AniWorthTwilight of the Cockroaches
Introduction
Hybrid film with animated cockroaches interacting with live-action actors.
In a trashy bachelor pad lived a colony of roaches who were able to roam freely for food or for games. Because of the homeowner being gentle with the roaches, they have no fear of traps, spray, or being stepped on. However when the homeowner starts bringing over a woman over, life starts to change for the roaches who are already living an easy life.
(Source: ANN)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.84/10 · 843
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Audience reviews
5 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
literaturenerd
Twilight of the Cockroaches is quite possibly the strangest anime I have ever seen in my life. The more I think about it, the more I struggle to believe this thing exists. This is a super ambitious, big budget children's film with seemingly zero audience. I could compare it to Titan AE, which lost 50 million dollars and seemingly wasn't made for any one demographic. However, that would be dishonest. Titan AE could have performed fine targeting the tween market if it were advertised better. Don Bluth was an experienced and highly capable director who had performed well before with unusual films like NIMH. Joss Whedon was red hot property after Buffy and wrote a script loosely based on a beloved childhood cartoon called "Star Blazers" which MAL users might know better as "Space Battleship Ya…
Read at the sourceKanade-Arai
I had a hard time getting into this one and for good reason. The premise is absurd but not in an endearing way. A society of cockroaches is allowed to live in some guy's apartment because he's too much of an alcoholic slob to do anything about them until he gets a girlfriend or something. A female cockroach falls in love with a random cockroach from another apartment. There's a bit about cockroaches being at war with the humans but it just comes across as odd. It's creepy. The roaches are not endearing and their interactions with humans will make your skin crawl. Think A Bug's Life but without anything that made it entertaining. I couldn't tell if this was for children or adults.
I'll start with the sound. Any time a human does something, it is loud and thunderous. This is done to give t…
Read at the sourceAnnoKano
It is always interesting when a children’s film attempts to explore deeper subjects thematically, and Twilight of the Cockroaches dares to cover the international relations and economics of Japan at the peak of its economic success in the late eighties. The great nation of Japan, at the time the second most powerful economy in the world, flatteringly portrayed as a colony of cockroaches infesting the apartment of a slobbish Japanese man.
This self-deprecating analogy is quite the contrast to what one might expect from the Japanese, who are usually more closely associated with qualities like ‘honour’, ‘strength’ and ‘tranquility’. Indeed for any group or nation to present themselves in such a grotesque manner is unusual; it would usually be the sort of metaphor used in a work of propagand…
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Twilight of the Cockroaches is a bit of an oddity for me to cover here thanks to its mix of live action and animated footage used for its run. So in a rare case, I'm not gonna bother handing out grades on Art for this one since it would be impossible for me to judge this properly on any merits for its animation.
The movie is focused on a colony of cockroaches who seemingly live a peaceful coexistence with the human owner of an apartment. But not all is what it seems as once the homeowner gets a girlfriend, the lives of the colony become a living hell when the humans start wiping them out. The movie is focused on two different colonies in this film: those living with the bachelor who are peaceloving yet quite lazy and a militaristic colony who are regularly at odds with the woman who would…
Read at the sourceamayakaida
imagine a cockroach ...
a girl ...
and hundreds of baby cockroaches .
these baby cockroaches have same mother(that girl) , but not same father . and they are immune to insecticide .
now put that scene in the end and make it your happy ending .
what do you expect from such anime ?!
it's exactly as you expect it !
the story could have been great if you exclude that happy ending .
for art and sounds you can not expect something more from something that old .
the combination of animation and live action make the art look even worse . the supporting characters were more developed than the main characters .
our heroine was the less developed character .
from the beginning till the end you can not understand what was her reason for doing this or that .
and for enjoyment ...
if you could take the…
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