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Unlike most anime this one at least tries to be a bit shocking rather than holding itself back trying not to ruffle any feathers.
It reminds me of the game Rule of Rose and early Higurashi seasons.
The main issue is that it's merely a 2 episode introduction each covering a different little murder mystery involving the main character duo of overdone schoolkids, so there's only the start of a story here of bizarre denpa derangement that doesn't have a chance to actually go anywhere for an overarching story, and without that it's mostly just schlock horror. So really it's LN/manga-bait.
The English title is a bit confusing ... because really denpa should've been left untranslated as denpa is more widely known as a genre meaning 'mental derangement horror' based on modern urban legend conspiracies about cell-towers' electromagnetic waves sending secret signals/causing people to go crazy and whatnot like that 5G conspiracist stuff for example. The radio-waves label is just 1 example with the intended meaning of denpa pointing to all those related phenomena as a whole. Hence why radio-waves don't actually have any relevance to either episode despite it being denpa.
The other issue is that it's quite low budget art/animation.

I won't waste effort on a wall of text like some shills since this is a silly children's action movie of no depth.
Full 3d childish art style of silly caricatures doing silly things. At least 3D allows for decently fluid animation.
The characters are mostly action set-pieces, slapstick potty humor machines, cartoonishly evil, assholes, etc. It's very hard to like or care about any of them since we barely get to know any of them, and the MC is a childish gremlin interacting with a walking ha ha fat dumb person joke. The only nonsilly characters in the whole movie are MC's parent's and brother.
Borderline deliberately ... offensive tokenism of minorities in a movie that preaches "do not be biased (against your rulers and their nephews for their incompetence and destructive acts). Prejudice (against the elites) is bad." while going out of their way to uphold divinely approved prejudicial societies of both heaven and earth.
The world itself is generic Chinese mythology of everything magic bs and (un)enlightenment cultivation to curry enough favor to go from courtly aristocracy on earth to (identical) courtly aristocracy of gods in a divine realm. Lauding a culture of greed and supremacism.
The plot is willfully dumbly cartoonishly contrived. The few emotional moments are extremely hard to care about and almost exclusively just the MC (an asshole gremlin surrounded almost exclusively by assholes and silly idiots) crying because sad. The movie is effectively just a bunch of pointless action sequences that are drawn out with completely excisable filler and mostly accomplish nothing but fill time with boring weightless spectacle since cartoon logic is in effect so none of the impacts actually matter and everyone is completely fine. The end.
Also that narcissistically long string of premovie credits including a animation/production company advertising itself as a shitty performance the audience doesn't like followed by them mass electrocution murdering the audience as a threat to enjoy this movie or else was quite on-the-nose.
The english dub is pretty good, though the lines are mostly dumb jokes only a child could enjoy.
And yes, a child could enjoy this movie. There are however way too many far better movies out there with better ideals.

This is the 'sequel' to Amrita (which the creator more appropriately calls a spinoff), though it has almost no connection aside from the same apartment setting (but beyond the shared insect theme the monster happenings are completely different) and Amrita has a momentary unrelated scene cameo of the 2 main girls of this movie existing tossed in at the end, and with the potential for achronology it isn't even possible to say which movie actually takes place first. They are inconsequential to each other in terms of watch order, but I'd recommend Amrita instead, since it's short and better quality, and only this movie if ... you really want to see more but worse.
Both movies were written/directed/animated by a single guy which is a bit impressive but also a bit pompous and obviously shoots it in the foot in terms of severely limiting man-hours/productivity and it really shows in the limited quality of all aspects of the production, would it really kill him to delegate some menial labor to some underpaid animators? Hell he'd make way more money just from increased productivity let alone that it would be better quality.

This movie's not good.
There is a huge amount of filler of just nothing going on. Even the non-filler is mostly boring.
The art style is often comically bad (2D faces wrapped over 3D poly-mesh heads, the MC's eyes are very far apart) and the rare attempts at actual visuals are almost completely uninteresting.
The horror is barely present inundated in filler and even less horrifying than Amrita.
The characters are not characters despite the insane amount of time we spend watching the MC... moving, standing, panicking, etc.

