Se você é amante de anime e também gosta de ter medo, está no lugar certo. Neste artigo, estamos trazendo para você a melhor série de anime de terror de todos os tempos. Esteja pronto para assisti-los depois de escurecer e prepare-se para ficar muito assustado.
O mundo da animação japonesa (anime) é um domínio versátil. Existem muitas histórias e gêneros diferentes, a maioria dos quais geralmente representa a visão de mundo única do Japão em algum nível. E enquanto os animes – assim como os mangás – costumam ter um sistema de categorização diferente dos padrões ocidentais, incluindo alguns gêneros específicos, há muitos gêneros presentes tanto no mundo do anime quanto no Ocidente.
O horror é definido, pelo historiador literário J.A. Cuddon, como “uma peça de ficção em prosa de extensão variável… que choca, ou mesmo assusta o leitor, ou talvez induza um sentimento de repulsa ou aversão”. A teoria do terror tem uma longa história, mas o foco de hoje – aqui, no Fiction Horizon – será no anime de terror, pois vamos trazer uma lista dos 35 melhores animes de terror de todos os tempos.
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Melhor Anime de Terror
Os fãs de anime podem desfrutar de uma variedade de histórias assustadoras, incluindo contos de fantasmas, episódios de casas mal-assombradas e programas assustadores que certamente aterrorizarão.
A seguir estão listadas as melhores séries de anime de terror de todos os tempos que deixarão todos em um clima assustador, especialmente os fãs de anime de terror e os fãs de configurações estranhas.
Então, vamos verificá-las.
DEATH NOTE
Execução original: 3 de outubro de 2006 – 26 de junho de 2007
Episódios: 37
Criado por: Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Gêneros: Mistério, Suspense Sobrenatural, Suspense Psicológico
Trama
Light Yagami é um estudante modelo, entediado com seu estilo de vida e cansado de estar cercado por uma sociedade cheia de crime e corrupção opção. Sua vida toma um rumo decisivo quando um dia ele encontra no chão um misterioso caderno preto, intitulado “Death Note”, que traz a seguinte instrução: “O humano cujo nome será escrito neste caderno morrerá”.
Inicialmente cético em relação à sua autenticidade, Light muda de ideia quando testa com sucesso o notebook em dois criminosos e conhece o verdadeiro dono do Death Note, um shinigami chamado Ryuk; ele então decide usar esse novo poder para matar todos os criminosos, erradicar o mal e se tornar o “Deus do novo mundo”.
No entanto, quando ele começa a colocar seu propósito em prática, o crescente número de mortes inexplicáveis chama a atenção dos agentes da Interpol e do detetive particular mais famoso conhecido como L. Graças à imprudência de Light, L rapidamente descobre que o serial killer, apelidado pelo povo de “Kira”, reside em Kantō e pode matar pessoas à distância. Light fica sabendo da investigação, quando o pai da polícia se junta à divisão japonesa que se opõe a Kira.
O jovem então tenta criar um álibi de ferro e consegue ser aceito na equipe de investigação ao lado de L, enquanto uma guerra de intelecto e psicologia continua entre o detetive e Kira. Durante o confronto entre os dois oponentes, um segundo Kira assume; sua identidade é Misa Amane, um ídolo japonês de alguma fama. Após uma série de eventos que levam o Death Note a mudar de dono várias vezes, Light consegue manipular Rem, o shinigami dono do notebook usado por Misa, para matar L para proteger a garota.
Embora a polícia tenha descoberto a existência dos Death Notes e do Shinigami, Light, agora acima de todas as suspeitas, assume a direção da equipe de investigação e continua a encenação da busca por Kira sem mais adversários capaz de se opor a ele. Cinco anos depois, nos Estados Unidos, dois novos investigadores, Near e Mello, começaram a investigar o caso Kira.
Near atua com o apoio do governo e cria o SPK, organização nascida com o objetivo explícito de capturar Kira; Mello tenta atingir o mesmo objetivo fazendo um pacto com a máfia. Os dois garotos provam ser pelo menos tão habilidosos quanto Elle e usam qualquer meio para combater seu oponente, então, graças a uma série de sequestros, eles são capazes de saber da existência de Death Notes e começam a ter fortes suspeitas em relação a Light.
O jovem tenta aproveitar uma reunião desejada por Near entre os membros das duas equipes de investigação para matar seus novos antagonistas. No entanto, Near prevê a intenção e, com a ajuda de um dos membros do SPK, Stephen Gevanni, substitui o caderno de posse de Teru Mikami, assessor de Light, por um falso.
A tentativa de Light, portanto, falha e ele, agora desmascarado, admite ser Kira. Em uma tentativa desesperada, ele novamente tenta usar um fragmento escondido do Death Note para matar seus oponentes, mas é pego por tiros do colega Tota Matsuda. Antes que seus ferimentos causem sua morte, Ryuk mata Light escrevendo seu nome em seu caderno.
Onde assistir: Crunchyroll, HBO Max, Netflix
Tokyo Ghoul
Execução original: 4 de julho de 2014 – 25 de dezembro 2018
Episódios: 48 (+2 episódios OVA odes)
Criado por: Sui Ishida
Gêneros: Fantasia Sombria, Horror, Suspense Sobrenatural
Trama >
A história de Tokyo Ghoul gira em torno do estudante Ken Kaneki, que se apaixona por uma jovem chamada Rize Kamishiro. Depois de conhecê-la, ela morde seu ombro em um beco isolado e revela que ela é um ghoul, o que choca Ken. Quando Rize está prestes a comer Ken, vários grandes postes de metal caem sobre ela do canteiro de obras de um prédio. Roze morre no processo, enquanto Ken é levado às pressas para o hospital com ferimentos com risco de vida. Após se recuperar, ele é liberado do hospital. No dia de sua libertação, ele descobre que não é mais humano. Ele se olha no espelho e arrepios percorrem sua espinha porque agora ele tem um “olho vermelho”.
Ele percebe que os órgãos de Rize foram transplantados para ele no hospital. Como ele agora possui os órgãos de Rize, ele é chamado e muito raramente ocorre”meio-ghoul”. Como ele não pode recorrer a mais ninguém, ele é levado por um grupo de ghouls que administram o café Anteiku. Eles o ensinam a lidar com sua nova vida como meio-ghoul e explicam muito sobre a sociedade dos ghouls, suas facções e que ele deve manter sua identidade em segredo de outras pessoas. Ele está relutante em consumir carne humana, mas em algumas situações, ele é forçado a fazê-lo.
No final da primeira temporada, ele é sequestrado e torturado por um grupo de ghouls extremistas até que ele reconhece sua natureza ghoul, fica com cabelos brancos e unhas pretas e quase mata e depois devora seu algoz. Ele é mais brutal agora para proteger aqueles que significam algo para ele. Após uma guerra entre os próprios ghouls e os humanos no final da segunda temporada (chamada Tokyo Ghoul √A), Kaneki sofre danos cerebrais horríveis de uma briga com Kishō Arima, o executor mais perigoso do CCG. A sequência, Tokyo Ghoul:re, é sobre Kaneki, que sofre de perda de memória causada pelo dano cerebral sofrido pela direita com Arima.
