The fact that Perfect Blue was made over 25 years ago and is more relevant than ever is insane to me

@TownsRelaibleBronxstenian

6 ай бұрын

so I like peanuts

@danielramos6325

4 ай бұрын

I know right 😂

@wadejohnston4305

3 ай бұрын

The idol scene in Japan has become imo SO much worse than it was portrayed in PB (which was really fucking bad. Unwritten and documented non dating agreements. Multiple suicides. Stalking off the charts. All worse with the blooming of the internet

@nevion5533

2 ай бұрын

oshi no ko's obsessive fan in the first episode kind of reminded me of Perfect Blue when i watched it

@H-ruki

23 күн бұрын

Same with serial experiment lain

One aspect of Mima's life that made me a little sad was how the group she performed with started becoming more popular after she left. Combined with her deteriorating mental health, that had to be a blow.

@danielramos6325

4 ай бұрын

Same here

I admire you for putting aku no hana here. It may not be your typical horror anime, but it was one of the most disturbing things I've ever watched and the fact that it was so realistic scared me the most.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree me more. This anime is so painfully overlooked

Im so sad you guys dont think Shiki is scary 😭 i watched it first when I was probably about 12 and its stuck with me ever since. When that guy experiments on his wife, that scene where that guy is sad that his friend as a vampire is able to resist eating but he wasnt able to, that girl who killed her whole family in an attempt to be with them only for them to not turn into vampires. Its all so sad and scary. The idea of dying a horrible death and then being forced to become this monster who has to kill the ones you love to live. All they wanted was a community of their own, they wanted everyone in the town to be with them and they all got violently murdered for it 💔

@auggiemain

8 ай бұрын

Also, watching Flowers of Evil rn it sounded really interesting and is the first rotoscope project I've seen that actually looks like. Present to look at. At least imo.

@fishbol478

8 ай бұрын

To me it was more of a slap with reality than scary. I mean sure it’s very scary to think and know that similar situations happen in real life, but it just left me feeling empty afterwards knowing i can’t do anything about it. I’m just a fellow villager that can watch at the sides.

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I’m sorry Auggie 😭 I don’t hate it I just don’t find it scary. I think it’s very entertaining

@_kaleido

7 ай бұрын

Shiki is one of my favorite anime but I personally found it to be more depressing than scary, the characters and their reactions felt very realistic.

@throwmeaway6969

7 ай бұрын

I loved Shiki to death- music, character designs and theme. it was more psychological for me than scary but it was sooo good!

I love horror and anything related, but i think anime shines most with Psychologycal Horror. Perfect Blue is an amazing example of that and it's surprising to see its themes still hold up to today's era and age Great video, will add your recommendations to my list

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I couldn’t agree more, and it’s my pleasure to give you some new shows to check out

@danielramos6325

4 ай бұрын

I know right

Texhnolyze is the most emotional draining anime out there. First time I watched when I was a kid left me so sad. There’s a piano ost that’s so incredible

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I know exactly what OST you’re talking about. Texhnolyze is a masterpiece easily but really is so hard to watch

@froufroudeluxe

8 ай бұрын

Emotionally draining is a perfect description of texhnolyze as a whole. Beautiful, sometimes hard to sit through, experience

@aidensnow5017

8 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru Considering you like Higurashi When They Cry, are you hyped for/planning to make any video's on Silent Hill F when it comes out, considering the story of Silent Hill F is being written by Higurashi's author?

@guitargangster66

7 ай бұрын

Texhnolyze fucked me up.

I’m actually happy to see Perfect Blue is mentioned. I have that movie in two copies. A regular blu-ray and 4K ultra blu-ray steel book. Fair to say I really love the movie. Still unnerves me to hear the famous Mima’s Room theme, love it so much the harmonic tones of it still gives little shivers of “someone can be watching you, you just don’t know it.” Back to the video.

@danielramos6325

4 ай бұрын

I know right

"Shiki" was a nightmare. Ill never forget the girl dying in a dirt tunnel or the girl being slowly smooshed under A tractor tire

@daniellewillis2767

Ай бұрын

The fact that the tragedy and horror was able to shine through some of the flat out FUNNIEST hairdos in all of animie (which is an achievement in itself!) is a testament to it's power. I just wish the Shiki and the humans could have reached an agreement....

