halloween 2021!

[sinew]

ｈａｐｐｙ   ｈａｌｌｏｗｅｅｎ！ you came to the right neighborhood, kiddo! ｔｒｉｃｋ    ｏｒ   ｔｒｅａｔ？  i have an infinite quantity of red candies, and i'm itching to give them out... for a price! >:3 in the spirit of the spooky holiday, i'd like recommendations for horror and suspense animanga! i'll take recs for violent, creepy, disturbing, and just generally unsettling stuff too! (the only exception is anything by junji ito; i've uh... read all his stuff already... orz) if you leave a link to your candy post, that would be much appreciated too~ ｃａｎｄｉｅｓ unspent x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 pending + spent x31 x07 x06 x07 x10 x06 x07 x30 given pia receivedred: andie, brittany, lex, lita, mini, information exchange 91, slots 25, shopping street x24 orange: amity, bunny, crystal, hana, jen, kayori, lenga yellow: astral, nea, pia, sisi, sunlit, help miss kamila 246 green: agatha, len, eko, nu, reneetwist, survey corps 91, tin blue: anna, coco, hollie, jackals, pom, sarah, shiranna, coloring book 262, help miss kamila 246, seiyuu guess 519 purple: aletha, archangel, aru, cami, kj, lina brown: elijah, francy, jun, orion, lucky draw 42, michelle, mira grey: january, pumpkin, raie, raven, ryan, shannon, shopping street x24

Comments

[jewelry]

let me get a list here:

- copernicus no kokyuu — violent, disturbing, also sexual in nature so. forewarned.
- gunjou — violent and suspenseful, also with sexual themes. that's kind of part and parcel with a lot of this genre, oops.
- hideout — horror, surreal, suspense.
- hone ga kusaru made — horror, thriller. i don't remember a lot about the plot but it was super bingeable, that's my review.
- any suehiro maruo works (though it's all more guro than horror but it fluctuates), his art is so fantastic.
- and now come get some candy

[sinew]

thank you for the recs! :)

[misheard]

i am unfortunately a Huge Weenie and i don't like horror animanga but Angels of Death was a good video game and the anime is supposed to also be good...?

[pcrtiallystcrs]

so i don't normally read spooky things but i do really enjoy the psychological horror aspects of school live! i wish i could recommend more honestly but i am, as the kids say, a wiener-baby. but here is my candy post!

[lina_trinch]

This is a tired answer but Death Note! I don't consume a lot of horror/suspense media in general, but I do remember watching & reading Death Note and it being really good. I should try it out again lol.

[tothejackals]

hello fellow junji itou enjoyer we will make it to october of 2022 for the new uzumaki adaptation

so i've got three?? four recs

on the light side i always love to nudge ghost hunt at people--no, it's not that anime with the wild dub track. it's a lil light novel series with a short anime about a totally ordinary girl who ends up working for a world-renowned paranormal investigator who happens to be a huge jerk and a teenage boy :D the cast is fun and lovable, and the stories range from little bits of suspenseful levity to being chock full of dead kids and references to carmilla

on the gory side i enjoyed bio meat. in the future japan's created these weird little... food creatures called bio-meat which eat any organic material and don't feel pain so it's a totally normal and ethical food source.

and then their containment facility gets damaged :D they eat any organic material. it has a neat sequel manga where america has the same idea, but worse!

third rec is mononoke, which is just... an incredibly beautiful fever dream of a show where the mysterious medicine seller tries to determine what demon is mucking a place by figuring out its shape, truth, and reason. nobody tells the whole truth and the animation is absolutely gorgeous.

bonus side rec that i haven't watched but keep meaning to, yamishibai. looks like a bunch of short paperdoll style spookum stories.

[astralfire]

🎃 Fuan No Tane was recommended to me by a friend, and it has become one of my favorite horror series of all time!! It's a ton of shorts that all follow the theme of the build up of fear before it abruptly ends, hence "Seeds of Anxiety," and it's very Junji Ito-ish.

🎃 I collected the Scarred and Method decks because the cards kept catching my eye in RA, so I looked up the series. It's called "Goth." It's only like five or six chapters, I think, very short, but it's good. It isn't horror spooky so much as disturbing and a tad violent. Pre-emptive TW for suicide if that isn't your jam.

🎃 I've never read the Shiki manga (I should), but I did enjoy the anime! It's about vampires.

