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 Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:57 am
yum_tea So, like pretty much every millennial and gen z ever, when I was in high school I went through the customary weeb phase. Since I am also a spooky b***h, I made it a personal mission to seek out those anime and manga that had that lovely touch of darkness to them that we all know and love.
Most of it was s**t or misleading advertisement, but it happens with every type of media.
There were, however, a few rare and wonderful titles that I dug up and still love to this day, and I'm sure that plenty of others here had similar experiences. So, everyone, what are your favorite horror or gothic romance anime/manga titles?
Of everything, I think my favorite from my old weeb days has to be Le Portrait de Petite Cossette. An eerie ghost story featuring tormented souls and grisly revenge, I watched the film so many times that I'm honestly surprised the disk still works. Right off the bat there's a pervading sense of unease, of wrongness, that just hooks into you and keeps you watching. At only 3 episodes in the OVA, it was a little too short, but the stunning visuals and beautiful music help flesh out the narrative and make up for the time crunch.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:35 am
Well I don't know how obscure any of these are, but if you want something really shocking and horrific, you could read 'Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show'. There's also 'God’s Left Hand, Devil’s Right Hand' and 'Pet Shop of Horrors' which are both classics. When I was young I enjoyed 'Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni'/'When They Cry', 'Rozen Maiden', 'Hellsing', 'Vampire Hunter D', 'Elfen Lied', and 'Mononoke' when I was a teen, but I don't think any of those count as 'obscure'. There's also 'Yami Shibai' and 'Erased', those are newer and again probably not that obscure. I also feel like when people look for something by Junji Ito they'll only really read 'Uzukmaki' and maybe 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault' and not much else, I recommend reading more of his works (I own a hardcover edition of his version of 'Frankenstein' that also contains 6 tales of Oshikiri). Oh and I also always really liked Takena's claymation works if you want some Japanese horror in general. If you want to expand beyond manga, I was still in my weeb phase when I got into Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Sandman, make of that what you will.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:01 am
yum_tea I've seen all but three of those (Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, God’s Left Hand, Devil’s Right Hand, and Erased). I never really got into Rozen Maiden, but the rest of those titles were pretty good. I was especially fond of Pet Shop of Horrors and Vampire Hunter D. Have you read any of the novels? The first couple suffered a bit from stiff, awkward translations, but around about the third or fourth volume things greatly improved. I was surprised to read Demon Deathchase and see how radically different it ended up being from Bloodlust, but it was kind of a nice surprise. Don't get me wrong, Bloodlust was a beautiful movie, but I felt they put a lot more effort into the visuals than into the writing. Demon Deathchase had a lot more oomph.
If you like Yamishibai, you might like The World Yamizukan. It's in a similar vein, but more 50s and 60s style pulp horror/scifi than the folk tales and urban legends featured in Yamishibai. In between those and the ever classic Pet Shop of Horrors rests The Laughing Salesman, a "be careful what you wish for" tale with a deceptively childish sense of design. Check it out when you get the chance.
JtHM was good, but as far as Vasquez's work goes I kind of prefer I Feel Sick. Sandman is a great series, though. The waking nightmare punishment from the very first graphic novel hooked me for the rest of the run, and the tragedy of Morpheus that played out through The Kindly Ones to the last page was exquisite.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 7:05 am
i loved hellsing , hellsing ultimate, petshop of horrors and a few really cool animes
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:11 pm
Sweet Peppermint Tea yum_tea I've seen all but three of those ( Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, God’s Left Hand, Devil’s Right Hand, and Erased). I never really got into Rozen Maiden, but the rest of those titles were pretty good. I was especially fond of Pet Shop of Horrors and Vampire Hunter D. Have you read any of the novels? The first couple suffered a bit from stiff, awkward translations, but around about the third or fourth volume things greatly improved. I was surprised to read Demon Deathchase and see how radically different it ended up being from Bloodlust, but it was kind of a nice surprise. Don't get me wrong, Bloodlust was a beautiful movie, but I felt they put a lot more effort into the visuals than into the writing. Demon Deathchase had a lot more oomph. If you like Yamishibai, you might like The World Yamizukan. It's in a similar vein, but more 50s and 60s style pulp horror/scifi than the folk tales and urban legends featured in Yamishibai. In between those and the ever classic Pet Shop of Horrors rests The Laughing Salesman, a "be careful what you wish for" tale with a deceptively childish sense of design. Check it out when you get the chance. JtHM was good, but as far as Vasquez's work goes I kind of prefer I Feel Sick. Sandman is a great series, though. The waking nightmare punishment from the very first graphic novel hooked me for the rest of the run, and the tragedy of Morpheus that played out through The Kindly Ones to the last page was exquisite. Oh yeah I actually totally forgot about 'The Laughing Salesman', wasn't there one non-horror short where the twist was that the guy was gay and he ended up happily married to like his boss or something?