Com sua nova identidade como Haise Sasaki, ele é o líder de uma equipe especial do CCG chamada Quinx Squad, cujos membros passaram por um procedimento semelhante ao seu, permitindo-lhes obter as habilidades especiais de Ghouls para para combatê-los, mas ainda sendo capazes de viver como humanos normais. A segunda temporada de:re lida com Kaneki redescobrindo sua identidade e o grande segredo de Arima e seu caminho para se tornar a ponte entre os ghouls e os humanos.
A história OVA prequel Tokyo Ghoul: [Jack] lida com o juventude de Kishō Arima e Taishi Fura, dois personagens da série principal que se unem para investigar a morte de um amigo de Taishi. Taishi morreu nas mãos de um notório ghoul chamado Lantern e Taishi segue Arima e finalmente se junta à CCG (Comissão de Contra Ghoul), a agência federal que lida com crimes relacionados a ghouls. Outro OVA, Tokyo Ghoul: PINTO, conta a história da vida de Shū Tsukiyama e Chie Hori.
Onde assistir: Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu
INFERNO
Execução original: 10 de outubro de 2001 – 16 de janeiro de 2002
Episódios: 13 (+10 episódios OVA)
Criado por: Kōta Hirano
Gêneros: Ação, Fantasia Sombria, Terror
Trama
Os Cavaleiros Reais da Ordem Protestante são uma casa nobre de Londres liderada por Abraham Van Helsing. Por gerações, ele tem lutado contra criaturas que a maioria das pessoas comuns desconhece, como vampiros, ghouls e qualquer entidade não humana que geralmente é chamada de “monstro”. A Ordem opera em grande sigilo e tem sido uma organização paramilitar a serviço de Sua Majestade.
Liderando a organização está Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, um descendente direto do primeiro Lord Hellsing. Ainda adolescente, ela é forçada a assumir o controle da Ordem. Seu pai Arthur, doente e próximo da morte, ordena que a filha, caso se sinta ameaçada, desça ao porão da mansão, onde há algo capaz de protegê-la.
Após a morte de seu pai, o tio de Integra tenta matar sua sobrinha, furioso porque Arthur a escolheu como a nova líder da família. Integra, como sugerido por seu pai, se esconde nas masmorras da mansão, onde encontra um cadáver. Seu tio ainda consegue encontrá-la e não hesita em atirar nela. O primeiro golpe apenas a toca, mas o derramamento de sangue é suficiente para despertar o cadáver que mata instantaneamente seu tio e seus asseclas.
Integra fica assim cara a cara com Alucard, um vampiro ao serviço da família Hellsing há mais de um século, bem como um ás na manga da organização que, por vontade de Arthur, havia sido trancado nas masmorras muitos anos antes. A menina, embora ainda muito jovem, torna-se assim o Mestre de Alucard (O Mestre).
Dez anos se passaram desde aquele incidente e Integra agora se tornou uma jovem. Quando o número de vampiros em Londres começa a crescer exponencialmente, o Vaticano também começa a se mover. O padre exorcista Alexander Anderson, o melhor agente do Iscariota (a décima terceira divisão secreta da Igreja Católica), é enviado para Badrick, uma área de fronteira entre os territórios católicos e protestantes. não parecem seguir nenhuma lógica; é como se as regras para criar os mortos-vivos tivessem mudado, sugerindo que a coisa toda foi orquestrada por alguém.
É assim que aparecem os fantasmas de 50 anos antes, os nazistas do milênio; todo esse tempo eles estiveram agindo nas sombras, tentando realizar o sonho despedaçado: o desembarque na Inglaterra, a destruição de Londres e a aniquilação de Alucard e da família Hellsing. Uma guerra completa, da qual ninguém pode escapar.
Onde assistir: Funimação, Hulu> Ataque ao Titã
Exibição original: 7 de abril de 2013 – em andamento Trama A trama de Attack on Titan gira em torno do jovem Eren Jäger, sua irmã adotiva Mikasa Ackermann e seu melhor amigo Armin Arlert, que vivem junto com o resto da humanidade em cidades protegidas por enormes muros dos ataques do-chamados Titãs, gigantescos seres humanóides que devoram pessoas sem motivo aparente. Os muros que prometiam a paz existem há 107 anos. Mas um dia os Titãs rompem a mais externa Muralha Maria e as pessoas são empurradas para trás ainda mais. A mãe de Eren morre e ele e muitas outras pessoas fogem para trás da segunda parede, Wall Rose. Eren jura quando sua mãe morre que ele vai acabar com os Titãs. Ele cresce dentro da segunda parede, enquanto muitas pessoas morrem de fome ou tentativas desesperadas de recapturar a parede externa. Dois anos depois, ele se juntou ao exército, assim como Mikasa e Armin. Eles completam seu treinamento após três anos. Logo após a cerimônia de formatura, os Titãs atacam o distrito da muralha. Como muitos de seus companheiros, Eren é devorado por um Titã durante a batalha, mas logo depois aparece um Titã que ataca outros Titãs. Acontece que é Eren, que pode se transformar em um Titã. Depois que ele foi inicialmente recebido com grande desconfiança pelas forças armadas, ele foi usado pelos militares contra o ataque, foi capaz de repelir com sucesso um ataque pela primeira vez e selar o muro do distrito com uma enorme pedra. Eren é então transferido para a Tropa Escoteira para que eles possam pesquisar suas habilidades e recapturar a parede externa. Mikasa e Armin seguem Eren até a tropa de reconhecimento, onde se reportam a Levi. Logo a tropa de reconhecimento embarca em sua primeira missão com Eren fora do muro. O distrito natal de Eren, Shiganshina, é dado como alvo, onde as informações sobre as origens dos titãs são esperadas nos registros de seu pai, um médico. Mas no caminho, eles encontram a Titã Fêmea que quer atacar Eren diretamente e se comporta de forma inteligente. Capturar isso é o objetivo final da missão, pois provavelmente é um Titã como Eren e atua para um grupo que se infiltrou no exército. Mas a missão falha e a tropa de reconhecimento retorna derrotada. Com as informações coletadas, no entanto, Armin pode determinar a identidade do novo Titã. Eles armaram uma armadilha para ela – sua ex-companheira e atual policial militar Annie Leonhardt – em um dos distritos. Em uma batalha entre ela e Eren como Titãs, ela pode eventualmente ser derrotada e capturada em sua forma humana, mas fechada em um cristal. Onde assistir: Crunchyroll Execução original: 7 de abril de 2008 – 30 de março de 2009 Trama Lutar o maligno Kishin, que pode “mergulhar o mundo no abismo da loucura”, Shinigami-sama cria A Academia é um lugar onde Armas e Senhores Supremos são treinados juntos. As primeiras são as próprias armas que impedirão a morte do mundo; o segundo são aqueles que vão segurar a arma. A Foice da Morte será obtida quando a arma consumir 99 almas malignas prontas para se tornarem Kishin e 1 alma de bruxa, e, portanto, todos os senhores estão competindo ativamente na criação da Foice da Morte. A ação se passa durante os principais eventos do mangá e anime, Maka e Soul naquela época ainda não haviam se tornado conhecidos na Academia e além. O personagem principal é uma jovem arma chamada Tsugume, que chega pela primeira vez na academia e nunca assumiu a forma de uma arma. Lá ela logo conhece Anna de uma família nobre e a simplória Mame, e se torna sua nova parceira. Os personagens principais precisam aprender a trabalhar harmoniosamente e compreender a arte dos lutadores de Shibusen. O universo de Soul Eater é uma paródia do mundo moderno. Muitas das personalidades que figuram neste mundo são versões exageradas de personalidades famosas ou personagens literários. A peça central é, claro, a Academia Shinigami localizada na Cidade da Morte. A cidade em si está localizada na América, no estado de Nevada (de acordo com o mangá). Em seu centro, na sala da Morte, onde vive o próprio Shinigami, na própria academia os alunos estudam. Além disso, os alunos geralmente não estudam o que precisam no trabalho diário do Overlord, e muito depende dos caprichos do professor, o que, obviamente, é outro elemento da paródia. A principal tarefa dos alunos é completar tarefas postadas em um quadro especial, que lhes permite coletar as almas de vilões e