So I do like the horror/ gore genres a lot. Crazy I know.
So I would think that an adaptation of a horror/ gore manga would be radical. And I am more disappointed in this anime than when I watched the Fire Emblem anime. And I thought that was bad- not because of how much I love Fire Emblem- but because it was left unfinished and never completed and was actually good.
And this anime adaptation was the most infuriating thing I have even seen- I sometimes have awful taste in anime- but this is just. . .pitiful. Said anime adaptation was one of my "hype" lists of the past anime cycle (Winter/Spring? 2014) and this anime was rated awesome because of that NC-17 rating it had. But it was full of let down.
Let me explain. The plot (from the anime) is that somehow this sister and brother pair get infected with a virus from red butterflies (maybe? never explained) that turns her into a cool demon monster thing and him into super healing man and her food source (I would say either Deadpool or Wolverine- even Sabertooth because of their healing factor but that would make me hate myself for equating good characterization with whatever Pupa got.) Oh and said brother and sister seem to have a romantic interest in each other since an entire 4 minute episode is dedicated to the sister eating the brother. And sadly it probably is secretly sexual since repeated times they say how pleasurable it is to be eaten by their sibling and episode 11 ended with an inner monologue about how cute and adult the little sister was after she did her latest feeding- and how they didn't need anyone else. I watched an incest anime covered in terrible mockery of gore. Well *^&$. Also I think it is an allegory about how menstruation is super violent or something- the monster is terrifying and entirely blood red and explodes painfully from female protagonists uterus area- also it would explain some of the more creepy lines of the anime and fake out sexual sounding situations.
So she kills her brother and goes back to being a cute anime girl- with weird psychological problems since as far as I could tell from this jumbled mess of a twelve episode series- she might not have been human from birth and has a strange healing factor as well and she was creepy as a baby- score one for creepy children.
And we also have a creepy scarred female researcher who looks kinda like that cat wizard from Soul Eater- so that was different and she has no morals seeing everything as her test tube. Cue episode 7? 8? where she becomes the surrogate mother to the two protagonists love child that they do not know exists and is never brought up again- because the now very pregnant researcher is never seen in the show again.
And there's this shadow medical subplot and a ridiculous amount of teddy bears- yeah for some reason most of the time when we see into the main characters heads- they see themselves as creepy teeth having, talking, almost insane teddy bears. I think there's a message somewhere about how innocence can be perverted by abuse or something. And the girls monster form which burst out of her chest was refreshing and freaked me out a bit- we get to see it for maybe for mostly the first three episodes if that and a kinda transformation that gives said almost adorable anime girl red spindle stabby things out of her back to own on episode 10. So I thought that was cool. The first three episodes are sadly the best. Outside of maybe episode 5- where the backstory on the birth of the protagonists are shown- albeit quickly.
This anime is incomprehensible- besides the three characters we get- there's the abusive father and maybe insane mother (though when you pull a Richard the Third and give birth to a baby who has all its teeth, strange wanting to kill you, and inability to die- at one point the mom tries to kill her daughter with a box cutter- to not much effect- you would go nuts. There's also the researchers aides, a crazy guy that beats the protagonists to see their powers, the medical conspiracy guys who perform a autopsy of the boy while alive because of his healing powers, and random filler people that show for the sake of the plot of episode 12- I am not kidding. Episode 12 is pointless. Literally it has no connection to episode 11- therefore ending waste of time anime with a cliff hanger and no explanation of major plot points and. Episode 12 is a vignette about how the two protagonists got similar looking hair clips. And it is just infuriating because it just makes no sense in context- Why do we need to know that? Was the brother's entire reason to risk being eaten in Episode 3 because
This anime should have been good, cool premise, decent animation, supposedly gory premise and actual nudity- though short lived and nowhere near that bad of nudity, cool opening theme and ending themes- so beside its near incomprehensible sound bite story that is told out of order to where I can't follow and asked constantly "What's going on? Who's that guy? What the infection?"
Its because of two major things: First, the series is like a mature 4koma anime- not in intent because there is a plot somewhere and not just skits that kinda make sense in order- but because of the length of the episodes.
Said 12 episode anime took me an hour to watch- and most of that was because the site I was watching it on was down for ten minutes. Each episode in total is a four minute mess- and a good quarter of that is the opening and ending themes.
Most animes are 25ish minutes an episode.
Next is that the studio probably was a ick to the animation budget- multiple animes are created every year and sometimes the piles of money go somewhere nicer looking. And Studio Deen **** all over this by literally censoring the NC-17 material by the worst censor job I've ever seen. Sometimes on the gory or incest pervy shots- its visually incomprehensible because it looks like some censor took a paintbush in either black or white and just swiped over the offending gore. Or did an animation lens flare. And other times (like in Episode 10 for example) there is no major censoring- though the gore is laughable- intestines look like a mess of purple squiggles and blood looks completely utterly fake.
Score: 2/10- the cool couple of episodes save this incomprehensible mess. This anime had no room to breathe and just felt unfinished and an insult to the manga- which I looked at a few pages and it makes was more sense- and I jumped around as much as the anime did. Suggestion: Read the manga- probably make more sense and be less ****.
Recommendations for similar violent NC-17ish, or more adult themed anime- the Blood the Last Vampire series (includes Blood+ and Blood-C series), anything Hellsing, Elfen Lied- even that makes more sense-, Witchblade anime for nudity and a way better story-romance- and one of the few times that a Western property was adapted (before the Marvel comics animes of course) etc.
Similar manga in themes- Read Pupa of course, for an extremely disturbing take on what amount of body horror and gore I wanted- read Junji Ito's mangas- though I am warning you its not for the faint hearted. Also Soul Eater because of similar mad scientist tropes.
When I give you multiple ways to not watch this abomination- I am saying DO NOT watch this pile of crap.
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