Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
TheNoo
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
To be frank, those four words sum up this show better than anything else could ever hope to. It has cannibalism, very odd almost incestuous moments between the main characters, has a "plot" that goes literally ***NOWHERE*** and ends on a episode that they pulled out their asses to explain... drumroll please... seriously... HOW THE MAIN GIRL GOT HER ***FUCKING*** HAIR PIN. I'm not even kidding, also one episode is literally just 3 minutes of the girl eating her brother... and it's really fucking horrible. So, why am I recommending this? Well I'll certainly tell you something, you watch this and you'll never rate anything lower than a 1 again! In other words, by watching something this GOD AWFUL you can enjoy other things far more! Also I'm convinced whoever fucking ca…
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Throughout all the hours I spent watching anime, I have never experienced such greatness. This anime transcends your classic anime tropes and brings a whole new light to the horror genre. After finishing this masterpiece, I had to sit down and reconsider all the other things I could have done in those 48 minutes. I was also forced to skip lunch as I couldn't bring myself to consume food after witnessing such greatness. While a lot of people would move on after watching this I certainly can't as it made a very large impact on me as a person and as me as an older brother. This anime showed me the importance of family bonds and how I have many things to learn from Utsutsu. Overall, this anime truly was a hidden gem that changed my entire viewpoint on anime and exceeded my known boundaries to…
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Story 1/10
Very uncomfortable in some scenes. Specifically the scenes in which Yume eats out her big onii-chan brother. The incest connotations were weird and made the overall experience awkward. The story was very simplistic and easy for my miniscule thinking module to comprehend. I could feel it shrinking in size as I watched Yume moan onii chan as she lovingly ate her big brothers flesh. Overall Very strange and out of pocket.
Art 7/10
Dose drawings were pretty damn fire bro. No cap finna cop some merch bruh.
Honestly everyone guves criticism on this shows art but it honestly isn't as bad as most people say it is. It had a sort of charm, much like the anime of the 90s and early 2000s did with its older feeling art style.
Sound 5/10
Ok. Nothing special. The occasional moans of "onii…
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So your little sister has turned into a horrible, disgusting, man-eating monster. What do you do?
A: Attempt to Kill her
B: Flee
C: Allow her to eat you since you suddenly have the power to regenerate.
If you answered C then you're right! If you have no clue what on Earth I am talking about then consider yourself lucky that you haven't seen this anime before. With the previous OVAs I have reviewed you COULD argue in their defence that the reason why they were so bad was on account of their age and that they were made at a time in which Japan was going through an economic crisis. This still doesn't make the OVAs I've talked about any good but at least it can act as an excuse when defending them. Pupa has no such excuse since it was made only two years ago and to this day remains one of the…
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This anime, I think, can't be understood literally.
It's a story about complicated and extremely painful relationship between brother and sister who were abused by their father since early childhood. The siblings are alone in whole world, adults are some kind of threat for them; so they begin to build their own world, their... cocoon of maturity.
The beginning of anime underlines: it's a story about siblings' love, and, actually, there IS a lot of love. Maybe, too much. But children haven't ever known what "normal" love should be. Their father abused them, their mother ignored them, and such type of relationship was "so it be" for them. They are used to be beaten and to protect each other; now they are alone, they are closer to adults by age (but aren't adults YET), they can be free of…
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I watched the uncensored show all together in a compilation, and I heard that the censored version was even worse...how? This anime was so bad it inspired me to write my first ever review on here.
In trying to figure out if the score was a 1 or a 2, the word "appalling" was certainly the best fit, so I decided on that one. Although it's every scene is not as poor quality as Mars of Destruction, Pupa more than makes up for that with it's very limited "redeeming qualities" (Mars was at least funny in it's ineptitude) and in having the worst scene of any anime that I've ever witnessed (even seeking out "worst scenes in anime" on youtube didn't prepare me). But I'll get to that in the story part of this review, which contains...spoilers? Even not having watched the anime you likely know as mu…
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Well .. where do I even start .. the thing is that there are anime so bad, that you actually find them good.. like Mars of destruction .. what i mean is that some anime are so bad but because of being so bad they are also funny.
This one, Pupa.. is so bad, that it is bad at being bad. Did you get that?
One sentence to resume the anime: Wtf just happened ?
12 eps long, each one with 2 min lenght, i wasn´t expecting for something good .. but this? No this is the SHIT. Let's get started..