bruxas. Um dos elementos que definem o mundo é a presença de uma alma em qualquer criatura, que tem aparência, tamanho e determina o caráter e o comportamento dessa criatura. Quanto mais forte a vontade do indivíduo, maior a alma. Algumas almas são capazes de entrar em ressonância, reforçando-se mutuamente por um tempo. Isso é frequentemente usado pelos Lordes e suas Armas para aumentar sua eficácia de combate muitas vezes. Onde assistir: Crunchyroll Exibição original: 4 de abril de 2006 – em andamento Trama A história se passa na aldeia fictícia de Hinamizawa em 58 de junho da era Shōwa (1983). Pouco antes disso, um dos personagens principais da história, Keiichi Maebara, foi transferido para a escola local. Ele gradualmente começa a estabelecer relacionamentos com seus novos colegas de classe-chefe Mion Sonozaki, sua irmã gêmea Shion, sua colega Rena Ryūgū, bem como com os alunos do ensino médio Rika Furude e Satoko Hōjō. Logo, Keiichi descobre que em meados de junho haverá uma celebração anual do Watanagashi Village Festival, dedicado à divindade local Oyashiro-sama. Hinamizawa parece a Keiichi um lugar calmo e pacífico, mas pouco antes de Watanagashi ele descobre que por quatro anos seguidos na vila no dia do festival, houve assassinatos e desaparecimentos de pessoas. A cadeia desses crimes permaneceu sem solução e foi chamada de “maldição de Oyashiro-sama” entre a população local. No dia seguinte a Watanagashi, em 1983, a polícia descobriu nas proximidades da aldeia o cadáver de um fotógrafo amador visitante Jiro Tomitake, que rasgou sua garganta com as próprias mãos, e o corpo queimado de uma mulher que foi identificada como enfermeira na clínica da aldeia, Miyo Takano. Na maioria dos capítulos do jogo, logo após esses eventos, um dos colegas de classe de Keiichi, incluindo ele mesmo, tenta descobrir sobre a “maldição de Oyashiro-sama”, mas depois começa a cometer crimes. Alguns dias após o festival, o cadáver de Riki é encontrado no templo Furude dedicado a Oyashiro-sama, e no mesmo dia ocorre um cataclismo, que é explicado pela liberação de gás de um pântano próximo e como resultado da qual toda a população de dois mil da aldeia perece. Nos capítulos das respostas, é revelado que cada um dos capítulos anteriores é uma realidade alternativa na qual Rika Furude tentou evitar sua própria morte. Como sacerdotisa do Santuário Furude, Rika pode se comunicar com a atemporal garota demônio Hanyu, que serviu como protótipo para Oyashiro-sama e ancestral do clã Furude. É Hanyu que, após a morte de Riki, a leva para outra realidade, onde tentam resistir às inevitáveis circunstâncias. Rika retém a memória de todas as realidades passadas, com exceção dos últimos minutos de sua própria vida, o que a impede de identificar as causas do que está acontecendo. Nos capítulos Minagoroshi-hen e Matsuribayashi-hen, é revelado que Miyo Takano, que estuda uma doença parasitária endêmica local na aldeia e é responsável por alguns dos crimes anteriores, está usando a capa para a lenda da “maldição de Oyashiro-sama”. A própria doença se manifesta nos moradores quando eles se afastam da “rainha dos parasitas”, que libera substâncias químicas para evitar o agravamento da condição dos habitantes – a pessoa infectada começa a enlouquecer gradualmente, e no final se mata, rasgando a garganta com as próprias mãos. As mulheres do clã Furude sempre se tornaram “rainhas dos parasitas”, e Rika, após a morte de seus pais, permaneceu a última representante dessa família. Miyo Takano em todas as realidades comete o assassinato de Riki para cumprir o plano da organização secreta “Tóquio”, que patrocinou a criação de armas biológicas do parasita Hinamizawa, mas decidiu parar de financiar. Em caso de morte da última “rainha dos parasitas” a nível governamental, está planeado destruir todos os aldeões para evitar as consequências incontroláveis de um transtorno mental maciço de 2.000 pessoas. Para a própria Miyo Takano, o cumprimento desse plano significa a comprovação da existência do parasita Hinamizawa, hipótese sobre a qual seu pai adotivo Hifumi Takano apresentou, tornando-se objeto de ridicularização da comunidade científica por causa de isto. Ao unir os esforços de todos os seus amigos e policiais Mamoru Akasaki e Kuraudo Oishi, Rika no capítulo final de Matsuribayashi-hen consegue impedir as ações de Takano e finalmente sobreviver a junho de 1983. Onde assistir: Funimação, HIDIVE Execução original: 7 de abril de 2004 – 28 de setembro de 2005 Trama O ano é 1986. Em Düsseldorf, um assassinato brutal foi cometido: uma pessoa desconhecida entrou na casa do casal Libert e atirou em um casal de idosos que morava lá. Apenas as crianças sobreviveram: Anna e seu irmão gêmeo Johan. Johan está ferido na cabeça e está em estado grave, ele precisa urgentemente de cirurgia, e Anna perdeu a memória de choque e não reage às pessoas ao seu redor. Aconteceu que um jovem cirurgião brilhante Tenma Kenzo vive e trabalha na mesma cidade, que realiza com sucesso uma operação séria e salva a vida do menino. Este evento mudará a vida do Dr. Tenma. Nove anos se passam, e Tenma se encontra novamente com Johan, que, na frente dele, mata um paciente com um sorriso. Tenma Kenzo percebe que ele não apenas salvou uma vida humana, mas ressuscitou um verdadeiro monstro, psicopata e assassino. Enquanto isso, Johan procura encontrar sua irmã, com quem perdeu contato há nove anos. Anna Liebert, agora Nina Fortner, mora em Heidelberg, em uma família próspera, estuda na universidade, mas não se lembra de seu passado e vai ao psicólogo. Johan envia assassinos para os novos pais de Nina. Nina, em recuperação, começa a se lembrar do passado e percebe que há nove anos foi ela quem atirou em Johan e, por culpa dela, ele foi parar no hospital de Tenma. A partir deste ponto, os caminhos dos personagens divergem. Tenma e Nina Fortner acreditam que seu dever é encontrar e matar Johan, ou seja, prevenir os crimes que ele cometerá no futuro. Nina, que já atirou em Johan uma vez, vai completar o que começou, além de vingar seus pais. Tenma, que salvou Johan pessoalmente durante a operação, decide corrigir o erro. Os heróis estão procurando a mesma pessoa, às vezes se encontram, mas não agem juntos, mas de certa forma até uns contra os outros. Tenma acredita que a responsabilidade é dele – portanto, ele deve puxar o gatilho, e Nina não deve manchar sua consciência com assassinato. O raciocínio de Nina é semelhante: uma pessoa como o Dr. Tenma não deveria matar. Onde assistir: Funimation Exibição original: 17 de abril de 2011 – 3 de julho de 2011 Trama Um poderoso terremoto devastou o Japão continental e destruiu em grande parte Tóquio, submergindo três quartos da cidade no oceano. Dez anos depois, a história gira em torno de Ganta Igarashi, um estudante aparentemente comum que frequenta o Nagano Prefecture College. Embora sobrevivente do terremoto, Ganta não se lembra da tragédia e viveu uma vida comum. Tudo isso muda quando um homem estranho coberto de sangue e vestindo uma armadura roxa flutua do lado de fora das janelas da sala de aula. Sorrindo como um louco, o Homem de Vermelho massacra toda a turma de Ganta e, em vez de matá-lo, crava um fragmento de cristal vermelho em seu peito. Poucos dias após o massacre, Ganta é declarado o único suspeito e, após um julgamento rápido, é condenado à prisão perpétua em Deadman Wonderland, uma prisão cercada por um parque de diversões. Ao chegar à prisão, Ganta é equipado com um colar especial que monitora sua posição e sinais vitais. Devido à natureza hedionda dos “crimes” de Ganta, ele é condenado a enfrentar a pena de morte em Deadman Wonderland. Veneno mortal é continuamente injetado em seu sangue através do colar, mas pode ser neutralizado consumindo um antídoto (na forma de doce) a cada três dias. Doces adicionais são adquiridos por Cast Points (moeda usada na prisão). Para ganhar Cast Points, um preso deve trabalhar ou participar e sobreviver aos jogos mortais no parque. Felizmente para Ganta, ele é ajudado