| Anime is sucks when it comes to horror |
BLACKANGERSep 21, 2021 3:08 PM
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| Horror just isn't that scary. You'll probably find something scary in Avant Garde, previously known as Dementia. |
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| My answer is similar to Lunilah's. Personally i don't find horror in general that scary. |
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| Thriller and Dementia is scarier than horror. Not just with anime, bur with movies and western series also |
| Horror relies on the audience being able to sympathize with the characters to a great degree, with as few degrees of separation as possible. Animation is a pretty large degree of separation. |
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| Horror in general doesn't scare me. I've yet to see a Hollywood movie where the monster doesn't look incredibly fake, lol School-Live! is way scarier than something like Haunting of the House on the Hill or whatever that Netflix show was called, IMO |
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| maybe cuz of the animation or something idk honestly looking at johan from monster terrifies me knowing what kind of person he is. that counts as horror to me |
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| Horror doesn't scare me. The one stepping into the room when fan service on screen stops my heart for a while. |
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| Cause there's no such thing as a good horror anime |
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| Because life can be scarier than any fictional horror. Anime fans are veterans. |
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| It's hard to really be scared of something that is fictional in nature and even less scary when it's obviously an animation. The horror genre in any form of media from western movies and tv to anime is basically the same, it's about the shock factor. The thing is if you are accustomed to a certain genre no matter how shocking it might be from torture porn to graphic exploitation films, it doesn't matter how extreme it can get. If you are hardcore into anything, it becomes more extremely difficult to be shocked or scared of something the more of it you consume or get exposed to. It's the general conditioning of the human psyche. Viewers become more desensitized to things they are commonly exposed to. If you grow up around livestock being slaughtered and processed for food you get use to the smell the gore and all that follows in it's industry. The same thing can be said about pornography. If someone has never been exposed to seeing graphic images or videos of hardcore sex, it would likely be extremely shocking for them to watch or look at for the 1st time. |
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| The essence of visual horror is imitating reality, when you watch a horror movie with horrific character that look realistic or humanoid you get the chills because you feel like it could be real and you feel threatened by it, you can’t separate the fiction you’re watching from your side of the screen. When you’re watching something animated you don’t feel threatened or scared because it doesn’t come in contact with reality in the visual sense, it doesn’t look real enough for your brain unintentionally be repelled by feeling like it’s in danger |
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| People say something to this effect all the the time, but I truly can't relate to it at all. Horror anime as a whole doesn't scare me more or less than live action horror, which is extremely minimally and rarely. If you've seen a lot of horror in whichever medium, from a young age especially, you're completely desensitized to it. At least that applies to me. Horror is one of my chief favorite genres and I don't watch horror to "scare" me in the first place, in either anime or live action. I watch it for the same reason I watch every other genre - in the hopes for a good and compelling story. Horror has more to offer than producing an instinctual physiological response. I've seen so many slasher films, creature and monster spectacles, torture porn, and ultraviolent, gory, and graphic material in general in horror that I really don't care about it and it isn't what is scary to me anyway. Horror is most effective and actually meaningful when it does the same thing as other genres - takes you out of your comfort zone by getting you to think about and feel certain things that you otherwise wouldn't. That doesn't have to entail literally screaming or jumping in your seat. I love horror even if 99.9%+ of it doesn't scare me. In fact, I would say there are only 5 - 10 live action films I can think of which I can say genuinely did and do in the way that you're probably thinking when phrasing this question (chilling me to the core because of disturbing concepts represented with a visceral approach and suffocating level of immersion). And only one anime (season one of Higurashi). |
WatchTillTandavaSep 21, 2021 3:27 PM
| I think for me I'm just not drawn into them as much as I am with horror movies & books. |
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| live action movies don't scare me either so yeah |
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| For the most part, I feel like what makes horror work — for me at least — is relatability. Not in a "this could happen to me" way, but more for the realism of the situation, so that stuff like creepy stories on reddit manage to scare me more than any Lovecraft or Poe story, and most horror movies. Of course, a great writer can build up enough sense of dread so that they manage to create unsettling horror works, but most time, what we fear the most is not the atmosphere but the next jumpscare. And then we have japanese horror. It relies far too much on visual shock and creepiness, not so much on jumpscares like Western horror, but they build up dread by showing you creepy faces instead of building up atmosphere. Take Junji Ito, for instance, which is considered the biggest name on Japanese horror: he's not scary at all, at most unsettling, but once you get used to his style it loses a lot of the initial shock you would feel, and that's even worse when you try to animate something like that, since it loses even more of the effect by having the art leave behind a lot of the complexity it had on paper. I think the "scariest" anime I've watched was Mononoke, and mostly because the direction managed to create a great sense of dread in one or other episode. |
| good question but i dont really know, it maybe cuz of the characters designs idk |
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| "Scary" is such a vague word in this context that the question doesn't really make sense. I don't find anything "scary" in the sense that... I don't know, my heart races and I have to pause the video? Is that what people mean by scary? I haven't experienced that since I was a kid. When people only focus on one thing; how scary a horror show is, they are really underselling horror as a genre. It is the most diverse and complicated genre, and there is much more to it than how scary it is. |
| Shoot first, think never. |
