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Why is there no horror anime that's actually scary? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yeah yeah, this may be a controversial statement, but I would love NOTHING MORE than to be proven wrong.

I genuinely believe that there's no good horror anime out there. Something that actually gives you chills and makes you Avert your eyes from the screen just doesn't exist. Junji ito is creepy and gross, sure, but I wouldn't say it does enough to be considered proper horror

Other horror animes just have a creepy aesthetic or rely on dark story beats like shiki or another. I don't know if it's just the disconnect from being animated in the first place, but I don't think anime is capable of delivering a true horror experience.

Please, if you disagree, prove me wrong, I need to be wrong about this

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

@StarvingMartist there's a short stop-motion anime called My Little Goat that's very visceral-looking and gross, it's about a wolf trying to eat goat kids and I think it's meant as a metaphor for csa? I don't remember it super well because I only watched it once and that was more than enough for me... I don't know what you consider "scary" but it was super disturbing.

Funny thing is, the guy who made it later made Pui Pui Molcar.