scariest anime?

[quraid]

now, Grave of the Fireflies is supposed to be the biggest tearjerker and the ping pong club the crassest one. but which one anime can be considered to be the scariest ever? not scary as in hellraiser and house on the haunted hill, we are talking here blair witch and ju-on (of course the japanese one) scary.
i am yet to see an anime show or movie or OAV that can give me goosebumps.

any takers?

[JusticeGundam]

Akira, really got to me..................

[Ishiyumi]

Anime horror doesn't really scare me... I guess animated cartoons aren't scary. :/

[Batman]

I have yet to come across a anime that scare's me.

[Lonesniper]

xxxholic, which is a manga, seemed a little freaky. It might be scary if it was an anime.
Anime horror doesn't really scare me... I guess animated cartoons aren't scary. :/
Anime is intended to be as realistic as possible, you haven't seen a scarey one yet.

[TheDarkAngel966]

I havent seen any anime that frightens me cartoons arnt really that scary at all, but the closest would be hellsing (for lack of anything else really)

[Esrhan]

Anime has yet to learn how to be really scary. End of Evangelion and perhaps Hellsing have only managed to create the initial atmosphere of scaryness. Still need those basic elements often seen in movies. The "sudden-sound" trick is yet to be even used.

[Lonesniper]

You're thinking too correspondence to AMERICAN CARTOONS. Well, I suppose I see where you're getting at. It really depends on the seriousness (That a word?) of the anime.

[Scandiadream]

Perfect Blue????

[Stelok]

Akira. It was so scary it really gave me nightmares in some nights after watching it.

[Lonesniper]

Akira. It was so scary it really gave me nightmares in some nights after watching it.
What was it about? Sounds interesting

[Stelok]

Akira is a neo-apocalypsic anime in which the end of the world is about to come.

I have seen only about 10-15 minutes of Akira. But I can never forget the scene of the city crumbling like glass and a car full of people was running on a bridge that's collapsing.

[Lonesniper]

sounds somewhat scary, I mean doesn't seem like that.

[Levon]

Hm....Perfect Blue is the closest to me I guess.

[Kureboy99]

The creepiest one for me was Magnetic Rose from the Memories collection...

[Eternal Love]

The scariest anime that i ever watched has to be Boogiepop Phantom and Perfect Blue.

[yuzuha]

I've never seen an anime that was scary, though Genocyber did startle me (like in those "yaaahhh" moments in sci-fi films when a monster jumps out of nowhere). I do love creepy anime though... stuff like Reqiem for the Darkness, Blood Reign, Vampire Miyu OAVs, Magnetic Rose, Vampire Hunter D (both versions), Petshop of Horrors, Nightwalker, Demon City Shinjuku, etc.

[Esrhan]

You're thinking too correspondence to AMERICAN CARTOONS. Well, I suppose I see where you're getting at. It really depends on the seriousness (That a word?) of the anime.
Come to think of it, I have yet to see a scary american cartoon as well. And no, I wasn't thinking too relatively to american cartoons.
For my taste, seriousness is only a basic basis for scaryness. It alone, no matter how serious, isn't enough. For example Patlabor WXIII was very serious, but not that scary.

The most scariest moment that I have seen in anime was in Patlabor 1 The Movie. It happens when they are in the Arch and the "ghost" of the bad guy is supposedly in the tower. That's the only scary anime moment I have witnessed. Oh yeah, when the Babel virus first starts going haywire, that's also a little nervous.
Might have something to do, as I saw that movie when I was around 15 years-old and quite naive.

[Spike]

Perfect Blue is a scary anime movie. It will scare you and puzzle you at the same time.

[LadyAkuma]

Perfect Blue was the scariest anime I ever saw. It was scary at times, but it really wasn't anything that made me have nightmares.

X is scary if you watch it while half asleep.

[ablo]

For scare factor...I would have to say Magnetic Rose. It's in the Memories DVD by Katsuhiro Otomo.

[Leader Desslock]

I have yet to see what I'd call a 'scary' anime series. Then again, of the two series we're using to benchmark 'scary', I found The Blair Witch Project to be excellent MST3K material, and Ju-On to be a fun watch. So I guess my 'scary' threshold is a bit higher than average. I've probably seen too many horror movies to be scared by anything audiovisual at this point.

I guess maybe some parts of Blue Gender qualified as 'tense', in brief moments. Urotsukidoji qualified as just, umm, odd in a disturbing, never-need-to-see-it-again sort of way. The latter was more gross than frightening, to be sure.

[Sargon]

I found Alien Nine to be pretty scary despite its cute dvd cover art.....

[LordGdawg]

I saw an episode of Devil Lady with a monster made od eyeballs. That creeped me out but nothing really scared me...cept maybe Chiyo-chan.NO ONE is that cute that wasn't possed by the devil.

