Terrifying characters

Akihiro Kurata from Digimon Savers. Very disgusting dude.

@Serafos it's always the scientists, isn't it ? they look so plain and behave so polite but are secretly psychotically insane.

@Serafos it's always the scientists, isn't it ? they look so plain and behave so polite but are secretly psychotically insane.

@tchitchouan You can say the same thing about certain rulers.

https://myanimelist.net/character/64511/Bambietta_Basterbine

If you know, you know.

@Zarutaku I thought people were down bad for her?
I never watched a single episode of Bleach btw.

Yea, but that doesn't mean she can't be terrifying as well.

No need to, this scene should be enough:

The only character that managed to scare me:

The thing for me is no matter how much Japanese Anime tries to make something look terrifying, it's still looks cartoonish to me simply because of it's nature of being "animated fiction".





Maybe it's just me simply because I have lived almost 5 decades now and been exposed to live fiction and films 1000 times more disturbing and terrifying from mild Japanese gore films like "ichi the killer" (2001) where even the gore can be seen as cartoonish in nature as well to out right extreme Western exploitation films like "Murder-Set-Pieces" (2004) which it was originally banned in multiple Western countries till an edited and cut version of the films was produced for home video (I actually saw the uncut version of this film in California back in the mid 2000s at the theater the 1st week when it was released before they stopped showing it in theaters only a few weeks after due to being too disturbing).

Japanese Anime has never been compelling enough to me in this aspect even when the 1st time I saw the uncut version of "Urotsukidoji" back in the early 90s on VHS as a teenager. Where literally this Japanese Anime is about demons from another dimension spawning on earth simply to brutally rape women as young as early teen high school girls to death and even sometimes to the point of complete mutilation where sometimes even after they are finished with them they will even eat them too. Where the only purpose of this brutal carnal act for them is simply to kill off humanity to extinction.

@ColourWheel Where are those gifs from?
The first one looks Blood-C, but I don't recognize the other, and Google can't find it.

@JaniSIr

I think they are both from Blood-C. They were the only gifs I could find remotely modern on the web to display how cartoonish even "Disturbing" Japanese Anime looks to me.

If you don't remember this scene then you probably watched a cut or edited version of it. Depending on where one lives probably several cut versions of this Anime exists where scenes are not necessarily censored just simply omitted or shortened scenes where you could have possibly viewed a version that completely omitted the scene from the 2nd gif I linked or simply forgot about it because it was so short. It reminds me of the "Urotsukidoji" franchise where there multiple edited and cut versions of the Anime have been produced even for home release since it's theatrical release in Japan (it's just the OVA put together in one movie where parts are cut out) where it's extremely rare to even find the original uncut 3 part OVA (most people who have even seen this Anime have only seen the theatrical cut which is edited and cut but not necessarily censored any more than what was required due to Japanese censorship laws). The original uncut 3 part OVA from 1987 is completely lost media I think even in Japan. I am probably one of very few people who managed to find this original 3 part OVA on Japanese VHS where one of the VHS tapes I own is even slightly eaten up during a few parts when I bought it off a collector in the late 2000s.

The thing for me is no matter how much Japanese Anime tries to make something look terrifying, it's still looks cartoonish to me simply because of it's nature of being "animated fiction".





Maybe it's just me simply because I have lived almost 5 decades now and been exposed to live fiction and films 1000 times more disturbing and terrifying from mild Japanese gore films like "ichi the killer" (2001) where even the gore can be seen as cartoonish in nature as well to out right extreme Western exploitation films like "Murder-Set-Pieces" (2004) which it was originally banned in multiple Western countries till an edited and cut version of the films was produced for home video (I actually saw the uncut version of this film in California back in the mid 2000s at the theater the 1st week when it was released before they stopped showing it in theaters only a few weeks after due to being too disturbing).

Japanese Anime has never been compelling enough to me in this aspect even when the 1st time I saw the uncut version of "Urotsukidoji" back in the early 90s on VHS as a teenager. Where literally this Japanese Anime is about demons from another dimension spawning on earth simply to brutally rape women as young as early teen high school girls to death and even sometimes to the point of complete mutilation where sometimes even after they are finished with them they will even eat them too. Where the only purpose of this brutal carnal act for them is simply to kill off humanity to extinction.

@ColourWheel If I'm being completely honest I agree for the most part. It's the main reason why I actually made this thread cuz I was interested in seeing what characters people would think of.

The only real scene that has actually terrified me in anime is

@SimplyBrazen I could name like disgusting or morally repulsive scenes and characters, but terrifying? Not even Hellsing Ultimate has enough violence for that.

@JaniSIr Depends on the impact. Different scenes can have different effects and cause many reactions from certain viewers. Maybe terrifying might not have been the right term to describe it, but I was tryna include anything that may cause an extreme level of shock, fear, anxiety, etc.

I can understand where you are coming from. Also understand why others could find stuff in this medium to sometimes be terrifying or disturbing enough that it would effect them personally. Specifically if one isn't too experienced with the kind of stuff I have been exposed to throughout my life in not only dealing with just live action fiction but also in real life (As an example, simply visiting a butcher farm and watching what actually happens in such a place is a pretty terrifying experience to even meeting some of the people who work in such a profession. Some can actually come across as disturbing while on the surface seem like normal nice people until you watch them go to work ripping the flesh off large animals for food like it's no big deal being covered in pools of blood. This wouldn't even be addressing the smell...).

While there are many works of fiction that sometimes can have a serious nature about them, in general Japanese Anime was never meant to be some serious medium in my opinion. It's just simply too cartoonish for a person like me for anything this medium could offer to personally effect me in such a way.

@ColourWheel You know, it's really not normal how people got detached from their food, that wasn't the norm for most of human history, you'd have to be extremely rich to avoid this mildly messy side of life.
As for us, it's sort of a family tradition to do a pig kill once a year, so that we have home made meat to eat. So yea, sort of grew up in that.

It's not so much the act of butchering animals for food, it's the environment, tools, and methods used that was terrifying and shocking to see for the 1st time in my life, as well as the size of the cattle only made it that much more of a bloody event. When you are up close and personal to see live cattle on an assembly line one moment and then spend over a full hour watching every process done to break it down into meat and raw materials with a 20 inch saw it's pretty gruesome. It felt like I was experiencing a real life gore movie.

While I have never taken apart a mammal like a pig before for meat, I have butchered large salt water fresh fish, chickens, and ducks for poultry meat. That is a completely different experience than watching cattle being broken down for food at a slaughterhouse.

Well, now imagine that, except you are 10, you aren't merely watching, but are actively working on it, and it takes significantly longer, as nobody in your family is a professional, also 2 people got drunk, and now they are singing somewhere very badly but very loudly.