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Dec 5, 2023 11:12 PM
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Strange medium-length film.
The genre is horror, with some blood and horror, and with some surprises.
The animation is very weak.
The argument has its flaws, since there are some things that are not understood.
I liked the "cicada" point.

5/10 to me

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Dec 6, 2023 4:16 PM
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Best thing its director made so far.
Jan 17, 8:18 PM
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I liked it, weird but liked it, my only question is did the girls become the three grays at the end or are still the spider, centipede and butterfly? I honestly prefer they stay bugs.
Jan 18, 3:57 AM
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This seemed interesting but the low fps animation makes it very hard to watch so didn't manage to finish it. Idk maybe I'll comeback to this later sometime.
Jan 18, 8:13 AM
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I don't like the art and animation style. Why did they have to make the animation look like it was recorded on a shaky phone. The whole thing was just cheap pointless gore.



「あなたのためなら世界中を敵にしてもかまわない」
"If it was for your sake I wouldn't mind even if I had to turn the whole world into my enemy"
Feb 7, 12:52 PM
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Love the pointless gore and horror. Not every anime has to S tier, sometimes a good b-movie type of work is enough to satisfy the horror genre 10/10

Feb 21, 4:24 AM
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Na I can't stand this low framerate it's unbearable.
Feb 21, 10:19 AM
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This is on Neon Genesis Evangelion level; completely appaling clusterfuck of retardedness.

Slow paced and characters are slow as fuck on the uptake.

The voice acting sounded reminiscent of sex sounds.

Facial expressions made it seem like I was watching a bunch of girls in the hots; just aching for that D.

Big drop from me.

The animation had some nice points, but thats all, really.
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Feb 27, 2:19 PM
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1) So , All 3 Girls Were Wanna Be Alien Butterflies . What A Joke!

2) Guess , They Wanted To See How It Feels To Keep Throwing Dead Bodies From A High Story Building . Well, Have At It!

3) Atleast The Ending Song Was Upbeat.
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Mar 4, 8:41 PM

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I think Aragne no Mushikago was better. Though CG in this seems improved. This didn't have as interesting a plot and is more hinging on disorienting the viewer. Got in one good jump scare though but jump scares aren't hard to pull off. I did like the whole nearly hopeless time loop thing for how it is visually.
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Mar 29, 10:03 AM

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Similar to Aragne no Mushikago. Some inconsistencies, some weird angles. Characters are not too deep. Although the show itself is unusual, atmospheric, and interesting to follow.
Sep 6, 3:38 PM

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The lack of dialogue and generally abstruse, esoteric narrative did make for a confusing watch at times, but I get the gist of it. Seems like this apartment complex might host a pocket dimension which keeps anyone who wanders into it trapped in a time paradox, simultaneously twisting their forms into monstrous beings that the victims themselves are unaware of. Additionally, I detected a sort of pervasive futility to the scenario, with every apparent step forward made by Tamahi in "escaping" the dimension either immediately resulting in failure, or letting hope build for a while before revealing a stinger scene with more horror imagery. And while I've only read the synopsis, it's obvious that the epilogue with the new uni student tenant renting out the same apartment complex sets this movie up a prequel for Aragne no Mushikago chronologically.

Noticeably choppy frame-rates during the first few minutes of the watch, but I adjusted to it quite quickly, to my surprise.

Also, could swear that Tamahi and Aki were about five seconds away from making out in that abandoned apartment room. Just me?


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The lack of dialogue and generally abstruse, esoteric narrative did make for a confusing watch at times, but I get the gist of it. Seems like this apartment complex might host a pocket dimension which keeps anyone who wanders into it trapped in a time paradox, simultaneously twisting their forms into monstrous beings that the victims themselves are unaware of. Additionally, I detected a sort of pervasive futility to the scenario, with every apparent step forward made by Tamahi in "escaping" the dimension either immediately resulting in failure, or letting hope build for a while before revealing a stinger scene with more horror imagery. And while I've only read the synopsis, it's obvious that the epilogue with the new uni student tenant renting out the same apartment complex sets this movie up a prequel for Aragne no Mushikago chronologically.

Noticeably choppy frame-rates during the first few minutes of the watch, but I adjusted to it quite quickly, to my surprise.

Also, could swear that Tamahi and Aki were about five seconds away from making out in that abandoned apartment room. Just me?
@Archean-Return I think that's a pretty fair assessment of the story. There's also another layer regarding Tamahi's choice, which basically seems to boil down to Tamahi having to choose either saving her friends at the cost of the World or saving the World at the cost of her friends. I've seen some people say it derives from certain buddhist beliefs regarding change but I don't know the validity of those takes (I believe the gist of it is that it follows the idea that change is inevitable, and Tamahi's attempts to hold on to the past is causing the trio more pain and suffering, when she finally accepts that change is inevitable, they are freed from the cycle and transcend into something greater than before)

Also I definitely agree that it seemed like Tamahi and Aki were moments away from kissing, in fact to add to that point; just after Tamahi encounters Aki in the clutches of the centipede, when she goes through another flashback type deal, we get a brief shot of what looks like two girls mouths, they're kissing though one has an inhuman tongue and is pushing it into the others mouth. I personally believe that this is representative of Aki kissing Tamahi.

If we tie this back into my earlier point about change, then we could argue that the change that Tamahi is so afraid of is the change of relationship, going from friends to lovers with Aki. Yuu, already having a boyfriend at the start of the movie is the first to "change" and become a new being, this spurs Aki into action (hence why we see the Monster Yuu pick up the Centipede, the monster that would transform Aki) Tamahi runs from her feelings, which is represented by the never-ending cycle of death and misery in the film, she's trying to find the way to preserve their friendship as it was until she finally accepts that things can't stay the same, starts dating Aki and "transforms" into a new being herself, finding that the change wasn't actually bad and now that she's stopped running, she can keep being with Aki and Yuu.

I'm probably reading way too much into this film and I'm sure there are millions of holes that can be poked into my reading of it but I can't get it out of my mind, I've just finished my second rewatch and I wanted to discuss my theories somewhere.
Oct 14, 9:51 AM

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Had potential but was too weird and random and had no real point. Slo have never had such trouble trying to watch this: was hard to find, but then the places where it was would lag and lag and load and buffer and drop out...plus that cgi...4.5/10 Avoid unless utterly bored.

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