[quraid]

i have heard of one called Mermaid's Flesh. is it good enough to shell out the dough for?

[Tim.z]

Obviously you guys have not seen Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni.... Thats the Scariest of them all. Just watch the first 4 eps in 3am with your speakers cranked up loud, and see for yourself.

[Leader Desslock]

^ I haven't seen that series, no. But really, this isn't about the stories, it's about the medium. Toons just don't scare me.

I thought about it - the closest I can say I've seen to "nightmarish" (and that's still not remotely scary) might be some scenes from Watership Down. In particular, somce of the scenes featuring the destruction of the Sandalford Warren (the gassing, with the White Blindness) - those were disturbing to watch. I'll toss out an honorable mention for the scenes from the Animatrix - the holocaust imagery where Artificial Life Forms are being bulldozed into pits and machine gunned to death, that sort of thing.

Those are dark, certainly. But I don't find them 'scary'.

Anime has yet to learn how to be really scary... The "sudden-sound" trick is yet to be even used.
There's a scene in Blue Gender that uses a typical horror movie trick very nicely. There's a scene where Yuji and Marlene are stuck on an island of humans where the Blue attack. An orphan that Yuji's befriended tries to run to him from across the courtyard, when a Blue mows this kid in half right in front of Yuji's eyes. It was definitely one of those *gasp in shock* horror movie moments, but mere shock is not 'scary'.

[Levon]

Why bump a thread thats over 2 years old?-_-;


i have heard of one called Mermaid's Flesh. is it good enough to shell out the dough for?

The Mermaid's Saga? The TV series is called Mermaid's Forest, although it contains all the manga stories besides one so I don't know why its called Mermaid's Forest when Forest is just two episodes.

Theres also an older Mermaid's Forest & Mermaid's Scar OVA.


They can be creepy but I don't think they are scary. I really love these horror stories myself.

[shuureigirl]

Um...I don't really know about 'scary', but Vampire Princess Miyu can get pretty creepy and I haven't even seen it all.

Noein can be a bit creepy too because of at least one of the bad guys who is after that girl.

X (TV) is pretty creepy too because of the subject matter/fate-of-the-earth type of plot.

I can't really think if 'scary' one that game me goosebumps though.

[Yukito Kunisaki]

Pocket Monsters

[GattsuYAY]

not scarey but i thought Berserk got pretty intense and creepy towards the end

[Lord Nakago]

Well i dnt knw guys,its not entirely true that animes cant be scary,i guess we just have to knw better...i'm sayin this cuz,some episodes of animes like Jigoku Shojo,Gakko no Kaiden are seriously scary,i mean it..have any1 watched these animes?...though i must say i'm yet to catch a full scale grade-A scary anime..but i can still say,if 'ju-on','Ringu' & 'dark waters' are made into animes they will be darn scary...its not appropriate to say that the 'fear factor' cannot be created in animes...some creators can really accomplish it for the sake of the otakus ;)

.................and oh i must thank Levon...man,ur avies r really worth having...thanks a ton pal..

[yushire]

Obviously you guys have not seen Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni.... Thats the Scariest of them all. Just watch the first 4 eps in 3am with your speakers cranked up loud, and see for yourself.


YEAH, thats the scariest anime of them all! Better watch it in midnight just watch it in youtube. And the opening was a shocker! Infact, Im watching it right now alone, with my headphones on, in the dark O_o CREEPY!

[Cow]

Obviously you guys have not seen Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni.... Thats the Scariest of them all. Just watch the first 4 eps in 3am with your speakers cranked up loud, and see for yourself.

So scary!
http://heiseidemocracy.net/images/features/spring2006/higurashi/higurashi02.jpg

Nah I'm just kidding, it has its qualities.

[yushire]

So scary!
http://heiseidemocracy.net/images/features/spring2006/higurashi/higurashi02.jpg

Nah I'm just kidding, it has its qualities.

Dont be fooled by the image! I even thought that its also another harem anime but NOO...

Rena in the first arc is so freaky! Especially when she says to Keichii dont be absent and yeah, what if the food given to you have a needle on it?:P

[Brutist]

Perfect Blue and Higurashi.
Also, Elfen Lied to an extent.

[yushire]

Is Perfect Blue popularized the scary anime genre? Seems like it since you all mentioned it all the time...

[Lord Nakago]

Is Perfect Blue popularized the scary anime genre? Seems like it since you all mentioned it all the time...
...i dnt think so either...atleast i just enjoyed it as a thriller with breakneck pace........now on the other hand now since Higurahashi has been mentioned,i agree that it might just be that,its arguably the scariest anime on the block till date...but surely more ill stuff can be made sooner or later...& lets just hope for that to happen...& for me Gakko no Kaiden had several episodes scarier than Higurahashi no Naku Koro ni................

[Lord Nakago]

Dont be fooled by the image! I even thought that its also another harem anime but NOO...