That first note from the Song of the Witch gave me chills like it was the first time all over again. I love Re:Zero. It triggers such a visceral response and is more thought provoking than people sometimes give it credit for. I can watch it over and over and still be effected by it.

Finally someone said it, Re:Zero is a psychological horror and I don't care what people say otherwise, as someone whose a caught up to the source material I cannot wait for you to experience Arc 6.

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I’m so excited for it. Waiting is so frustrating

@birdup2141

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru the wait makes it hit harder when it takes you by surprise

i watched flowers of evil during its original run. Its cool seeing someone talk about it again. And Omg hearing the ending play again sent shivers down my spine. It was so freaky but i couldn't stop listening to it. I was so intrigued by the show because I had not seen anything like it at the time. After the anime, I went on to read the rest of the story in the manga.

@jjdoesrandomstufflol9675

7 ай бұрын

What does she make the main character do?

@Sonamyfan92

7 ай бұрын

@@jjdoesrandomstufflol9675 unfortunately I haven't read the manga in a few years so my memory is a little foggy atm

@theycallmetray396

6 ай бұрын

@@jjdoesrandomstufflol9675you probably read it by now which you should, she makes him dress in the girls clothes he stole

Even though Higurashi have some aspects that didn't age well, it remains one of my fav anime (Top 5 Anime) of all time; and Re:Zero is an amazing series to fill in that void for this; the closest being Summertime Render.

@perrobang8925

7 ай бұрын

Oh hell yes! I love your tastes.

@godiloveminininjas4278

7 ай бұрын

Umineko when they cry. Check it out, the visual novel

@coopigeon619

7 ай бұрын

I second that, Umineko (the visual/sound novel) is a masterpiece of fiction..

@allenharper2928

7 ай бұрын

What didn't age well?

@KeiichiGreen36

7 ай бұрын

@@allenharper2928 It's animation

I usually refer people to the Ninja Scroll where ninjas at the start the movie investigate and are ambushed by supernatural beings. Probably THE best horror moment done in anime EVER. You can legit feel the horror of every moment. Oh yeah and Genocyber, true horror done in anime. 80s/90s and early 2000s anime could do horror perfectly

I think another (possible) honorable mention could be Tomie. It is a fact that Tomie is basically the queen of manga horror, she is indeed pretty iconic, even if the horror of it has been toned down because of the popularity, but it is still the first thing that pops up (at least for me) when "horror manga" is mentioned. But well, it is just my opinion.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Oh yeah I love Tomie. If I made a video about manga, I’d mention it there for sure :0

I gotta say it was really cool seeing aku no hana here. I watched it maybe 7 years ago? And I still know the lyrics of the outro song. It scared me but a better way to explain it was that it made me sick with anxiety. It pulls you in by being nervous with Takao taking the gym clothes and really locks you in with nakamura always on him. It felt like being locked in a room with her and you weren't sure what's she'd do 😂 I remember having to take a break at one point just because of how uncomfortable it made me

Thank god someone else finds Aku No Hana horrifying. I read the manga and had to suppress a panic attack reading it. I have only ever had one real panic attack in my life, so it was pretty unusual for me. It was just so goddamn uncomfortable. It made me feel like I needed to go scrub my skin off in the shower. It was so so so icky. Everyone thinks I’m nuts when I say it’s one of the most truly disturbing things I’ve ever read/watched, considering I consume an ungodly amount of horror media.

anybody who finds the aku no hana animation weird - i get it, it's strange and unlike typical anime. BUT TRUST ME, as well as what hunter says, the story suits the rotoscoping insanely well. i've studied baudelaire's poetry (if you have an interest in literature, i highly recommend the poems morning twilight and evening twilight) , and his poetry very much focuses on crude realism, another reason why this animation style works. also don't watch the live action movie - it's bad lol

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

The live action is really really bad (thank you for the recommendation I’ll check it out)

for YEARS ive been trying to remember Texhnolyze and you just fixed my over ten year brain fuck of never being able to find it again omfg. I specifically remember having the dvd for it and being obsessed with the opening but never actually understanding the show itself bc i was so young but MAN, now i can finally remember and watch it :D

There is only one anime that has been able to scare me - Shinreigari (Ghost Hound). Also, this anime touches on topics of psychology. I'd even say it's like a puzzle, because you're given the necessary information and some sort of end result, but no one is going to chew it up for you. You are expected to think about it yourself and fill in the gaps.

