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Plot Summary:
Most girls waking up without any memory and meeting a serial killer would panic, but not Rachel. In fact, far from being her biggest problem, killer Zack might just prove a convenient resource when it comes to finding a way out of the building in which they're both trapped!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, enigmatic, bleak, gothic, seinen
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Happy Sugar Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Satou Matsuzaka, a girl who has never loved anyone before, falls in love with a girl named Shio Koube. The two girls are drawn to each other, and begin a happy life together. Satou won't let anyone endanger their new life, and would do anything for love, even if it means threatening, confining, or killing someone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, bleak, suspenseful, romantic, captivating, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, shounen
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School (2016)
Plot Summary:
Despair Arc serves as the "prelude" to the series, as it tells the backstory of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B and how they became corrupted Remnants of Despair.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pupa (2014)
Plot Summary:
Growing up with an abusive father, Utsutsu is highly protective of his younger sister Yume. One day, she contracts the strange Pupa virus and begins to sprout grotesque wings and attack both animals and humans.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Short, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, shounen, unusual plot structure
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Corpse Party: Tortured Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Heavenly Host Elementary School is a legendary elementary school for ghost stories due to its mysterious past. It was torn down following the murders and disappearances of several of its staff and students and now another school called Kisaragi Academy has been built over it. One rainy night a group of Kisaragi students still at school decide to perform the "Sachiko Ever After" charm, which will unite them forever as friends. Upon completion of the charm, a sudden earthquake transports them to Heavenly Host Elementary School, which still exists and is haunted by murderous ghosts. Seperated, the students try to survive the mysterious forces of the school and find their way home as they uncover the horrific past of Heavenly Host.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: anime, dark, scary, sadistic, disturbing, offbeat, serious, existential horror, adult animation, sinister
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The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian is a Japanese light novel series written by Gakuto Mikumo and illustrated by G-Yuusuke. The series started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's light novel magazine The Sneaker on February 29, 2008. A manga adaptation by Chako Abeno started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Ace on March 26, 2010. Another manga adaptation by Monaco Sena started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace on March 26, 2010. A 12-episode anime adaptation by GAINAX aired between July and October, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, gothic, seinen, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, humorous, detective
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Corpse Princess (2008)
Plot Summary:
Corpse Princess is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiichi Akahito. Premiering in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on April 12, 2005, the series centers around the "Corpse Princess" Makina Hoshimura, an undead girl who is hunting down 108 undead corpses in order to gain entry into heaven with the help of a secret society of anti-corpse Buddhist monks. Feel and Gainax partnered together to adapt the series into a thirteen episode anime series. The first season, Aka, premiered on AT-X on October 2, 2008. A second season, Kuro, aired between January and March 2009. The anime is licensed for North American distribution and release by Funimation Entertainment, which has already started releasing the episodes in subtitled form as Shikabane Hime through various online distribution companies and through its own website. The series made its North American television debut on the FUNimation Channel on November 15, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Magical Girl Site (2018)
Plot Summary:
Aya Asagiri is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying and at home from physical abuse by her brother. While browsing online, a website pops up on her computer featuring a creepy looking person. This person appears to take pity on her, and announces that she has granted Asagiri magical powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark fantasy, sincere, mahou shoujo
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Ao Oni The Animation (2016)
Plot Summary:
In most ordinary high schools, many stories and rumors float around—some scandalous, some happy and some...more macabre. One such example is of monsters lurking in an abandoned mansion outside of town. Such tales, however, prove too tempting to resist for Hiroshi and his friends Mika, Takeshi, and Takurou. They decide to brave the rumored dangers in order to investigate the manor and complete a test of courage. Each of them approaches the mansion with an overwhelming sense of dread. And when they enter, they come upon a blue monster named Ao Oni who attacks them. As Hiroshi and his friends try to solve the various puzzles in the mansion and escape their new blue nemesis, they find themselves meeting several horrible endings as they fail miserably.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, humorous, suspense, 3d animation, anime
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The Lost Village (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shady bus tour of young men and women are headed to an elusive village called Nanakimura. A destination where people can partake in an utopian existence, free of the world's obstacles... or so goes the rumor. Heading deep into the mountains, the bus is carrying 30 different individuals, each harboring their own expectations and troubled hearts... What they had arrived to was an uninhabited village with lingering, faint scents of life and it was falling apart. Just what is the secret of Nanakimura?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, psychological thriller, crying, tension
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The Promised Neverland (2019)
Plot Summary:
The one adored as the mother is not the real parent. The people living here together are not actual siblings. The Gracefield House is where orphaned children live. An irreplaceable home where 38 siblings and Mom live happy lives, even with no blood relations. However, their everyday life suddenly came to an abrupt end one day.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, touching, captivating, suspenseful, dark fantasy, philosophical, emotional, adult animation, twisted
