| Darker than BLACK and Claymore should right along the lines of dark and bloody. Kuroshitsuji might be considered this, too, but it has more light-hearted moments than the previous two. Same goes for D.Gray-man, which is your standard shounen fare but "darker" than, say, Naruto. Ergo Proxy and Paranoia Agent are more psychological/mystery, and so therefore don't have as much action and "bloodiness", but they are definitely dark. |
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Sonofjohn said: Aeterna: Thanks for the recommendations. Every one of those looks promising. The only one I am a little sceptical about is Paranoia Agent, just because of the whole baseball bat thing, but I'll still watch it to see. I've been recommended darker than black by a friend and will check into it asap. I also never really knew claymore would be dark. This is because I saw the box art and it never crossed me as though it would be as bad ass as it sounds. Ergo Proxy is probably the first I will look into. The reason being, I love psychological/mystery. Thus far I have enjoyed the psychological/mystery aspect of anime more than the action. Thanks again Aeterna No problem ;) As for Paranoia Agent, I would explain more about "Shounen Bat" but that would give away the story xD But, I will say that there's more to him that what they initially let on (and the director is Satoshi Kon, who is known for his plot twists and blending of reality and fantasy). But if you like psychological/mystery, this is definitely one you'd want to at least try (and, if you find yourself liking it, also see Satoshi Kon's other stuff, namely Perfect Blue and Paprika). Claymore is, I believe, considered shounen so it's probably more action-oriented than dark. However, unlike other shounen series like Naruto or Bleach, it's more serious and has a heavier atmosphere to it. |
| Hmm...Darker than Black and Elfen Lied are good ones. |
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| Dark!? Bloody!? Gory!? Look no further... Hellsing Ultimate is where you want to go! |
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
| Ignore, double post -_- |
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
Sonofjohn said: thekindamad: Hellsing Ultimate does look great, but I think Hellsing it's its prequel. I like to watch things in chronological order if possible. I've wanted to watch it for a while, quite glad someone recommended it! It is such an excellent series... But keep in mind, The Hellsing show and Hellsing Ultimate are 2 completely different things and they are no way connected. The Hellsing TV show was only mediocre at best and completely goes off on it's own thing. It should be ignored. Hellsing Ultimate on the other hand, follows the original manga, panel by panel. So I highly recommend this over the TV show. |
thekindamadAug 6, 2009 12:07 AM
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
| I have a few recommendations up my sleeve that were not mentioned in this thread. Jigoku Shoujo - not a lot of blood but it is a dark horror that makes you think twice about vengeance. Kurozuka - wonderfully animated fight scenes with fluent gestures of blood splattering. :] Ga-Rei Zero - supernatural monsters, some gory scenes involved, need I say more? Kigeki - though it is short, the mixture of dark and beautifully haunting storyline is enticing. The Animatrix - all the episodes...can't sketch the ineffable behind the dark genre Trinity Blood - somewhat has the Hellsing essence, only more spiritual and good bloody scenes in addition Hmm that's all I have so far. Hope at least one of them tickles your fancy. :] |
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| Seconding Claymore, and adding Gantz maybe? if you want really dark and really bloody that is. Both these anime have tacked on endings however, so if you want the full story you have to read the mangas. Also seconding Ga-Rei Zero. I'll add Blue Gender, Gungrave, and... lol totally thought about adding school days... Nevermind... I suppose Kurozuka and maybe Wolf's Reign could work to. |
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| Seconding Hellsing Ultimate, not much better options for a bloody and dark anime. As for Claymore, I'd recommend it too, but keep in mind that the ending is terribly butchered, and continuing with the manga afterward would be advisable. I believe the same holds true for Gantz. Gankutsuou is also worth a try, it's based on the count of Monte Cristo with a few twists and turns thrown in, does feel a bit darker than the original. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is a splendid movie, great if you like somewhat dark and slightly psychological stuff. Memories: Magnetic Rose is another splendid movie (One of a three part anthology, the others are quite good too) with a lot of interesting mystery and mindrape. Kara no Kyoukai could also be worth a try, although I did find some of them to be more fluff and flash than substance. But if you survived through Code Geass, you will probably handle these with no problem. Neon Genesis Evangelion and the EoE movie is a must if you fancy psychological stuff and mindrape. Serial Experiments Lain is another must for psychological and mindrape enthusiasts. Revolutionary Girl Utena has a lot of mindrape mixed into the drama, romance and comedy, with an especially surprising ending. But unless you feel up for drama, romance and comedy as well, you probably ought to skip it. Texhnolyze is about as dark and depressive as it gets, with no lack of blood either. It is a bit slow paced though, but I'd argue that's part of it's bleak and depressive nature. Lastly, but not least, Legend of the Galactic Heroes delivers top quality political schemes and twists as well as masterfully written characters, you aren't likely to find anything with this level of depth in anime elsewhere. It is however, not very dark, having more of a depressive realism to it. It is very bloody though, even if there's not melee battles all the time, when they do appear, you get severed heads and limbs flying pretty quickly. |
| Dark and bloody? Do you think you can stomach Shigurui? (I know I can't.) |
| Hellsing Ultimate all the way, so gorey and bloody with amazing fight scenes! Also Shigurui is very very gorey, is a more disturbing way. |
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| http://myanimelist.net/anime/1072/Kigeki ^Is all you need! |
| Samurai champloo is a good one if u aint seen it |
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| Yeah action, blood, a bit of comedy, i loved it from the start. |
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| sorry i misread your post, let me rethink something else lol, (gotta redeem my reccomendation) = ) |
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| Afro Samurai! ok its only 5 episodes but i just finished it and its highly recomended, Dark, gory, and gripping plot. |