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I put this show on pause but i plan to finish it, I’ve been very much enjoying it

@TheDriedfrogpills

6 ай бұрын

High five! I have forgotten how I fell into Ghost Hound but yes, definitely one of the animes that scared me and still stays with me.

Oh hey, Texhnolyze and Mononoke are personal favourites of mine! :3 Maybe this is going to sound slightly unhinged, but I honestly find the ending of Texhnolyze… "hopeful" is the wrong word, but there is a sense of closure and tragic potency to how the different characters confront the futility of their actions and choose to act regardless, finding meaning in raging against the dying of the light. I will say, however, that the show is deeply unsettling in places, with the surface world being particularly nightmarish in a way that I normally only encounter in short prose fiction. In terms of what shows not listed here have truly disturbed me, the excellent if sadly truncated adaptation of Alien Nine is really something else, a real fever dream of the horrors of adolescent girlhood with some truly wild imagery and amazing sound design and music. The fact that this team never got a chance to animate some of the truly harrowing and heartbreaking material from later in the manga is a grave disappointment. On the truly obscure end of things, Nido to Mezamenu Komori Uta, a highly experimental and politically charged short film by the same director as the infamous Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki (also absolutely horrifying), ends with a lengthy, highly symbolic sequence involving a train which is one of the most frightening pieces of art which I have ever encountered in my life. And to round things off with a more recent pick, while I understand and respect your misgivings about how the series handles its child characters, the second season of Made in Abyss is a genuine tour de force of transgressive fiction of a sort rarely seen in animation, simultaneously nauseating and awe-inspiring, and admitting that I think it was possibly the best show of last year feels at once uncomfortably revealing and just kind of right.

I recommend the anime Now and Then, Here and There, while I don’t think it technically counts as a horror anime, it does have some scenes that are genuinely scary and disturbing!

I watched with bated breath, hoping I overlooked a series…and there is! I saw every show you listed minus Texhnolyze. So I know which show to add to my watch soon list.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Yay! I’m happy I was able to give you something new to watch

Seeing Texknolyze in the list makes me really happy. I remember buying the DVDs for a lot of money and obly watching the show once. I liked the experience but never touched the DVDs again. Glad to hear someone else has the feeling not wanting to watch the show again, even when they say they enjoyed it. 😬

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

That’s so true. It reminds me a lot of this French film called Martyrs. The story and message are genius, but holy shit is the journey so rough. Also I love the Barbara pfp

Amazing list! This has some of my favorite anime ever. The very fact that Texhnolyze is the only one I have not seen now makes me want to watch it! I definitely will have to check out more of your videos!

Off topic but the way you pronounced Übermensch made me laugh😂 awesome vid tho, I knew about all of them but Texhnolyze

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

You’ve just got that big knowledge! And yes I’m an expert at pronunciation lol

Pretty much every anime on this list is one I really enjoy so I’m a little sad that there isn’t anything new to watch. (I’m so glad Aku no Hana is getting it’s flowers finally, it’s one of my favorite anime that I can never truly recommend) but I’ve never seen Re:Zero bc in the surface it looks like a typical isekai harem anime and that just not to my taste but your recommendation has intrigued me. I love Higurashi but I don’t consider the anime scary, what actually scared me was the visual novel and it’s a shame that none of the anime adaptations can capture that horror.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I highly recommend Re:Zero! I’m not huge on most isekai anime, but I can guarantee and promise it is nothing like most isekai anime

Thank you for making this list and video and uploading it, sir! ^^

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Of course! I’m happy to help :D

Made in abyss definitely has some messed up/disturbing and scary moments, worth a mention

@daseagreenpotatoes4653

Ай бұрын

Best animee

I have had Mononoke and flowers of evil on my watchlist for a while but I had never heard of Texhnolyze until this video, thank Thank you for convincing me to watch them and thanks for giving perfect blue the justice it deserves feels like its glossed over but its more relevant now then ever before! I have been watching your higurashi content for a while now keep up the great content! 😀

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

Awesome! I’m glad to see some people have stuck around from that era, makes me very happy. It really bugs me how under-appreciated Perfect Blue feels, but I’m very happy regardless that I was able to convince you to move some shows higher up in your watch list :D

This… is actually a fantastic list. Every show you mentioned is great and fits well, not surface level pics either. Very impressed!

