Forum - View topicWhats the most mentally disturbing anime you've seen?
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Saito358
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For me it would have to be one of these three; Saikano, School Days or Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu. They were all great shows and I loved them don't get me wrong, but some sense just left a mental scar on my mind. Like in UFO no Natsu when spoiler[the girl pukes up blood and her hair starts falling out and Asaba tries to help her and gets beaten up by the nurse while the girls brother smacks her around.] Some Saikano scenes were the same way towards the end when spoiler[she was literally falling apart and missiles and bombs and god knows what else falling out of her while she's twitching] definitely hit something hard in my mind and my heart.
[EDIT: Spoiler tags added. Please use them in the future when discussing important events in a given series, or you may find your posts deleted. ~Zalis] |
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Killtheshrew
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 I wish you had put that bit about Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu in a spoiler as I havn't seen this series yet... I guess it's my own fault in the long run though. 
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Murasakisuishou
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Serial Experiments Lain, please. The entire series was so convoluted and creepy and....It just gave me shivers all over. I can't watch Lain at night because it starts to get inside my head and creep me out. And then the last two episodes, when spoiler[Eiri turns into the massive fleshy pile of stuff and implodes, and Arisu just freaks out...] It was disturbing, but extremely effective.
There are some extremely disturbing parts in Ghost Hound, too, like spoiler[the hallucination type things that seem to be plaguing Hirata and pretty much any shot of Makoto's house,] not to mention spoiler[whenever Miyako flips out.] |
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DFBTG
Posts: 385 Location: Hell |
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This may be a bit obvious, but When They Cry. Yeah sure, some parts are over done most certainly, but others...if anyone laughs when spoiler[Satako is being tortured] and spoiler[Keichi has nails driven into his finger joints] along with various other tortures, they are jacked up. Foods done, post ends.
Look at that, I rushed and had to correct "torture", where's a maid when I need one? |
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fokkusuhaundo
 Posts: 346 Location: San Diego ♥ ☼ ▓ |
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Texhnolyze left me with such a strong feeling of angst and despair throughout the whole series, especially after the last two episodes where spoiler[Ichise kills everybody, later finds Ran's head attached to a statue, and then at the very end is left as the last person alive and eventually dies.]
I know it was shown earlier in the show that such events would be inevitable, I just didn't want to believe it. |
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AznJazz
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Something that is obvious: School Days. So many fornication and adultery. Not to mention the psycho chicks in the end. That guy was a pig/dog and those chicks were like dogs in heat. Damn it is sickening. I wonder why I finished it anyways. In a sense, this Anime grossed me out more than Elfen Lied (I didn't think of Elfen Lied as disturbing anyways.) I think demoralization sickens me out more than disturbing image and such.
The ending of Evangelion made me partially cringe. Thinking about the post-apocalyptic world, red and stuff. I think I will watch the Serial Experiment Lain for the hell of it. I remember watching it on TechTV, but they discontinued it. Speaking of TechTv, they aired Boogie Pop Phantom which seems partially disturbing. That is all I got. [/code] |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Perfect Blue: In the end, I could not tell what was real and what was in her mind, and that was very disconcerting. Was she insane to begin with, or got insane from the weird things happening to her? Was she dreaming, or was it a waking nightmare? The first half is creepy, the second half was disturbing. A definite must-watch if you are into that sort of thing.
Paranoia Agent: If you wish to be mentally disturbed, watch episode three of this creepy Anime. My mind was spinning in circles, not due to the complexity of the plot, but because of the no-holds-barred depiction of insanity. The most gripping episode of the series. [EDIT: Do NOT double-post. Use the Edit button to add to your post if it's the last one in the thread.~Zalis] |
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CSousuke
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If I had to choose one, I would choose Elfen Lied, simply because the first time I saw the trailer for it, the blood freaked me out. Now I'm used to it.
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fokkusuhaundo
Posts: 346 Location: San Diego ♥ ☼ ▓ |
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I agree dtm42, Satoshi Kon sure has directed some of the most mentally disturbing works that I can only wish i could wrap my mind around, Paprika being another one with how it blurs dream and reality. That whole parade scene creeps me out just thinking about it.
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AznJazz
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I sort of enjoyed that Anime. |
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Olliff
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While I can see why you found Serial Experiments Lain mentally disturbing, I found its surreal elements to lessen its impact on me. That being said, it is a solid anime. I believe that it is the strangest anime that I have seen and actually enjoyed. I have always thought of it as more of mind game anime that challenges the viewer to figure out its true meaning than one that was incredibly disturbing. Personally, I found Welcome to the NHK to be much more disturbing. Although elements of the show were exaggerated( for comedic value), the series seemed believable. The series tackles issues that are very real, such as spoiler[ suicide, depression, mental illness, drug abuse(manga) and the fear of interacting with the real world. ] With these issues, this anime explores the powerful, but very real issues that haunt the participants of the series. Who could ever think that a show absent of murders, beasts or other vile fabrications could be so disturbing? |
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AznJazz
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I get where are you going at with NHK. I remember reflecting on my self for two weeks after watching this anime, damn philosophy and psychoanalysis. But disturbing, in a sense, is probably going to be partially subjective in Anime. |
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britannicamoore
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I'll toss out the obivous Eva
its the one show that left me mentally scared. Till this day looking a anything for the series makes me have a headache. It wasn't even a combination of romance or distrubia. It was like some psycholigcal hell that plagues the subconcious. While you're watching it and singing the happy? upbeat opening song you get flashes of whats to come. Somewhere along the end your mind begins to break down as if you are Shinji yourself. And the moive? The moive did not help things. It made them worse. I spent a day underneath the covers trying to convince myself that the horrors i'd witness on-screen were not true and nothing but a work of fiction. I think a little under a year later I am coming to terms with the series. My friend who saw it the week before me? He's never been the same. 
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Kabuto Tokugawa
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Boogeypop Phantom was a bit disturbing. Just imagining the possibility of some kind of entity coming into our world and spawning serial killers was unnerving. Although the part with the carnival near the end of the series was the most sureal and creepy for me.
Kakurenbo had its moments also. |
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Xanas
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The end of "end of evangelion" was pretty disturbing. I was left with a "that was it" feeling of true despair. I couldn't figure out the logic of the final scene at all, so bizarre, and so many scenes in that film were also over the top and dreadfully depressing. The original ending was kinda boring but at least I could follow it for what it was, I think the addition really wasn't much of an improvement. I'm curious about the new EVA material and hoping it will "correct" the ending a bit. I actually thought overall EVA was pretty good.
I do agree that Serial Experiments Lain was somewhat disturbing. Elfen Lied started out kind of disturbing, but the anime ending is very good and not at all disturbing IMO. |
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