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:12 pm
Kafkaesque_Meat Sweet Peppermint Tea yum_tea I've seen all but three of those ( Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, God’s Left Hand, Devil’s Right Hand, and Erased). I never really got into Rozen Maiden, but the rest of those titles were pretty good. I was especially fond of Pet Shop of Horrors and Vampire Hunter D. Have you read any of the novels? The first couple suffered a bit from stiff, awkward translations, but around about the third or fourth volume things greatly improved. I was surprised to read Demon Deathchase and see how radically different it ended up being from Bloodlust, but it was kind of a nice surprise. Don't get me wrong, Bloodlust was a beautiful movie, but I felt they put a lot more effort into the visuals than into the writing. Demon Deathchase had a lot more oomph. If you like Yamishibai, you might like The World Yamizukan. It's in a similar vein, but more 50s and 60s style pulp horror/scifi than the folk tales and urban legends featured in Yamishibai. In between those and the ever classic Pet Shop of Horrors rests The Laughing Salesman, a "be careful what you wish for" tale with a deceptively childish sense of design. Check it out when you get the chance. JtHM was good, but as far as Vasquez's work goes I kind of prefer I Feel Sick. Sandman is a great series, though. The waking nightmare punishment from the very first graphic novel hooked me for the rest of the run, and the tragedy of Morpheus that played out through The Kindly Ones to the last page was exquisite. Oh yeah I actually totally forgot about 'The Laughing Salesman', wasn't there one non-horror short where the twist was that the guy was gay and he ended up happily married to like his boss or something? I think so? It's been a while since I watched the series, so I can't recall all the episodes. Maybe I'm due for a rewatch. Oh, you know what I forgot about? 80s cyberpunk anime. While not strictly speaking horror titles, movies like Akira were chock-full of twisted body horror moments that were as thrilling as they were disgusting.
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:23 pm
I AM A JUNJI ITO JUNKIE
I have just about every one of his hard cover anthologies heart heart
i adore his use of black and white art omg he is so amazing at his craft he knows exactly where to put what with page layouts and his pacing is just 100
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:09 pm
SORRY FOR A LONG REPLY - bold+underlined for just the titles
ive seen all except maybe 3 of the titles mentioned here lol and believe me im putting them on the list!
i've recently been watching a bunch of ''cyberpunk'' anime with a friend so im keen to chat about that too, re akira. been trying to avoid Mech which is adjacent to cyber/spacepunk genres but it's a little different.
i love junji ito, suehiro maruo, umezu kazuo, etc etc,
as far as OLD and HIDDEN gems go, i'll submit ''parasite dolls". bubblegum crisis has a few prequels that are of a completely different nature (re BGC's fun fanservice city pop).
Parasite Dolls is the best of them, it's almost akin to ghost in the shell style of questioning between android human and cyborg with some classic blood tits and guns. But i enjoyed it.
more goth is kurosagi corpse delivery service, not an old manga but extremely good IMO.
i mean ive seen so many of those ''old classics'', twilight of the dark master, wicked city, demon city shinjuku, Urotsukidouji, but they dont come off as gems to me haha. like they're classics and maybe were great for the time but they dont necessarily hold up for me... cyber city oedo was probably my fav from this chunk of list? not one movie but 3 episodes with an obligatory vampire romance!
I echo pet shop of horrors, mononoke, petite cossette, vampire hunter d bloodlust as well. i'd add angel's egg/tenshi no tamago but it's very popular, same with ergo proxy but i think the Evanescence of anime deserves a spot anyway lol.
sort of goth but not old and not hidden, how do yall rate any of these: mushishi - nekojirou soup - wolf's rain - aku no hana ?
anyone want to swap MAL's? sweatdrop
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