Having some to add to catch up to, awesome

Heh. I was 12 in 2001, and that when more adult anime started to become mainstream and available with better translation and localization. I remember renting Perfect Blue from Blockbuster at around that time and watched it with a friend. At the end of it, we both looked at each other and went, "What the hell was that?" But Perfect Blue has stuck with me, so I'm glad I watched it when I did. I think I tend to be more forgiving and sympathetic of celebrities and the regular KZread creators that I watch because of how it impacted me.

Surprised that you didn’t also include “Trust and Betrayal”. The story there is dark as hell and it’s one of the best prequel ever.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I've actually never heard of this before, only because of google did I find out it was related to Rurouni Kenshin lol. Interested rec, I'll look into it. Thank you!

@nont18411

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru It was a prequel to Rurouni Kenshin but the tone is completely different. Very dark, brutal and serious. Minor spoilers here, think about it as a Batman origin story because it’s a Batman origin story.

I had two thoughts: First Texnolyze sounds like it was a prequel to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Second Flowers of Evil has an anime? Great, I had just started reading the manga!

@guitargangster66

7 ай бұрын

I always thought of it as a prequel to BLAME! And Jin Roh was a prequel to it all.

Dark gathering was imo a sleeper hit that is genuinely scary at many many different moments while also being able to make you laugh and or smile just as much

When i read satoshi kon i knew you were a man of culture. Amazing

@santiagocingolani2455

8 ай бұрын

No way, mononoke too, just finished it 2 weeks ago. And there will be a new film in 2024

I would love that Space oddysey cosmic horror video 😮

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

👀

Higurashi was one of the first anime that i watched, and it scared me shitless as an 11 year old. Not so much these days but phew i was freaked out back then

Aku no Hana is masterful, so it’s refreshing to hear someone talk about such an underrated series so passionately. Something I love about it that I don’t believe you touched on is how reflective the story and themes are of the works of Baudelaire. Many of his works, including the original collection of poems under the same name as this series, tackle themes of beauty and romance often through a lens of decay, corruption, and self-destruction. The collection that this series is named after in particular brilliantly captures this idea that a cyclical form of erotic desire can take over one’s mind and lead someone to become intoxicated by their own self-destruction. There’s this looming theme of moral corruption in which a human will deny their own responsibility in succumbing to moral corruption at first but be overtaken by it as it becomes more intoxicating and luring. In Aku no Hana, so many themes, episodes, and characters mirror these ideas flawlessly. Takao gives into immoral desire and is caught by Nakamura who quickly becomes a vehicle for corruption that allows Takao to give into his own self-destruction. While he shuns the idea of being culpable at first, he is eventually intoxicated with the immoral nature that Nakamura allows him to see in himself. No better scene captures this better than the infamous classroom paint scene. I was just blown away by how well this series was able to capture and express the essence of Baudelaire’s works and philosophies. Such a fantastic series.

@MrHunteru

2 ай бұрын

First off, fantastic to see another comment from you again! Your comment on the RAG video was one I was thinking about most of yesterday. Secondly, I both am surprised and not surprised that the series takes so much influence from Baudelaire’s works. I’ve been planning to make a much larger video about the series because the manga blew me out of the water and is currently one of my favorites ever made, and now I know that if I do I should look more into Baudelaire for said video. I’ll be sure to give you credit too because you’ve got me very interested! Sounds like the themes perfectly match up, and it’s a very interesting exploration of morality

@brendanlash5859

2 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru I really appreciate that. I have a lot of passion for the series since it is one of my favorites and I am a huge fan of the works of Baudelaire. It would be great if you made a full video on the series. I’d definitely be tuning in. I’m interested to hear what other insights you have about the series as a whole and its many themes. Keep up the great work though! I found your channel yesterday and your videos instantly had me hooked. You offer some genuinely new and interesting commentary on many series that I feel like either aren’t being talked about enough or are so over saturated with critiques that everyone comes off as repetitive. I have been impressed with all the videos I have seen of yours so far. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next!

