little things that are off. Like. They would’ve been walking in that city for so long if the buildings weren’t still being built. That’s the only reason they got through. And when those two, the ones that were there from the start that the spiral wanted turned, the spiral was done! The city took the other lady it didn’t care about her. Also black holes distort time the closer you get to them, the guy in the city aged faster probably because he was closer to the center than the party walking out in the woods. The spiral has always liked water. It also affects things that move slower, like it’s gotta catch you! Like something is actually trying slowly to spiral the town. And it LOVES ATTENTION!!! Like a king in a twisted castle…

Sonic

It's not a bad adaptation, it's just how all of Junji Ito's stuff is. Just weird without a story or characters to get into. People that like it really love it but for most of us including myself it's interesting to watch once but not much more than that.

Liliana
>>153015019

I think it's both. His stuff is weird and random, but the pacing of this adaptation was shot and cut down a ton of buildup that made some moments stand out. So it felt even more random than the manga

Boogie's Games

This show was some ass imma keep it 💯

Phroug
>>153015019

I disagree, a shit ton of his stories actually have a lot of interest to it, it's just his long ones that are bland as hell. I've been reading his stuff for a long ass time and I never understood why uzumaki got so popular, you understand literally everything about it like 10 minutes into reading, then it's just the same shit on replay

Isaac

There was like... 7 seconds where the animation looked like it was episode 1 again ... then right after that the click and drag fall happens with girl looking like paper animation and I was FLOORED. This shit was hilarious.

Orlandez Malone

This really devolved into complete and utter nonsense. Glad it's over

Norman kay10

yahhhh this show was just a stock pile of crazy madness

Dylan Culbertson

I was about to type that every anime that adult swim touches is complete garbo then roshi js said that hoe its actually facts tho look at ninja kamui shit might be the trashest show of the year

Nicka Snax

"niggas was just turning into circles" LMAO YEP

Nicka Snax
>>153012147

They weren't always bad, in the past they helped produce shows like FLCL, the Big O, Ghost in the Shell SAC, and Thundercats and Space Dandy, so they used to cook... but that was all years ago. Like they def can't just throw money at something nowadays and expect it to be a hit. They gotta put in the effort... and it seems like they fumbled managing this series real bad.

Metweet .c

Yeah not everything needs to be adapted into an anime. The manga was more enjoyable. Welp we move. I also hope that this serves as a reminder that the gang doesn't need to react to every single new anime that's JUST coming out.

Dylan Culbertson
>>153022852

Real if the next thing adult swim drops is ass it just solidifies that everything that they touch is going to be garbage as fuck

ShaquanVirse

Adult Swim Shouldn't Touch Another Anime - It's Criminal

ShaquanVirse

After Episode 1, I had no idea what the was happening - Episodes 3&4 were guilty of this the most

Onyekachi Nkenke

The random cuts of good animation at the ending was sending me😭😭😭😭

Charlie baker
>>153022852

i guess igpx eternal grand prix is mostly toonami so it doesnt really count but it was pretty good

Charlie baker
>>153007676

i dunno man they been teasing uzumaki for like 3 or 4 years now, its wild that they failed like this only having to do 4 episodes

Jeffison
>>153028826

if they had kept the momentum they had from episode 1 it would've been a pretty great adaptation

Jeffison
>>153012633

yeah all the good things come from the source material, the manga tho

Jeffison
>>153011310

i mean normally i would kinda agree, but you literally can compare it to the anime itself. also that quality from a 5 yeah production is just outright bad for ep 2-4

N1ckv3n

Roshi, Look Back will be released on Prime Video on November 7th, an anime movie that adapts a one shot made by Tatsuki Fujimoto, who is the Mangaka of Chainsaw Man, please watch it because they did a great job 🙏🙏 I recommend you watch at least one trailer so you can understand how good it is (https://youtu.be/wkRR2VUsWfU?si=t7C89kyHFg9ttHPw)

Asher Ealey
>>153031055

Yo I didn’t even think about that. They made 2 of the most disappointing anime I’ve ever seen. What’s crazy is that they both had fire first episodes too😂

Asher Ealey
>>153028826

To be fair this was extremely hyped up so we were all anticipating it to be good

Asher Ealey

Manga readers you can correct me if I’m wrong and maybe it’s just me but as bad as it was I feel like this wasn’t even just an adaptation issue. The story of uzumaki is ass too. Shock value is there but it’s so random and so all over the place that even with good animation I can’t see myself enjoying it

Ren Lichtfoot
>>153011310

In this instance - I'm not talking about comparing source material to the anime. I'm speaking on people who go into entertainment by comparing it with "peak" in general. Every media is compared to source material - it's literally how they are made. 😅

Liliana
>>153060003

you're probably not wrong. I feel like the mood is way better there and there are some scenes that work better cause of proper pacing. But Junji Ito stuff, in my experience, is more about curiousity and shock value than about making a good story or any fleshed out characters. The Uzumaki manga for me had some cool moments and some shots that were quite disturbing, but the story itself is no better than what we got in the adaptation.

Dragonfire
>>153051737

Look back was a extremely well made movie. Glad I was able to go to the cinema to watch it.

AutumnOnFire
>>153060003

It was more of an experience as opposed to a plot. Like going through a haunted house. You're not exactly supposed to be feeling a narrative but you're present. The problem is that this manga makes you experience it at a pace you have no control over and therefore no risk.

