Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
MedPoc
A bizarre mix of mythology and body horror.
Story: 7
The story itself is a strong one, the viewer always have to think on something and the dark atmosphere makes the whole movie tense. It would be easy to give it a higher rating, but because of the prequel (Amrita no Kyouen), it's really messy and illogical from time to time.
Characters: 7
No developments here, but because they're already have readable personalities, it's not a bad a thing.
Art: 8
The best shots are made with rhotoscopic technique, they are a pleasure to eye for most of the time. The still shots are amazing, they look like painted masterpieces. Animation: 6
The rating of the animation, along with the art itself, absolutely depends on the person. Some will find it interesting, others will say it's horrible.
Music: 7
The…
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Let me get something out of the way that absolutely needs to be said. Kana Hana had no business wasting her talents here.
This movie starts off with some very strong, albeit clearly budget strained imagery, but I was very much into it. Unfortunately, in an effort to mask the lack of workers and money involved in this… thing, the director went out of his way to ensure maximum visual noise in every single shot. This led to the most dizzying and excessive use of shaky cam maybe in any movie ever. If this was a masterpiece of a film that was perfect in almost every way, the shaky cam alone would bring it down to like a 7.5. This is of course, not to speak of the various other production related shortcomings such as horrible looking background characters, jarringly inconsistent audio mixing,…
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This is the 'sequel' to Amrita (which the creator more appropriately calls a spinoff), though it has almost no connection aside from the same apartment setting (but beyond the shared insect theme the monster happenings are completely different) and Amrita has a momentary unrelated scene cameo of the 2 main girls of this movie existing tossed in at the end, and with the potential for achronology it isn't even possible to say which movie actually takes place first. They are inconsequential to each other in terms of watch order, but I'd recommend Amrita instead, since it's short and better quality, and only this movie if you really want to see more but worse.
Both movies were written/directed/animated by a single guy which is a bit impressive but also a bit pompous and obviously shoots it in…
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Aragne no Mushikago is definitely a confusing anime for the majority of people. The simple idea is that it follows this girl who moves into this new apartment complex and weird creepy things start happening around her. The actual plot of the movie is confusing and you'll end up seeing a lot of scenes or things that make you go ???. The amount of dialogue is limited so this adds to the confusion of the movie coupled with an ending that makes no sense. The animation is disappointingly poor for an anime that is fairly new. The one good thing about this anime though is the atmosphere, it does it greatly and builds up a very nice horror feeling with a few jumpscares here and there it does really immerse you. Overall, if you can sit through a somewhat poor animation and confusing story the atmos…
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I found this dvd in an old video store about two years ago and didn't get around to watching it until today.
Initially after finishing it I was left with that "wtf did I just witness and why am I mad about it" feeling, but did some digging around for explanations which cleared a lot of things up for me. But quite honestly you really shouldn't need to look things up to understand.
I think the story is a great idea, but making it a movie was a terrible move. Too many ideas and characters weren't fleshed out anywhere near as much as they should've been. All 3 male characters featured felt like very forced plot devices for Rin to figure something out or move her along faster. A 12 (or even just 7) episode anime would have done this concept justice.
I REALLY liked the art in terms of style and…
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If your looking for a thorough positive review you probably already read it. I don't under stand why it has such a horrible score. I found it to be really well done, and original.
The art style is off putting as it should be, its a horror movie. When she walks its disorienting which is frickin amazing. Obviously by how well drawn everything is the choice to make it this way was intentional. Someone who is looking for an anime with the same animation style as every other one will not like this one but that's ok.
I thought the similar things about Aku no Hana and that's one of my all time favorites.
8/10 Overall
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I tend to like weird-ass anime that flies under the radar and goes mostly unnoticed by the mainstream, and the trailer for Aragne certainly made it look like it would scratch that itch, but I was quickly proven wrong. While the atmosphere, score and creature design can be striking, everything else is bottom of the barrel quality. Really bad animation and bland character design, which is punctuated by awful directing that utilizes this jerky camera technique that is distracting as hell is bad enough, but the story is what really kills it. Clearly this was written by someone that either thinks they're way smarter and more clever than they actually are, or they just didn't have the resources to bring their vision to life in the way they intended, because this is a hot, incomprehensible mess.…
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Look, it's plain as day from the trailer that this is hot garbage. I initially dismissed it because of the often shoddy visuals, and it was pretty clear that no matter how audacious the creator might be, there was no reason to believe the script would neatly stitch together what was obviously a low budget b-movie horror film. I should have listened to my instincts...
Despite the visuals being quite subpar overall, many of the images are striking in their own unique way, and there are enough grotesque and bizarre elements that left me intrigued enough to eventually give it a shot. Every once in a while all the right elements are there, and there's just a need for a skilled hand to pull it all together. But there actually isn't much to pull together in 75 minutes, with the last 20 or so min…
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Ok This movie could be scored anywhere from 3 to 8. I scored it at 3 Let us dive into this....
Story, Does not matter. Is it a dream, is it a hallucination? Is it a story about a murderer who changed who she was to be her childhood friend she killed... who also saves her from sup phantom ghost bug world? Maybe honestly it does not matter. 3/10
-Also subplot Government bad(Human experimentation), Modern medicine bad(Magic bell solve all problems).
Art High detail low frame rate. Some of the scenes are very pretty. Most are just grungy, but that was their goal. Art direction is good. 8/10 Once you get over the fact that they added in camera shake for still frames of animation it goes over well.
Sound was pretty good. I never had any problems with it. 8/10
Characters... There is almost no…
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I went into this totally blind, so I didn't really know what to expect. It was a rather odd film. It's done in CG, which I know can be contentious for many anime fans. In this case it was very much a mixed bag. Some scenes had pretty good cinematography, and the character designs are fairly strong in my opinion. However, there are quite a few scenes were the character movements look stiff and awkward, which dragged down the overall experience. The protagonists hair barely moves, which is distracting in many scenes.
The mystery aspect of this movie is interesting in the earlier parts of the film, but with out spoiling anything, the end results are very cliche and predictable. The sequence of events is a bit scattered. Now, shows being confusing absolutely isn't a bad thing but the implied…
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First review, lets go. Found this movie clicking "random" on a certain anime website. looked it up and found basically NOTHING. No video reviews/explanations/theories or anything of the sort. The only thing i really found was its horrible Mal score. But i decided to watch it anyway and im glad i did. Ill try to review as spoiler free as possible.
Story
The story was amazing. It felt very original and fully kept my interest all the way through the movie. Even from the very first scene i felt drawn in to its creepy/grotesque atmosphere. However i do have mixed feelings about the ending. Without saying too much i felt like i couldnt give the ending an honest review since i couldnt really fathom it.
Art
The art was completely mindblowingly beautiful. The movie featured very detailed beautif…
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Ok im never wrote an anime review+english isn't my main language so plese bear with me ^^;
I quite enjoyed the movie' story except the last 20~ minutes and it's ending.
I'll be totally honest.I didnt understood the ending....I don't know if it was just me but my friend didn't either.
For it's animation,I personally can still enjoy an animation with low frames which this movie had.But that was when the animation were drawn...Because that movie have randoms moment where 3d models are used which I think is fine if done well.But it was done really awkwardly in my opinion.
The drawn animations were very low frames while the 3d animations were almost 60fps and,the character's models were stiff (and expressionless if I recall well).
The characters were really...eh...not memorable and
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