Pupa review

lrdalucard5
Apr 13, 2021
Ok, so everyone was in high expectations for the anime adaption of this manga, and we only got 5 minutes per episode. But dont be fooled. While the anime fails to capture the intensity of the gruesome, violent and gory scenes, the manga is at best telling and showing you a story of child abuse, and maybe forbidden love. Dont expect more.

Story: 8

The story is about two siblings: Utsutsu and his sister Yume, who suffered from home violence when they were younger, at hands of their Father. It starts being a little cliche, with the typical and now trendy sibling/incest romance, "Onii chan" and "Yume..." words are repeated with some kind of obsession. Anyway, little sister gets infected with the "Pupa" virus, she turns into a monster, dismembers people, big brother tries to comfort her, he gets killed, but he revives as an inmortal, now with the Pupa virus. And now they try to survive and stay together while their own father, soldiers and scientist want them to experiment (or kill them). Im in episode 9 of the manga, so far thats the story.

Art: 7

The artist Mogi Sayaka seems to be an amateur. BUT his drawings are kind of beautiful, almost looking shojo style. The gore scenes sometimes are unclear, and we have difficulties to distinguish dismemebered bodies, or at least a scene is "explained" by a spray of gore. Dont expect to find awesome art like Gantz or Claymore. Pupa´s art is amateurish like Attack on Titan, but has good plot, and is kind of unique.

Character: 8

Nothing to say, Utsutsu is the typical lolicon brother obsessed to protect his little sister, and Yume is... the typical imouto that always want to stay with her brother, and having feelings that may cross the border of love. Though, some interesting characters are Utsutsu´s father, being a totally cold, psychopat yet cool killer. And Maria, being a mysterious, beautiful woman.

Enjoyment: 9

I did REALLY enjoy this manga. C´mon!!! Is better than the generic Shounen/Seinen out there, while is not that original, is a well narrated story. Is at the level of Higurashi and Corpse Party, I dare to say, better than Another.

Overall: 8

This is an underrated manga. The anime does not speak well of it. Read the manga, form your conclusions, forget what the others say about the anime, the manga is good! And if the anime adaptation have been 12 episodes with 20 minutes each, it would surely become one of the best anime of 2014.




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