Revisiting Pupa: A Liveblog of Sorts (Part 1)
If you’ve been so nice as to follow the blog, you’ll recall that I read Pupa in order to do a pre-release article of its upcoming Anime helmed by Studio Deen. If you haven’t any idea in the slightest what I’m going on about, click here to read about how I’ve suffered for my craft.
That was in September. Long story cut short, Pupa was
beautiful, a real masterpiece, it left me both wanting more and needing to
hurl. I decided that I wasn’t prepared to follow up with subsequent chapter
releases, and so I did not.
As of 9 January 2014, after a little bit of a tussle with
the censors and a couple months of delay, the first episode of Pupa is finally
out.
It’s been a good 4 months since September.
And I am going to watch this.
It’s 14 30 (2:30pm, if you’re not familiar with the 24-hour
clock) and I’ll be hitting the play button right about now.
14 32
Awfully nice catchy-dissonant theme song, lovely style.
But that’s just the theme song.
I’m loving Yume’s voice, just the perfect kind of innocent.
I can’t wait for it to spout the lines she spouts later in the story
Cute imouto. Enjoy her while she's like that, while you still can
14 34
The woman is creeping me out, so are the red butterflies.
The BGM is lovely, for the record.
14 35
PUPPY. BURST.
TENTACLES. PUPPY. TENTACLES
The visual in question
That is a very alarming shade of pink.
OF COURSE HE’S LOOKING AT YOU LIKE THAT. LOOK AT YOURSELF.
It is also hot pink.
Get it away from me.
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Under normal circumstances, I would apologise for being unprofessional. But this is Pupa. So I have a free pass to be terrified and incoherent.
You do too
I have the heavens to thank that each episode is only 4
minutes. The foreboding of what was to come really got to me, especially
considering that I’ve read the Manga.
For the record, it was stifling and unpleasant. Waiting with
bated breath for shit to go down is not my thing.
First Impressions.
That is a lot of content a mere four minute episode, kudos
to Studio Deen for managing that. But this also meant that plenty of content and
a lot of the nuanced horror buildup that I enjoyed in the manga was absent.
I find that tragic, because as anyone who’s read the source
material can tell you, the Pupa manga was absolutely brilliant.
Scene composition remains true to the frames in the manga. Whether that’s good or bad remains to be seen but it’s just something I’ve noticed.
That was a little harsh. But what little dream sequence there was with
the creepy teddy bear was done pretty well.
There is something about the image of a damaged soft toy addressing you that stays in your mind, there’s also something about the way the teddy bear looked at Yume. That stuck.
That makes two of us, owner. Come play with me, forever and ever
There is something about the image of a damaged soft toy addressing you that stays in your mind, there’s also something about the way the teddy bear looked at Yume. That stuck.
That and the bursting puppy
All in all, I can’t say anything much. Thus far it's nowhere near as raw and terrifying as it's manga counterpart. It’s a little bit
watered down and vanilla, but then again, I’ve only seen four minutes of rushed
backstory plus potentially censored video. I will certainly be watching, because there are bloodier, more puke-inducing bits ahead.
Continue following this? Definitely. I’m half looking forward to the gore, grit and brutality, but that’s
not to say that I’m not concerned about my own rapidly slipping sanity.
Pupa does that to you. Robs your sanity.
Also, I’ll be trying to do this every week, a quick and dirty mini-review. So see you when I see you!
Also, wish me luck
Written by Ash
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