The story past a pointless, empty, long, slow drag of a first half of a mental MC isolated in their apartment while a serial killer attacks everyone seemingly directly inspired by Silent Hill 4: The Room, progressively turns towards what also seems directly inspired by Silent Hill 2 to the point many story beats and even some entire scenes seem ripped straight from them. I can even explain what this movie's 'plot' is meant to be based on that comparison, with the hellish setting, memories of regret revealing love-hate murder/loss and an ending attempting to reconcile that regret with sacrifice towards redemption/rebirth... but it would be pointless because there is little actually here beyond a continuous sequence of contrivances and a bunch of vaguery where dozens of different explanations are possible (and all of them rely on bs logic so all are almost equally as worthwhile as 'it was all just a dream') along with characters/plot points it keeps throwing in and pointlessly throwing away as it goes.
(Some other Silent Hill parallels: haunted town/apartment complex, falling within interior holes into deeper areas that look like meat processing areas and old facilities that housed past war/prisoner experiments giving rise to body-horror monsters, ominous moths/butterflies, pyramid-heads in this and Amrita, etc.)
The creator relies way too much on subtle subtext to vaguely and briefly convey too many ideas at the end while leaving most everything else largely unexplored because it is such a short runtime full of way too much filler. So either the point of 80% of the movie went over my head or he just wasted most of the story on bs serial killer filler scenes while ripping off some 'cool' ideas from Silent Hill and threw them all together without actual consideration behind it while relying on ambiguity to try to seem like maybe there is more depth than there is.
Even a glancing look at certain 'plot' points should reveal which it is (spoilers below):
The serial killer the story wastes a ton of time emptily referencing is revealed in the end to be a noncharacter who we've never actually interacted with.
A random bookish guy conveniently spots the MC to exposition dump a bunch of generic/vague exposition filler about the insects/disease/spirit world and the omen of death butterfly before being seen next pointlessly murdered.
A random other guy is revealed to be a spiritualist who knows all about the otherworld insects and gives the MC a protective necklace and a little vague/generic exposition filler before pointlessly dying in his next scene.
The blond guy is revealed to be a shonen protagonist (from organization XIII fighting the nobodies/heartless jk but it does fit) monster hunter (who is also another serial killer since the monsters he kills were the girls infected by the other serial killer, though it seems a pretty severe case of nonsense that he went through an entire chase sequence to attack the MC with his bonesaw for no reason 'it was all a dream fku') who conveniently saves MC in the middle of nowhere and starts exposition dumping a bunch of generic explanations of monsters existing before immediately being killed by a car suddenly armghost-commandeered to drive off a highway overpass into the upper floor window to kill him(where no one knows he is) followed by a bunch of explosions (did I mention this director seems to have gone to the Michael Bay school of tons of pointless explosions for this movie? Even a butterfly randomly shows up to save the MC from a monster by exploding like a cluster bomb for no reason)...
In other words the director waved in front of the audience's faces yet another super knowledgeable person giving the opportunity to have any coherency where the plot would actually go with them somewhere beyond random bs and immediately slaps the audience in the face by absurdly contriving a reason for them to be removed from the story as nothing more than a pointless waste-of-time exposition-dump mad-lib of this series' flavor of generic monster details. The only conclusion I can draw from it is that the writer in fact meant it as a slap in the face to the audience but I suppose it could just be the writer trying his best when his best is just shitty exposition dumps and an inability to write anything more complex than a collection of loosely strung together ideas which therefore can go no further than: dies or wakes up from plot-armor death, which come to think of it is more or less the content of both Amrita and Aragne...

And according to an interview from the creator, it originally had a single plot, then while animating he added a bunch of other elements to it turning it into a Frankenstein story with a bunch of scenes relegated to nonreality dream sequences to try to cobble together some coherency.

