what a shitshow.

Pupa, a rather infamous horror anime, but, for no reason that should be recognized as good. Making each episode 4-5 minutes tops is appealing to my ADHD-ridden mind that has commitment issues to longer animes, but it's not as good as it sounds. it causes things to be rushed, extremely rushed.

Whatever "plot" in this anime existed was dormant, stowed away as the creators just seemed to say.. "nah." It would be more excused if it was old, but some of my favorite anime's reside in the 80s and 90s. This is a 2014 anime.

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THE BEST

This anime has one of the most banger intros I've heard. It shamefully gets stuck in my head constantly. It's catchy and all.
Although it's subjective, I actually kind of enjoy the art style. It's muddy at some points, and the gore looks awful, but it looks retro, I don't think its meant to be, but if this came out around the 90s, I would like the art style a lot more.
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#THE WORST

Ok, here we go, buckle your seatbelts.
Firstly, it's embarrassing for Pupa to call itself a body horror, especially when it came out THE SAME YEAR as Parasyte, one of my favorites and first-ever watches to this day. Pupa's 'body horror' is messy, the plot mixed in having no impact once so ever on the watcher. We JUST met these characters, and now they're monsters two minutes in? interesting.

The most fucked up part?

The incest.

Yume and Utsutsu have an unquestionably incestuous relationship. It becomes obvious by Episode 6. The UNCUT 3 MINUTE EPISODE OF YUME EATING UTSUTSU. The sexual grunts and moans, the position, and the constant, infuriating repeat of "onii-chan".
Ok, I get it. They've had a severely traumatizing childhood, abusive parents, yadda yadda. We find out through plenty of flashbacks that I accidentally cut myself on because of how edgy they were. Of course, you could create a good character with this background, but not in 4-minute episodes.
But man, this sibling relationship is too much. a pure incestual co-dependence of a parasite and a host. The parasite being the sister and the host just so happening to be the brother.

Oh yeah, the part where the emo chick asks for the brother's sperm and the sister's egg for a baby. Pardon fucking me?

The sexualization of Yume is awful. The outro song is pretty good, but the imagery is suggestive, Yume constantly speaking in that high-pitched moany voice with one strap slid down her shoulder at all times. It's disturbing, considering these are both (assumingly) high school students, with Yume considered "The younger sister". Sounds like a buncha' lolicon shenanigans to me.