🎃 Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen isn't what most people would call spooky, I guess, but both of them have some really eerie moments to me, especially in the later half of the series! Both of them can get pretty violent and disturbing, too.

🎃 Shin Sekai Yori is extremely slow burn spooky/violent. It's mostly thriller/psychological, but it's good if you don't find that too boring and off-putting!

🎃 Kurozuka is a pretty obscure, cool show about Japanese vampire mythos with romance involved, but it's definitely an acquired taste. It's fantasy sci-fi and kind of violent.

🎃 FINALLY, lol, my last rec is if you like BL/yaoi and manhwa! It's called The Black Mirror. I went feral and binge read it in two days...... LMAO. It kept me on the edge of my seat because of the horror and suspsense, but it's got sex scenes in it, some of them dubcon, so definitely don't read it out in the open or if you aren't into that.

[mizu]

It's been a really long time, but I liked Terror in Resonance!

[kataomoi]

aku no hana was pretty disturbing imo!! but i am also a weenie, pls take this with a grain of salt. LMAO... happy halloween!

[itskjstyle]

I don't watch a lot of horror; however, there's some that just stick out for me

My go-to recommendation Ghost Hunt has been mentioned. But it's my absolute favorite. Even the opening has a great spooky vibe to it. The series is fun, and varies from actually a bit spooky, to sweet, to this may not be haunted.

I also really liked Another and it's basically haunted class. Gruesome deaths. And by gruesome I mean you may never look at umbrella the same.

And...I also really loved Parasyte -- both the anime and manga. About an earth where parasitic creatures take over human bodies. The MC is a guy who successfully stops his and now it only has his hand. It's really not just pure "horror" despite spooky elements, it has a lot of what you'd see in seinen series, too.

And -- candy from me!

[sinew]

lol, fair

[sinew]

huh, i've never heard of that before. thanks for the rec!

[sinew]

a classic uwu thanks for the rec!

[sinew]

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE UZUMAKI ANIME sobbing into my hands it looks so good. i loved the song used in the trailer and how it was so simple but set such a tone of dread

djsflkdsjdsf "not that anime with the wild drub track" read my mind and called me out for ghost stories being the first thing i thought of lmao

thanks for all these recs!

[sinew]

i love goth! i read the manga first, then ended up reading the novel in like 2 sittings lmao!

the most disturbing thing to me in shin sekai yori is somehow, despite it all, there's still heteros in that world

thank for you for the recs!

[sinew]

ngl that one ripped my heart out, stomped on it, then pissed on it for good measure

thanks for the rec!

[sinew]

in fairness, we're all goofy goobers at weenie hut jr's uwu

thanks for the rec! happy halloween :)

[sinew]

my favorite survived in another and honestly that was the best i could ask for

thanks for the other recs!

[moes]

i will list a few that i liked:

promised neverland has a good unsettling vibe and leans very hard on the psychological horror; i've heard the second season is pretty bad though, anime-wise but that the manga is much better for capturing some things, too.

parasyte is also good and unsettling, has some nice body horror as well. the characters in it are also just very good.

also if you're into watching movies, perfect blue is honestly pretty terrifying and deals with a lot of realism re: idols and the horrors regarding that industry. also a lot of surrealism and very good shots

jigoku shoujo/hell girl is also good; there's a lot of episodes for it but a lot of them are standalone for the most part and share their own miniature horrors.

rampo kitan: game of laplace is a mystery but has a LOT of horror elements in it -- there's a killer who turns their victims into "furniture" so to speak, as a reference.

and here is my post!

[archangelamy]

I always liked Pet Shop of Horrors back in the day, it's a very pretty manga! Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni is also a classic.

I think you've already hit up my post.

[astralfire]

yw!! i need to read the goth novel. ALSO YEAH!!! shakes shin sekai yori upside down.

[konimi]

While not really a horror, Psycho Pass is a psychological thriller series that I really enjoy. It can also be pretty unsettling and gory at times. Have a Happy Halloween!!!

Here is my post if you need orange candy!

[penguinknitter]

I have to admit, I'm a weenie when it comes to horror or suspense. I haven't even seen the horror 'classic' movies.

So a weenie trick or treat, lol.

[sinew]

it was super good! the manga focused on a lot of the little mini stories, and the manga covered a number of them, but it put them in a different order, and had even more stories (what ended up as my top two faves were actually left out of the manga lmao)

[sinew]

thank you for the recs!