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Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW (2020)
Plot Summary:
New kid Keiichi Maebara is settling into his new home of peaceful Hinamizawa village. Making quick friends with the girls from his school, he's arrived in time for the big festival of the year. But something about this isolated town seems "off," and his feelings of dread continue to grow. With a gnawing fear that he's right, what dark secrets could this small community be hiding?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, sinister, crying, detective
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B: The Beginning (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a world powered by advanced technology, crime and action unfold in the archipelagic nation of Cremona. Genius investigator Keith Flick rejoins the royal police force just as serial killer "B" emerges. Mysterious youth Koku may be an ally, or a target.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, psychological, exciting, captivating, tense, adult animation, manga, detective, adult anime
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When They Cry (2006)
Plot Summary:
After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem. Based on the amateur mystery game by 07th Expansion, the story is told in a series of different scenarios.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, sadistic, serious, mind bending, manga, psychological horror, adult animation
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Shiki (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, manga, captivating, suspense, serious, psychological
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Terror in Resonance (2014)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children - children who shouldn't even exist - masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form "Sphinx," a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber - and pull the trigger on this world.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tragic ending, touching, suspenseful, bleak, manga, adult animation, art house, detective
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Kowabon (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kowabon, a horror story, will be animated using a technique called rotoscoping. Animators will trace live-action footage frame-by-frame to recreate it as animation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: anime, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2017)
Plot Summary:
After discovering that he's the son of Satan, a young man must join the True Cross Academy in order to master his abilities and defeat Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, manga, shounen
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Monster (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, rough, manga, adult animation, depressing
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Tokyo Ghoul (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul - a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ - "the red child" - is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, exciting, suspenseful, bloody, serious, manga, seinen, stylized, psychological
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Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (2019)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, light, suspenseful, psychological, semi serious, manga
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Hazbin Hotel (2024)
Plot Summary:
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: adult animation, anime, sitcom, horror musical, colorful, colourful
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Dororo (2019)
Plot Summary:
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, manga, perverse, jidai geki, adult anime
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Hellsing Ultimate (2006)
Plot Summary:
Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, have long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from the creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing, controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator — a vampire by the name of Alucard. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, the Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivalling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago... A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin. The dead are dancing, and all hell is singing.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, gothic, atmospheric, stylized, dark fantasy, intense, brutal, manga, scary, adult anime
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, manga, humorous, dark fantasy, adult anime, shounen, perverse, twisted
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Hellsing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. Alucard, an incredibly powerful vampire, has been controlled by Hellsing for years. Although he dislikes being a servant to the Hellsing family, he certainly enjoys his job as Hellsing’s vampire exterminator. Seras is a fledgling vampire and a former police woman. Although reluctant to embrace her new self, she is still a valuable member of the organization. Integra Hellsing, the current leader, is usually fully capable of fulfilling her duty, but lately, vampire activity has been on the rise. Unfortunately, the cause is more alarming than anything she could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, gothic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, dark fantasy, manga, scary, brutal, humorous
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Jujutsu Kaisen (2020)
Plot Summary:
With his days numbered, high schooler Yuji decides to hunt down and consume the remaining 19 fingers of a deadly curse so it can die with him.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark fantasy, shounen, adult animation, stylized, manga, supernatural thriller
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ERASED (2016)
Plot Summary:
Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 264 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, sentimental, manga, uplifting, philosophical, thought provoking
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Death Parade (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too. From Studio Madhouse (Death Note, Black Lagoon) comes a thrilling new series where the stakes are high and the rules are simple: your life is on the line.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating, manga, suspense, adult anime, adult animation
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Akame ga Kill! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, serious, tense, captivating, exciting, manga, humorous, seinen, shounen
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Castlevania (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself. Inspired by the classic video game series.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, adult animation, anime, atmospheric, bloody, tense, disturbing, suspense, manga, gothic