RATING: DARK RED
FLASH RATING : MEDIUM to HIGH, All colours
Pupa / ピューパ - this anime is based on a manga that seems to not have been finished at the time of creation and it shows heavily. I dont know the fandom, or ANY content from the manga, so please be aware that this reveiw is anime only.
I enjoyed watching this, for the most part, but it went off the rails extremely quickly. The site I used to watch it had all of the episodes in one compilation and I wasn't aware of this until AFTER, so there won't be episode specific triggers this time. Know that the majority of the triggers go for the entire show anyways. Dont watch this unless youre prepared to be REALLY disappointed.
My cursory research showed that this anime, while beautifully animated, is widely regarded as one of the worst Anime of all time and it SHOWS. Its apparently one of the worst adaptations of a manga ever made as well. The soundtrack is incredible, though!
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GENRES: Body Horror, Psychological Horror
TYPE: Shorts, but best watched in a compilation
RAN FROM: January 9th 2014 to March 28th 2014
LENGTH: 12 episodes consisting of 4 minute long shorts, including intro and outro.
STUDIO: Studio Deen
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Intro/Outro: Heavy themes of body horror, fast moving imagery, focus on bugs and eyes, artistic nudity, minor red white flash at the very end, outro contains artistic nudity of a child and blood, many blur effects.
Special notes: at one point there is a REAL LIFE VIDEO of a dead fish being gutted and the intestines splayed out on a billboard. It is EXTREMELY Graphic
Theres an entire plotline that is eventually dropped that implies the sexual assault of both siblings that involves a woman using her body as an incubator for a baby created from a sperm and an egg from underage and biological siblings. Her nude pregnant form is shown and its disgusting.
Trigger Catalog: Extreme Gore, Extreme Body Horror, death and dismemberment, segments that take place in a school, physical abuse scars including cigarette burns across a child's body, animal death and severe animal body horror, extreme physical and psychological abuse of children and women, focus on bugs, bug like sound effects, bug monsters, cannibalism, eating humans, erotic cannibalism between biological siblings, human experimentation, child experimentation, severe harm and distortion of stuffed animals (mainly teddybears), severe PTSD including but not limited to flashbacks, Smoking, extreme amounts of blood, heavy weaponry, a cat who is a camera, repeated killing and reviving of a teenager, loud and brutal screams of pain and fear from a child and several adults, manipulation, Kidnapping, calling a newborn/unborn baby a monster, graphic birth, favoritism between siblings, child murder and on screen corpse of an infant, Unreality, Dead Bird, Giant insects and the intentional killing of them, artistic nudity including that of children, pregnancy, pregnancy as horror, a person with no empathy posed as evil, knives very close to eyes, closeups on knives, stabbing children, murder, tazing especially to the neck, chaining and blindfolding a child, live autopsy of a child including amputation without any kind of anesthesia, creepy mascots, left on a very confusing cliffhanger.
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Final notes: just dont watch this. Its not funny bad, its JUST uncomfortable incest eroguro of children, and the animation and music aren't enough to save it. If the idea of a giant monster bug eating people excites you, read the manga instead! I'm honestly disappointed. It started out pretty alright. As always, I go into these things almost entirely blind, and only watch sub. If there are other issues, let me know, and I will reblog or add them!







