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Ten Horror Anime That Will Make You Piss Your Pants – Not For Kids

Horror Anime Recommendations

Love horror? You wouldn’t have been here if it was a no xP Here are ten horror anime that are totally worth watching. Switch off the lights, grab some popcorn and get going!
#1 Mirai Nikki aka. The Future Diary
Future Diary is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. It depicts a battle royale in which each combatant has a diary with entries from the future.
 
#2 Another
‘Another’ featuring 12 episodes of horror, mysterious murders and has a scary plot all together. Yomijama North Middle School’s Class made a bad name for itself after a student died there in the year 1972, followed by everyone pretending as if nothing had happened and just moved on. Because of a curse, all its teachers, students, and their family members are at the risk of dying horrible deaths! A new student named Kouichi starts noticing a girl named Mei who no one else can see. You would love this anime if your into blood, creepy girls, creative deaths, mystery! For more go watch it :3
 
#3 When They Cry(Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni)
There is this quiet rural village known as Hinamizawa. The protagonist Keiichi Maebara decides to leave his hometown for Hinamizawa after having witnessed several unfortunate events in his hometown. He spends most of his time in the company of his school friends, leading a carefree life and playing games with them. However, Hinamizawa, like most sleepy towns, has a dark secret. Keiichi stumbles upon the news of a murder in Hinamizawa one day, which is then followed by a number of mysterious events. He discovers that his good friends at school may not be all that good after all. As different events start unfolding in different situations, the story takes a horrifically gory turn. There is nothing more scary than a group of friendly whack jobs who just won’t leave you alone! Creepy enough? You would love this anime if your into gore, mystery, mental torture!
 
#4 Corpse Party – Tortured Souls aka. Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou
An ultra short anime featuring four episodes of horror. Its story takes place inside Heavenly Host, an elementary school which is destroyed because of the recurring disappearances and murders of its students and staff members. As time passes by, another school named Kisaragi Academy is built at the former site of the mysterious Heavenly Host School.One fine night, a group of Kisaragi Academy students decide to tell scary ghost stories. When they do, a sudden earthquake rocks the place and these students are transported into a dimension where the Heavenly Host School still exists. What’s troubling is that the school is haunted by the scary ghosts of murdered students who used to study there. You would love this anime if you love horror, ghosts, dark settings, screams and gore!
 
#5 Elfen Lied
A classic horror anime, Elfen Lied has enough cruelty and bloodshed to appeal to all horror movie lovers. Elfen Liedfeatures human-like mutants with horns, referred to as Diclonius, who have strong telekinetic powers among many other abilities. They’re all locked up and isolated from society inside a research center, run by the government. Their strongest member escapes from the facility, killing all the guards in the process. She gets shot in her head and winds up on a beach with a couple of teenage cousins. The boys take the naked and crazy girl home, oblivious of her true identity and not realizing the kind of impact their actions will have on their lives. Although Elfen Lied perfectly delivers on the horror front, it manages to keep things light by tackling multiple themes. You would love this anime if you are into Supernatural powers, blood, gore!
 
#6 Shiki
The story follows 15-year-old Megumi Shimizu who dies unexpectedly in the quiet village of Sotoba, resulting in a ferocious epidemic and plenty of blood and terror. Then enters Toshio Ozaki, a young doctor who in search of truth decides to abandon his humanity. Natsuno Yuuki who is very disturbed by the untimely death of his friend Megumi, pairs up with Toshio, in an effort to save Sotoba from turning into a town of vampires.
 

#7 Ghost Hunt

Spooky scary ghosts are a common basis for any horror show. Sixteen year old Mai is dragged into helping an organization named Shibuya Psychic Research after she accidentally breaks some of their equipment. There’s priests, exorcists, and spirit mediums abound in this show, including a Catholic priest from Australia. Each “hunt” is two to three episodes long, so if you like shorter arcs, this supernatural anime is for you. You would love this anime if your into Ghostbusters, exorcist.
 
#8 Yami Shibai
This is one interesting anime you won’t want to miss! Animated in a style made to look like traditional paper puppets, each episode of Yami Shibai tells the story of a different Japanese urban legend or creepy myth. If your into Japanese type horror movies, a different type of animation style, you would love this show.
 
#9 Hellsing
This anime will be worth your time. Hellsing is a fairly short anime series that has won millions of hearts with its depiction of classic fantasy creatures, vampires and action. We all know of Van Helsing, the popular vampire Hunter of the Dracula legend, who slays oddities even after his demise. This one is heavily inspired from his scary story. It follows the adventures of a vampire named Alucard and his partner Seras Victoria, who’s a police agent-turned-vampire. They work for a vampire extermination organization named Hellsing in England.
 
#10 Tokyo Ghoul

A boy named Ken Kaneki meets this cute bookworm going by the name Rize, who’s actually a ghoul. How they’re different from humans is that while humans eat everything apart from humans, ghouls can only eat humans. What’s more, they have special powers to hunt their victims! Rize ends up inside Kaneki’s body but is unable to eat his flesh, and gets killed in the process, bringing Ken quite close to death too. Her organs are transplanted into Ken, to save his life, turning him into a hybrid. This horror anime is a perfect mix of terror, mystery and tragedy!

 

Source: otakukart.com


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