Life could be better for shy, anxious university student Rin. The apartment she has rented is hardly the sunny palace the rental listings suggested. The housing complex is rundown, grim and haunted by troubled souls lurking in dark corners. Ghastly crimes are occurring in the vicinity. And a grinning stranger makes his unsettling presence known.
Beyond all this, Rin is coming to realize that something even more sinister is manifesting itself, something at the cursed crossroads of mythology, monstrosity and medical science. Determined to find out more, Rin visits the library, where she meets a sympathetic young staffer. But what she learns does not begin to put her mind at ease.
(Source: Fantasia)
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Vampiredwarf
First review, lets go. Found this movie clicking "random" on a certain anime website. looked it up and found basically NOTHING. No video reviews/explanations/theories or anything of the sort. The only thing i really found was its horrible Mal score. But i decided to watch it anyway and im glad i did. Ill try to review as spoiler free as possible. Story The story was amazing. It felt very original and fully kept my interest all the way through the movie. Even from the very first scene i felt drawn in to its creepy/grotesque atmosphere. However i do have mixed feelings about the ending. Without sayingtoo much i felt like i couldnt give the ending an honest review since i couldnt really fathom it.
Art
The art was completely mindblowingly beautiful. The movie featured very detailed beautiful backgrounds and a minimalistic artstyle that kept me entranced... And i would love to leave the review of the art here, but i just cant do it. An obviously very talented artist/group of artists worked on this movie but the director either didnt have the time or the money to be able to fill the entire movie with their work. And so they had to 3d animate. If you ever played a lowbudget indie flashplayer 3d game you might understand what i mean when i say that that is the quality of the 3d animation in this movie. Its cheap. Really cheap. If this movie was remade with the same beautiful artstyle that some of the scenes featured, i have no doubt in my mind i would give this movie a 8 or 9/10.
Sound and character
Bunched this since i dont have alot to say. Sound was fine. musik fit the scenes and didnt feel cheap or anything. The characters felt believable and likeable. I dont really have anything negative to say about neither sound nor characters. It didnt stand out all that much to me.
Enjoyment
I highly recommend you give this a watch if you are a person that can see past its mostly dirty exterior and see the gold within.
krazybunny
Ok im never wrote an anime review+english isn't my main language so plese bear with me ^^; I quite enjoyed the movie' story except the last 20~ minutes and it's ending. I'll be totally honest.I didnt understood the ending....I don't know if it was just me but my friend didn't either. For it's animation,I personally can still enjoy an animation with low frames which this movie had.But that was when the animation were drawn...Because that movie have randoms moment where 3d models are used which I think is fine if done well.But it was done really awkwardly in my opinion. The drawn animations were very low frames while the3d animations were almost 60fps and,the character's models were stiff (and expressionless if I recall well).
The characters were really...eh...not memorable and
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all characters beside mc die suddenly anyway, and you don't really care because you werent atached to them at all (////////SPOILER////////)
i
In the end, If you wanna watch this don't be turned off by it's score .It's still an enjoyable movie but have it's flaws.
Gsarthotegga
Look, it's plain as day from the trailer that this is hot garbage. I initially dismissed it because of the often shoddy visuals, and it was pretty clear that no matter how audacious the creator might be, there was no reason to believe the script would neatly stitch together what was obviously a low budget b-movie horror film. I should have listened to my instincts... Despite the visuals being quite subpar overall, many of the images are striking in their own unique way, and there are enough grotesque and bizarre elements that left me intrigued enough to eventually give it a shot. Every once in awhile all the right elements are there, and there's just a need for a skilled hand to pull it all together. But there actually isn't much to pull together in 75 minutes, with the last 20 or so minutes being overloaded with imagery, lots of half-baked ideas, and off the wall plot twists.
There's not much to spoil because the film is so incoherent and confusing... it's a psychological horror about a girl who was duped into living within a decaying apartment complex. There are plenty of twists and turns--experiments dating back to WWII, Mushishi-like bug creatures, a peculiar disease, a string of serial murders with an electric pizza cutter (I'm not even kidding...), etc. All of those elements build upon each other until you end up cringing at the idea of "dead soul soldiers" and falling off the deep end of a hallucinogenic death trip... I guess?
It actually starts off well enough; despite the low frame-rate of the animation and some very poor CGI, it manages to maintain a surprising amount of visual flair and atmosphere through well-chosen shots, filters, lighting, camera movement, vignettes, creative editing, etc. With its heavy dose of insect imagery, it comes across quite similarly to the quasi-surrealism and dream logic of the odder giallos--perhaps Argento's Phenomena, which involves the supernatural element of a young girl communing with insects to thwart a serial killer.
Aragne is far more convoluted, and though it starts as what seems like a pretty cliche horror thriller, it goes into the deepest depths of psychological horror by the end. It might be a head trip, but the ending segment is the equivalent of a person committing a really confusing dream to fiction without any sense of direction or good writing. Most of what happens has to be read in a rather symbolic manner rather than a literal one, but this is not well-crafted subtlety or complexity—there's just not enough depth or characterization for any of it to amount to anything.
I'm not going to even attempt to explain it, and it doesn't even matter, since you shouldn't watch it, anyway. If you watched it and are looking to understand it better... there is a prequel coming out called Amrita no Kyouen, which might clear up most of it, but if the low quality of this production is any indication, it's simply not worth the extra time investment.
chiricoS
I went into this totally blind, so I didn't really know what to expect. It was a rather odd film. It's done in CG, which I know can be contentious for many anime fans. In this case it was very much a mixed bag. Some scenes had pretty good cinematography, and the character designs are fairly strong in my opinion. However, there are quite a few scenes were the character movements look stiff and awkward, which dragged down the overall experience. The protagonists hair barely moves, which is distracting in many scenes. The mystery aspect of this movie is interesting in the earlier partsof the film, but with out spoiling anything, the end results are very cliche and predictable. The sequence of events is a bit scattered. Now, shows being confusing absolutely isn't a bad thing but the implied meanings are so surface level in this that it just feels like it's trying too hard. It has a creepypasta vibe pretty much
The characters are also all pretty underdeveloped, we don't really know anything about them which makes it difficult to care when they are in danger.
Overall while deeply flawed, I did more or less enjoy watching this. Somehow I doubt this will be something that sticks in my memory for that long, it's not unique. That being said it was nice in the moment. I would recommend it if you've already seen a decent number of horror anime and are just looking for something to watch without having to overthink it. Also worth noting that most of the horror scenes involve bugs, so if you're scared of bugs it will probably be much scarier for you than if you're not. It's also not super gory so if you're wanting to avoid seeing loads of violence but still want something spooky this is a good option.
KamuiX1999
I tend to like weird-ass anime that flies under the radar and goes mostly unnoticed by the mainstream, and the trailer for Aragne certainly made it look like it would scratch that itch, but I was quickly proven wrong. While the atmosphere, score and creature design can be striking, everything else is bottom of the barrel quality. Really bad animation and bland character design, which is punctuated by awful directing that utilizes this jerky camera technique that is distracting as hell is bad enough, but the story is what really kills it. Clearly this was written by someone that either thinks they're way smarter andmore clever than they actually are, or they just didn't have the resources to bring their vision to life in the way they intended, because this is a hot, incomprehensible mess. Avoid this at all costs.
bmxer44
If your looking for a thorough positive review you probably already read it. I don't under stand why it has such a horrible score. I found it to be really well done, and original. The art style is off putting as it should be, its a horror movie. When she walks its disorienting which is frickin amazing. Obviously by how well drawn everything is the choice to make it this way was intentional. Someone who is looking for an anime with the same animation style as every other one will not like this one but that's ok. I thought the similar things about Aku no Hanaand that's one of my all time favorites.
8/10 Overall
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WhatShouldIBe
Ok This movie could be scored anywhere from 3 to 8. I scored it at 3 Let us dive into this.... Story, Does not matter. Is it a dream, is it a hallucination? Is it a story about a murderer who changed who she was to be her childhood friend she killed... who also saves her from sup phantom ghost bug world? Maybe honestly it does not matter. 3/10 -Also subplot Government bad(Human experimentation), Modern medicine bad(Magic bell solve all problems). Art High detail low frame rate. Some of the scenes are very pretty. Most are just grungy, but that was their goal. Art direction is good. 8/10Once you get over the fact that they added in camera shake for still frames of animation it goes over well.
Sound was pretty good. I never had any problems with it. 8/10
Characters... There is almost no character growth. There are like four talking characters the entire show. Honestly nothing to write home about other than HOW DAMN METAL RIN turned out to be.
-I(Rin) am stuck in a hole the only exit I see is well above my height, BEST DRAG THESE BODIES OVER SO I CLIMB UP THEM AND OUT." Like legit 10/10
Enjoyment. Too slow. Too much why? And not enough commitment to plots. Though I did enjoy it myself. maybe a 6-7/10
I honestly do not think the average viewer will enjoy this. I dig it. The movie has some pretentious feeling but I think that is just used to pull attention away from how little budget/work might have been available.
If I was a company hiring people based *soley* on a personal project that ended up like this I would totally hire them. Even if the story is seemingly all over place and still in limbo, it is still an impressive film.
decodenpa
I found this dvd in an old video store about two years ago and didn't get around to watching it until today. Initially after finishing it I was left with that "wtf did I just witness and why am I mad about it" feeling, but did some digging around for explanations which cleared a lot of things up for me. But quite honestly you really shouldn't need to look things up to understand. I think the story is a great idea, but making it a movie was a terrible move. Too many ideas and characters weren't fleshed out anywhere near as much as they should've been. All3 male characters featured felt like very forced plot devices for Rin to figure something out or move her along faster. A 12 (or even just 7) episode anime would have done this concept justice.
I REALLY liked the art in terms of style and colors but the seizure inducing shaking single frames as a replacement for animation and poorly utilized cg killed me.
Everyones eyes are so far to the sides of their heads that they could be considered prey animals and yet still wait too long to move from danger despite that advantage.
I love weird and artsy media, even if that means I come across some low budgets and missed potential pieces. I definitely have my gripes about it but could enjoy it for what it was. I can only hope one day a millionaire investor finds this and wants to make it a fully budgeted 12 episode series, but for now, my head hurts and I'm going to put it back on my shelf and keep it there.
