ylight67 said: Feel free to delete this topic if you find it stupid or something. The page of this OVA says it's also a horror episode, but it doesn't feel right. The only horror element about this is that the action part of it is really dark. Is it just me? Well, horror is broad. If it listed horror as its sole genre I would say it was inaccurate, but listed with Mystery, Psychological, and Thriller suggests it contains elements of horror, but isn't exclusively horror. It does give the implication it's considered as the primary genre though since it's ordered first in the list. The horror elements are a quarantine of Hinamizawa being enforced at gunpoint by military units, lynch mobs attempting to kill people including kids and storm houses, Keiichi and Rena having to kill graphically and repeatedly when we haven't seen explicit murder (from the protagonists acting of sound mind in their normal capacity) in the series previously, Satoko being kidnapped and going to be drowned as a human sacrifice, Dr. Irie's suicide, even Hanyuu/Oyashiro-sama appearing as a slightly more sinister and somber force than usual, and the apocalyptic ending. I would argue these are the instances of it which validate horror being listed among its genres. If one were to argue it should be included but shouldn't be listed first, then what is it more of? There really isn't much mystery to people already familiar with the series and it barely spends any time inside characters' heads/internal monologue to consider it properly psychological. Thriller would be the only tag I'd say would be more appropriate to come before Horror in the listing. Since it does have some action scenes and heavy suspense characteristic of all those "Escape from this crumbling doomsday scenario" type titles. The entire series suffers (or some would say is strengthened by) from this genre ambiguity though. Similar to how the first season is more of a horror while the second is more of a thriller (arguably like this OVA film), and people who came to the series for the horror in season one consequently found themselves disappointed by season two. |
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