Pupa (manga)


Pupa is a 20112013 Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Sayaka Mogi. An anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Deen premiered on January 9, 2014. Both are notable for their extreme graphic violence.

Plot

The story of Pupa is about two teenagers, Utsutsu and his little sister Yume. Their father was an extremely abusive man, beating their mother and then his children after he was fired. After a divorce, their mother began dating another man, and the father left the two kids alone. Now abandoned, Utsutsu promised himself that he would always protect Yume.
After seeing red butterflies, these two siblings become infected with a virus known as Pupa. This virus mutates organisms into insatiable monsters, only seeking to feed on any sort of life. Yume succumbs to the full effects of the Pupa virus, but reverts into a human. Utsutsu, instead of turning into a monster, gains regenerative powers. In order for the virus to be suppressed in Yume, Utsutsu must take a drug and have Yume feed on his flesh.

Characters

;Utsutsu Hasegawa
;Yume Hasegawa
;Sachiko Hasegawa
;Shirō Onijima
;Maria Ai Imari
;Makoto Hotoki
;Yūhei Arita
;Yuu

Media

Manga

The manga series Pupa is written and illustrated by Sayaka Mogi and was serialized in Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star magazine between March 12, 2011, and December 12, 2013. An extra chapter was published in the magazine's February 2014 issue. Additionally, the series was compiled in five tankōbon volumes, which were published under the Earth Star Comics imprint between November 11, 2011, and February 12, 2014.

Volumes

Anime

An anime adaptation produced by Studio Deen and directed by Tomomi Mochizuki with character designs by Maki Fujii premiered on January 9, 2014, following a delay from its initial October 2013 premiere. Each episode is exactly four minutes long, and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The series' first eight episodes were screened in advance on December 21, 2013, at the Aeon Cinema Makuhari Shintoshin theater in Chiba Prefecture.