Aragne no Mushikago

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)

Rin Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Mikaya Main

Batori, Shougo Japanese

Saion Main

Katayama, Fukujuurou Japanese

Tokiyo Main

Itou, Yousuke Japanese

Nasuha Main

Shiramoto, Ayana Japanese

Terakubo Supporting

Hashi, Takaya Japanese

Kirika Supporting

Fukui, Yukari Japanese

Fukutani, Osamu Producer

Sakamoto, Saku Director, Script, Original Creator, Music, Animation Director

Memai SIREN Theme Song Performance

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Jan 12, 2021

Vampiredwarf

Recommended

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 saying ... too 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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 31, 2018

krazybunny

Mixed Feelings

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 the ... 3d 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

(////////SPOILER////////)
all characters beside mc die suddenly anyway, and you don't really care because you werent atached to them at all (////////SPOILER////////)
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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 3, 2022

Gsarthotegga

Not Recommended

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 a ... while 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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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