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| No probs bud, hope you enjoy! |
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Sonofjohn said: Yes it is, and with bloody slow releases at that. But Ultimate and the manga is pretty much the same so far really, and it's supposed to be so all the way. As for manga, try Mangatraders or search for torrents at tokyotosho.info, even better if you DL Sequential Image Display or any other similar program that enables you to read everything straight from the Zips and Rars.Baman: Hellsing Ultimate climbs the list. On the topic of Hellsing Ultimate, isn't it still airing? I prefer to marathon anime. I would imagine the anime wouldn't be as good as the manga with most if not all anime out there, but I find it somewhat difficult to read for extended periods of time off of a computer screen. That and I have yet to find a decent way to get the manga without the annoying as hell sites bombarded with adds and popups, where you have to load a new page for every new page of the manga you read. Evangelion has always caught my eye, I just haven't taken the plunge into what appears to be as you stated a trap for mindrape. Do the movie and series have any connection? If they do or don't which should I watch first? EoE is the ending, or rather, an alternative ending to the final episodes of the series, which were quite muddled and mindraping.I'd like to hear your take on Code Geass some time, just interested in what exactly made you hate it, considering the unusually high amount of fans. Eh, long story short, I found it to be lacking in anything I would expect from the genre, the plot was riddled with poor twists and a terrible pacing while the characters ended up as nothing but plot devices themselves. The only thing it had going for it was the incredible amount of cliffhangers and "shocking" moments (and fanservice), but due to the poor pacing and weak story, it seemed more an attempt to cover up it's flaws with lots of hype rather than actual intriguing twists. Only flash and no substance I'd say, and even more disappointing seeing how it started out with rather good premises in the first season.But if you want to discuss it further, we better be doing it on our profiles I guess, I've derailed my share of threads with this discussion already ._. |
At this rate I may as well get Hellsing Ultimate asap. But I ask again, is Hellsing Ultimate still airing or is it completed? Still airing. They just released OVA 6 in Japan, and I expect that there will be 10 OVA's all together. But they do take quite some time to release due to the high production value (it seems like an average of 6 months for each OVA). |
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
Sonofjohn said: Apart from Death and Rebirth that is, which is more of a rehash of the series. So the movies from Eva go after the series as an alternative ending. The Rebuild movies on the other hand, retells the entire story, the first dealing largely with the same as the anime did in the start, while the second seems to have taken a drastic turn for something new. |
Sonofjohn said: thekindamad: Guess I'll be waiting a couple of years then >:( Why wait dude O.O |
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
Sonofjohn said: thekindamad: I prefer to marathon things. If I didn't wait I'd end up rewatching the entire series every time a new OVA launched. It may be worth it, but I'd rather get the entire thing in one day or at least not over the period of 2 years. I see what you're getting at. Cool then, the wait will be worth it. |
| "The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?" - Thomas Paine |
Sonofjohn said: Is Kigeki really only a 10 minute OVA? It looks wicked but it's hard to believe it will only be 10 minutes long. Tragically, yes. It is that short. But every minute watching this small OVA is worth it. sonofjohn said: The Animatrix I am currently watching in a dvd player when I workout XD. I only got through the first 3, final flight of the osiris, and the second reconnaissance part 1/2. Although so far it's filled me in on a bit of the story of the movies. I have enjoyed it thus far and will be finishing it very soon. LOL surely you jest. XD That's pretty incredible for you to be working out to the Animatrix haha. Glad you're enjoying it so far to say the least. sonofjohn said: Thanks a ton for the recommendations SilentMuse, glad to get some more obscure anime titles. You can always find the popular ones, but it's great to find the great lesser known anime. Not a problem my dear. :] I know what you mean. There are much enthralling animes with little recognition, so I could not agree more. On the bright side, at least those lesser animes will earn recognition anyway despite the size of the audience. =D |
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| Perfect Blue was a good somewhat psychological movie, Gantz >.>, Texhonolyze, Ichi The Killer: Episode 0 or just watch the live action movie, and possibly Kigeki. |
| Hellsing Ultimate gets my vote as well, but if you want to marathon as you said, then my recommendation goes to Elfen Lied, very gory from the beginning. |
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| Lets see... First (not a recommendation for anime really), if you don't have either VLC media player or Media Player Classic, I suggest you get them, as they'll play essentially anything. Watch Kigeki, it's really good. Also, you might check out La Maison en Petits Cubes for another good (& short) viewing experience. Texhnolyze. Extremely dark, highly psychological, some of the best action and drama I've ever seen. Be warned that the beginning few episodes are very slow and highly... artistic (i.e. they don't make much sense and are a bit slow paced). Bokurano. Very, very sad. It's technically mecha (in that it features giant robots beating stuff up), but that's not the focus. Ergo Proxy. Mild pacing issues, but the action and artwork are fantastic, the characters are complex, and the plot is excellent. Contains quite a bit of mind screw at times. Paranoia Agent. Psychological to the max. Don't be put off by the fact that it's about a kid on rollerblades hitting people with a baseball bat (that's more the setting than anything else), there's far more going on. Serial Experiments Lain. Your mileage may vary. The plot makes close to no sense and moves at a crawl, there's minimal violence, minimal romance, and the artwork looks really old. That being said, it's among the most intellectual, psychological, and philosophical works ever made, and quite a few will attest to the fact that it is really, really creepy. Also, Lain is awesome. Also check out Neon Genesis Evangelion and (it's better looking, better sounding, more complete, much more optimistic cousin) RahXephon. |
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