Pupa

This is my very first review since I haven’t really been compelled to express my opinions on anything until I seen this monstrosity of an anime online. I’ll try to not give away many spoilers if you feel compelled to watch it, but don’t say you weren’t warned about the pure dumpster fire awaiting you. As someone who has seen a lot of messed up stuff on the internet, I can’t say that it messed me up or grossed me out as I have seen some people say on the internet, if anything I felt so confused that I couldn’t feel any other way while watching this. I don’t know how to go about this other then breaking it down into some categories and discussing my opinions.

Now let’s discuss Pupa in smaller categories:
Characters- Not only are the sibling pair insufferably annoying, they are also very boring, share an odd relationship and go through no development what so ever. When looking at the backstory of these characters, although very sad, I feel it doesn’t fit with the current events that happen to them in the show and I feel like it doesn’t really do a good job at showing why the characters act the way they do (perhaps because they act the same the whole damn time). The only sense the characters backstory gives me is a possible explanation as to why they are so uncomfortably close to one another because they didn’t have anyone else to rely on. Not to mention that the only character that was remotely interesting in anyway was the pregnant hat lady and in the anime she randomly disappears and is never seen again. All other characters were not that important or interesting, they had very little roles and were only added for the sake of filler. Would have been great if they went into depth about their father and his abusive ways or their mother who could of had so much potential.
Plot- As for the plot, I think it could have been so much better if they put time into it. It feels like a school project that they procrastinated on and then threw a bunch of stuff together last minute and said “yeah that’s good enough.” The plot had so many holes in it, gave no explanation to what was happening and seemed to have no meaning to it. The plot was interesting in my opinion and I feel like it could have been used in so many ways and it had the potential to be so great, but instead it was used for this weird incest, gory, cannibalistic (is that even a word) garbage. The plot was decently original and I think if they actually planned it out better, made better characters and actually gave them some sort of development, this could have been a chilling psychological and gory anime about two siblings from a broken home, only for the sister to turn into a flesh eating monster while the brother goes through the psychological distress of losing his sister and trying to avoid getting eaten by the flesh eating monster that replaced her (I’m not a writer or anything but anything is better than what was given to us here, let’s be real.)
Dialog- This one is going to be short since the dialog chosen was pretty standard, everything said was relatively easy to understand. HOWEVER, the use of onii-Chan so many times over the span of however many minutes this short series was, was enough for my spine to want to revert back into my body. Like for real, stop.
Music- Aside from the opening and ending which weren’t too bad, the music choice for this anime was not fitting at all. Not only did the music not fit the mood of what was happening within the scenes, but at times it felt like it was just awkwardly playing to fill up silence.
Art style- overall it wasn’t that bad, pretty standard for an anime. Although, the character designs were kinda cliche and easily looked like generic characters that can be found in several different anime.
Conclusion- If you’re looking for something that will change you, make you feel such a strong raw emotion, has amazing characters with great development and amazing sound tracks that go along with a great plot line, this is not for you and you should probably avoid it. However, if you have an hour of free time and want to watch something that will make you question everything and ask the question “what the fuck did I just watch?” Then I think this anime is for you. I’m not going to tell you it’s not worth a watch because perhaps you will see something in it that I just didn’t see, all I’m saying is to go in with low expectations because this show has very little redeeming qualities if any at all.
Thanks for reading my first review, remember this is only my opinion and you can feel however you want to feel about this anime!