por uma jovem misteriosa chamada Shiro, que aparentemente o conhece e parece estar entre os prisioneiros também. Lutando por sua sobrevivência como prisioneiro no corredor da morte, Ganta se torna cada vez mais obcecado pelo Homem de Vermelho e tenta encontrá-lo para limpar seu nome e vingar seus amigos. Estranhamente, Ganta começa a desenvolver a capacidade de manipular seu próprio sangue, a ponto de transformá-lo em uma arma. Sem que ele soubesse, Ganta se tornou um dos Deadmans, um grupo de prisioneiros isolados que possuem um Ramo do pecado (literalmente traduzido como Ramo do Mal ou Ramo do Pecado), um poder que lhes permite controlar seus sangue. Com sua habilidade descoberta, Ganta é forçado a participar de duelos mortais entre Deadman, conhecido como Carnival Corpse e sendo transmitido para uma clientela exclusiva por um preço exorbitante. Em sua luta, às vezes ele se torna amigo daqueles que derrotou na arena e, com a ajuda deles, Ganta continua sua busca para descobrir a identidade desse Homem de Vermelho, o motivo de sua transformação. em Deadman and the Dark Secrets of the Prison Service. Onde assistir: Funimação Execução original: 25 de julho de 2004 – 17 de outubro de 2004 Trama A história se passa em Kamakura, Japão, e gira em torno do Diclonius , mutant beings very similar to humans but with tw o strange horns on their heads and endowed with very strong invisible limbs called “vectors”. Believed to be dangerous to the normal human race, Diclonius babies are killed at birth or locked up in research laboratories, subjected to terrible torture and extremely violent experiments. One of them, Lucy, however, manages to escape to the sea, massacring anyone who comes in front of her. She is found on the beach by two boys in a complete state of amnesia and double personality, caused by a shooter shot in the head while escaping. The young Diclonius finds herself with a completely different personality and the two boys decide to call her with the only word she can pronounce, namely “Nyu”. Unable to leave her alone in those conditions, they take her home waiting to find out about her past. But the military does not give up and remains on the trail of her. What’s more, every time the girl hits her head she goes back to being Lucy. One sick day, Lucy remembers her past in the orphanage and the first time she killed. Kōta had also forgotten her past due to the shock he suffered from the violent death of his father and her sister. He too will regain his memory, remembering that it was Lucy who killed his loved ones. Besides, Lucy is not the only one of her kind; Numerous Diclonius remain at the Research Center and some of them will be assigned to collaborate with the military to shoot down the fugitive, such as Nana, the beloved of one of the most important researchers, or Mariko, his daughter. Eventually, events will lead to a decisive confrontation where Lucy will have to face Mariko and the soldiers. Note that there are differences between anime and manga, particularly in the ending. In the first, Lucy confronts the soldiers, apparently ending up defeated, but the tenants of Villa Kaede see her silhouette behind the front door. In the second, however, Kōta is forced to kill her and, at the request of Lucy and Nyu, every year he waits for her in the place of their first meeting, until, ten years later, two twins arrive, one of which is called Kaede, who say they having an appointment with a very important person. Where to watch: Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, Hulu Original Run: July 2, 2009 – December 24, 2009 Plot The main plot of the game takes place in 1986 within a small time frame of two days from October 4th to 5th on a small, remote island called Rokkenjima of the Izu Islands. This is where Kinzo, the head of the rich Ushiromiya family, lives. As his death seems near, eight of the family members gather at an annual meeting to discuss how to divide the inheritance. They are joined by three other family members and five servants. As the first deliberations begin, a typhoon looms, preventing them from leaving the island, while the strangest things happen at the same time and one after the other dies. The protagonist Battler Ushiromiya, from whose perspective the plot is described, is the son of Rudolf, who in turn is the second son of Kinzo. Battler has not attended the meeting for six years, as he grew up with his maternal grandparents after the death of his mother Asumu and also took their last names. When his grandparents died, he moved in with his father, his second wife Kyrie and his half-sister Ange. On the island, he is first confronted with an old legend about the witch Beatrice who is said to live in the forests of Rokkenjima. In the entrance hall, he meets a portrait of the witch that Kinzo had made, along with an epitaph. On this the rumor is recorded that Beatrice Kinzo is said to have left 10 tons of gold when the Ushiromiya family was about to end due to the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923. At the same time, whoever solves the mystery of the witch’s writing should receive the gold and become the head of the family. Six of the guests are murdered relatively early in the game. If the witch’s riddle cannot be solved, then more of the 18 characters present at the beginning gradually die under mysterious circumstances, according to the prediction of the epitaph, until Beatrice is awakened. In this case, Battler is the only survivor who, however, does not believe in witches or magic and consequently cannot open the gate to the “golden land”. Beatrice then abducts the protagonist into a parallel world called Purgatorio, which gives an overview of events on Rokkenjima. At this point both are caught up in a game of different views. Battler tries to explain the events with worldly means, while Beatrice tries to connect this with magic. Various arguments are taken up again and again, including probatio diabolica, Schrödinger’s cat or the locked room. If Beatrice can convince Battler to believe in witches and magical abilities, Battler has lost the game. Where to watch: N/A Original Run: July 8, 2010 – December 30, 2010 Plot The story takes place in the remote mountain village of Sotoba where ancient traditions still survive, such as the burial of the dead. At the end of a scorching summer, the Kirishiki family suddenly moves into the western-style castle that dominates the village from the top of a hill. At the same time, a series of sudden deaths begins to decimate the inhabitants; Chief physician as well as owner of the only clinic, Toshio Ozaki, initially suspects a mysterious epidemic but, with the help of his childhood friend, Seishin Muroi, now a local temple bonze and author of successful novels, will instead discover a horrifying truth: the dead come back to life as vampires who are forced to suck the blood of other people to feed themselves, it all started with the arrival of the Kirishiki family. One after the other, the inhabitants will begin to die and once they come back to life, they will indulge in their lowest survival instincts, as well as the excitement derived from the act of sucking blood in order to feed themselves. However, once the situation is brought to light by Dr. Ozaki the revenge of the inhabitants will be dire. Where to watch: Funimation Original Run: October 8, 2005 – September 30, 2011 Plot The series is set over 30 years after the events of the feature film Blood: The Last Vampire – in 2005. The plot introduces lines related to modern intrigues, in which various organizations are involved, including, for example, the US Army, who want to control and control vampires in order to use them for their own purposes. Saya Otonashi lives in a city in Okinawa with her adoptive father, George Miyaguscu and two brothers, Kai and Rik. Saya does not remember the events of her past until she began living with a new foster family a year ago. For medical reasons, she needs blood transfusions from time