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These are the top five spookiest anime.
You guys have been asking for this for forever
and I've been diligent about picking
my favorite ones.
By the way, I'm probably not going to say
some of this stuff correctly, but do I
ever say anything correctly, no.
So I guess just keep yelling at me.
I'm fine with it. I deserve it.
Number five: Tokyo Ghoul
Tokyo Ghoul was originally a manga series
that followed Ken Kaneki who accidentally
went on a date with a ghoul.
(laughs)
Been there, Ken.
After this hellish date, get it, she's a ghoul.
Ken was hospitalized in critical condition.
He caught a case of the ghouls.
After recovering, Ken Kaneki discovers
that he non consensually underwent a surgery
to turn him into a half ghoul.
But unfortunately for him, he now has to
feast on human flesh to survive.
Because he is a half ghoul,
and that is what half ghouls do.
And full ghouls, and some humans,
as we've talked about in dark fives previous.
I love this story because it's kinda
just a classic fish out of water tale.
You take somebody and put them into
a new society and tell them to adapt.
He's like I'm afraid the other ghouls don't like me.
Funimation actually just put out a trailer
for a live action Tokyo Ghoul.
So shall we?
(speaking Japanese)
When you first come out of surgery,
if there's a doctor looming over your face,
you're probably in a nefarious hospital.
Ewww! This is grosser than I anticipated.
(speaking Japanese)
Yaaaaas! Look at this.
Look how metal that is, those are
a bunch of human organs.
Wow that looks actually amazing.
Which is not something that you
can say often for live action anime.
Y'all see DeathNote, yikes.
Number four, when they cry.
This one I dig, a ton.
It's not technically a TV series.
Its a click through game play sound novel.
Basically its like an audio novel on top of animation.
I explained that well, right?
Starts out pretty par of the course for anime,
a new kid moves to a new town
goes to a new school and befriends
some new friends.
But, one day out of the year, this whole
peaceful town turns into a convection oven of paranoia.
Once a year, there's a festival to commemorate
and give thanks to local god Oyashira.
Our protagonist Keiichi learns that
every year during this festival,
one person gets murdered, and others go missing.
A lot like the purge, but anime.
Number three, Elfen Lied.
Elfen lied, is all about the Diclonious
or a newly mutated species, like myself.
They're very human like, except for
a couple small discrepancies, like they
have horns, and also telekinetic invisible arms.
Like, how are your arms telekinetic.
Elfen Lied follows Lucy, a Diclonious
with a heart of gold, partially.
She was held in a prison like place
for experimentation, but she escaped.
After her escape she wilds out all over town
but is injured in the process,
causing her to develop a secondary
childlike character, called Nyu.
Dissociative personality caused by trauma
is a very real thing and a very
interesting thing to explore in the world of anime.
Lucy is taken in by two local humans,
Kouto and Yuka who do their darnedest
to protect her from capture attempts.
Honestly Lucy is a lot like eleven from stranger things.
She's a monster who escapes her captors
just to be taken in by some local boys
who have no idea what they're in for.
Number two, Another.
Another was originally a Novel by Yukito Ayatsuji
that was adapted into a twelve part series for TV.
The backstory is pretty straightforward.
A boy named Kōichi is transferred to a new school,
and meets a strange new girl named Mei Misaki.
Mei Mei Mei Mei Mei Misaki.
Then all of a sudden his classmates start dying
awful and bloody deaths.
Well, turns out Mei's a real spooky-doo
and reveals that she has special powers.
Her power is that she can identify those
that are close to death, or already dead.
Well, guess I have a super power too,
cause if somebody is dead, I'm pretty sure I can tell.
Number one, Corpse Party.
Corpse Party is number one simply because
it sounds like the dumbest garage metal band
and I love it.
(Garage music)
Corpse Party is a linear horror adventure game
with some role playing elements.
By the way, its linear because there
is only one route to take to achieve the true ending.
So there's a bunch of different narratives,
which is fun, but if you care about
being right all the time mom... whoa.
Corpse Party centers around a group of
Japanese students who are telling
ghost stories at their school.
Suddenly an earthquake shakes them
into dilapidates school house
in an alternate dimension.
Apparently they weren't the first ones there
because the dilapidated school house
is haunted by those who couldn't escape.
The main bad boy is a red ghost
of a teenage girl who is there
seeking revenge for her death.
The only thing scarier than a ghost
is a teenage girl ghost.
Think of something scarier than that.
They have to try to escape this dimension
by avoiding the fate of the ghosts
who haunt them.
Well there you have it,
a very abbreviated list of spooky anime.
If this didn't tickle your pickle,
heres a list of other spooky anime
so you don't yell at me in the comments.
Well who am I kidding.
You will yell at me anyway, and I love it.
I love confrontation.
If you want me to do another one,
let me know in the comments,
Ill do five more, I could do ten more
I could do 20 more, there's so many of these.
I love you. Why do I keep saying that.
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