8:40 - Then why did you do Higurashi dirty like that!??? IT DOES THE SAME THING 😭

@MrHunteru

5 ай бұрын

I felt it a lot more in ReZero than in Higurashi. I am a biased mofo lmao

Really surprised I didn't see shiki even mentioned but hey its your list

What are your thoughts on Berserk and Made in Abyss? Also while not an anime it's a game World of Horror is heavily inspired/homage to Junji Ito and the late HP Lovecraft.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard of this game before but you’ve definitely caught my attention. Personally I’ve stayed away from Made in Abyss because some aspects with the children make me feel deeply uncomfortable, and Berserk is depressing lmao I’ve been trying to read it but I keep taking breaks cause it’s a lot

@sockaponch

7 ай бұрын

Dude u literally saw higurashi, what the fuck are you talking about made in abyss throws ball ofd

Honestly the anime that scares me the most is soul eater by its use of madness as narrative tool especially in the manga (that you should read it adds more depth for some characters and its way longer that the anime

Perfect Blue is more of a Psychological Thriller to me but definitely top 3 anime movies for me of all time. Hell Girl or Another wasn't mentioned which i think are horror. Honorable mention to Mieruko-chan because its hilarious but it's terrifyingly creepy too😂

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I’ve seen another and I personally didn’t find it scary in the slightest, I’ve never heard of Hell Girl before. Also Mieruko-Chan lmao

@brittney4u932

7 ай бұрын

@MrHunteru I can see why Another isn't scary, but I do find it good for the horror genre because of its supernatural element. Hell Girl is interesting it might not be scary either, but the concept is good. You might like it also it's kind of old. I think it came out in the early 2000s.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

@@brittney4u932 interestinggg, I’ll be sure to look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!

i been wanting to watch more horror anime, i havent seen perfect blue and flower of evil so ill watch those. and elfen lied and higurashi scare me when i was younger, rewatching them now they arent scary just the death that gets me but any thoughts on corpse party? i seen the show idk how many time and i cant help but flinch at each ep

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I like Corpse Party a lot, but for me I just find it a little absurd instead of unnerving. The video games are another story though

Horror has been a staple in my childhood because of my dad. This and Madoka Magica really affected him since he has me, my sister and granddaughter.

New video from u yaaaaay As for me nothing will ever comes close to usagi drop psychological damage Though that part is only in the manga Thank god

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

Oh I was about to say I didn’t know Usagi Drop had a moment like that 💀

Love the higurashi music on the background 🙏🙏

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

Higurashi has the best spooky tunes

what the fuck was the music at the start of the re:zero section? i swear ive heard it before but I dont remember at all

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Call of the Witch! It’s from ReZero and was a big meme so I wouldn’t be surprised if you knew it

I'm watching this while making dark art and i swear to God when flowers of evil's soundtrack came on, I screamed

I didn't know Aku no Hana had an anime adaptation - I've only read the manga - so this is now on my evergrowing watchlist.

Have you watched Boogiepop Phantom? If not, i recommended that for its animation style, music, and story telling.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t actually! I almost did when researching this video but decided not to, I’ll be sure to check it out

Dude higurashi messed me up alittle bbit. I give you props 😅😂.

Flowers of Evil was one of the first manga series i ever read and completed. It's incredible and i cannot recommend it enough. I never watched the anime however and i believe this reminder of the series is going to be why i finally watch. Its a horribly amazing story through and through.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

It is, it’s SO fantastic. The manga made me sob I cannot believe or understand how overlooked the series is

Pls tell me what the name of the background music is!? 🙏🙏

9:42 Thank you for feeding us Toei animation

I vaguely remember an old Pewdiepie video of him recommending anime and Mononoke it was one of them, same with blame! But he said the manga was where it’s at lmao

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t checked out the manga but so far I feel the anime could be better. The animation, sound effects and voice acting are awesome

One of my all time fave horror anime is Corpse Party. They perfectly captured the horror from the games and it will always have a place in my heart

Ghost Hunt would be good one too. Manga and anime are both good

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I’ve heard of this series before but not looked into it, I will definitely give it a go

When will the next higurashi video come out? Can't wait for the next arc.

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

I just started working on it lol, so no clue! But it will come

honestly, with the "anime can't have horrifying designs" like with the junji ito stuff, I've found dark gathering from this season has some incredibly terrifying designs.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Man I’m getting a lot of comments about this show, I’d never heard of it before. I’ll need to watch it soon

The animation in flowers of evil looks exactly the same as the animation in the amv D.Y.E fantasy.

I'm so freaking happy you included Re:Zero

I think Jojo's Bizarre adventure is the scariest anime franchise I ever seen. There are absolute nightmare fuel moments in Jojo that just plain shock me everytime. Especially Jojo part 5. Sometimes it tries too hard.

