Audience reviews
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Pentex
Holy shit, people on this website really don't like metal music.
Dir En Grey was, and is one of the few classic Visual Kei bands that actually expanded enough on their sound to not become completely eaten by the passage of time. They're also credited with starting the whole "Loud/Heavy Kei movement." While the album this song and music video comes from (Marrow Of A Bone) isn't a favorite of mine, and feels very derivative of the Western Metalcore scene at the time, it's definitely a highlight from the record. Even with the bad production that plagues nearly every song on it (why are the vocals so loud??).
The video itself is pretty vile and grotesque, definitely not a pleasant watch, but Diru isn't a pleasant band, and neither is their imagery. They really ramped up the "visual shock" a…
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I'm a Visual Kei fan first and foremost and Dir en Grey is one of my favourite bands. I used to hate them back when I was younger, believe it or not! I hated them for the same reasons why other non-VK fans hate them; Diru plays loud, aggressive screechy music with lyrics that went too far. However, my opinion changed when exposed to their other works, and as I grew older. I have the utmost respect for their continuous boundary-pushing, ever since they went off the rails in their debut full-length album Gauze (Missa, while a satisfying Kote romp, is far from novel). At every turn, their music and PVs suffered censorship (why do you think egnirys cimredopyh is spelled like that? They literally had to reverse the title to AVOID JAIL TIME!) but they never lost heart and continue to push the en…
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What's this video?
My ears hurt so much. It's like torture. 3 minutes of torture. I don't even know why I watch this.
The animation is disgusting and scary. I can't look at the video because of them. The kid in the video is so scary and all of the censored scenes, and blood just disgusting. I feel so bad. Uhhhh I hope, I never remember this video. I didn't like the music too. Just screaming. It's gross and I kinda feel that's video a little bit pedophilic.
And how this is consider as anime ? I can't understand. Anyway, please for your sake don't watch this torture pardon me anime.
Read at the sourceMike4Life
The drawings themselves aren't too bad. That's pretty much the only positive thing that can be said for this anime, which isn't an anime, it's just a music video.
There's no message conveyed here. It's just a few sequences which don't really aim for anything other than grossing out the viewer. And they definitely succeed at that, with weirdly-sexual-at-times body horror. But this isn't a good thing - it's just grossing people out for the sake of grossing people out.
As for the song, well, some of the guitar riffs are pretty cool, but more often than not they are drowned out by the senseless screaming which probably would have ruined the visuals had the visuals not already been pretty bad.
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This is a song and NOT AN ANIME created in 2006 and it describes the grotesque phenomenons of sexuals violence (example: i’ll rape your daughter on your grave). I found kind of interesting the way the producer of this song wanted to deliver the message of sexual violence (raw and direct). I also enjoyed the gore and cruel animations showed in this video and i found them interesting. Also the music was on point.
Overall kinda decent so i gave this a 6 out of 10.
I don’t understand why so many people get triggered to the fact that this is not an anime but only a song lol.
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Note: Character marked as one simply because there isn't much to base the characters off. Character: no opinion
Watched for the music type genre in the anime watching challenge 2019
So, this isn't an anime for sure; it's animated not anime but I used this for my AWC19 challenge as a new Dir En Grey fan as something that interested me in the music side of things. As a new fan, I didn't know much about Dir En Grey's past in music past what a friend of mine had told me so Agitating Screams was a bit of a what the hell moment for me. After rewatching it, it's somewhat obvious this is ero-guro style, so of course, not everyone is going to enjoy this unless you have a liking towards body horror artwork and a general liking for rock music or Dir En Grey.
Overall, this is an angry disturbed musi…
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A painting can be pretty but not artistic at the same time. Yes, it can still be considered as an art since the way the painter draw a line or the scenery or something presented in the canvas is already an art. But the concept of the thing inside the painting itself is an art or not depends on the massage it tries to convey. If the painting doesn't have any meaning behind it then, as a concept, it's not artistic. And the same way also works for something ugly.
What makes something considered as artistic doesn't depend on how pretty it is, but how beautiful the way the concept presented. While about the concept is pretty or ugly is not important.
Agitated Screams of Maggots is about hatred and revenge delivered in an unconventional way through a 3 min short animation with a song by Dir e…
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Honestly you guys are just pussies. It's not good but there really isn't that much I can say is wrong with it. Also the song is pretty good as well. The frame rate is really bad but I do think that was intentional and I think it worked. It's just a music video, no deeper meaning, at least I think there isn't. It's just some bizarre ass music video that served for the heaviness of the song. Also some of yall are dumb to not realize that the "shouting" serves a purpose and isn't some sort of substitute for other aspects of the song.
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Before you watch this, ask yourself a couple of questions:
-Do I like really, really disturbing imagery with no context?
-Do I like screamo/metalcore/whatever the hell you classify Dir en grey as?
- Am I okay with the fact that this is a music video?
If you said no to any of these questions, you're going to hate this "anime".
Anyway, on to my thoughts, there's not much to say. I like Dir en grey. I liked this song even before I saw the video. I like disturbing crap. Therefore I liked this "anime". But for the sake of structure: Story (1):
What story?
Art(6):
The gore is relatively well drawn and uniquely stylized. That's about all I can say about it.
Sound(9):
I like Dir en grey's music, this song especially.
Character(1):
There was a little girl who did things...
