Sumireko Ogawa is a bookstore clerk who, despite celebrating some literary success in high school, has been unable to produce any more quality writing in her 20s. However, after she gets caught up in a string of mysterious events happening in the city, she gained the ability to transform into a child, which has finally […]
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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
Any horror fan will be more than familiar with what usually happens when someone has to live with ghosts, but anime tends to have a surprisingly different opinion on the matter. Living with ghosts isn’t a scary thing, it is often a fun thing! Horror anime focused on a main character being haunted by a
Junji Ito Maniac brings to life 20 stories from the collected library of legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito. Adapted stories include works from Tomie, Souichi, The Hanging Balloons, The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance, Unendurable Labyrinth, The Long Hair in the Attic, Bullied, Where the Sandman Lives, Ice Cream Truck, Tomb Town, Library Vision,
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The paranormal is everything beyond the scope of human scientific understanding. Espers, aliens, ghosts, everything that supernatural and sometimes sci-fi anime uses to be creepy. However, just because the paranormal can be creepy doesn’t need it always needs to be. Sometimes, these things beyond normal scientific understanding can be great devices for comedy, too. If
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Miko is a normal high school girl who has found her life turned upside down by the sudden ability to see spirits. Despite being terrified by what she sees, she does her best to not acknowledge the spirits so they leave her alone. Horror and comedy is hard to do, and I respect them for
I’m only a little sorry about the title. Anyway, ecchi and horror is a heady and rather uncommon combination. However, anime series that wedge ecchi right inside that horror genre like a fist in a puppet are not so uncommon that one cannot make a list out of them. If you are part of the
While Pikotaro can take a pineapple and a pen, smash them together, and make a pineapple pen, some things don’t smush that easily. Two of those things are the genres of horror and comedy. Horror comedy anime is so particularly rare because for something to be scary, it usually can’t be funny. Horror is all
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