The black-haired ballet (why ballet? no reason) girl romance-bait (because gaybaiting just like Amrita) who dies much like all the others having contributed nothing of value to the plot seems the most apparent example of Frankensteining as she is the same character model as the black-haired childhood girl but a different name, conflating 2 characters out of seemingly 1 original just like they did with the MC conflating the coma blonde girl but actually being the black-haired girl, all now reworked into an overcomplicated mess that would've been really interesting if it had been the central plot instead of being a brief flashback-montage dump tossed in schizophrenically at the end which renders the entirety of the black-haired girl we see interacting with her and others before being killed as confusing at best (explained away as: this random girl just happens to look like the black-haired girl so the MC is reminded of her past self and thus conflating this girl as herself) or less ideally (and realistically what +99% viewers would conclude): 'just a dream fku' among other equally unsatisfying bs explanations for this pointlessly confusing contrivance on top of the plotline itself being pointless filler either way. (And none of them are related to the serial killer mother either since the creator gave them different full names).
This is like a horror version of tropey spanish soap operas replete with twins swapping places, amnesia, comas, doppelgangers, dream sequences, etc. all to just contrive an even more convoluted plot for no reason. It didn't have to be this way.
(Even just a bit of editing and added lines explaining the story at the end (Howl's Moving Castle does this type of mystery reveal ending well for example) would've taken this from 'a silly movie with a convoluted plot buried under so much ambiguity and subtext that only a handful of people in the world would even bother to unbury it' to a decent story people could enjoy, even if one doesn't also cut out a ton of pointless filler).

The Japanese title is: Insect |Cage/Prison| of Aragne (Arachne of various forms anglicized from Greek myth of the woman turned into a spider by a god(now that I think of it, the MC with her time powers could be the main antagonist red brain arachnid woman monster of the other movie through the art of even more bs contrivance), but also it's written on the MC's medicine prescription as either the name of the medication or a 3rd alias for the MC (alongside _atopy which is a disease of excess allergic reactions and etymologically means 'being out of place' but that could be nothing since it seems to be preceded by A/L/R) (because she's trapped in the cursed insect-riddled apartment, and in the movie insects are inherently part of the soul and coming out of the bodies, and the trapped in an undying body undead, and the girl trapped in a coma where the afterlife is insects judging souls of the dead).
The English subtitle is: Aragne: Sign of Vermillion (vermillion being an etymology pun derived from a root meaning worm/larva(and also an associated disease that causes madness) and being the latin namesake for an insect from which the vermillion-red dye was made) (the 'sign of vermillion' being: the red butterfly omens of bug infection/death, the spirit-bugs stuff in general, and blood from violence)