to time. With the exception of these features and an unusually large appetite, Saya lives like an ordinary high school student. However, Saya’s serene life comes to an end, on the day when she comes face to face with a vampire, a monster that kills people and drinks human blood. From that moment on, a mysterious organization called the Red Shield and its agent David appear on the scene; David explains to Saya that she is the only one who is able to effectively fight these monsters, since her blood is lethal to them. Her duty is to rid the world of bats. From that moment, in addition to the members of the Red Shield, Saya’s friends and family members were drawn into the fight against bats. Together with them and her mysterious loyal servant named Hadji, she sets out on a long, risky journey to destroy bats and, along the way, learn about her past and true origins. The fact that Saya is not just a person becomes clear at the beginning of the story, when she easily defeats a monster, physically many times superior to a person. According to the plot, the action of the series first unfolds in Okinawa, near Kadena, a US Air Force base, but in the course of the story, the characters visit several countries of the world, including Russia, France, England, Vietnam and the United States. Where to watch: N/A Original Run: October 4, 2005 – September 29, 2017 Plot When a person feels a grudge, Jigoku Shōjo (Hell Girl) appears and sends the person causing that hatred to Hell. However, the user must seal a contract with her before executing the revenge, and the price to pay is always that the person who accepts the contract must also go to Hell when he dies. The series is basically a collection of independent stories, each of which tells the story of the suffering of a different person at the hands of one or more subjects, the contract with Enma Ai and the punishment to which the aggressor is subjected by her. During each story, the dramas are recounted in detail from the beginning of his harassment, and progressively increasing the anguish suffered by the protagonist until he feels unable to bear his torment any longer, to the point of requiring the help of the girl from the hell. Jigoku Tsūnshin “is a mysterious page only accessible at midnight, by those who want to take revenge. The only contents are the text” We will take revenge for you “, a form where you have to write the name of the person receiving the revenge and a button of “送信 (Send)”. After sending, the applicant will receive a message with a red background on his mobile phone signed by Enma Ai, or he will receive his visit. In his meeting with Jigoku Shōjo she gives them a straw doll with a thread red tied around their neck. If they want their revenge to be carried out, they will have to pull the red thread. That will be the acceptance of the contract, and their enemies will be sent directly to Hell. But the price to pay is high: when their lives arrive at the end, their soul will also be condemned to Hell. A mark on their chest will appear to remind them of the destiny they have chosen. Where to watch: Crunchyroll Original Run: October 10, 2011 – April 16, 2012 Plot At the beginning of the plot, the student Yukiteru Amano introduces his life in a monologue. It turns out that he has great problems making real friendships. Instead, he invests most of the time to keep a diary on his cell phone in which he records the daily events in detail. On arrival at home, he wraps himself under his blanket and regularly enters a parallel world in his fantasy, where he talks to his imaginary friend, the divine Deus Ex Machina, and his very young-looking companion Murmur. During the conversation, this god tells Yukiteru that he wants to host a game so that he and his companion would not be so bored. Little does Yukiteru suspect that this would have far-reaching consequences. Deus Ex Machina gives Yukiteru’s diary the ability to predict the future by already making entries there that he would have written later. Because of his way of keeping a diary, the predictions do not affect him directly either. When he woke up the next morning, he actually found corresponding entries there, which, however, he pays no special attention to since he would probably have written them himself while half asleep. As the day progresses, however, it quickly becomes apparent that the entries are true and come exactly as they were predicted. Deus Ex Machina also gets in touch with him and makes it clear to him that he was wrong all along. It was not he who imagined this parallel world, but Deus Ex Machina came to him and occupied his imagination. In addition, Yukiteru is bound to his diary. That means, should it be destroyed or should he lose it, his existence would also end, since it no longer had a future. In the following days, he can convince himself more and more of the entries and begins to use them for his part by consciously avoiding certain events or taking advantage of them. This is not completely hidden from his classmates, as he seems to be incredibly lucky. However, they have no idea why this could be. Nevertheless, this worsens his relationship with his classmates, who now find him particularly noticeable. When he was once again perfectly prepared for an unannounced test with which many students had problems, he noticed a look from his classmate Yuno Gasai, who, despite her good reputation, began to knead a figure during the test. When he finally leaves the classroom and takes a closer look at the figure on Yuno’s table, however, he is deeply shocked. That one looks exactly like Murmur, and at about the same time his death is announced as DEAD END (“dead end; here also: fatal end”) on his cell phone. Staring at the entry in disbelief, he is caught by Yuno, who tells him that she knows exactly what is causing Yukiteru to flee in panic. He learns that with him and Yuno a total of 12 people have received a future diary and have to kill each other, whereby the last survivor will follow Deus as God. Where to watch: Crunchyroll Original Run: July 5, 2010 – September 20, 2010 Plot On an ordinary morning, everything happened as normally as any other day. From the roof, Komuro Takashi, the main character, observes a strange event at the school gates: a suspicious man is causing confusion. One of the teachers, when trying to expel him, ends up being bitten by the suspicious man and in the middle of cries of despair from the other teachers he gets up, but now he is a zombie. He then begins to eat the other teachers who were with him. Seeing this, Takashi runs back into the school and joins together with his friend Miyamoto Rei and her boyfriend Igou Hisashi of which he is the best friend. Now the school is already overrun with teachers and other zombie high schools. The three then decide to go to the roof, but on the way they meet a teacher who has been turned into a zombie. This teacher ends up biting Hisashi, who has an injured arm. After eliminating the zombie, they manage to reach the roof of the school, in addition to finding several zombies and normal students being attacked by them on their way. On the roof Hisashi begins to feel the first effects of the zombie bite. Gradually he begins to transform, until he reaches the point where he loses consciousness and threatens to attack Rei, Takashi, seeing that his friend was no longer him, decides to attack him, hitting him over the head with a baseball bat. After a series of events within the school, Takashi and Rei meet the characters: Busujima Saeko, Takagi Saya, Hirano Kouta and nurse Marikawa Shizuka. So the story of the survival of this simple school group begins, amid an enormous amount of zombies, which spreads throughout the city. Where to watch: Crunchyroll Original Run: October 7, 1997 – March 31, 1998/1 July 2016 – 23 June 2017 Plot In a sort of alternative Middle Age, Guts is a formidable mercenary warrior who in his life has known nothing but war and violence. Born from the corpse of a hanged