| It would be nice to see a move away from the idea in general that horror needs to be viscerally scary on a personal level to be effective or good as a story in its own right. People who watch a lot of dramas, comedies, etc. also likely watch a sizable proportion of it without crying and laughing out loud every minute. Sometimes that stuff is just the seasoning or window dressing for an actual story of import underneath. |
| Animation disconnects you from the horror and makes whatever scary element not as threatening. That's why horror works best for live action movies. The only way an anime can scare you is through jumpscares |
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Satyr_icon said: For the most part, I feel like what makes horror work — for me at least — is relatability. Not in a "this could happen to me" way, but more for the realism of the situation, so that stuff like creepy stories on reddit manage to scare me more than any Lovecraft or Poe story, and most horror movies. Of course, a great writer can build up enough sense of dread so that they manage to create unsettling horror works, but most time, what we fear the most is not the atmosphere but the next jumpscare. And then we have japanese horror. It relies far too much on visual shock and creepiness, not so much on jumpscares like Western horror, but they build up dread by showing you creepy faces instead of building up atmosphere. Take Junji Ito, for instance, which is considered the biggest name on Japanese horror: he's not scary at all, at most unsettling, but once you get used to his style it loses a lot of the initial shock you would feel, and that's even worse when you try to animate something like that, since it loses even more of the effect by having the art leave behind a lot of the complexity it had on paper. I think the "scariest" anime I've watched was Mononoke, and mostly because the direction managed to create a great sense of dread in one or other episode. Junji Ito is not a good example when talking about jhorror as a whole, because his work is too unique. There's nothing else in jhorror quite like him so he cannot represent the genre. This would be like if you singled out HP Lovecraft and used him to make a point about the entirety of american horror. Your point about jhorrors not building up atmosphere completely falls flat to me outside of Junji Ito (not that I would agree his works aren't atmospheric) because there are so many jhorrors that are completely carried by their atmosphere. I would even say atmosphere is their strongest characteristic. |
Haunt-botSep 22, 2021 4:32 AM
| Shoot first, think never. |
| Because they haven't been good enough. 30 characters. |
| Probably since it's animated compared to the usual western horror |
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| well at least monster is an S tier horror anime |
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| The horror in anime doesn't scare me but in real life, It terrifies me. I’d think it’s the environment |
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| if u meant like jump scares in anime–– making ur heart drop, idk i dont think ive ever experienced those cause the illustrations arent uncanny enough. scary kind like feeling uncomfy, mangas have actually scared me or given me those eerie feelings. |
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| Maybe it's because horror is mostly visual impact and MAINLY realism, anime can have a lot of visual impact, but obviously isn't realistic, in visual aspect, an 2D animation will never be the same as an 3D animation or a scene with real persons and real sceneries. That's what i think. |
| English is not my main language |
| Horror never really scared me,and that too in anime with those animated things,it's next to impossible to scare anyone here |
| When were live action horror movies scary either. |
| The genre will usually prioritise keeping the audience engaged with a story over making a true horror anime. Take Higurashi, no one watches 48 episodes of it for horror alone, so it spends more time building up a horror premise that people want to see more of. The scariest anime will typically be the shorts, often only a few minutes in length, that exist for the sole purpose of being a scary or unsettling horror. Also watching 2d anime characters usually won’t be as relatable as a live action horror where you feel like you’re a part of it. |
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| i remember watching attack on titan a while ago. yes it's not horror at all but istg the titans used to scare the shit out of me, all of the fear went away after some time though but yeah idk it scared me a lot lmao |
Haunt-bot said: Junji Ito is not a good example when talking about jhorror as a whole, because his work is too unique. There's nothing else in jhorror quite like him so he cannot represent the genre. This would be like if you singled out HP Lovecraft and used him to make a point about the entirety of american horror. Your point about jhorrors not building up atmosphere completely falls flat to me outside of Junji Ito (not that I would agree his works aren't atmospheric) because there are so many jhorrors that are completely carried by their atmosphere. I would even say atmosphere is their strongest characteristic. I think Junji Ito is pretty demonstrative of japanese horror manga at least. There surely ain't quite much like him, but like him most horror manga relies heavily on imagery, especially creepy faces or body horror, and the atmosphere created is carried more by your fear of seeing the next fucked up thing than a constant sense of dread created by the narrative. Sure, this isn't true for ALL horror manga (Junji Ito himself has some classic-ish or weird horror stories that get pretty creepy without him showing anything), and it might be because of my limited scope with the genre, but I noticed this trend in virtually every horror manga I've read. That may be because manga is a very visual medium, and I'm not as versed with j-horror cinema, but I notice that same trend within movies as well. Most japanese horror movies rely heavily on terrifying/creepy imagery to produce that sense of dread; it's not that it's bad or that it has no atmosphere, but just like in manga, that atmosphere is created by the fear of seeing something scary, which is a step above cheap jumpscares from western horror, but it's still the same philosophy. I can't think of a j-horror movie like Let The Right One In or The Shining, which are terrifying with their oppressive atmosphere and suspense but have little to no horror imagery compared to other horror movies. And to be fair, I'm not really detracting Japanese horror, I still think it's better than the average western horror especially in manga, but it's a genre that creeps me out more than it scares me. |
| that's because anime looks goofy as hell |
| Because more horror shows turns into edgy or just pure gore. It only exist one show that have made me a bit scared and that's speed grapher and it dosen't even have the horror tag. |
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| Works well enough for me. My most impressive things classified 'horror 'definitely includes some anime, Boogiepop, Higurashi, Narutaru, Shinsekai Yori. |
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