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Unit 03.5-ish
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There has to be something that sometimes crops up in anime that triggers a kneejerk reaction deep within you. And there are some things I'm sure people can't quite get past, regardless of how much anime they've seen.
Here's mine: robots (such as mechs and things) that are partially organic or have biological elements to them. Yes, even as much as I love the show, the spoiler[robots in Eva bother me for precisely this reason, in their own way]. There's something creepy, to me, about something that's an abomination of both nature and technology. I'm sure there's some deep-seated psychological reason, which I'd really love to hear, because even the robot Arnold plays in the Terminator trilogy kinda icks me out in the same way. |
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Dorcas_Aurelia
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Self-inflicted pain. That's why When They Cry freaked me out so much the first time I watched it. I had to stop watching the first time I saw the opening scene of episode 5, because after marathoning the first four episodes immediately previous, it was just too much for me. I think I try to understand why a person would harm oneself, and then I try to imagine what it feels like. I need to figure out how to stop doing that.
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kazkannon
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End of the world. It's not that I get disturbed by them, it's just that I get shock and wonder the many way the world can end. And this is why I love End Of Evangelion.
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abunai
Old Regular
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Victimisation of the innocent or helpless.
I take it that anyone who has seen Now and Then, Here and There will know what I am referring to, without the need for me to belabour the point with spoilers? The victimisation needn't be at the hand of deliberately malicious people -- it can also be the product of hard times and desperate circumstances, as in Grave of the Fireflies. - abunai |
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Ikari1
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Children being hurt - Evangelion ( nerves attached to war machines) and Air TV in particular.
Suicide. Habaine renmai caught me off guard with this. It gets me everytime I see it in anime but then it's partially for the fact that it explores these issues that I like anime. |
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Zin5ki
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The merging of multiple consciousness into single entities. When a mind is assimilated into something alien, and such a new being still holds claim to being amongst others the same mind as that individual one it absorbed, I simply feel traumatised when I compare the individual in question to what they now are.
I'd give examples of anime which explore this concept to varying degrees, but many people can probably guess which one I'm thinking of in particular, so I won't spoil things.
I'll have to admit, it wasn't until after I'd seen all of HR that I realised that was a central theme to it. Makes it all the more unnerving. |
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zawa113
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Anything that has to do with eyes having/doing odd things. Getting poked in the eye, in the cast of Perfect Blue spoiler[getting a screwdriver stabbed into your eye], losing an eye, etc, etc. I cannot stand anything that has to do with eyeballs getting injured in any medium. It was bad enough in Mushi-shi when spoiler[Ginko took out his eye to give to the girl and stuff came out of the girl's eye and then got sucked back in]. This has been going on long before anime, it's why I wear glasses and not contacts. I watched the entire first 10 minutes or so of Elfen Lied going "Oooo! It's like God of War!", but the instant the above spoiler happened in Perfect Blue marked the first time I've ever completely flinched from the screen in anime. Great, now I just imagined that scene again...even in Ace Ventura when Jim Carey is playing with his eyeball to annoy the bad guy, that made me flinch too. Pirates of the Caribbean with the one guy's fake eye that he constantly messed around with, the fork in the eye part made me flinch. Even in the Dororo manga, when spoiler[Hyakkimaru faces towards the ground and lets his fake eyes fall out, it creeped me out totally].
So, in short, eyeballs (when abnormal amounts of attention are drawn to them for some reason or if they are injured). |
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TheTheory
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Hmm. You might want to avoid the music artist The Residents, who frequently utilize the eyeball iconography. Anyway, on topic, it takes a lot for me to really be disturbed or shocked anything. Which makes it all the more powerful when an anime DOES manage to shock me. The classic example is in Fullmetal Alchemist when spoiler[that guy experiments on his daughter, eventually turning her into a chimera. If that isn't shocking enough, she then becomes nothing more than a blood-splatter on a wall.] I remember just being devastated by that. Mouth agape, saying "Oh my god..." To make the situation even worse spoiler[the guy then tries to bring her back via alchemy, so these lifeless dolls in her image crop up later on in the series.] While thinking about this thread Haibane Renmei, Grave of the Fireflies, and Perfect Blue all came to mind, too... however, Fullmetal was definitely the best example. |
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Dark Elf Warrior
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You're not alone, I totally agree with you. |
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Unit 03.5-ish
Posts: 1540 Location: This space for rent |
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I have to agree about part of something Theory said, human experimentation/alteration is just goddamn creepy. Escaflowne had spoiler[Dilandau, who was drugged and played with when he was still Allen's sister. Not only did they alter her body, they wiped her memories and turned her into a killing machine.]
I guess it's the fact that when a person is turned into an aberration of what they were, be it human or otherwise, you're robbing them of some fundamental part of who they were and dehumanizing them, just because you needed them to serve some sick purpose. |
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Eruanna
 Posts: 451 Location: Canada |
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Horrible and unspeakable experiments being done on people, especially children.