Enjoyment(8):
As…
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Overall 1
This is a music anime:genre heavy metal
Sound:Again with heavy metal put in some damn subtitles if you insist on making a heavy metal music video. Otherwise the audience will just here my groans of agony and of course the artists too along with their heavy breathing.
Art: could be at high definition and some parts appear semi blurred. so, art was not that good
story: random! That pisses me off. If you are going to do a story have the audience follow with you.
Character: given the random art the only way this could possible make sense is if it was a dream sequence. Which it could very well have been assuming it was a NIGHTMARE! even then, i have had plenty of scarier nightmares.
enjoyment: Out of my extreme dislike of this music video there was one thing i did like that just…
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DO NOT WATCH UNLESS:
- If you want to watch an AMV (with non classic anime art style)
- You don´t have a faint of heart
- Feeling up for listening to extreme, progressive and experimental metal
- You don´t mind seeing quite hardcore gore, brutality and such.
- You don´t mind being mindfuck.
I did enjoy it but that is also because I fit the criteria above XD (Whatever that says about me)
The art is a double edge sword either you like it or hate it, I thought it was quite fitting for the song and the theme and it was also quite different ^^ So yeah again note that is not an anime series or anything like it, it is a music video for a metal band therefore expect it to be hardcore ^^
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Dir en Grey has some good and artistic MVs, but this wasn't one of them.
This video was just a mix of gore and sexual images without a clear meaning (maybe rape, I think), nothing else.
I was really uncomfortable the first time I watched this, especially the sexual attack to the little girl. Maybe if you like gore you can find this enjoyable, but I can't find the amusement in seeing a mild aged man almost rape a child.
The animation was alright, the style good. There wasn't an attempt of a story
The song wasn't my favourite of the band, but that's my personal opinion.
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When it comes down to metal as a genre of music some people love it and some people hate it. I never had a issue with metal in fact I actually enjoy metal music in some ways. However this music video comes across a piss poor attempt to be edgy when it just simply flops on it's
back. Agitated Screams of Maggots by Japanese metal band Dir En Gray. The story is honestly anyone's guess honestly I mean it seems like it would be interesting but it has no development or anything like that. The art looked on its actually one of the redeeming aspects of this video. However it was quite choppy and cryptic looking(in a bad way). The. characters,oh dear the characters, there is nothing I repeat NOTHING to attempt to develop the characters at all,NOTHING. There is this dreadful death metal auto tuned…
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I don't know whether you would consider this an anime or not, but if so, then this is an abomination. Not only is the imagery appalling; the music is complete with incoherent lyrics, and obnoxious screaming. The video makes no sense I don't see how anyone can think otherwise. This isn't artistic or an imaginative piece of work. It is a deplorable music video that should not exist. But sadly, it does. And I wish I could un-see it completely. Unless you want to watch this out of curiosity or as just a challenge; avoid it like the plague.
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I've been looking for a horror; something creepy or psychological, and was glad to see this and another disturbia-esque animation recommended on my homepage. I went to watch it and ,at first, thought I had clicked on a remake or something because the terrible music that accompanied the video was bothersome and didn't fit well with the animation. Unfortunately, all I could find was the same video, so I figured it was legit.
I watched it--no suffered through it.
It's engrossing. You can't move your eyes from the images because they are visually stimulating in a frown-while-you-watch-it kind of way.
It's also gross and a tad bit pedophilic. Some things should not be near the face or in the mouth of a child. No exceptions.
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Dir En Grey is something of a controversial band. Since its conception more than a decade ago, it had for a long time been at the forefront of the Visual Kei movement in challenging the norms of music, sexuality, and morality. Of course, the distinction between meaningful social critique and unsubstantial shock value is not always clear-cut, as is the case with the anime in question. Agitated Screams of Maggots is a single released by Dir En Grey in 2006. This anime, or music video to be more precise, was released alongside the single featuring a hand-drawn story to complement the song.
As the band itself, this music video is undoubtedly and inherently a controversial work. Composed of heavy deathcore playing alongside crudely drawn animations with inspirations from the ero-guro and the…
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Let me get this point clear. {In my opinion...} "Agitated Screams of Maggots" is NOT an anime. It is an animated music video. I don't believe that since it's "animated" it should be counted as an anime. There's a thick line between the two... Notice this: those who haven't been through the ever-changing DIR EN GREY timeline (especially during their earlier stages) will be highly disturbed by the art, message, and song.
This video was released in 2006 and during that time DIR EN GREY was still in its "ero-guro" days where they mostly sang and portrayed sexually grotesque themes. Judging from the lyrics, this song is most definitely about rape, violence, and revenge. i.e.: "I'll rape your daughter on your grave" and "I'm gonna slash your wound just like mine". (A majority of the lyrics are…
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I usually write about the pros and cons of an anime when I do reviews, but because I had such a hatred towards Agitated Screams of Maggots, I will be saying only why I disliked it. I watched this anime out of curiosity. I didn't quite know what I was getting myself into, and perhaps that is my own fault. Nonetheless, there is NO EXCUSE for making such horrible piece of trash.
The music used in this short anime video is terrible. I hate it more than words can possibly describe. I was able to get through the video, despite this, due to the fact that it was only 3 minutes long. Unfortunately, it felt like an eternity. Imagine someone screaming in your ears for 3 minutes straight. It is insufferable.
The saddest thing about this short anime is that the visuals are pretty good. It's too bad…
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