YMMV / The Island of Giant Insects

• Fetish Retardant: Plenty of young ladies showing off their voluptuous bodies... especially as they're eaten alive by giant bugs... and most of them are teenagers, to make it even worse.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Atsushi's English dubbed line "In three days, we're all gonna be bugfucked!!" winds up having a lot more weight to it considering what happens to him and another girl in the manga, which the movie doesn't cover.
• Narm: Most of the deaths are so over the top that they can easily go from Gorn to Black Comedy. Some might say that it could even rival Blood-C for the title of "BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR, MAN!!"
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • What do you expect from a story about giant carnivorous arthropods?
  • As if arthropods weren't bad enough, there are humans willing to take advantage of the situation, so expect a lot of people getting raped and/or murdered.
• Padding: There is one scene in the film that just shows Mutsumi walking down a long hallway for a good 2 minutes or so.
• Rooting for the Empire: On one side, you have the humans who, outside of a select few, are downright awful people. On the other side, you have giant man-eating bugs who simply act on pure instinct. Readers end up supporting the bugs in weeding out the humans.
• The Scrappy: While this could honestly apply to a large amount of characters in this series, with a lot of them bring cartoonishly evil, perverted creeps who are simply Too Dumb to Live, the one character who has earned the hatred of this series small fan base has to be Kyousuke, a wanna be commando Jerkass who acts as the secondary antagonist during the second part of the story. From his introduction to the end of the arc, Kyousuke spends almost his entire screen time arguing and being hostile to Mutsumi, despite her constant attempts to help him and his friends, which leads to him indirectly getting some of said friends killed. And, in an idiotic attempt to get Mutsumi to cooperate, despite having her full cooperation already, he proceeded to sexually assault two other female characters. To top this off, while previous survivors who were just as bad Kyousuke eventually got hit with some karma, Kyousuke managed to get through his entire arc relatively unharmed and ultimately faces no punishment for his actions.
• So Bad, It's Good: A fairly common consensus. Given that most of the cast is unlikeable, that the amount of Gorn is downright comedic and that the plot goes up in smoke midway through the series, it's hard to blame them for thinking so.
• Special Effect Failure: The way the CGI insects are superimposed over the animation is quite reminiscent of Birdemic. The 2D animation isn't any better, with stiff posing, limited movements and looking like they were pasted on the backgrounds.
• Superlative Dubbing: While the English dub isn't widely available yet due to being Kickstarter-exclusive for the time being, those who have seen it thought it was fantastic, with punched up lines and great voice acting that make the movie much funnier and more enjoyable than the original product. It helps that the added cursing isn't necessarily out of character for certain characters. Just watch this compliation clip of some of the movie's funnier lines as an example. Also, how can you go wrong with a dub where Lanipator plays the resident Hate Sink and Kayli Mills using her cutesy moe girl voice while dropping curse words like cunt, shit, and fuck in a comedically casual manner?
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring:
  • The cast is composed mostly of self-centered jerks that are perfectly willing to throw the other survivors into the jaws of death to save themselves, when they're not making things worse for themselves by making idiotic decisions. Hell, they sometimes throw people into the jaws of death just because they don’t like them. As an example, there are four separate Attempted Rapists within the main cast, with two more showing up in backstory. And the few characters that seem like decent people usually don’t last long. It’s easy to see why the majority of the readers want Mutsumi and Chitose (later Kai as well) to simply leave their companions to be killed by the bugs and save their own skins. Because those “companions” would happily do the same if they are given the chance.
  • By the time of the sequel "Dai Kyochuu Rettou", Kasumi, Mami, and Ryouko have some growth as characters. And to a lesser degree, even the previously one-note conniving Nozomi is developed as she emotionally latches onto Mutsumi as it's repeatedly shown that she's desperate for guidance and affection, on top of being a total 'bottom'.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Nozomi Aoyama. Her blind loyalty to Marika and refusal to accept the fact that she was an incompetent leader, is one thing, but it only became worse when she directly caused Marika's death thanks to an entirely-avertible stupid decision. And then she decides to blame Mutsumi for Marika's death and attempts to kill her multiple times for it, going all the way into forcing herself on Kai. Despite her backstabbing, cowardly nature never being kept a secret, she ends up being not only one of the few characters to survive to the end of the original manga (when other, more competent ones didn't), but neither the characters nor the story blame her for her Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and obsessive codependency, instead treating her like a pitiable victim who just needed someone to give her attention. To say the fans thought she was Easily Forgiven would be an understatement.

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