It is apparent what much of the story elements are trying to be: the pointless prologue's red tree hallucination seems to shallowly symbolize the brain (paralleling the brain that comes out later), black-haired girl's abusive mother is symbolized by the serial killer mother (who is another case of splitting 1 character model into 2 as she could just as easily have been the actual mother of either of the black-haired girls who are also multiple characters from 1), her trauma symbolized by the mothers' apartment and the bathtub her mother would drown her in, (mentioning by cringe dialogue) the very notion of 'a fate worse than death' as a theme with coma and the monsters, blonde MC's brain leaving her trapped body (representing part of her soul leaving her body) as coma metaphor, MC has a scar on her neck because she was pushed as a child cutting her neck (but also the scar is revealed after a death-dream cutaway from the mother's apartment hoodie attack so interpretable as maybe she was infected/cured) paralleling the broken neck curse/bugs and the blonde girl breaking her neck in her fall, black-haired girl metamorphoses death butterfly wings and blonde MC metamorphoses lunar moth rebirth wings as symbolism of each girl as well as the MC's inner conflict (based on Asian mythology of the two parts of the soul, hun(black higher soul) and po(lunar/white lower/basal soul), of which the po remains in the body after death while the hun leaves coinciding with the spirit bugs/undead monsters, coma girl, and the MC's inner conflict with herself between her new (stolen) identity and her black-haired past) culminating in the black-haired childhood friend (giving up her jealousy so now black-haired again, and so giving back the life she took) sacrificing(part of her soul I suppose)/redeeming herself in a reversion of pushing her down into a coma now pulling her up for the blonde's rebirth from coma as black-hair falls instead into the spirit-bugs that judge the dead.
It's great as individual pieces, but it comes with SO much dumb contrivance to arbitrarily shove the noncharacter set-pieces into position for each scene, and each element of the story comes with so many caveats of pervasive ambiguity from excessive subtlety(vaguery) as to force them to remain disconnected ideas because any attempt to bring them together into a coherent plot gets frustrated by how thoughtlessly tossed together it is since every explanation is equally bs and nonsensical:
The armghosts that come out of nowhere phasing from within the steering wheel? the monsters are undead corpse monsters not ghosts, there aren't supposed to be ghost poltergeists here, literal nonsense on top of nonsense... The mother who represents the MC's abusive mother was a member of a circle of insect-spiritualists defending everyone from otherworldly insects and is now killing everyone and presumably making monsters for no reason... Suddenly blonde MC was actually black-haired childhood friend of blonde girl having taken on her name and hair color after making her fall into a coma, yet she seemingly didn't recognize someone (who also does ballet like her) who looks exactly like herself with black hair standing in front of her... Suddenly the black-haired girl, who represents MC's inner self but is actually someone else (because she gave a different name), died from infection by the serial killer woman who represents but is not actually her abusive mother (because the creator gave her a different name on his website) and decapitation by some random EMT guy from the spiritualist circle... Either it was all just a pointless dream of blonde coma girl before she woke up, or she never actually woke up and is just death-dreaming, or the MC randomly gained fku god powers from being put in the psychic experiment machine and nothing matters because fku she woke coma girl up, or MC was the blonde girl and had already woken up from her coma before the start and was moving into the apartments and you put way too much certainty into a single vague scene where black-hair girl grows up and is replaced by blonde girl... MC is put in the psychic experiment machine alive after having been stabbed to death in the heart yet the blood and wounds shown prior and in transit are not there so either continuity error or more bs... coma girl wakes up in the insect hell version of reality or very unlikely in a post-apocalyptic future despite the incongruity of her being fine and with flowers and whatnot in that scenario (but it is alluded by the scene of the doctor and city being attacked by the monsters after the shonen savior dies and is now no longer stopping the monsters (except this isn't really infectious (at least much) unlike a zombie apocalypse so it wouldn't spread much)...
If the plot had actually come together it would've been a decent movie, but it's all pointless bs because pretty much every plot point in the movie has its own series of caveats of ambiguity on top of multiple overlapping layers of dream-bs, and all possibilities render entire swaths of the movie nonsensical if not just pointless dream bs. And the audience has no reason to look any deeper than the surface level because all the other characters are nonentities introduced just to die in a bunch of dumbly contrived filler scenes in a movie with scenes that deliberately make a point to insult the very notion of good storywriting.

I highly recommend at least 1.25x speed, otherwise the low frame rate makes it almost unwatchable.
Cost-saving frame rate aside it is surprisingly well done art/animation if one forgives a bit of slippiness on the 2D overlaying of the 3D environment. They actually went to the effort to have (a lot of) non-static camera cinematography, which is far too rare in animation due to 2D costs. Though the mock handheld camera shakiness effect (covering up imperfections/slippiness and adding immersion) in combination with a low frame rate is nauseatingly bad.

At 1.25x this movie is only a little below average. It's very underrated relative to others here.

The visuals ... themselves are a bit boring, but at least qualify as horror unlike most horror anime. I wouldn't really call it 'horrifying' though, mostly just 'frustrating' because of how shallowly contrived the plot is.
It's pretty much a generic B-movie horror plot where you just constantly feel annoyed that the characters act like idiots trying to die so the movie can happen. It certainly doesn't help that the movie throws itself full tilt into these contrivances from start to finish literally having the MC run straight into arbitrary bs-land from the start 'just cause, ok? don't think about it.'

Amrita comes from Hindu mythology meaning immortality/not-dying much like ambrosia, eating to become like gods. A fitting theme.

