Pupa

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Japanese: Pupa (ピューパ)
English: Pupa
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 10, 2014 to Mar 28, 2014
Premiered: Winter 2014
Broadcast: Fridays at 02:03 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Studio Deen
Source: Manga
Genres: FantasyFantasy, HorrorHorror, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: GoreGore, PsychologicalPsychological
Duration: 4 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 3.291 (scored by 104319104,319 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #133112
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1268
Members: 188,651
Favorites: 246

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Synopsis

Abandoned by their abusive parents and with only each other to depend on, siblings Utsutsu and Yume Hasegawa find themselves led astray by beautiful red butterflies that have appeared in their world. Unbeknownst to them, these crimson winged heralds trumpet the beginning of a cannibalistic nightmare—a mysterious virus known as Pupa is about to hatch.

After succumbing to the full effects of Pupa, Yume undergoes a grotesque metamorphosis into a monstrous creature with an insatiable desire for flesh; Utsutsu, on the other hand, is only partially affected, gaining remarkable regenerative powers instead. Reaffirming the resolve to keep the promise he made to himself years ago, Utsutsu is willing to sacrifice everything in order to always be there for his precious little sister.

Pupa tells the story of a loving brother's desperate struggles to save his sister while protecting the world from her uncontrollable hunger.

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Characters & Voice Actors

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Kurosawa, Yurika
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Mikami, Shiori
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Onijima, Shirou

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Yusa, Kouji
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Hotoki

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Tsuda, Kenjirou
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Mitsui

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Maeda, Kunihiro
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Staff

Mochizuki, Tomomi
Director, Sound Director, Script
Kido, Ibuki
Theme Song Performance
Yamazaki, Erii
Theme Song Performance
MOKA☆
Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Lyrics, Music


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"pupa" by Ibuki Kido & Erii Yamazaki
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Ending Theme

"Dare yori Suki na no ni (誰より好きなのに)" by Kusuma San Shimai (Yurika Kurosawa, Minato Wakasa, Haruna Usui)




Reviews

May 8, 2022
FunnyFunny
Story 1/10
Very uncomfortable in some scenes. Specifically the scenes in which Yume eats out her big onii-chan brother. The incest connotations were weird and made the overall experience awkward. The story was very simplistic and easy for my miniscule thinking module to comprehend. I could feel it shrinking in size as I watched Yume moan onii chan as she lovingly ate her big brothers flesh. Overall Very strange and out of pocket.

Art 7/10
Dose drawings were pretty damn fire bro. No cap finna cop some merch bruh.

Honestly everyone guves criticism on this shows art but it honestly isn't as bad as most people say it ...
Jan 2, 2024
Mixed Feelings
I randomly discovered this anime, and I don't think it's that bad, but it obviously isn't good either.
I was very shocked by the gore tbh. I didn't read the synopsis or anything like that so, that completely caught me off guard. Another thing I didn't really like was the fact the episodes were only 4 minutes. I wasn't sure about the anime starting, but I honestly think it had potential. It's got a good story line (to me at least).
I heard that the manga makes more sense than the anime so, I plan on reading that to make sense of whatever the heck that ...
Feb 3, 2024
Pupa is yet another entry in the vast array of horrendous anime; bad animation, worse narrative. That about sums it up.

But why did it end up like this? Why did this show, which started off at least a bit interesting, though not good, end up as this terrible, hated show?

In one word - Nonsense.

Nothing, absolutely NOTHING, even in the context of where the story was trying to go, made any sense at all. Characters were supposed to go down a certain path, but instead, subverting even their own expectations, went down the path of psychedelics and the occasional acid trip. Also, WHY WAS THERE INCEST?

Music ...

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