This is how I felt as well, the way it dove straight into the surreality seemed very quick to me. I feel like what makes Junji Ito's work so great is how his horror turns the mundane and standard into the dreadful and otherworldly over time.

🌹Mhm, agreed, and the issue is that the pacing works well in the medium of a graphic novel but does not translate perfectly into good pacing for a television series.