Story: 3/10. This shit makes no sense, i mean plot holes, missing parts, stories left behind, anything that you can imagine.
Some few examples..
Yume, since she was born, she had a virus. Well that's okay .. so why the virus only awaked after 14 years or whatever her age is. She only turned into…
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*Disclaimer: This is my first review*
From the very first lyric of the opening theme,
"Don't go past here(Going past here is dangerous)"
that should have, ironically, told me enough about this anime.
Its dangerous alright, and not in the way they intended it to be initially, NOOOO, its dangerous in a completely different way.
I am a fan of a good horror anime, especially the ones that are just psychologically fucked up, that it creeps you out just by thinking about it.
Surely enough, Pupa is one anime that could screw you over psychologically... in different ways So what we have with Pupa is an anime that actually LOOKS pretty decent.
Think of it as a dish made by, lets say, Onodera(Nisekoi) or Himeji(Baka To Test), we know the dish looks amazing, but eating the dish is a totally differ…
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People must be overreacting. There’s no WAY Pupa is as bad as everybody says. There must be SOMETHING good about it… right?
Now I’m the type of person who whenever I hear about a show everybody says is bad I get this sudden urge where I have to watch it and see just how bad it really is. And before I started Pupa I sat down and said to myself “Okay, I don’t care what people say. There must be something good in this show and I’m going to put my full effort into finding everything good in this anime! I’m gonna find something to enjoy!” Sadly my strategy did not go as planned. After about a minute in, the show quickly turned into a disgusting, messed up gore fest. “But I’ve seen plenty of messed up shows and movies before that were still good! So if I just look past all the gore in this then…
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Overview:
Little can be said about Pupa that hasn't been said already. It combines some of the more...icky fetishes together into one cluster fuck, but then censors itself and fails to even entertain those few individuals it was aimed at. Imagine if the Human Centipede or Salo was censored down to a PG-13 rating. What the hell would be the point of watching?! The brilliant plot?! The splendidly written characters and dialogue? There is NOTHING left of value!
Marketing skills: -10/10
Let us do a little math. Let us say hypothetically that 1 in 1,000 people have a sibling incest fetish and 1 in 100,000 have a cannibalism "vore" fetish. Assuming these unusual fetishes are independent events, the number of people with both a cannibalism and a sibling incest fetish (the target audience of th…
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"Onii-chan, you're delicious." ~ Yume
Pupa, otherwise known as Onii-chan the anime, is a so-called "anime" which I first stumbled upon in the review section on MAL. It caught my attention when I saw the low scores it got. I thought to myself "It can't be that bad.... Right?"
I could not have been more mistaken.
Pupa's story revolves around the brother-sister relationship of Utsutsu and Yume. Two orphaned siblings who have to support each other to live on. That is, until a deadly disease dubbed- "Pupa" infects Yume (much like the way this show infected the anime community, ironically). This new disease causes Yume to have a insatiable hunger for humans. And the first person she eats, is none other than her brother, who comes back to life after being infected as well.
The story has a su…
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Have you ever felt that itch in the rims of your ass crack that happens when you don’t wipe long enough? If there were ever an anime to signify that horrible itchy feeling in the most monstrous example of that region, Pupa would no doubt fit that description.
Never has there been hype so decimated after a rocky development schedule, season after season. It will go down in the books of how not to screw up your production schedule, or it will bite you and your credibility. People like me were curious to see what Pupa had to offer in the horror genre in anime because it’s not often we get to see much horror-themed anime come out these days. Then all of our expectations suddenly dropped when this was announced only to be three minutes long. Judging by how I viewed the 36 minutes of content th…
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It's been a long time since I've watched something like this... the last time I watched something this strange and, frankly, terrible was when I watched Mars of Destruction. To be honest, when I first read the plot for the series, I was intrigued... but I didn't start watching right away. But after a while, I came back to the page and was about to add it to my list, when suddenly, an army of wild 1/10 scores appears! I read them and thought... "Is this really that terrible?" Upon reading them, I decided not to get my hopes up on this anime, knowing about all the hate, but I was hoping it would be better than Mars of Destruction. In the end, it was, but my God, it was still bad...
The story is about a brother and sister and their lives as they try their best to live out their lives as norm…
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Ah, infamous anime, my favorite. I recently had the pleasure to experience Pupa. Scratch that, because it wasn't a pleasure at all, it was a nightmare.
