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Giant Insect Ecchi Horror OVA To Precede Anime Series
By Yung Namahage • 5 years ago

You might remember that time I wrote about a manga called Kyochou Rettou, also known as the fitting Island of Giant Insects, which will be getting an anime special some time this year, produced by studio Passione. It's now been announced by author Tatsuya Ishiguro that the OVA will set up a longer anime adaptation, and that a crowdfunding campaign will be launched soon.


While I hadn't heard of the series before writing the last article, I must say that it intrigued me enough to check it out. What I found was that it wasn't one of those series that you'll check out for some strong character arcs or love stories or happy endings. In a nutshell: students get stranded on an island, find giant insects, then have sex and/or die, until the protagonist, who happens to know every insect species' weaknesses, leads them to temporary safety before the cycle repeats. Characer development isn't really there; most of their personalities are hardly built upon from their first appearance bar one or two characters


That being said; if you're the type of sick individual that wants a series with a lot of shock factor, where characters die horrific deaths and the women have their tits out most of the time, this is for you. Think Terraformars or Gantz but with more male-on-female/female-on-female/insect-on-human rape scenes. Its solid art style is also a strong point, since RED ICE's illustrations do a great job at horrifying or titillating the reader depending on the scene. At least until the sixth volume, where Shu Hirose took over art duties for the manga due to his predecessor's ill health and it doesn't have quite the same feel to it. But I digress.

I'll be looking forward to seeing if the anime will faithfully represent the graphic nature of the manga. If it does, we may end up with yet another Goblin Slayer-esque controversy on our hands.


Kyochou Rettou's OVA will debut on June 20 in Japan, along with the manga's sixth volume collection, and will be available for streaming in the west on Crunchyroll sometime after that. No doubt the rest of the series will be coming to Crunchyroll too, assumming the crowdfunding campaign will hit its target.


Does this sound like your thing or will you give it a miss? Drop your thoughts in the comments.