The idea of someone taking your body and changing it irreversably is just plain freaky. Vexille freaked me out with its spoiler[forced mechanization of the entire Japanese population. ]Blue Submarine No. 09 when that one guy (cant really remember his name) spoiler[was recovered from the villains lair having been turned into a sea creature.] But its even worse if its on children. I think the single one scene in all of anime that Iv seen that bothered me the most was that episode of Full Metal Alchemist spoiler[where Nina was merged with her dog.] That almost made me sick to my stomach. Hatenkou Yuugi also had an episode where there was a child spoiler[who was kidnapped, and when they found him it was discovered that he was killed so parts of his body could go into making a weird frankenstein on some ladies dead son.] |
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doctordoom85
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Agreed (and likewise, I wear glasses instead of contacts because of this). Bad enough when eye violence showed up in Tsubasa, but since it was a part of the series losing the "fun and light" feel in favor of a darker feel, it worked. Then it showed up in Naruto spoiler[the image of Itachi almost removing Sasuke's eye freaks me out, and then you have Madara insisting he didn't rip his little brother's eyes out], and I was like, "stop tormenting me!" I'm also not big on torture, and I admit this has made me hesitant to watch Higurashi, since I've seen a video (containing nothing but crazy laughter throughout the series) and it showed some guy tied up about to get seriously messed up, and I cringed. I'll probably watch it through when Funi/Geneon releases a boxset, though. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7995 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Higurashi (aka When They Cry) does have at least 4 instances of torture that I can recall, one of them is really bad (spoiler[The scene where Shion tortures Satoko, who's only a child, to death]) the rest depend on your tolerance for it on whether or not you can stand them. I say avoid the "Cotton Drifting" and "Eye Opening" chapters. Unfortunately those are the two best storylines in the series though so you'd be missing out on a lot by not watching them.
I personally can stand a lot. I have a high threshhold for violence and it doesn't really bother me unless it's at the level of Elfen Lied which is a little overboard. However, as long as it doesn't detract from telling a story the more the merrier in this catagory. Sex doesn't phase me either unless it's rape, which I don't usually tolerate in my anime unless it serves the story (not is the story if you follow me). I really loathe sick s*** like Night Shift Nurses too. That one got me seriously infuriated and I'm a level headed guy. (Tasteful) sex scenes such as those in Blue Gender, Rumbling Hearts, or Kemonozume can offen enhance the show's characters though. I usually tolerate various forms of fanservice as well with no problems. Child molestation or abuse is also something I can't handle. In a related subject, I also don't like loli exploitation anime like Sky Girls or Strike Witches which sexualize underaged girls. I've always reacted strongly to suicide or attempted suicide in anime since I'm strongly against it. Sometimes it works to enhance anime sometimes it doesn't. |
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Elfen12
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The idea of multi-dimensional existence. For some reason, this unexpectatley effects me in ways i woudln't ever hypothesize. I think the idea is marvalous, i think it's a unique idea, and i wish i could do it sort of, even though i have no idea what the reprocussions and consequences of it would be. But for some reason in Noein it just creeped the crap out of me. It really startled me because of how they (spoilers just for the hell of it, if you've seen up to ep. 3 of noein just go over the spoiler thing) spoiler[ how they're connected by that little cord thing, and how if that thing is diconnected,] you could be trapped in a totally differnet world. That idea kinda freaked me out a little bit... because, i mean i have absolutely no proof, but i'd imagine things would be differnet to a degree that many woudln't be able to comprehend nor take. So the idea of multi-dimensional travelling is a bit, creepy to me, and espeically the way they portrayed it in Noein.
I slightly second abunai's claim and mentioning regarding the victimisation of the innocent or helpless, and espeically, again, the way it's portrayed and shown in Now and Then, Here and There. However, for some reason, it doesn't effect me as much because it's in a differnt world. Although it is possible, and things of this magnitude and nature do occur in this just fine and dandy world, there was something i just coudln't take seriosly about it in that show. spoiler[ I wasn't able to take it seriosly in the show because of how the "tyranical leader" was so... just, a wimp. I mean when he didn't get his way and when he was dying or close to dying or whatever, he turned out to be a pussy, for lack of a better term. I mean, he wasn't serious, and he turned out to be a weakling, who somehow managed to get in power... i don't know if they discussed in the show how he came to be able to control such a massive powerful weapon/ship thing, and that is the part that initiates this doubt in me, that someone of that nature and personality, would ever be capable of maintaining such a heavy grip on people. So yeah, it was mainly the nature of the man in charge (i'm blocking his name) that made this situation seem unlikeley... i don't know why something so miniscule was able to change a whole view on it, but ... well it did. ]. And using Now and Then, Here and There as an example regarding multi-dimensional travel... i mean, i'm not exaclty sure if that is what it is considered in this instance, but it is the same concept... being trapped in a world that one doens't understand, one that compleltey goes against ones ideals, personailty, values, practices, and even physical appearence (although not in this show). It didn't take affect on me with this show because, they didn't emphasize the whole, "cannot get back thing". spoiler[ And in the end he does make it back i believe, which definitley got rid of that factor.] -Elfen12- |
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BrothersElric
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Wholeheartedly agree here. Pretty much just any example you can think of where women/children/any form of innocent/helpless has something brutally and ruthlessly horrible happen to them are some of the scenes that just crush me the most in a series. It seems to happen a TON in the manga series Parasyte and the Chimera Ant arc of Hunter X Hunter. Just ruthless, brutal murder of hundreds of those kinds of people, no matter who they are, and it just crushes me every single time it happens. Some classic examples I can think of are of course the aforementioned spoiler[Nina being turned into a Chimera and then splattered against the wall] from Fullmetal Alchemist or that scene from Serial Experiments Lain where spoiler[those two online games become merged and that guy ends up gunning down that kid ruthlessly.] Or even in Texhnolyze when spoiler[Kano unveils that statue with Ran's head on it.] It's just horribly, horribly depressing. |
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