I have been searching for this one horror anime I watched when I was a kid 10 years ago , I remember vividly but it was about a group of highschoolers and their exploration of urban legends, it included a cat that had an evil spirit, a headless motorcycle guy , a giant man eating rabbit, the toilet bound ghost, these are the only ones I remember, please someone if you know what I'm talking about please give me the name

21:43 ok I had to turn my audio down and pause because I WAS NOT expecting that Holy shit, that was insanely creepy, I love it

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I’m sure it didn’t help that it was super loud lmao, I’m glad you liked it! >:)

Check out Dark Gathering. It’s definitely the most interesting horror anime I’ve seen in a long time.

Please do a timeline of madoka magical I need help idk what's going on anymore 😅😢

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I’ll look into doing this!

I'm surprised to see Re:Zero on this list but you're not wrong it slightly fell off in season 2 imo but it was still good, hope season 3 doesn't continue downward. if it ever releases oh and btw the "sch" of übermensch is one sound, not two

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

Oh my mistake, yeah I’m not gonna try to act like my pronunciation of practically any other language is good lmao

Higurashi definitely scared me. I love it so much. I’m interested in Umineko but haven’t had the chance to watch

@MrHunteru

5 ай бұрын

You should read it if you can manage reading manga, the anime was horribly adapted. They cut 99% of the story down and then never finished it. The manga and the visual novel are perfect imo

Have you heard/watched Dark Gathering?? It's still airing right now. The show starts slow with kinda episodic style, But once the plot reveal around episode 9 It's get really disturbing and dare I say Scary.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t but I definitely will catch up to it, thank you!

welcome back!

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appear again every once in awhile but hopefully this won’t be as big a gap lol

HELL YEAH MONONOKE. It and Ayakashi are two of my favorite, favorite animes

The fact doc is cold to ichise,even in story progressed to warm to ichise

I am really gonna watch Aku no hana right away! It seems like something that will sit in my head rent free xD

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

It hasn’t left my mind and I started working on this video almost 2 months ago lol

@MarySirenbun

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru I finished it in a day xD I couldn't stop watching it! It was so good! Such a shame that there hasn't come out more seasons because this left me with a bunch of questionmarks (especially with the teaser they left us in the end!) It would have been so fun to see an indept video about this series and especially about the main character. The psycho girl (who was so creepy and unhinnged, which made me feel so much anxiety everytime of what she would do next!) always left me confused, but our protagonist left me feel even more confused! I mean you kinda understand him, and it's clear that he has depression and a mental illness of some sort (im guessing), but at the same time I really don't get him! for example when they messed up the classroom, before that she was tired of him and even "freed him" from their "contract", but instead of letting her go he felt the need to please her in a way? I really don't get him. Maybe he was scared of being alone or somethin.. but he could have solved his problems in waaay better ways than what he chose to do... Hehe sorry for a long comment, but it is very interesting! I just felt so bad for the girlfriend too :( I really wished they kept the anime going! Maybe we should write a petition to the creators or something 😅 so they know that many people still loves it!

I have Shiki, Higurashi, and maybe this won't count but that one sequence in Blood C with the giant rabbits haunting me to this day. Though it's likely bc I watched them when I was like 9 😅.

@joshuaholman7760

7 ай бұрын

The first half of Blood + was actually pretty good as horror, but it sadly moved off of that genre and went to action.

@Topdoggie7

7 ай бұрын

Blood C is a golden show.

@kalenics123

7 ай бұрын

I will forever remember spiderfrogs big school feast.

its funny that a rika fanart is in the thumbnail

Read the manga for aku no hana! It’s simply amazing, oshimi shuzo has a lot of great horror manga

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I have and I LOVE IT! I plan to make a huge video talking about it. I’ll be sure to check out shuzo too! Thank you :D

Mononoke is amazing, I find it so easy to get lost in its art style. It has a way of sucking you into its world

I'm not feeling sh*t about horror anime, but somehow some of non-horror anime got me. Can't remember which anime tho

I've seen all of these EXCEPT Flowers of Evil.. I have to watch this.