Allegedly this is a prequel (but the creator more appropriately called it a spinoff) to Aragne since it has the same apartment setting and momentary unrelated scene cameos 2 of its characters tossed in at the end, but there isn't really any meaningful connection, and with the potential for achronology it isn't even possible to say which movie actually takes place first. I liked this better than Aragne which was a step down in pretty much every category except better frame rate (that has a much more complex story with more meaning but is far too convoluted and full of filler).

Both movies were written/directed/animated by a single guy which is a bit impressive but also a bit pompous and obviously shoots it in the foot in terms of severely limiting man-hours/productivity and it really shows in the limited quality of all aspects of the production, would it really kill him to delegate some menial labor to some underpaid animators? Hell he'd make way more money just from increased productivity let alone that it would be better quality.

A very uninspired Peter Pan story. It's much like that American TV show 'Happy!' except that was a mature action comedy parodying exactly this kind of childish story played straight.

The art style is of boring western animation people in a boring Japan-English Western setting. Terribly uninspired for a fantasy story, and the fantasy stuff is very brief and often just dumb silly childish cartoon characters. Would've been better if the fantastical imagination lands were more vibrant with color instead of being more of the same.

There is nothing to really say about this. It's a shallow "growing up is a thing' and 'mortality exists oh no' ... movie of boring visuals and dumb characters. The plot is mostly 1-note with a bunch of filler and counterproductive exposition to pad the runtime before the 1-note ending happens.
This is very much a young children's movie. Which makes the overt and numerous sexual undertones of the antagonist towards children an odd choice given that it has no relevance to the story whatsoever. Not beating the allegations anime moment.

Watch Happy! instead.

This is a goofy kiddy franchise. I'm unsure what idiot thought it would be good for horror. It has way too much goofy fantasy going on causing severe tonal whiplash as it tries to be horror alongside an ecchi-shonen comedy(noncomedy).
This show is like that old Devil May Cry anime except with everything way way worse.
They're a generic group of supernatural private investigators stopping demon possessions and sending the demons back to hell episodically. The show then takes a jarring turn into a generic haunted house torturing victims with their guilt as if they repurposed some other story into it.
Generic pointless demon possession derangement murders followed ... by getting immediately stopped by the mc.
Generic videogame fire rod vampire pervy mc uses fireball to burn the demons after repeating his catchphrase x5.
Generic ice princess can't control her tsundere emotions leaking out ice powers.
Generic talking witch's hat.
Generic kappa pedo otaku assistant.

The art is higher budget than this show deserves, but visually uninteresting and never used to convey deeper meaning.

100% serious vampire DBZ romance fanfiction. There, that's literally what this is.

Now I can't fathom any fully developed mind who likes Twilight nor DBZ, so I am similarly unable to appreciate the combination of the two. But I can tell you it is supremely disappointing this movie wasn't written as a comedic parody because that could've been 10/10 instead of 1/10.

Hilarious part was when mc has a revolver going up against an op immortal tentacle vampire to get to the objectified macguffin noncharacter, and how does he overcome these seemingly impossible odds to choose whether or not to throw away humanity for that sweet puss-puss? ... We cut away. Time skip. He just does manage the impossible by doing it all off screen. How? Don't think about it. Mermaid nonromance edgy joke of an ending and we're out.

This movie had the potential to be a masterpiece, but it shot itself in the foot quite a bit.
It starts off great, fantastical, decent dialogue, decent characters (it was quite a bit like a scifi Made in Abyss), but then it starts to get dumb in lots of little ways and it becomes progressively harder to overlook all the lack of survival instinct and contrivances and the dialogue/everything starts to take a nosedive as the pedo nazi Betelgeuse starts cringing across the screen and the brains stop braining (the main characters play out conversations of genuine idiocy when trying to overcome the most basic challenge ... of perspective taking that children already learned yet this movie seems to think is incredibly deep and difficult to understand that it takes every opportunity to dumb it down, also for a movie about perspective they fail multuple times to account for the character's perspective, like when she was already able to first see the stars before moving away, or even by saving the fmc in the end when the boy blindly jumps to save her despite having been unable to see her to do so) and the physics stop physicsing... (Why the fuck would you build all this when all you have to do is eat/drink inverted food/water for a few weeks to flip your weight? They put the chain weight on her boot and multiple times this girl would rather die than take the extra weight off. Making a public display of building an airmachine in an authoritarian culture that criminalizes anything of the sort while hiding what was a jew to nazis.)