Dude Man McGee
>>153060003

The pacing of this adaptation is what really made it suffer the most in my opinion. In the manga it gives everything time breathe, so it doesn't feel like a clusterfuck.

Mr. Glasses

I'm glad there was only 4 episodes so they can move onto better things lol

M'Sauvea Reynolds
>>153060003

Yeah it’s pretty bad, enjoyed the art but yeah it’s not worth the read if you’re looking for anything resembling a decent story

Samuel

Yoooo yall have to watch the show vagabond k drama, and uprising new movie on Netflix!!!!!!!!!!!!

poisonivybag

Okay it was bad but I laughed with you haha

Saphthings
>>153060003

Sometimes the issue is medium. Uzumaki is meant to be a manga you get and then you're reading late at night in your room with your light on and it makes you feel weirded out. Well lit room in mid day with your friends next to you isn't the "vibe" it's meant to be experienced in. Episode 1 had potential. Then it just went down hill.

Saphthings

Episode 1 was so good. You know what it is? They probably super invested in episode 1, as a pilot sort of thing, showed it around, got less invesment/producers who wanted to make shortcuts, episode 2-3 made with subpar budget and studio, then 4 couldn't save it. This should've been 10 episodes, and this story is meant to be a slow burn.

That guy joe
>>153031055

3 if you count the Rick and Morty “anime” which is basically just a kindergartner drawing their interpretation of what “anime” is 🤣

Kev

Can you react to Space Dandy please🙏 it’s pure sakuga, studio bones masterpiece

sotonye ogan
>>153031055

funny it almost feels like they (adult swim) are getting dicked by the anime studio by showing them the first episode to gas them up, then just tap out and submit the rest of their unfinished load to them. Japanese don't take the West seriously lmao.

sotonye ogan
>>153012147

They get bullied so easily lol, when Jason Demarco was suggesting an anime series with one of Hideo Kojima games bro just responded by making fun of him in the meeting room called him a wannabe otaku (that shit is so funny lmao). my gripe with adult swims is that they just don't stand on business with the Japanese studios, they don't take the western producers seriously I mean why would they lol seems like a cash grab if anything for adult swim.

Guns

it is said that it took them months to make the first episode, which is why it was so crazy good. the latter episodes are the ones that were made in a hurry under week

Fraudkuna
>>153078819

Aside from being animated by the Gods themselves, it's simply enjoyable as all hell.

King of New York
>>153078819

If they haven't seen it, it'd be the perfect time since Watanabe is coming out with Lazarus next year

Metweet .c
>>153028826

Yeah but that an besides for alot of shows that we're 'extremely hyped'but trash. It's not even anime but I see it alot more with kdramas that are recommended that have JUST come out. Spamming patron posts to watch shows that they themselves haven't watched. That's why the polls don't even matter sometimes. It's not even the gangs fault, people just get too excited over trailers.

How’d rem feel about the flowers of evil Shaunie boy
>>153080961

Apparently it was orders from up high the people working on it tried everything to get them to change their minds but sadly they said nope you don’t got the time to make it perfect nor the budget and we’re cutting it to 4 episodes chop chop buddy

TheBestPlays

kekkai sensen, from the author of trigun, which u guys seemed to enjoy, please!

Kevin Campos

Glad I didn’t invest any time on this.

Iago Leonelli
>>153019386

That is the whole point. Unfortunately, getting introduced to junji ito in a rapid pacing show like this can lead to think that anything matters. However that is something like a signature on his stories. Many junji Ito stories leave their end very open, and mostly are short stories. Uzumaki is actually one of the most “explained” stories of him. That does not mean it is bad. He is not called a master of horror for nothing.

Dede

Orb on the movements of the Earth

Le_Lng

Thanks for the drop. There was an aftercredit scene, just as a heads up.

Tremaine

Lmao I'm sorry but is this what people were excited for?

Spriggz

I enjoyed my time here. Thanks for the uploads and reactions

Spriggz

Say what you will about the animation, this was definitely one of your more popular shows

ShinKKage

Nostalgia clouding people’s minds nothing in Uzumaki is really explained you’d have to watch a video but the story is simply the futility of fighting the spiral

Masneomlock
>>153141561

Nothing is explained, but atleast you have more time with the better pacing of the manga to actually understand the scenarios taking place better.

Masneomlock
>>153124200

Obviously everyone who was excited did not expect it to go like this. If everything had been done like episode 1 and also more episodes had been done to better pace the story, it would've been a much better adaptation.

DatKid_Kaneki

so basically what has been going on from what i heard is episode 1 is the only FULLY funded episode roshi! which is why the first ep is the best animated. rip

Valentino Garay

Warner destroys every single thing it touches So sad they f up the production.. First episode was so good

TheBestPlays
>>153100001

personally i prefer kekkai sensen over trigun but maybe that’s because i watched it first, but i fw leo more than trigun mc

Jojo_avena

Im really surprised yall survived to the end and not continued any longer but goated review discussion at the end

ERRORCODE616

David Zaslav should commit seppuku in front of Junji Ito for this.

ShaquanVirse

Me ready to launch my own animation studio and hopefully take over

Chase Daly

If my memory of the manga is correct, the pacing in the second half was fast as well, so when they stuffed it all into two episodes it just became stuffed as hell. I'm glad I didn't even bother watching the anime because watching it with y'alls reactions was way more entertaining. I think everyone would've been a lot happier if they'd just released the first episode and then released the other three episodes over the course of a few years rather than resorting to using another studio to cover the rest.