Rena in the first arc is so freaky! Especially when she says to Keichii dont be absent and yeah, what if the food given to you have a needle on it?:P

...now,thats correct...its dsnt belong to harem genre by any means.....screencaps like this are rather distortions from the real scenario..

[Susaku1223]

ohhh my god!!! since i saw this thread i decided to check out Higurashi and i got so caught up in it i watched the first five episodes!! i was so freaked out but so confused. question-
are the story arcs connected in some way?

[Ornette]

ohhh my god!!! since i saw this thread i decided to check out Higurashi and i got so caught up in it i watched the first five episodes!! i was so freaked out but so confused. question-
are the story arcs connected in some way?
The anime is based off of a bunch of games, each of them being a story arc. There are 4 "question arcs" and 2 "answer arcs", the 2 answer arcs correspond of the Shion/Mion arc and the Rena arc.

[yushire]

...i dnt think so either...atleast i just enjoyed it as a thriller with breakneck pace........now on the other hand now since Higurahashi has been mentioned,i agree that it might just be that,its arguably the scariest anime on the block till date...but surely more ill stuff can be made sooner or later...& lets just hope for that to happen...& for me Gakko no Kaiden had several episodes scarier than Higurahashi no Naku Koro ni................

I've never seen Gakko no Kaiden in youtube. Seem its fairly new or no one knows it at all so thats why no one uploads it. Or either its licensed so I dont know what to say to it. Is it good?

I will watch episode 8 of Higurahashi later BTW... :)

[Lord Nakago]

I've never seen Gakko no Kaiden in youtube. Seem its fairly new or no one knows it at all so thats why no one uploads it. Or either its licensed so I dont know what to say to it. Is it good?

I will watch episode 8 of Higurahashi later BTW... :)

Oh yes Yushire its real nice.You might be right,it might not have been licensed in U.S....

BTW..you will not find it on youtube by typing 'Gakko no Kaiden'...you have to type "Ghost Stories".Actually youtube might not have all the episodes i guess.I wish you could watch the 12th & 14th epsd especially,but then again..not watching it from the begining might leave you clueless,all the episodes are are tight & really arouse pathos..cuz ghosts are not always nasty,but have become what they are as a victim of circumstances.The series all throughout has been 'touching' with emotional elements & not just stupid scary zombies & all...
anyways,the youtube link..
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ghost+stories+8

[Ornette]

Oh that reminds me: Requiem from the Darkness

[yushire]

Oh yes Yushire its real nice.You might be right,it might not have been licensed in U.S....

BTW..you will not find it on youtube by typing 'Gakko no Kaiden'...you have to type "Ghost Stories".Actually youtube might not have all the episodes i guess.I wish you could watch the 12th & 14th epsd especially,but then again..not watching it from the begining might leave you clueless,all the episodes are are tight & really arouse pathos..cuz ghosts are not always nasty,but have become what they are as a victim of circumstances.The series all throughout has been 'touching' with emotional elements & not just stupid scary zombies & all...
anyways,the youtube link..
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ghost+stories+8


I've watched it already, and I might say its scary BUT...

Psychotic lolis was the best!

And theres one anime that lacks

violence and gore

and...

cute lolis as an evil thing

[Lord Nakago]

I've watched it already, and I might say its scary BUT...


cute lolis as an evil thing

that's the reason why i like it so much!

[yushire]

Dont like it though, I like the killer lolis better... :naughty:

A innocent girls can do such a thing.

I like the baseball bat scene the best! For a scary anime you're really in shock...

[Spadesy]

Speaking of Grave of the Fireflies, I thought after watching it, there should've been a caption at the bottom of the screen:

"A lesson in swallowing pride."

[Animexcel]

Elfen Lied was interestingly scary...
Another series is Hell Girl, which I'd like to see more of.

[yushire]

The manga of Elfen Lied was better though:

If you didnt seen a father experimenting her own daughter and make her a freak of nature and a guy which is a sadistic pedophile who likes torturing loli girls then you havent seen nothing yet! :naughty:

[Len]

No anime.. was scary, for me. The only thing remotely scary or that made me cringe at all was when Mion and Shion ripped their finger nails off.

Higurashi no naku koro ni was not scary, more less confusing. I'm still befuddled about the storyline but no conclusion has been made if its alien or not..I vote Rika being like some kind of Haruhi like creature. xD

[yushire]

The first arc was scary but after I realized that...

His distrust with his friends is the reason why he kills them even though they didnt do anything to him. He is just delusional psychotic person in the first arc I feel sorry for them right now. :( Mion and Rena wasnt a evil person, SHION IS! But he just bang them with Satoshi's baseball bat many times. They only want to help... I almost cried when Rena is about to bang by Keichii and with open arms she said to Keichii, Believe in me! WAAAH! :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby: