From sinister ghosts to vicious slaughter, horror anime recommendations cover everything that is, well, horrifying. If it’s even remotely scary, you will find in these anime series.
At a small kindergarten, a young girl named Kaya is notorious for making trouble for the teachers. As such, Ms. Chie has taken a special interest in the child. However, Ms. Chie soon discovers that Kaya’s antics aren’t just acting out. She can see spirits and occasionally intervenes when things get too spooky for others. […]
Anime is awash with ghosts and yokai, but much of anime is more about fighting them or turning them into something comedic than actually dealing with horrific haunting and spiritual infestations. That said, if you do enjoy melancholy tales of hauntings and urban legends twisted and melded in new ways, you do have a spare
Six months ago, Yoshiki Tsujinaka’s best friend Hikaru Indou went missing in the mountains only to return a week later with no memory of what happened. However, Yoshiki already knows that it was not Hikaru who came back, but something wearing his skin and pretending to be him. When Yoshiki reveals this to Hikaru, the
Humanity has been thrown into chaos as a virus ravages the world. Society has collapsed as those infected are changed forever—changed into cats, specifically. As anyone touched by the furry creatures is turned into a cat themselves, the survivors struggle fight back against the adorable horde. For Kunagi, a man with no memories who worked
In the small town of Kurouzu-cho, Kirie Goshima lives a fairly normal life with her family. However, one day while walking to the station with her boyfriend Shuuichi Saito, they witness Shuuichi’s father gazing at a snail. Shuuichi casually remarks that his father has been acting weird lately and has become strangely enamored with spirals.
The Grimm Variations tell new re-imaginings of six classic Grimms Brothers fairy tales including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Town Musicians of Bremen, and Pied Piper of Hamelin. What better source material to re-imagine than these already-dark old fairy tales? If you are looking for more
There’s a weird and wonderful world full of anime out there, and age has tempered none of the innate oddness that creators have injected into various series over the years. In fact, I daresay that the “weirdness” of it all is a not small part of anime’s global charm. Animation can be anything. It can
Tucked away in the back alley of Kamifucho is an apartment above a theater. Inside, a lazy genius known as Akuma-kun researches a way to make a paradise for everyone as his sacred calling. However, in order to make rent, he is often hired to solve mysterious supernatural cases for people. With the help of
Horror romance anime is something that is hard to put together into a cohesive series. When romance is done well, it typically isn’t horrific. Alternatively, when horror is done well, it typically isn’t focused on a character’s romantic relationship. Unlike horror comedy anime that are just fundamentally hard to get to work together, horror romance
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Keitarou Gentouga is a college student who hates ghosts. Unfortunately, spirits have always been unnaturally attracted to him, so much so that he was previously a shut-in after causing his childhood friend, Eiko Houzuki, and himself to get cursed by a spirit. However, Eiko helped him get back out into the world, and as part
