User reviews

To start this out the story is a solid 8.5, as an Anime fan it earns that. Where Cagaster fails is Netflix's approach to CGI animation for their Anime's, it just doesn't work. The color is flat, there's a clear lack of illustration detail, and the character movement s is stiff. Look no other than Episode 5 to what this show could have been, through a series of flashbacks, the show switches to traditionally styled Anime animation techniques with what looks like 2D hand drawn animation. It's almost as if the show runners and lead animators are subtly saying "if you want traditional animation you only get it with flashbacks." As if they're saying that's a thing of the past. The 2D style that is shown briefly in episode 5 is beautiful and I wish the entire series was animated this way. If they do green light a season 2 -- season 1 ended well enough if that they may not -- they should consider learning from the mistake of CGI in season 1 and take their time to animate this the right way, which may lead to better action sequences as well.

Cagaster of an Insect Cage, a mix of zombies, Attack on Titan, and bad animation. What could have been. I'd recommend it if you need a quick binge.

This was a little hard to get into, but eventually it turned out ok once the main story arc got going. I have only watched what was the 1st 12 of the anime in Dub on the Netflix, so do not know much about the rest of story from manga. This story has a lot of characters where you can easily just HATE, especially the military villains. One huge missed opportunity is with the English cast....you have a character who is a macho male crossdresser who looks very similar to the great Willem Dafoe, but they did not cast him for the voice over! Rest of cast is ok, Johnny Yong Bosch is one of the voices, can literally never go wrong with him.

I see a lot of people talking about the animation issues. I will admit that's bad, but it's not what kills this show for me. What really destroys it is the uncomfortable way the show treats age and sexuality.

Incest is an accepted part of the show. Even if it isn't REAL incest, the implication is certainly made that we are supposed to understand it to be. Furthermore, Kidow and Ilie's relationship is strange and uncomfortable. The age gap is never properly established, but soldiers call him "sensei", so he's implied to be older. Compound that with the time he just about rapes her and DOES exert physical power over her, and it's.... problematic. ESPECIALLY when you add in the sexual relationship he had with an older woman when he was a child.

This is... bad. It's real bad.

I liked the story, watched all in the same weekend (12 episodes, no boring fillers).

I thought the main character would be the hybrid guy from the netflix thumbnail, then I though it was the cliche cool cold swordman, but it is more about the the girl he rescues and the backstories of the people she meets and hers. His character is there to protect her when something shows up, this isn't dbz, no battle lasts more than 5 mins. Except from one minor antagonist added at the end of the story to give them a goal, everyone has something to tell, no one is just evil.

The only problem is that they used 3D for the background and creatures (they look really unsetting) and 2D cell shading for the characters. Netflix has been doing this with other animes (f.e.: Ajin and Godzilla), not sure if because it is easier or because they think it looks cool (it doesn't). Once you get into the story, you forget about the art (it only annoyed me the first 2 chapters, though I have seen other animes like this one so it wasn't that weird).

Is it 2D? 3D? Cell shaded? Realistic shadows? Motion captured? Procedural? Realistically proportioned? Eyes-bigger-than-fists loli-waifu? Believable physics, or superhero rules?

Well, the animators didn't know, and you won't either after watching it. What an absolute bloody mess this thing is.

The English dub is everything that we've come to expect. Jobbing talent just rattling out their well practiced cliche character lines and random grunts with as few retakes as possible. They know the bare minimum of what's expected, and boy, do they deliver it.

There might be a story in here, but you'll find it hard to get to it. Episode 1 is almost entirely exposition. We know who everyone is, because they tell us, but not why we should care about them.

The premise that the antagonists are essentially unkillable lasts for almost 7 whole minutes, and a full half of that is the tiresome rock-anthem credits.

This is just quota studio filler. Nobody is proud of this, and you won't be happier for sinking your time into watching it.

Story is very good 👍 Animation and CGI is not perfect Character development is perfect Overall A very interesting anime.

I legitimately have no idea why they continuously try to make anime with this god awful CGI style animation. I've never liked a SINGLE ONE of them. And none of the people I know that watch anime like them either. You would think they would revert back to the beauty of original anime style artwork. So much potential has been lost because of this idiotic design choice( looking at you, Berserk/ Ajin). Castlevania did it just about PERFECTLY and the reviews of it speak volumes, no? I have no idea why studios would opt for garbage CGI animation over the classic, beloved, drawn artwork. It's mind boggling.

Where can I start ? I watched 4 episodes and I couldn't take it anymore. Bad drawing, awful and un-sync English translation, boring story line ... not worth watching at all.

