Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
octobersvryown
a comment worded this perfectly it's just not his best work. the storytelling & emotional aspect of this story are all watered down and completely gone. FLAT... It's like someone came up with a good concept, ran to write it down quickly so as not to forget, and hit send immediately. Yikes. So much wasted potential wouldve been better as a series even had chance for 2 seasons but it was just rushed and missed so much depth smh. is was very unique there was just hella wasted potential. the graphics and art styles were also so nice evrything just seems like a waste. SMH
Read at the sourceMooBouBies
Knowing this was made by ufotable, the trashy, rapey ecchi was absolutely bizarre (and I admit kind of hilarious) to see. They also animated the most heinous (and maybe the only) green fart blast ive ever seen in an anime.
Those elements were certainly unsettling, but in an unpleasant way rather than in a way where id feel like i gained something by watching it. Its only made more bizarre by the occasional emotional outbursts with swelling dramatic music in the background.
Im sure this is heavily truncated from the source material, and there must be some great horror and deep themes about the ugliness of humanity in it, but this adaptation was frankly just stupid and gross... which the poignant final line does NOT make up for... lmao.
I'll have to read the manga after I forget some of…
Read at the sourceNessunEra
This is probably the worst anime movie I've seen. I haven't seen many to be fair, but this still is... not good.
It's a poor adaptation of Junji Ito's manga, and it's just overall unpleasant. It's body horror without any real message behind it. It's also just unnecessarily weird. Walking fish coming on land and turning people into green fart monsters sounds like a low-effort South Park Episode.
There is some decent characterization. The main character is likable enough and realistic, but she can't fix this movie.
If you like extreme gross outs maybe you'll get a kick out of this, but if you're a fan of good horror stay away.
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4/10
What were they thinking?
Even if there wasn't such a big hype about the manga and the mangaka, this is horrible. I really tried to have an open mind and not compare it to how enjoyable the manga was, but oh man.
What follows is a long dissection of the anime in case you want to be convinced not to watch it.
First I will address the horrible changes they have shamelessly made: (warning: spoilers)
-Changing the main characters from a somewhat likeable couple to three girls, two of which are extremely unlikeable.
-I will address the fact that the female main character, Kaori, is more likeable than in the manga. However, this is not a good thing because she has total cool and we lose the "haunting" factor that she provided in the manga.
-For some reason they switched the roles in the…
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Gyo, I feel like they've misspelled the title for “Nyo”, as in “Nyooo, don't watch this”. I've watched a good one hour of this stinky crap so you don't have to, everything I dislike about a show was packed in here like an old tuna tin, especially the core idea. The thing is, Anime can be random, so random, in fact, that anything you can think of has already been animated and made into its own thing. But random doesn't always mean bad, however, Gyo was so random and stupid it might be the worst thing I've ever put interest into. Gore and excessive sexual references don't make a bad show better, other more important aspects do, but then again, it neither rains gold nor do fish walk on land... or do they? enter Gyo.
- Story (2/10):
It starts up like any other chiché low budget copy-past horr…
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It's practically like watching Sharknado or piranha 3d but an Anime. The movie isi animated by Ufotable which did the fate series and is written by the famous "Junji Ito" the gore horror writer. This is the perfect movie to laugh your ass of with a group of friends on Halloween or random Friday night while weebing out and drinking sake, It's like a really funny American B Horror movie and will have you laughing the whole time while having your mind blown on why Ufotable spent so much money to animate this trash. This must have cost a fortune to make and it looks really good. This movie has many WTF moments btw and will have you saying "Why Japan ... Why?" like every five minutes. If you want another B Horror movie to laugh at, this movie is perfect for you. Ps there is some nudity in this…
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Gyo was a horror manga written by Ito Junji. He's known for his horror works like Umazaki & Tomie. Gyo was written in the very early 2000s. The anime adaptation was released in 2012, roughly a decade after the manga ended. It was brought to us by Ufotable. We've seen them before with such works as Fate/Zero, Kara no Kyoukai, Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight & Tales of Zestiria. How do they handle Ito Junji's breed of horror, usually involving fucked up body stuff? Let's have a look and judge.