They had the unique opportunity to depict the surface of the world as upside down with them hanging over an endless abyss of sky. Instead they decided to almost exclusively depict the surface as rightside up just like everything ever and instead flip the underground tunnels upside down, tunnels where, like space, there is no actual frame of reference for rightside up... what a pointless waste of an opportunity to actually have interesting visuals all just to convey egregiously in-your-face and on-the-nose themes of the boy character struggling with basic perspective taking by hand holding the audience through his braindead pov as characters voice their incredulity and eventual understanding of such a basic concept as falling to your death. Of course it wasn't only used for that, it along with most every nonsensical part of the worldbuilding (obviously I don't mean the inverted gravity premise itself) was also used to try to mislead the audience just for a dumb worldbreaking twist at the end.
Frankly, I'd recommend watching the movie with an inverted screen for those scenes after she first falls but that's a hassle.

The worldbuilding is absolutely destroyed by the end of the movie. (The building ruins are still there so they didn't get inverted and there were people who didn't get inverted and there are people right here who aren't inverted so why is it completely uninhabited when they have every reason to be growing food here so that they could feed themselves and more importantly revert people to normal gravity by eating it?)

I don't think there was much reason to justify how much they focused on that pointless little lava-lamp blood vial. I suppose it was probably the balloon father's blood in an opposite gravity vial and yeah friendship/unifying opposite groups/gravities and perspective symbolisms and all but it had no actual purpose in the plot and they just kept focusing on it and it was nonsense that she hadn't lost it with everything else, and it's final scene when it broke they messed up the gravity of the blood by having it the same as the vial when it was supposed to be the opposite (maybe it is just a lava-lamp).

The art/animation and sound are all really great.

The authoritarian world was quite boring and the movie really suffered there especially with the dumb save the princess plotline direction they decided to take the story on top of all the dumb contrivances just to get there and after.

I give up. It's a pretty good movie, I'm just disappointed since it had so much potential to be a 10/10 instead.
8/10 (where 5/10 is average)

Wow, this episodic filler shit is borderline unwatchable. I feel like I'm watching some old cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, GI Joe kiddy slop. The nostalgia pandering/fanservice is everywhere, I'm convinced that every iteration of GitS just cannibalizes itself.
Major's (bad 80s hairday) design looks goofy as fuck as she bimbos her tits and ass around the very straight-faced military/police headquarters/operations in a panty-bra-corset-leotard costume.
The setting is visually bland grass, buildings, highways, etc. with none of the dystopian ruination of the movie.
The characters flip between stilted emotionless robotic dialogue of long random pauses between words and randomly breaking character to be super emotional normal humans.
The ... episodic stories are 1 note idiocy stretched out across a bunch of bs action and exposition dialogue.
There's nothing of depth here unless you are the child target audience who isn't aware of basic facets of life.

The author's pseudointellectual ramblings of self-contradictory dialogue writ large. Worse, I could take every line of this and stack all the rephrased repeats and it would just repeat each a dozen times as it goes through conveying nothing of value for 30 minutes. It takes a very special person to think this juvenile attempt at philosophizing is deep. It adds nothing, literally, a pointless 3rd personality who may as well have just been SHIKI anyway because the 2 fill the exact same role of contrasting Shiki (who is already barely contrasted because it just headasses excuses for everything to make her murderous too filling the ... exact same role as SHIKI because in reality the multiple-non-multiple personalities of Shiki never actually mattered in the 1st place). God this series is dumb and didn't even have the balls to kill the MC let alone write an actual scene where he survives through any actual justification.