It has a great story and has no boring fillers the art is the art you know that most CGI s bad but i don't care for art as long as it has a good story i'm in

The story is really one that will pull your heart strings if you are able to get past the bad animations. I would personal recommend watching it with the ORIGINAL voice actors (Japanese) to get the actual feeling of the series. I agree that we need to stick with either high performance CGI animations or hand drawn, but for the sake of a great story line I would watch it again.

It's harsh, and disappointing from Netflix as many of their offerings have been better, but the whole series feels "Hollow".

Cons: -The art is lacking. -Story makes little sense at all. -The characters are all cardboard cutouts without any depth. -The trope usage is horrific. -Voice acting is flat, lacking any passion / soul and fails to hook you (English Dub). -Handling and weakness of the "monsters" is erratic and nonsensical. -The "final fight" / closing episodes are borderline moronic.

Pros: -It's dubbed.

Amazing Anime great story I have watched this anime twice now I'm really in to it I wouldn't change anything about it. I would recommend this to all my friends keep up the good work

First of all I'd like to say that I dont understand why everybody critisizes the animations and basing their opinion just on that.

The real problem with this series is the writing. Man it's bad. The characters are stereotypical and weird at the same time. The main soldier has an uncomfortable relationship with a girl who is way to young!

These insects are so powerfull they could crush an entire town if they wish to. So the main soldier dude takes a bunch of them (with only a shotgun and a big knive, but these things are enormous and have impenetrable skin) on and only 1 initiates battle and the rest of them just leave or vanish?! He wins the battle but it was close so if 2 battled him he... I'm tired to continue. Just don't watch it!

I matter of fact, they did an astounding job, the artwork and the plot. I even binge watched the entire season. I would recommend this to anyone who likes trying new things, etc. 10/10

I wanted to like this sci fi dystopian anime but it was really hard to get past the first half of the series as new characters were introduced at a rapid pace and the world created was hard to understand .... too many unknown rules regarding transmission of virus and why humans change to insects. Also the world appears to be a desert yet the insects can maintain biomass? It does not really make sense! The later half brings some answers but I think many a viewer would be turned off by that stage. The female character also I found irritating and her voice actor not suitable.... also the father/daughter - lover relationship going on with the main character was a bit confusing and disturbing.

I did not like this anime for many reasons. I'll write everything I remember.

Plot: very poor and predictable. The situation is not explained, so you'll find projected in this world knowing nothing, no background. I did not like it at all. The story is poor, with some nonsense.

Animation: PC done, so it's not so wow like when there are artist that actually drawing. The shapes of the characters are unchangeable, so every kind of bruise is depict like a simple red stain, no matter the gravity of it. Did not like it so much.

Conclusions: in my humble opinion I would not recommend it to you. There are a lot of other anime and it's not so difficult finding something better than this.

The show was really good. It started off rough in the first couple episodes and then completely turned around and ended up being fantastic. It had a great story line and lovable charcacters, all of which made up for the mediocre cgi style which isn't as good as normal animation. I in the end found it hard to stop watching. This show is great

I started watching this with my family, thinking it had great potential as being something interesting in a post, apocalyptic world. However, when it started introducing relationships between characters with large age gaps, and even in between family members. That's when things started becoming really uncomfortable. We know the age gap between the two main characters was three years and they were both minors. But some of the situations they engaged in made it even more uncomfortable. And then of course the male protagonist having a relationship with an older woman in a sexual way that crossed the line for us. We had to stop watching the show because we were becoming physically nauseous. We don't understand why some animes are so OK with showing relationships like this between underage, kids and adults but it's totally unacceptable and we're done with anime.

It's truly too bad they had to add this kind of uncomfortable situation's in a show that had good potential. If They didn't have all of that, and it was just the action in the bug killing, that would be way more interesting and acceptable.

This anime did not do it for me at any point of the story line. I only finished it because I hate to stop something half-way through. The plot is direct (no real twists, turns or fillers), seemed rushed and half-baked. They could have doubled the length of the show and given actual substance to the story and the world we're supposed to be watching. or if kept at 12 episodes they'd need to sacrifice something else because this was not it. Almost all of the characters are surface level and are barely touched on as to why they act the way they do leaving the viewer to not feel much for any of them (positively or negatively). The relationships between characters are also under-developed and some of them are just uncomfortable. Visually, I wouldn't say the art was bad but different. It reminded me of flattened 3D graphics in a stylized video game.

Dont listen to the old heads trashing this about art style, its h/s. The story is engaging and worth the watch absolutely l.