When investigating a strange sight he saw the night before, middle schooler Hikaru Amatsuga has his normal life upended when an orb, crying out for help, fuses itself to his jacket and turns into a mechanical arm. The arm, a mechanical life form from another dimension, introduces itself as Alma whose race has come to […]
Sulking after breaking up with her boyfriend, Momo Ayase stumbles upon a bullied boy and sticks up for him. After her random act of kindness, the alien-obsessed boy tries to talk to her about the extraterrestrial interest that he thinks they share. However, while Momo says she doesn’t believe in aliens, she does believe in
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.
Three years ago, humanity made first contact with alien life when an ominous giant mother ship full of invaders suddenly appeared in the sky over Tokyo. However, while the invaders remained inside their ship, the Japanese government scrambled to fight back, investing heavily in weapons production to target the mother ship and any smaller craft
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For years, grotesque giant monsters have appeared suddenly to attack Japan. To combat the destructive threat, the Defense Corps was established to fight them and the Professional Kaiju Cleaner Corporation was created to clean up the massive remains. Kafka Hibino is a middle-aged man who works as a sweeper cleaning up remains despite his big
During the industrial revolution of their world, a monster appeared that cannot be killed unless pierced through its iron-protected heart. Those who are bitten by the creature become zombies know as Kabane. On the island of Hinomoto, humanity has built stations to seek refuge from these creatures. Ikoma lives at a station that brings supplies
In most horror anime, the terror often comes from the threat of death to the characters. Terrorized by ghosts, hunted by killers, and splattered into bloody pieces – there is no threat of death to us the audience, but it reminds us that it is out there. Lovecraftian style horror, or rather cosmic horror if
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After his father’s death left him with a pile of debt, Denji and his pet devil Pochita struggle to pay it off. However, after the yakuza kills him, Pochita fuses himself with Denji’s corpse and he awakens as a Chainsaw Devil. Found by government devil hunters, Denji is brought in to hunt other devils on
After his parents died, Shinpei went to live with the Kofune family on Hitogashima Island. After leaving for school in Tokyo he has not been back since, but after receiving word that one of the two Kofune daughters, Ushio, drown tragically, he returns for the funeral. However, with bruises on her neck, there is some
The fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu dreamed of leaving her small country town behind for the big city, but those dreams died when she did. It was her murder that kicked off a summer of blood and terror in this small town where a city boy and a country doctor try to stop the epidemic of death