Series review:
The 1st 4 movies were pointlessly rearranged out of chronological order in the same way as the source material (thereafter is chronological). You'll find online (much like with any series) fanboys blindly recommend watching it in the order it was released. They will give no actual valid justification for this achronology however. So allow me: The author published each individual chapter online coming up with it as they went and ended up writing prequel chapters and sequel chapters and such off the cuff merely because that's the order they came up with it. Achronology adds absolutely nothing to these movies beyond the pointless achronology itself: pointless convolution of simple linear storytelling, not even adding timeline mystery as it literally tells you the dates for each movie and it's readily apparent which comes before which. What it does do is detract from the story: It shows the chronological last of the 4 1st, thus spoiling your experience of the 3 movies thereafter because all of them are murder-oriented, removing all suspense of whether or not many of the exact same characters will die when we now already know that they won't, they have plot armor to live because they need to be there for the later chronology. They made a lame story slightly worse by recommending the release order. If you want to watch this in the release order, go ahead and watch the HP movies in a random order for the exact same result because achronology is just inherently better and aren't you special?

Each movie in this series follows the main cast involved in another supernatural murder mystery scenario of the week for them to investigate/resolve via exposition dump nonmystery rather than piecing together evidence alongside the audience and often just completely removing all suspense by showing us the murderer and their circumstances from the start.
Both each movie internally and all the movies taken as a whole can be described as a dumb series of random asspulls strung together. Every aspect of it is making itself up as it goes:
For example, intrigue: Why is the killer making swastikas, ying-yangs, and sewing hands and feet swapped on victims? No reason really, plot point dropped forever.
Why does she practically only drink water and seemingly blood? Surely she can't be human, is that blood-coffee? maybe she's a vampire, oh seems she's actually a doll, wait nevermind the author decided to go a different way, came up with the backstory for her arm and she's actually human and her inhuman diet will never be addressed again. wrighting 100.
You can pretty much watch the author coming up with the characters in real-time from blank edgy cardboard nothings to suddenly dumping exposition backstories and that's about as far as they get. Then after a few movies suddenly maguses and suddenly all puppet masters and nothing matters welcome to Fate (oh yeah, Nasu did write Fate, makes sense, wait is this just a Fate spinoff? Damn I've been tricked into watching Fate filler side stories haven't I?).

Despite being ostensibly 'dark fantasy', while it deals with dark/mature themes this isn't horror, just 20% violence/gore between 80% filler. Rather than horror it's mature action, and whatever attempts it makes to be dark come across as laughably edgy and usually conveyed through idiotic shonen villain monologuing (think Angels of Death taking itself completely seriously).

The dialogue is nearly 100% filler/exposition in addition to frequent poor translation/nonsense dialogue.

Barely any actual cinematography or even interesting shots. The best it manages is a bunch of superficial nothings like dead body with blood, oOoOo blood, spoOoOoky and 1 Elfen Lied gore ripoff character who the series just never has show up again? But I guess this shallow filler counts as deep to some people.

The MC is a noncharacter simp with almost no backstory and hardly any relevance to the series. most everyone else actually goes out and does stuff while he kinda just shows up to talk and occasionally participate by simping for girls almost certainly because he's been written as a generic MC self-insert for a VN nonromance harem builder with all the hentai scenes left out. He's a pencil-pushing desk warmer the girls immediately fall for who has been written out of the story with dumb excuses like being comatose and going off for weeks to learn to drive and the story taking place elsewhere only to briefly call him up on the phone to say hello. Let alone making a different character MC, you know your story is bad when your MC of all people would be better off cut from the entire series.

They frequently skip entire scenes that are actually part of the plot and just sort of act like they haven't, as if they were supposed to be there but simply cut for pointless ambiguity because it apparently just isn't interested in telling the story, as if it is rushing through the plot in order to cram in as much cost-saving filler as it can. The finale of the series retcons in an antagonist as if he has been their friend all along even though it fills the series with a 4 year gap of plot holes and is dumb on the face of it and pointlessly meaningless if one tries to look any deeper. This series is a low effort unrevised draft.

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