Story:
We open with a trio of young ladies, Kaori, Erika & Aki enjoying a nice graduation trip to Okinawa where nothing bad could possibly happen, right? Unsurprisingly, things don't stay peaceful. The three arrive at the house they're staying in and smell something rancid. Someone opened a McDonalds…
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I went into this not expecting too much, but with a slight hope due to the involvement of studio Ufotable and the director of Kara no Kyoukai: Mugen Rasen on board, but at the end of the day this film is just bad. The animation is obviously great due to Ufotable's work on it, but the acting feels flat and lifeless, the plot moves at such a fast pace that it's not possible to empathise with any of the characters when something happens to them, because they're utterly one dimensional and you simply don't care.
Honestly, the quirky shlock horror premise of this movie is not what ruins it, because I watched this fully expecting that, but aside from featuring many moments which I assume are supposed to come across as scary, all this movie really did was occasionally gross me out. Really the on…
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I feel the need to write a review for this interesting little film right here simply because of it's score on this website, which I feel doesn't do it justice whatsoever and therefore I need to be that white knight for anime everyone hates. The reason I wanted to view this came from two reasons. One, I had recently finished Junji Ito's Uzumaki, which I found to be amazing and terrifying, and two, I've had and interest in Ufotable this anime's studio since I've been watching the well known film works the Kara no Kyōkai series. The original novels of which come from none other than Kinoko Nasu creator of the extensive and legendary Fate series. Aside from all that I will put out there I have not read Gyo yet, and this seems to be where a lot of the contention of the movie comes from. Going i…
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Story:
I hate everything that Gyo (anime) represents. From the narrative changes to the overly done exploitation of characters, this entire production is such a filthy adaption (I say this LOOSELY) of a pretty good horror story from Junji Ito. It sucks that a bunch of fat cat producers sitting in their studio sat around a table and decided Ito's original narrative wasn't going to work and they needed to dumb it down to BAD horror movie standards. They throw in worthless and uninteresting characters that don't help the narrative and are there solely to die, whilst also bringing down the main characters as they can't be helped by good supporting characters. There's a REASON they're called SUPPORTING characters. They ENHANCE the value of your LEADS.
I mean, for the love of all that is holy,…
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This OVA would have been so much better if those god damn sharks had some freakin' lazer beams attached to their freakin' heads...
"Tokyo Fish Attack" is an anime by good o' Ufotable and is perhaps one of the worst OVAs from this past decade of anime. Of course, as one may expect with a title such as this, I wasn't expecting too much and was instead hoping for a "so bad its good title" in the same vein as movies such as "Birdemic" or "The Room" but I just found it so... boring. I love schlock. Like a lot. And believe me, I really wanted to like this OVA as it sounds like something I'd have an absolute blast watching, but unfortunately no fun was had here today. Instead, Tokyo Fish Attack is indeed one of the worst anime I have ever seen, which is saying a lot considering the number of poo…
Read at the sourceKrinkle_Fries
I'll go ahead and confess to having never read the manga, and admiring that I have no intention to do so.
Going into Gyo blind, I was very excited. It started off strongly enough too. A bit cliche, but honestly it had a lot of cliches I hadn't felt in a while; almost like I was watching a horror movie from the turn of the millennium, and I think that familiar tone blinded me a little bit as the movie began. It's quite pretty too. It walks that line of pesudo-realism that I generally enjoy, and the monsters themselves are disgusting and terrifying in all the right ways. However, as the movie continues it becomes less and less focused as it proceeds. In no small part it feels like it can't decide how hopeless it wants the situation to be. Everybody's dead, then some people are alive, then T…
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Do you like fish? Well prepare to hate them after viewing this animated film about fish with legs.
Gyo is more than a dystopic anime. It incorporated drama and horror to it as well.
If there's one thing to like in this movie, it's how well-made it was. After watching this movie, I don't think I'll eat fish for a while. I guess kudos to the animators for that. It had those realistic-ish animations similar to anime like Winter sonata. This is evident from the background and setting of the anime.
I know a lot of people were disappointed with it because it was totally different from the manga. Yeah, sure, it didn't follow the story of the male MC, instead, it showed us the point of view of a female. If you think about it, there wasn't much of a difference when it came to the plot. It still…
Read at the sourcePhilFightmaster
"Y'know, people tend to ask me what this word means *points at TV screen as soon as a zombie octopus on robo legs tentacle porns the shit out of a woman* THIS is schlock!"
(me to a friend while watching this film)
Coming this summer...!
From ufotable, the masterminds behind such classics as the incredibly boring "Coyote Ragtime Show", the awesome "Garden of Sinners"-films and a huge amount of adaptations of that one visual novel no one knows about (something about a chick called "Sword" or something, I don't recall, nobody watched that one anyway!) comes a very, VERY loose OVA-adaptation (that nobody likes), based on a manga (that nobody likes) by that dude who wrote that one manga about people turning into snails (which was also once adapted into a movie that nobody likes).
