Pupa

I kind of have a soft spot anomalous wretch of an anime.

I like how one dimensional simple the characters are. They have no depth and you could characterize solely as being brother and sister. They never waver or look inward, they have no other intrest or goal simply their own embrace, you could almost call this relationship "wholesome."

I enjoy the look of animation, cheap I know but it's almost dreamlike a feeling that you feel constantly when you are watching this.

The story is bizarre and underdeveloped. It feels like someone madlibbed the story and had to put it together into a narrative. It makes some terribly ballsy moves like a lot of the show is dedicated to "incest cannibalism" like given how little time we spend on the story we sure do spend a lot of time to the girl eating her brother alive it goes to comedic lengths. Not say the story's good, the show care just as much about the plot as we do. I honestly couldn't care less who has it in for these two or why. Also this is way too short for almost any serious story let alone horror. There are episodes that cut to credits on the most insane moments I can't keep a straight face. It's almost as if they're playing you for one big joke.

I compare this to "Manos: Hands of Fate" where it's an interesting idea and it would've made something surreal and creepy, but they were so incompetent. Like these where people who shouldn't be allowed to make movies because they can't, but what they did make was so laughably bizarre in concept and execution that its unbelievable and weirdly sort of entertaining in a very abstract way. I wouldn't actually recommend this to anyone because it's not a good show.

IT'S NOT A GOOD SHOW.

I'd much rather that they actually try to make something worthwhile and develop their characters and story so they aren't so uncooked. I'd actually much rather this be good than a complete mess, but at least when it's a mess, I can look back and say, "WOW, what were they thinking!" It's the worst anime I've seen by a country mile. I wouldn't've seen it if it wasn't so short, but even then, I probably wasted my time.

Pupa is an anime so catastrophically bad it defies belief. It takes what could have been a disturbing psychological horror story and drags it through the mud, leaving behind a four-minute-per-episode abomination that fails at every conceivable level.

The premise alone is tasteless: forced cannibalism between siblings, combined with a weird undercurrent of incestuous tension. Rather than exploring these disturbing themes with depth or maturity, Pupa revels in shock value but can't even execute that properly. The gore looks cheap, the "emotional" moments are hollow, and the pacing is nonexistent.

Animation quality is among the worst ever broadcast: static images, off-model characters, and amateurish direction. The sound design is equally horrendous, with flat voice acting wasted on incoherent dialogue and music that barely qualifies as background noise. And when it ends, there's no catharsis, no resolution... just relief that it's finally over.

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POSITIVE : The only mercy is that it's short, so you suffer less

NEGATIVE : Laughably bad animation and static visuals / Absurdly short episodes that ruin any narrative flow / Tasteless mix of cannibalism and incest with no purpose or payoff / Zero tension, zero atmosphere, zero emotional impact / One of the worst adaptations ever made.

A true failure on every level

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This is probably going to be the worst anime of the year.

It honestly makes me wonder what the guys at DEEN were thinking when they decided to make this adaptation, "Hey we have so much money, let's just animate this crappy manga" is probably an accurate assumption to make.

Because really, let's judge it from every possible perspective: Animation: Not good at all, like really, incomplete scenery, crappy censorship (for example, there was a scene where they censored a knife for some reason, but at the next scene it was shown explicitly), horrible, and I mean HORRIBLE, art style and both the OP and EDs are, literally, still images.

Sound: This is at least the only decent aspect of the anime, the opening song is pretty catchy and so is the ED, nothing especially good, though. The background music does not fit the atmosphere, given that it's a horror anime, you hear violins that, at first, sound like some country music song.

Story: Pfhaha, don't even get me started on this one, the story is by far the most ridiculous one I've ever seen. Like, taking the first and second episodes as example, Utsutsu, right after he saw his very own sister turn into a demon and eat two live persons, he just casually goes to it (her) and just tells her to "go home". What kind of terrible writing is that? It also leaves several plot holes, but for the sake of not-spoiling, I'll just leave it there.

Characters: I have no idea what anyone is. Like really, there's a witch scientist, a demon zombie monster girl, a guy and a scientist. That's all. No character development has been seen so far either. The character design is plain and boring.

My conclusion is that this anime shouldn't even exist. That is all.

Just watch episode 6 and you'll get forever traumatized. And i really wanna know who gave this anime a 10/10 score and why, it's impossibile that someone liked this.

This work was ranked a respectable second in watch mojo's ranking of the worst anime of all time. It depicts the ultimate sibling love between a sister with cannibalistic desires and an older brother whose body regenerates quickly. There are few anime that deal with cannibalism. While it is commendable that the company decided to go ahead with an anime adaptation, it is clear that the budget and length of the film are insufficient. Perhaps this is because they decided that it would not be profitable to spend the budget on an anime dealing with cannibalism and make it in a 12-episode structure with 24 minutes per episode. But it's better to go a little further than to have such a cheap result. What's so terrible about it? The problems are obvious. The drawings are worse than those made by a university doujinshi club. The story is too short and disjointed. It includes a grotesque cannibal scene that makes a strangely unpleasant and uncomfortable sound. In the end, the ambition doesn't even show up in the cannibal scenes.