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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Nov 4, 2024

bmxer44

Recommended

If your looking for a thorough positive review you probably already read it. I don't under stand why it has such a horrible score. I found it to be really well done, and original.

The art style is off putting as it should be, its a horror movie. When she walks its disorienting which is frickin amazing. Obviously by how well drawn everything is the choice to make it this way was intentional. Someone who is looking for an anime with the same animation style as every other one will not like this one but that's ok.

I thought the similar things about Aku no Hana ... and that's one of my all time favorites.

8/10 Overall

(I, me, my, you)

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 28, 2025

joethedodo

Mixed Feelings

Aragne no Mushikago is definitely a confusing anime for the majority of people. The simple idea is that it follows this girl who moves into this new apartment complex and weird creepy things start happening around her. The actual plot of the movie is confusing and you'll end up seeing a lot of scenes or things that make you go ???. The amount of dialogue is limited so this adds to the confusion of the movie coupled with an ending that makes no sense. The animation is disappointingly poor for an anime that is fairly new. The one good thing about this anime though is ... the atmosphere, it does it greatly and builds up a very nice horror feeling with a few jumpscares here and there it does really immerse you. Overall, if you can sit through a somewhat poor animation and confusing story the atmosphere is worth it but don't come in expecting something perfect as there is practically not much of a plot nor development.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 25, 2025

Upperbodygorilla

Not Recommended

Let me get something out of the way that absolutely needs to be said. Kana Hana had no business wasting her talents here.

This movie starts off with some very strong, albeit clearly budget strained imagery, but I was very much into it. Unfortunately, in an effort to mask the lack of workers and money involved in this… thing, the director went out of his way to ensure maximum visual noise in every single shot. This led to the most dizzying and excessive use of shaky cam maybe in any movie ever. If this was a masterpiece of a film that was perfect in almost ... every way, the shaky cam alone would bring it down to like a 7.5. This is of course, not to speak of the various other production related shortcomings such as horrible looking background characters, jarringly inconsistent audio mixing, and a lack of any good voice acting besides it happening to star…. arguably the greatest voice actress in anime history. Seriously what the hell was she thinking?!? As far as the plot goes, it’s incomprehensible garbage which is excessively edgy and presented in a remarkably boring manner. All this is poorly masked by cheap and downright ugly visual techniques. It’s a bunch of fragmented stories that have no concrete connection to each other and barely any thematic through line. I can tell it’s not NOTHING though. If you dig deep enough, you can find meaning and value in this, but it is absurdly poorly communicated.

As a psychological deterioration animated horror movie made essentially by one man, this film was set up for me to give it every pardon imaginable. Make no mistake, I was not expecting this to be super good. With such appealing genre tags (to me personally) though, I was expecting it to be at least interesting. The worst part is… I was perfectly accurate in that assessment. It is pretty interesting. The production and narrative are just genuinely so beyond terrible that the quite strong fragments of visual (and occasionally conceptual) intrigue are rendered negligible.

I think the guy who made this as well as Amrita, is an interesting man with interesting ideas. I don’t believe he could get a crew on board with these ideas… and if this movie is any indication, I fear he will never be able to communicate himself to anybody with any efficacy. Seems like a broken genius minus the genius. I’m glad this exists, and I’m impressed by the passion… but I ultimately found it to be borderline unwatchable. 3/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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