GYO - FAR…
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"I can only believe that which I've seen. Is what I've seen the truth?"
Preface:
Well, what happens when you cross Sharknado with Stink Bomb (from Katsuhiro Otomo, director of Akira) and a zombie fish apocalypse? Gyo, that's what.
Artwork and Animation: 7
Gyo was animated by ufotable (Fate Series), and with that comes their flair for the 3D CGI. While not up to the standard set by Fate before it, for a 2012 anime, the 3D is decent. It's obvious that this movie was on a budget, and it shows through some dodgy animated segments and absolutely average hand drawn animation. While it does a good job with the gore and viscera, everything else is mostly meh.
Sound and Voice Acting: 5
Not really much to say here. The cast voices, small as they are, are forgettable, the background music i…
Read at the sourceHydrocannon
Oh boy...this OVA is bad...REALLY bad. TThe best way to sum this is up to say it's an anime version of a bad syfy fish hybrid movie.
The story is stupid, non-sensical, and it can't even get its source for he fish legs straight. They explain 3 completely different ways in a matter of 70 minutes. The characters are about as cookie-cutter as you can get. There was no imagination or thought put into any of the characters whatsoever.
I don;t know what the hell this anime is supposed to be...comedy? Horror? Action? It doesn't fit well into any genre, mostly because it tries to be in too many genres to begin with.
However, regardless of how stupid, pointless, and downright silly this anime is, it at least made my friends and me laugh, so it's at least worth watching once. It's definatley in the "…
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I'm not sure you can see my ratings so, here's those.
Story: 6
Art: 6
Sound: 7
Character: 4
Enjoyment: 2/8 (explanation below)
Overall: 5
Since I'm pretty much desensitized to gore, this movie/ova didn't really hit me like it should have. That being said, THERE IS A LOT OF GORE IN THIS. THIS IS A WARNING: IF YOU DON'T LIKE GORE, DON'T WATCH THIS, YOU WILL REGRET IT. Anyways, here's my review of each of the elements above. I should also note I have NOT read the manga, so this will not reflect that. Story: I thought the story was decent. Mild spoilers in this section. I don't really like the premise, the whole fish on land thing was kind of odd and not thought out in general. It starts with fishermen on a boat, looking at a certain fish with terror in their eyes and on their faces. After t…
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just go and see Gyo no do it i will give you the loaded gun it is the wost film i have ever seen EVER not just in anime but EVER you know how bad a show is when the walking zombie fish is THE GOOD POINT in the film no really the fucking land walking zombie fish is the best part about the film i could live with the film like that but just keep watching it it gets worse really REALLY FUCKING WORSE it is the only show i had to buy that i set on fire no i did i put in my fire place and watched that fucker burn that was the best choice i made in my life now go and watch it you want regret it i promise you :}
OK i will try and tell you how much FUN i had in watching this THING i will call it that for the rest of the review cant with a sound mind call it a show
so the STORY if that is a real wo…
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What to say about _Gyo_... the animation was pretty well-done, but the character designs were meh (you can only look at the protagonist's jaggy little eyelashes and mirrored jaggy bangs for so long before getting tired of them), the plot was kind of stupid (why bother with a mechanistic explanation when you immediately start trying to transform it into a supernatural?), and so on. In general, even the cheesy live-action _Uzumaki_ was better, to say nothing of 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault'. So, a disappointment although I admire how the animation conveyed the viscerally disgusting creatures.
Read at the sourceLordCustos3
If Koji Suzuki is Japan's Stephen King, than freaknugget Junju Ito might be their Clive Barker.
In this rather confused adaptation of Ito's "Gyo" Manga, the visceral disgust is so palpable you can feel it clogging up your pores and discoloring your upholstery. Oddly enough, the characters in the story don't seem to notice. Sure, occasionally, they wrinkle their nose and remark about "that smell", but seem oblivious to the rank miasma....even when it becomes a thick yellowish-brown fog bank smeared across the screen.
Story
Gyo shows the early stages of a new kind of Zombie Apocalypse when cyborg fish-corpses invade Japan to infect and assimilate all animal life. The mystery, left tantalizingly unexplained by the movie, is where the spiderwalker mechs came from. Although the early models we…
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