woman, Gutsalso loses his adoptive mother at the age of two to the plague and is then raised in the company of fortune of his adoptive father Gambino, learning from an early age to fight for survival. Gambino is a detached and violent father; one day he tries to kill Guts, who, to defend himself, stabs the man to death and is therefore forced to leave the company. Continuing to fight from battlefield to battlefield, Guts draws the attention of the charismatic leader of the Hawk Squad, Griffith, who defeats him and forces him to join the company. In the following period, Guts becomes deeply attached to Griffith, experiences affection and friendship for the first time for his new companions, and falls in love with Caska. The Hawk Squad is enlisted by the kingdom of the Midlands in the Hundred Years War and quickly gains victories and fame. At the end of the conflict, feeling more and more imprisoned in the shadow of Griffith, Gutsdecides to leave the team in search of his own identity. The abandonment of him, however, upsets Griffith, who ends up ruining himself: he seduces Princess Charlotte and, discovered, is imprisoned and subjected to cruel torture for a whole year. When Guts learns of his friend’s fate and gathers the scatterbrained members of the Hawk Squad to free him, Griffith is now hopelessly mutilated and destroyed in his spirit. In desperation, Griffith attempts suicide, involuntarily activating an artifact in his possession; the Hawk Squad is transported to an astral plane where the archdemons of the Hand of God dwell. Encouraged by these creatures, Griffith sacrifices his soldiers to the demonic offspring of the Apostles, in a banquet of death called Eclipse, in order to be reborn as a fifth member of the Hand of God, Femto. Only Guts and Caska manage to escape the catastrophe thanks to the intervention of the Skull Knight, but Guts has lost an eye and an arm in the fighting, Caska is in the grip of madness due to the violence suffered by Femto, and both are marked with a symbol that identifies them as sacrifices, attracting supernatural creatures to torment them every night. Guts then sets out to hunt down the Apostles, swearing revenge against Femto and the Hand of God, but must temporarily interrupt his plans to save Caska, who risks being burned as a witch in the city of St. Albiom, and to lead her safely into the kingdom of Elfhelm’s elves. During his journey he meets the elf Pak, the members of the chivalric order of the Holy Iron Chain Farnese and Serpico, the young Isidoro and the witch Schierke, who decide to support him in his mission. Meanwhile, Griffith is reborn in his physical form and, thanks to the support of numerous Apostles, creates a new Squad of Hawks to fight the Kushan army that has invaded the Midlands. The final clash between Griffith and Emperor Ganishka leads to the transformation of the world and the overlapping of the astral and real dimensions. With the engagement to Princess Charlotte and the blessing of the pope and the people, who consider Griffith the incarnation of the Hawk of Light, the savior of the world, Griffith takes possession of his new capital Falconia, and transforms it into a utopian kingdom sheltered from monsters. that have begun to invade the world. Where to watch: Crunchyroll Original Run: October 3, 2008 – September 12, 2014 Plot In England, during the reign of Queen Victoria, i.e. during the late 19th century, we start our story. The main character is twelve-year-old Ciel, whose parents die in the fire (Ciel was 10 years old then). Ciel is the only rightful heir to the family company, but he is still a child, and if he wants to keep the company, he must have someone very capable with him. Ciel will do something that no child would ever think of in life – he will sell his soul to a demon. The demon – Sebastian – becomes the young count’s butler and takes good care of his affairs. But Ciel not only wants to keep the family business, but also wants revenge on the people who took everything he ever loved, and at the same time wants to serve the queen and destroy everything that is a thorn in her eye. Ciel gradually reveals the whole truth about the death of his parents and also does not forget that the day is slowly approaching when Ciel fulfills the contract he concluded with Sebastian. While in the first series the whole story revolved around thirteen-year-old Ciel, in the second series another count enters the scene. Specifically, Alois Trancy and his faithful spider chamberlain Claude Faustus. When Alois was younger, his younger brother, whom he loved above all, died due to the demon. Shortly afterward, it fell into the hands of Count Trancy, who reveled in the young boys. In Alois, anger, resistance, and hatred grew for both the lost and his brother’s murderer. That’s why he resorted to calling the spider demon Claude and writing a contract. Alois declared himself the son of Count Trancy, who died “unhappily”, and thus the heir to all his property. And he began his revenge on Sebastian. He believed that he was to blame for all his misfortune. He decided to take his most valuable thing from him, Ciela, who was waking up to life again, but without his memories. The duel between Ciel and Alois begins, and especially between Sebastian and Claud, who begins to realize that Ciel’s soul is much tastier than Alois’ soul. Original Run: January 10, 2012 – March 27, 2012 Plot In 1972, a popular and charismatic student named Misaki Yomiyama from Class 3-3 of North Yomiyama School suddenly died in the middle of the school year. Devastated by the loss, his classmates and teacher acted as if Misaki was still alive and even reserved a spot for him at the graduation ceremony. What was even more suspicious was that Misaki appeared in the graduation photograph. In the spring of 1998, ninth-year student Kōichi Sakakibara moves from Tokyo to Yomiyama, the hometown of his late mother, because his father has gone to work on research in India. His transfer was to North Yomiyama School, to class 3-3. Due to a pneumothorax, Kōichi had to be hospitalized just before classes began. During his hospitalization, the class representatives, Tomohiko Kazami and Yukari Sakuragi, visit him and welcome him to the school, albeit in a very gloomy way. Kōichi is eventually discharged and able to attend classes, where he soon tries to adjust to his new school environment. However, he can’t help but notice the strange behavior of his classmates. He also discovers that Mei Misaki, a girl he met during the hospital stay, belongs to the same class as him, but the desk she uses from her looks quite old and different from the rest of the class. Mei is also always alone and no one seems to care about her presence or try to talk to her. Initially, Kōichi believes that it is a case of bullying, but soon realizes that even the school employees and teachers act in the same way. The somewhat scary environment in his new class seems to have a dark secret that none of his classmates want to reveal and that could be related to “Misaki from 1972”. Where to watch: Crunchyroll Original Run: February 2, 2004 – May 18, 2004 Plot Tsukiko Sagi, the famous designer who gave birth to the mascot Maromi, is attacked with a baseball bat by a deranged man who she only remembers being a child on gold roller skates and wearing a baseball cap. The searches start immediately even if the suspicion that the girl lied about the incident is immediately advanced by one of the investigators. Days later, other people are hit by this maniac, who is nicknamed Shonen Bat, and the mysterious boy becomes a sort of urban legend. After several cases, the two detectives manage to get their hands on a suspect that matches the description made by the first victim. The boy confesses to having perpetrated the reprehensible action because he believes he is the warrior protagonist of an RPG. After several interrogations, however, the cops discover that in reality, the boy is nothing more than an