I'm shocked no shadow star Narutaru or Bokuranu is on this list bc they're very disturbing, especially a scene where a girl confronts another girl she has been bullying with a test tube 😭

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard of any of these lmao but I will be certainly looking into tbem

@magicalpasta5462

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru be careful, it gets very dark

I've seen Higurashi multiple times & I'm still confused

Bokurano is one you should look into. It's so underrated.I'd also recommend Redo of a Healer, which, even though it is full of smut, has a surprisingly interesting revenge plot. Haibane Renmei is another one that's always stuck with me. It seems really wholesome up front and then you get to know the characters and the world. The light novel is so good. Oh also House of Five Leaves. That's another underrated and mostly forgotten anime that's really, really good.

funny thing is as great as re:zero is with psychological horror the novels do the body horror more justice as you hear subaru's thought process in great detail each time and what he is feeling uh... internally in some cases and its a lot more descriptive than the anime

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

That’s so true. Also weird question but is your name a Yugioh reference?

@birdup2141

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru actually its a terminalmontage reference which in turn is I think an eric andre show reference, many layers but mainly at the time i just thought it sounded funny

I'm so excited for Uzumaki

Can't wait for the new Mononoke movie next year ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I wonder if madoka majica was influenced by mononoke

The old higurashi is rly good. was my first anime where i understand "episodly"

I really do think that made in abyss should have been on this list

Mononoke blows its load early IMO by using the scariest story by far as its first arc. The rest of it is good, but Zashiki-Warashi is a fucked up horrifying masterpiece of a Japanese ghost story. The anime it spun off from, "Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales", is also extremely awesome, particularly the Yotsuya Kaidan segment. I 100% recommend watching that too if you like Mononoke.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

I will check that out, I almost did. I agree that the beginning of Mononoke is the strongest part of it tho

I'd argue k-on is the most disturbing horror anime, and the first minute of episode 1 is already a good example - yui almost slipping is definitely dreadful and made me scared of polished floors for life

Anyway, I’m putting these anime on my to watch list!! ^.^

Idk The blood shown in horror animes are too extra And when I see it It reminds me of my favorite gushers❤

i am a *huge horror fan and when they cry well had to make me stop watching i think before the finish but watched the remake and finished it* so yea the remake is more managable

" are fairly grotesque for modern anime standards" lol what? Anime back then was crazy and unhinged. It was an awesome time to watch anime cause thats when all bets were off and animation studios were doing some creative and crazy things in their anime. Todays anime is pretty luckwarm with some rough or hidden gems. I think AoT is pretty intense in its goryness, but not many others I can think of right off the bat.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, that’s what I meant. Anime nowadays doesn’t go all out like it used to so for todays standards it’s fairly grotesque. If we’re talking about anime from back then Perfect Blue is super tame compared to most

@grumpysheep3710

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru In terms of gore fest, yea it's tamed. But the gore is so well placed that it makes up for it since it's not really about the gore anyways. But I get it, now their are some pretty crazy body horror and gory anime from back then that STILL out shines today's current anime. Not all, but a good amount.

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

@@grumpysheep3710 absolutely. Nothing can come close to like Wicked City or Akira for super gore

@grumpysheep3710

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru Yup also if you a HxH fan the og 1990 something version of HxH is also pretty dark and gory. I think it's still available to watch for free if ya look it up.

My favorite personal niche of horror anime has got to be deceptively cute. Things like madoka magica or school live

I might be in the minority saying this: Promised Neverland S2 had a bad ending, but the episodes beforehand I think are pretty good. S1 to me remains a 10/10 S2 - 6/10 Can't wait to get cooked. 😅

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

No you’re right, season 1 is great. But it’s hard to think of the show without thinking of the second season, at least for me

@KeiichiGreen36

8 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru I know. That's why I said I was in the minority 🤣

0:15 what anime is vampire lady from?

@MrHunteru

7 ай бұрын

Shiki!

@FinalFrontier101

7 ай бұрын

@@MrHunteru thank you

The first proper horror anime I watched was Shiki, which was underwhelming. Then I watched Higurashi which was better even if the horror was mostly atmospheric. Personally Anime as a medium still hasn't managed to scare me but "Psychological horror" is something anime has mastered.

@MrHunteru

8 ай бұрын

Yeah Shiki feels more entertaining than scary, psychological anime is perfection

@froufroudeluxe

8 ай бұрын

Your profile pic ❤️

@Mystic_Shiki

8 ай бұрын

@@froufroudeluxe Thanks ❤️

@yanderetotodile69

8 ай бұрын

It doesn't help that horror anime _really_ likes to blend genres constantly, leaving more psychological horror to stand out as being "better" than the rest with how that subgenre meshes better comfortably with horror in comparison to the more out-there genre mixes (i.e.: Madoka Magica, Parasyte, like 95% of vampire anime)