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Is horror even a genre in anime?
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Is horror even a genre in anime?
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>>135646431
No cause its all forced shit, nothing to be really scared of.
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Hardly.
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what do you consider horror
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>>135646431
>T6eKSHm.jpg
>horror
>even
Report and move on
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>>135646519
I didn't understand what you just said.
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>>135646733
>>135646519
If i had to take a guess he is either talking about le reddit user or just Beserk.
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>>135646431
Nope. Not even in manga either it seems. I was in a bookstore, and picked up something that looked particularly gory. Flipped through it, it had too much fan service.
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>>135646733
>>135648883

I think because that's a picture from imgur and /a/ is full of autists who fight boogiemen.
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>>135646431
It tries to be
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Not really no. Even including just dumb guroshit, there's maybe like two dozen total entries, some of those shorts like Pupa and Kowabon.
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>>135646431
Despite being a medium where you can literally create anything since it is a fucking drawing. No, people don't seem to want to capitalize on it and create truly horrifying things.
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Why hasn't anyone tried to adapt Uzumaki? The episodic format lends itself well to an anime and it'd be spooky as fuck.
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>>135646431
I jumped when that kid got struck by lightning in Another.
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>>135646431
no, for some reason every studio things gore = horror. which is weird because japan's film and game industries have produced some of the best horror of the last few decades.
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I hear good things about Higanjima.
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Have you ever heard of Corpse Party?
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>>135653506
Underaged b&
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>>135653506
corpse party did horror pretty well with its audio

now sayas BGM was terrifying as fuck made you really feel paranoid
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