| Why do anime make this song sound so creepy? I heard it in Kuroshitsuji first, now I'm hearing it in Zankyou no Terror and I swear I heard it somewhere else, but I just can't remember now where and it always represents that the creepiness (evilness) is coming. I remember this song from kindergarten and it was always fun to sing and to play on it (that bridge thing that you make with hands and people go in between) and now every time I hear it I feel a shiver down my spine and think 'fudge', something bad is going to happen. |
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| Old rhymes are terrifying. That goes for old tales too. The thing is you didn't knew back then what that rhyme could imply, you just sang it because it was fun. It's al in the context. There's also this famous thriller that uses a nursery song too, but I can't remember it. It's a movie classic, with blond girls in a swing. The same can also be said for any Grimm Brothers tale. Take Little Red Riding Hood for example. The tale is pretty tame but in the original she dies. Jin-Roh took the tale and put it in a context that made it terrifying too. Here in my country we have a nursery song called "Alice travels in a coach". It's pretty tame and all that until some verses in the song she falls sick and dies. Here's the traduction, don't cringe. |
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WinnDixieX3 said: Huh? Poems and Rhymes are made to sound creepy in alot of media, especially horror movies. Anime only does it rarely....Why do anime make this song sound so creepy? |
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| I especially loved Guilty Crown's engrish London Bridge <3 If that song wasn't creepy for you, there's a theory that the Bridge would collapse unless there was a human sacrifice. Now think of the nursery rhyme's game: As you form an arch and sing the song, the others would go underneath it, while the one who gets caught by the arch loses. |
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| @ronpdee Thank you very much, now I consider even that game creepy haha (I didn't know about that theory) On the other point everything you guys said make sense I just didn't look at it that way, it was just weird for me 'cause that song is the only nursery rhyme I heard in anime (that isn't japanese) and it's always a bad sign. |
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