imitation and that the real Shonen Bat is still on the loose. But the confrontation with the young mythomaniac brings the narrative to a surreal level, with Maniwa, one of the two detectives, who embarks on a path of investigation halfway between the video game and a fantasy plot. From this point on, the story continues to unfold on multiple levels of reality, merging oneiric, psychoanalytic and sociological elements in a single dimension, to then lead to a catastrophic epilogue to the Ōtomo. Where to watch: Funimation Original Run: October 3, 2006 – March 27, 2007 Plot Ghost Hunt follows the stories of Shibuya Kazuya, the president of Shibuya Psychic Research (SPR), and Mai Taniyama, a high school freshman. The story begins when Mai told ghost stories with her friends in the classroom, who were interrupted twice: first by a mysterious “student”, and then by a classmate, who warns them that, somehow, their stories attract spirits. While she was walking in the morning, the next day, she found herself in front of the building that was related to one of the ghost stories, she, intrigued, decides to go investigate. Upon entering she sees a video camera, she wonders what she is doing there, and when she is about to touch her, a man tries to stop her and ends up injuring himself. That man was Lin, assistant to the “mysterious student” from the night before, as it was her fault that Lin got hurt, he must replace him in her work: assistant at Shibuya Psychic Research (SPR), a research company paranormal cases. This time the case consisted of investigating the building, since strange things happened during the night. Mai nicknames the “mysterious student” (now her boss) Naru, (short for narcissism), because of his narcissistic attitude. After solving the first case, Lin recovered, which would mean that Mai left her temporary job, but Naru offers her a permanent position, which she accepts. (After this episode she discovers her love for Naru). Along with mediums and exorcists, Mai will continue to solve cases. Where to watch: Funimation Original Run: January 5, 2000 – March 22, 2000 Plot The story runs through the vicissitudes of a small town, where many school children disappear one by one and the urban legend of the appearance of a death god who kidnaps takes place. In fact, many of those guys were treated by some sort of virus several years earlier, thanks also to the help of one of the characters present in the novel and in the anime only in memories. By becoming adolescents they acquire powers that they cannot control even if animated by good intentions. Boogiepop appears to ensure that they do not harm others, while an enemy prowls and becomes more and more powerful thanks to this energy that the boys release. He is called Phantom (ghost) as the character has split due to the same energy that created the various powers, but his existence will have an end. In addition to the protagonist, there are other characters who try to clarify the various mysteries of the series. Where to watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation Original Run: July 24, 2013 Plot Based on the survival horror game Corpse Party, the story follows Heavenly Host Elementary School, an elementary school that was torn down after the murders and disappearances of several of its empl oyees and students. Another school called Kisaragi Academy has been built on the site of the old elementary school. One night, a group of Kisaragi students are telling ghost stories when an earthquake suddenly transports them to another dimension where Heavenly Host Elementary School still exists and is haunted by the ghosts of the children murdered at the school. The students must find a way to survive and return home. Where to watch: HIDIVE Original Run: April 6, 2019 – present Plot In Taishō-era Japan, Tanjirō Kamado is the first child of a family of coal merchants whose father has died: to support the family, he sells charcoal in the village below the Mountain. Despite the difficulties of life, they manage to find little happiness in their daily lives. One day, due to rumors circulating about a man-eating demon hanging around after dark, he is forced to spend the night with a Good Samaritan in the village. Only, everything changes on his return when he detects, thanks to his keen sense of smell, a strong smell of blood: he rushes home and finds his family massacred. Where to watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu, Netflix Original Run: January 5, 2018 Plot Akira Fudo is informed by his best friend, Ryo Asuka, that the ancient race of Demons taking possession of the bodies of humans in order to possess them, has returned to Earth to take them back. Believing that the only way to defeat the Demons is to prove their existence to humans, Ryo suggests that Akira accompany him to see Demons take possession of humans. Merging himself with Amon, the Lord of Demons, Akira transforms into the Devilman, a human with the powers of a Demon while retaining his own heart. Where to watch: Netflix Original Run: April 5, 2013 – June 29, 2013 Plot Takao Kasuga is a normal boy, fond of literature and in particular of Les fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire. One day, Takao impulsively steals the tracksuit of partner Nanako Saeki, the girl he likes. The next day, however, Takao discovers that he has been discovered by another companion, Sawa Nakamura, strange and lonely, who blackmails him by forcing him to sign a “contract” with her. The girl, in exchange, will keep her secret, otherwise, it will be made public. The story, therefore, focuses on the consequences of the children’s actions, which end up profoundly influencing their family, school, and city context. Where to watch: HIDIVE Original Run: October 3, 2012 – March 27, 2013 Plot Set in a thousand-year-old Japan, Shinsekai yori tells the story of Saki, a girl from the 66th district of Kamisu. In this age, all humans possess powerful telekinesis abilities and idyllically live in agrarian villages. Despite her parents’ fear that she could not awaken the power within her, Saki gains her powers at the age of twelve and joins her friends Satoru, Maria, Mamoru, Shun, and Reiko at the academy to develop her powers. But the kids are unaware that the city council monitors and influences the kids through teaching. According to some evaluation criteria, some students are removed from society, such as those who cannot master the powers, such as Reiko, or those who violate the rules. The removed students are soon forgotten by all the other children; Saki and her friends have no recollection of Reiko. Later, during a camp unsupervised by the professors, Saki and her friends come across a False White Nudibook, a legendary creature that turns out to be an ancient device containing a library. The False Nudibianco reveals to the boys the heinous crimes of their ancestors and what lies behind their powers. Where to watch: Crunchyroll, VRV Original Run: April 13, 2004 – November 18, 2004 Plot Kei Kurono is a relatively cynical and selfish high school student from Tokyo, a big consumer of erotic magazines. One day, while waiting for his subway, he meets a childhood friend, Masaru Katô, whom he had lost sight of and who happened to be at the station. He is then pushed against all odds to make a heroic gesture: to save a drunken tramp who has fallen on the tracks. But this rescue does not go perfectly, and Kurono and Katô die crushed. They then find themselves mysteriously in an apartment room with a view of the Tokyo Tower, in the center of which is a strange black sphere by the name of Gantz. They are not alone in this room and will ask many questions: are they dead? Are they on a game show? Or a secret military experiment? Where to watch: Funimation Original Run: October 22, 2000 – March 25, 2001 Plot When Satsuki’s mother dies, she, her father and her little brother, move to the city where her mother grew up. There Satsuki begins to study at the same school