Plot
Students from Hosho Academy High School were aboard a plane when it crash lands under mysterious circumstances. The heroine, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates wash ashore on an island. The surviving passengers decide to wait for help to come, but the island turns out to be inhabited by giant insects. Mutsumi wakes up on a beach and finds her classmate Matsuo Ayumi. They use their wits to procure food. Believing that help will come in three days, they decide to endure until then
Cast
Not familiar with anybody involved.
Verdict
Another anime I'd likely not have gotten round to if it hadn't been a recommendation, The Island of Giant Insects had a great deal of potential but failed to meet it at any level.
Now it's uninspired let's be honest, it's the usual formula of a group of teens going somewhere and being picked up by something. In this instance varying giant insects which though provide us some very skin crawling and disturbing deaths are simply not enough to give substance.
The characters are your usual array of stereotypes from the jock to the nerd to the cruel girl and for the most part they're all unlikable and often annoying. Then again I find the latter a common anime trait.
The flaws don't stop there sadly, poor pacing and a non-ending really didn't help and left me feeling this was the definition of a throwaway film.
It's rushed, creepy and unnerving but so flawed that doesn't save it.
Rants
I'm not one to put down other reviews, opinions are subjective after all but the complaints here seem invalid.
The suggestion the artwork was terrible? It was pretty bog standard, the generic "I want that time of my life back" the highly mature "It sucked" and then complaints about cussing *Laughs in 1950's* and nudity which was "Way too excessive" despite being a topless girl once in one single scene. Come on guys and girls, lighten up.
Breakdown
Some unnerving stuff Horrible characters Poor pacing Doesn't really have an ending.
Students from Hosho Academy High School were aboard a plane when it crash lands under mysterious circumstances. The heroine, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates wash ashore on an island. The surviving passengers decide to wait for help to come, but the island turns out to be inhabited by giant insects. Mutsumi wakes up on a beach and finds her classmate Matsuo Ayumi. They use their wits to procure food. Believing that help will come in three days, they decide to endure until then
Cast
Not familiar with anybody involved.
Verdict
Another anime I'd likely not have gotten round to if it hadn't been a recommendation, The Island of Giant Insects had a great deal of potential but failed to meet it at any level.
Now it's uninspired let's be honest, it's the usual formula of a group of teens going somewhere and being picked up by something. In this instance varying giant insects which though provide us some very skin crawling and disturbing deaths are simply not enough to give substance.
The characters are your usual array of stereotypes from the jock to the nerd to the cruel girl and for the most part they're all unlikable and often annoying. Then again I find the latter a common anime trait.
The flaws don't stop there sadly, poor pacing and a non-ending really didn't help and left me feeling this was the definition of a throwaway film.
It's rushed, creepy and unnerving but so flawed that doesn't save it.
Rants
I'm not one to put down other reviews, opinions are subjective after all but the complaints here seem invalid.
The suggestion the artwork was terrible? It was pretty bog standard, the generic "I want that time of my life back" the highly mature "It sucked" and then complaints about cussing *Laughs in 1950's* and nudity which was "Way too excessive" despite being a topless girl once in one single scene. Come on guys and girls, lighten up.
Breakdown
Some unnerving stuff Horrible characters Poor pacing Doesn't really have an ending.