When i first heard of this anime i thought it wouldn't be so bad, since the horror genre in anime is usually quite the enjoyment. I was wrong on so many levels.
Story: 1
Very little development. It was hard to follow. Useless dialogue. I mean who need dialogue anyways? We can just have an episode of pure "onii-chan... onii-chan.." I mean the episodes aren't too long. 4 minutes in fact. Minus of course the time of the OP and ED totaling in 3 minute episodes. Yes the creators still had the nerve to include the OP and ED in every single episode! I still have no clue what the story was about. The only episode I enjoyed story wise was the last…
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There will be a time in our lives when we'll undergo something so awful that we'll try desperately to block it from our memories.
Allow the pathetic excuse of an anime, Pupa, to be one of those awful experiences. I mean, it was listed as horror but I didn't realize it would be so scarring that I'd want to write it out of my mind completely. Seriously, it was so bad, it was almost laughable.
At first, the story seemed somewhat appealing but the fact that each episode was only 4 minutes long was a bit questionable. There was no way that a story such as this could be condensed into just twelve, four minute episodes. That still rings true. Granted, if it was longer I would have dropped it in a heartbeat. The story gets a 4, since it could have been something. I guess I'm just feeling generou…
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When I first heard of Pupa it seemed rather interesting and worth looking forward to. Based on the horror manga with the same name, Pupa tells the story about two orphaned siblings who only have each other to rely on after severe domestic violence. However, one day they are both infected with the Pupa virus which turns the younger sister Yume into a grotesque man-eating monster while the older brother Utsutsu gains regenerative abilities.
This is, to put it bluntly, an exciting premise and Pupa appeared to have all the elements to make a memorable horror anime. While there had been mixed opinions from those who had read the manga, I figured that at the very least it would make for an experience unlike any other in recent years.
What I personally found to be noteworthy was how Pupa appear…
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I really hate making reviews in which I'm criticizing so bad an anime but Pupa is just the worst anime I've ever watched so I had to make a review.
Starting with the story... Wait, what story? I mean, yeah, the plot exists, but what can be expected from a 4 minute episode where the opening and the ending represent half of the time? Nothing. The action is so rushed that you barely understand a thing, especially when there are also flashbacks. I didn't read the manga (although I was recommended to) so I had no idea what this anime was about, and after I finished it, I still have no idea what this is all about.
Art is meh. Nothing special. I could say that the gore parts are not that horrible and the characters have a decent look but this is really not important relative to the whole serie…
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Lots of people were calling this anime one of the worst of all time. I kept thinking "come on, it can't be that bad." Oh it is. I'll give it credit that it succeeded in creeping the hell out of me. But I'm pretty sure most of it was unintentional.
Story: 1
I can hardly even understand what is going on. There are points in the "story" that seem to contradict each other. Plus the story is told in 4 minute episodes, so by the time you get into the swing of the episode, its halfway over already. So you have no time to figure things out like "where the hell are the characters" or "why the heck is any of this happening." Not only that but it feels like the episodes got scrambled halfway through because there are "flashback" episodes that ruin what little of a continuity this story had to begin…
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Pupa is a symbolic story of an abused maiden, Yume, who upon entering puberty develops an abominable and perilous love for her older brother Utsutsu. Seemingly a series which only caters to those who are gratified by gore and incestuous lust, Pupa actually explores, more than most other “imouto shows”, the complexities of the tabooed love between siblings.
Perhaps most importantly, understanding of the series’ themes necessitates recognizing the circumstances surrounding the siblings’ childhood, and the Freudian psychoanalyses which the author may well have been inspired by. Sigmund Freud pioneered the field of psychology during his time, and a significant portion of his revolutionary findings can be summarized into the notion that powerful childhood experiences, even if the subject does…
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Ladies & Gentlemen, I now present to you the best anime of all time "Pupa". Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and produced by Studio Deen. It has great animation, great characters, a deep story and I really was surprised to the point I go defenseless. Never mind let's get onto the review.
Pupa is an anime about Yume and her "Onii-chan" and you know I hate them. I will only give one positive thing in this anime. The opening theme and the ending theme were ok. The opening theme gives a tone that is creepy and the ending theme gives a sad tone. The rest of the anime can be summed up in 5 simple words: "I DON'T GIVE A ****!" From the story, characters and animation. They put nothing into this anime, they just shot it right out saying "Here, anime fans, eat our crap!".
Sorry, for the outrage. I ca…
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