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Reply to Shiyodoge
^ Imagine thinking horror needs to be one note where people kill each other in gruesome ways. There is a spectrum of horror.
| @Shiyodoge yeah, my favorite is H.P. Lovecraft and most of that has nothing to do with disemboweling people. like, to the other guy i say, "read more books". |
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| Bro getting carried by a kid at this point. But he's good bait nonetheless, so I guess he's still useful. |
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| I gotta say Yayoi hanging like that was hard to watch, anyway I'm sure Keitaro will save her. |
| Bruhh that GRANNY JUMPSCARE got me... Holy shit!! i wasn't prepare at all. First S-Rank and it went south really fast... |
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| I assume Yayoi only survives being hung because her body weight isn't enough to break her neck. Still horrifying to see, I need the next episode now. |
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| She's still not dead yet :) |
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| They chew more they could handle, s rank is no joke, i can't even imagine sss... Hope we get to see the graduate Yayoi bringed with her, its probably their only chance to get out of that cursed forest Also finally a curse that Yayoi cannot one shot with nothing to worry about, Keitaro is gonna have to take care of this himself and the horror aspect can truly shine this way |
| Deep dark fantasies |
| Naahh Yayoi... That fool was smiling wayy too hard for you not to notice right away. That was an automatic red flag |
Undefeated  Bahamut |
| That got real dangerous real quick. |
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| Is Eiko going to come in and save the two, or are they going to break through with sheer will power and skill? This will be fun. |
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| That is a pretty creepy situation to be in. Would be scary to have someone you're with just disappear and have to worry about them like Yayoi vanishing from Keitaro's sight and even worse him running into her presumed dead body as he saw it. That is a pretty tragic backstory there, I wonder if it's based on anything historical or not. I was able to confirm there was a siege that took place in 1590 at Hachioji Castle against the Hojo clan. That's all i could find in English. A typo in the subs distracted me a moment. A couple letters of a word was reversed. |
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| I think this was my favourite episode as of yet. I loved the whole atmosphere around it, the fucked up backstory of this castle and just generally how spooky it was. |
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| What a satanic anime, I even wrapped a rosary around my arm to watch this episode, go back to hell, you old woman! |
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| Great sinister atmosphere and no unncessary comic relief. Only problem is the weekly format for keeping up the tension and the momentum. Best moment was the scene where he grabs Yayois hand and what happened immediately after. Really caught me offgard. |
| This—is getting kind of boring. Now that there's more of an established arc to what's going on, it's been nonstop action, and what made the earlier episodes good, the people and their interactions and motives, is gone. I do appreciate that Dark Gathering has made its spirits fairly unpredictable, but this kind of action isn't enough to sustain a show by itself. This particular episode needed to dwell more on Yayoi and Keitaro's relationship; it should've had them talk and argue more, not just yoink Yayoi away. Though we as the audience know they'll get through it, Keitaro does not (even if Yayoi does); Yayoi was already reckless to exhaust Keitaro having him bike them for hours to confront a spirit, and it was really Yayoi's fault they were separated. All the episode needed to do was have Keitaro complain to her for a couple minutes that this wasn't the best way to go about things; then that would have foregrounded their relationship. Instead we keep getting these too-long recaps at the beginning. Eiko knows: everything goes to shit without her. |
| "He who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short." —Arthur Schopenhauer |
| Been ages since I felt scared watching an anime |
| If this is the first S Rank spirit they encountered, I cannot begin to imagine how dangerous and crazy the other S Rankers and beyond will be, and let's not forget about the scary/messed up factor. |
sasahara_n said: horror? really? 11 eps aired and it is not even scary a bit comparing to Higurashi for example, this is more like a comedy-parody to horror. i'm waiting for more, considering DG is 25 eps long, but my hopes are not so high((. It's difficult to compare a lot of things - particularly horror and horror-adjacent things in anime, including this, to Higurashi in a meaningful way, because Higurashi has a much more in-depth story in the first place. |
| Dang, I feel like this show just keeps on getting crazier and crazier with it's supernatural and horror elements. Sure, it's not actually that scary, but at least it's going full into it regardless. Also, I'm pretty sure that story the old lady told was biased off of actual events, wasn't it? |
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| I'm starting to think Keitaro is kind of pathetic. It is like his 10th time dealing with ghosts and still teeth clattering, running around without thinking. It make sense to feel desperate over life and dead matters, but losing mind, screaming and running around is totally another case. What is all his past experiences for? At least, calm his shit down and think. |
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| bro what the shit didn't think Yaoyi would get clapped this soon she must have let her guard down shes most likely not dead but still this feels like a first really goes to show how serious a S rank hunt is episode felt very Fatal Frame like and the fucked up story having ties to "history" has it''s own form of creepyness also that barrier... |
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| Keitaro needs a Training Arc so he isn't so useless. |
| Me thinking Yayoi was 5 steps ahead of the ghost, seeing her in such a state... Lets be honest here, we all had this image of this tiny girl being badass to be put in danger. |
| All that retread of last episodes scenes, plus the opening was annoying... Episode didn't start until 4.5 minutes in. No wonder it felt so short. |
| “No, you can’t have a show where everybody’s Krillin!” – Shinpachi |
| Legit dat old woman jump scared the fuck out of me. Oh so the last ed woman spirit actually is the graduate spirit they were looking for, and it's used that elephant doll? Its fun to see once again Keitaro suffering from those s-rank spirit domain. Yayoi even after self-proclaim herself as an experience ghost buster, she still manage to let herself get caught off guard by that. But eh? Shameless narrative end-credit scene giving all the fun part of this episode and showing how they manage to break off the caught and try to catch the castle-ruin spirit with the monk-grizzly-bear-doll spirit. Oh well then, let's see next! |
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| Well damn their situation became a mess fast. How are they gonna get out of this? |
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| Keitaro correctly assumed that everything he saw was an illusion, but when it comes to Yayoi hanging that's real? |
| Finally somewhat creepy episode. I hope it continues in this manner. |
| Holy the level of this has improved. This episode was the most thrilling of them all. We got to see different type of illusions that hints about the suicide of the women from the late 1500s invasion, it was definitely a creepy episode starting from the intro of that old women to Yayoi’s being hanged |
| I think it’s safe to say that this was, at the very least, the creepiest episode so far. |
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| After so many episodes we finally got a full horror episode. Easily the best ep of Dark Gathering till now. |
Reply to trampler8324
After so many episodes we finally got a full horror episode. Easily the best ep of Dark Gathering till now.
| @trampler8324 I mean, the series does take it's time building up everything, which is way better than it throwing the horror right in your face from the very beginning. Also, this arc is good but future ones are waaaaay better. Cour 2 will pop off. |
| Wow. The horror displays the state of hopelessness so well. It’s so sad to see them defeated (temporarily) so completely. Yayoi was tricked easily, so I hope it’s just a façade and she’s got something up her sleeves |
| I remember back in 2010s, watching animes with sensitive topics and gore was always hard because of the bad censorship. I was very surprised to see no censor in this episode, which I'm not complaining, I love it. I love the vibe of this show, and how much it can make me scared and have chills or simply be shocked by the images it shows, like Yayoi's bedroom covered in blood. I hope this show gets very popular and studios bring back this kind of horror with gore genre, I missed it a lot! |
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| w0w! just hunting an S-class is already this extreme difficult! damn! looks like final b0ss would be a spectacle!! 5/5. |
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Reply to katakumplat
Whoa for the first time Yayoi-chan got fooled by a ghost.
| @katakumplat True, I was surprised too. That's uncharacteristic of her considering how she's often steps ahead when it comes to dealing with spirits. |
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