that her mother attended in the past (the new school, because her mother went to the old school). What Satsuki doesn’t know is that her maternal family has a special ability to stop evil ghosts, an ability that she inherited. Unfortunately, when Satsuki’s mother dies, a sacred tree in which she had imprisoned the ghosts is cut down, releasing all the ghosts captured and imprisoned in the school, whom the girl unknowingly awakened with her psychic powers. ; realizing this, the protagonist seeks advice from her mother through a diary she found inside a box in the old school in which there was written information about each and every one of the specters with which she will face in the course of the series. On her first mission, Satsuki makes the serious mistake of not fully reading a diary page on how to lock up ghosts, and ends up locking one of them in the body of her pet cat thus giving the spirit a body. her. This will be of great help to her because if the spirit (Amanojaku) wants to free herself and recover her old form, she has to help Satsuki put all the ghosts to sleep so that he returns to his original form and can leave that body. Where to watch: Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, VRV Original Run: July 9, 2020 Plot In the near future, i.e. around the end of the 1970s based on the release date, a small island off the east coast of Japan will sink into the sea. A team of scientists is investigating. During their investigations, they make a terrible prognosis: Sooner or later, the Japanese main islands will sink into the sea due to changes in the earth’s interior. The government is initially not taking the researchers’ warnings seriously. Only when the Japanese capital Tokyo is shaken by a massive earthquake and, shortly afterward, devastating volcanic eruptions and tsunamis hit the island kingdom does the Japanese government recognize the seriousness of the situation. Plans are immediately drawn up to evacuate the Japanese population and resettle them in other countries. But then the great catastrophe comes faster than the scientists expected: One island after the other sinks into the sea. The Japanese flee in all directions and disperse. Where to watch: Netflix Original Run: October 3, 2020 – present Plot Yuji Itadori is an out-of-the-ordinary high school student who lives in Sendai with his grandfather. Despite his innate talent for sports, he refuses to join the sports team due to his aversion to athletics. Instead, he chooses to join the occult research club, where he can relax and leave school by 5 pm to visit his grandfather in the hospital. While on his deathbed, his grandfather invites him to “always help others” and recommends that he “die surrounded by people.” After his grandfather’s death, he meets Megumi Fushiguro, a sorcerer who informs him of the existence of a high-level cursed talisman in the school Yuji attended. Meanwhile, his friends from the occult club, in possession of the talisman, open the seal placed on it and attract all the curses in the school on them. Reaching the school but unable to defeat the curses due to her lack of magical powers, Yuji swallows the finger (the true form of the talisman) to protect Megumi and her friends, becoming the host of Ryomen Sukuna, a very powerful curse. Despite being possessed, Yuji is still able to maintain control of his body. As a curse, Yuji should have been executed. Still, thanks to Gojo Satoru (the most powerful and responsible sorcerer of the first-year alumni at the Tokyo Institute of Occult Arts), the upper echelons of the world of witchcraft agree to postpone the execution until he has absorbed all 20 fragments of Sukuna’s soul (i.e., her 20 fingers), so as to definitively exorcise the curse. Where to watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation, HBO Max Original Run: July 12, 2007 – September 27, 2007 Plot Mononoke focuses on the character of the apothecary from the third narrative arc of Ayakashi: a traveling apothecary stingy with words, so his name is not even known. He travels accompanied by his medicine cabinet and a box containing a spiritual sword whose pommel is adorned with a monkey’s head. Where to watch: The Roku Channel Original Run: October 9, 2014 – March 26, 2015 Plot One night, tennis ball-sized spheres containing snake-like creatures fell in numbers unknown all over the world. They are programmed to take the place of human brains. One of these attacks a young man, Shinichi, during his sleep, trying to enter through his ear but cannot reach him. Awakened with a shock as the parasite tries to enter through his nose, he tries to defend himself but ends up having his right hand punctured. The high school student then takes his headphones and wraps them around his arm, preventing the parasite from climbing to the brain. Unable to leave his arm, the latter finally merges with his right hand. Meanwhile, other parasites, having managed to take possession of their host’s brain, begin to feed on humans, while the creature and Shinichi are forced to cohabitate. Where to watch: Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix Original Run: January 11, 2019 – March 26, 2021 Plot Emma, Norman and Ray are three 11-year-old orphans who live in a Victorian country orphanage run by a mother figure, Isabella. Their life flows peacefully, between play, rest and daily aptitude tests, the results of which are used to draw up a ranking of the most intellectually gifted children. From the orphanage it is impossible to see the outside world as it is surrounded by high walls which are forbidden to approach. One day Conny, a six-year-old girl, is taken up for adoption by a family and is preparing to leave the facility, forgetting a puppet she was very fond of. Emma and Norman, therefore, decide to bring the soft toy back to their friend before she leaves for good and they head for the only door in the walls. Once there, the two discover a shocking truth: after seeing Conny’s lifeless body, they discover the existence of monstrous beings (the “demons”) and their business with Isabella, who gives them the children to send to the “rich” to eat them. Where to watch: Crunchyroll, Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix Original Run: April 5, 2012 – June 28, 2012 Plot Son of a priest, the Japanese high school student Chihiro Furuya has a particularly strong attraction towards zombies. He avidly collects everything related to these, whether video games, movies or manga, he entertains the dream of seeing a young girl brought back to life declare his love to him. Faced with the death of his cat Babu, he decides to bring him back to life with the help of an old manuscript describing the process of creating a “resurrection” potion. Around this time, he meets a young girl named Rea Sanka, who has run away from her home. In a suicide attempt, she drinks a sample of the “resurrection” potion which is created from a poisonous herb known as Hydrangea macrophylla, but this fails to kill her. After an argument with her father, she falls off a cliff and dies, but thanks to the potion, she returns as a zombie. Even though she has become an undead, she chooses not to give in to her murderous instincts and survives by consuming hydrangea leaves frequently. Where to watch: Funimation Original Run: April 5, 2012 – June 28, 2012 Plot In a universe mixing “moe” and “horror”, we follo w the tragic daily life of four students named Yuki, Yuuri, Miki and Kurumi in a school. Overnight, an epidemic caused by a biological weapon turns almost the entire population into zombies. The four girls will then have to survive on the school grounds, while the eldest of the group, Yuki, suffers from a mental disorder that makes her see the world differently: for her, the disaster did not happen. spent and continues a normal life as a high school girl, and takes classes with different teachers, including Megumi. Where to watch: HIDIVE
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