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Sep 11, 2024 · From twisted creatures to sinister plots, these dark fantasy anime series will make you sweat and keep you on the edge of your seat with their gripping storylines, haunting visuals, and exploration of deeper themes and meaning. Featuring complex characters, intricate world-building, and epic battles between good and evil, these shows will ...
- Anna Lindwasser
Sometimes anime pushes the boundary of what is sane and acceptable. Here is a list of top ten dark and twisted anime that make you question everything.
- The Promised Neverland. 2019 | 23 episodes. Although the series starts by showing us a group of cheerful kids living their lives in a vivacious orphanage, we soon get to discover the kids are actually being raised to become gourmet food for demons, with the complicity of adults!
- Made In Abyss. 2017 | Ongoing (25 episodes) Despite its childish art style and the fact that the main characters are literally kids, Made In Abyss is an incredibly shocking anime.
- Hellsing Ultimate. 2006 | 10 episodes. Hellsing Ultimate is a 10-episode OVA that follows the manga storyline more closely than the original anime show. The series follows the clandestine Hellsing Organization, which fights against the hideous monsters roaming England, including vampires and ghouls.
- Vinland Saga. 2019 | Ongoing (48 episodes) Set in a fictionalized version of Europe during the Viking Age, everything about Vinland Saga seems to be perfect down to the smallest detail, so it’s not a surprise it’s considered one of the best anime series of the 2010s.
- Talentless Nana
- The Promised Neverland
- Terror in Resonance
- Elfen Lied
- Death Parade
- The Saga of Tanya The Evil
- Hunter X Hunter
- Vinland Saga
- School Live
- Psycho Pass
This show is rather new to the scene, so it might have slipped under your radar. It’s basically a giant game of Among Us only the impostor’s job is made ever harder. It centers around a girl who’s sent to an island full of teenagers with super powers and is tasked to kill them all. However, she doesn’t have super powers. So she has to use her wit a...
This show has shot up the ranking for a lot of people since its first episode, because of how tense and well-written it is. It follows a group of children who live in a small house in the middle of a field surrounded by a forest. Sounds like a setup for either a slice-of-life show or a horror flick, right? Well it’s definitely the latter, as they s...
At first glance, this show is just about terrorism. It’s also quickly made evident that we’re rooting for the terrorists, which is a sentence that will definitely make me end up on some watch lists. However, bit by bit we learn that the two protagonists aren’t just blowing stuff up because they’re bored or have daddy issues. There’s something that ...
Elfen Lied is probably as far away as you can get from shows like Fairy Tail. I mean, the first episode literally depicts a full-on mass murder spree with limbs flying everywhere and human bodies being reduced to a pulp. The power of friendship means little to nothing. And good-hearted confrontation just ends up with someone losing an arm and a leg...
The question of life and death can often times be the source of the deepest darkness, as we don’t know whether there is an optimistic spin on death. Death Parade kind of takes a crack at it by imagining that people get judged after death by being forced to play games. However, the games are set up in such a way that their deepest and most vile emot...
Although we’ve grown numb to it by this point, there’s nothing cute or fun about war. The Saga of Tanya the Evil makes you think that it’s just another action show, because of the use of magic… but it’s just a simulation of what a full-on war looks like. The sleepless nights, the bloodshed, the discrepancy in the chain of command, the politics that...
This show really had me fooled. It starts off as the most stereotypical shounen: a boy goes on a quest to find his dad and also wants to be Hokage, I mean a Hunter. He gets some new friends and they all go on adventures together and help each other out. But as the show progresses it just keeps getting darker and darker, throwing harder and harder c...
Although the action is overexaggerated, Vinland Saga feels like a historical retelling of a very tragic tale. There’s no magic and there’s no wishing upon a falling star. It’s a story about a boy whose father gets killed right in front of his eyes. Obsessed with revenge, the boy follows his father’s murderer for yearsin the hopes that one day he ca...
Oh what is this, a high school slice-of-life? Well that’s not what I was looking for, that isn’t dark at all… Oh wait, never mind, the protagonist is just suffering from PTSD and is extremely delusional. What’s really happening is this: it’s the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, there’s no sunshine and there are no rainbows. Just a group of friends...
Psycho Pass is one of those classics that just had everyone hooked with the idea alone. We live in a society where officers have a gun that can detect whether we’re capable of committing a crime, and we’re prosecuted immediately. Boy, this show tackles morals and what it takes to run a country like no other anime out there. Is the system just? Shou...
- Alec P.
Aug 19, 2023 · We have updated this list with more of the best anime like Death Note for viewers to enjoy. RELATED: 10 Best Normie Anime, Ranked 20 Tokyo Ghoul
5 Anime recommendations with a twist! When we watch anime, we watch it for a reason. Either someone recommended it to you, you saw a snippet of it in a video or you are deliberately searching for a new series that will captivate you! Even having no reason to start a series is in fact a reason, as long as that first episode starts to play!
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Oct 4, 2024 · If you’re a fan of Uzumaki and its surreal, unsettling brand of psychological horror, here are 10 anime that capture a similar tone and style.
