Why is there very little horror anime?

because
>jap horror

I remember watching the first season of yami shibai and thinking it was really good bar a few episodes but then everything after that was garbage which made me very dissapointed

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They should make more Ghost Hunt.

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Partially because its a hard medium to translate horror to, as pacing, shots, and characters all need to be in synchronicity to translate that emotion. There is a lot anime that can do dread and unease, however, and one classic example is Perfect Blue (although that might not be horror to you.)

Perfect Blue was great but its more of a suspense than horror

Now you remember that Junji Ito anime that became comedy halfway through the season.

The ending saved the anime desu

Can't believe this is considered horror. I was laughing throughout the entire thing.

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I thought some of the ito junji adaptions were alright.

This.

Ghost Hunt isn't horror, but it can be spooky and there were some great cases. The characters were fun too.

they really need more good horror anime

> Killed off best boy
They could have at least killed off Ayumi instead if they were just going to fuck up the canon anyway.

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Ayakashi is pretty good. I never understood why the spinoff is so much more popular while it was left in the dust.
Higurashi is probably my favourite series but the animation isn't so good and the VN is better.

Ghost Hunt had like two spooky arcs. I love the characters but i felt it let itself down by going dragon ball Z at the end

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If you really want a good laugh you should check out the third game, Blood Drive. Would you ever guess this is from a Corpse Party game?
And yes the dude is fighting her with a magical umbrella.

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This guy gets it. Although I love both horror and trashy shlock alike

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Their horror stuff is mostly just kept to manga or video games. Even that Hachishakusama hentai would have been more horrific than most anime. In the end, horror anime is going to cost the same as any generic dating sim anime to produce, so it's not like real life where horror films can squeak by on $15m budgets and go on to gross ten times that.

Animated horror is shit. At best its grotesque and depends on overblown gore.

Horror and anime don't mix well together

Kara no Shoujo scared the shit out of me although that's a visual novel.
The bad endings were really bad.

All the good sources are visual novels that aren't conducive to being animated.

They're scary because you often don't see exactly what's going on in many of them. Animating a VN requires they remove your imagination from the picture to show what the animators interpreted from the text.

Ghost Hunt was great. Wish they made more of it.
The Prime Minister's house arc somehow hit the spoop nerve well in particular.

Horror manga:
>Draw on paper, which has consistent visual properties
>spend hours putting in those tiny little details that make everything look uncanny
>total control over framing and panel placement
>viewer reads things at their own pace

Horror anime:
>TVs are never calibrated right so everything has to be overly bright
>Underpaid animators need to draw lots of frames, meaning that horrific details are now simplified and cartooned
>every shot is in 16:9 meaning you actually need a lot of thought behind framing and timing to be effective
>Additional factors like bad voice acting or sound effects can completely ruin the atmosphere

I'm not gonna say its impossible, but it'd probably require a radically different approach compared to what studios do now.

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I was continuing my quest to watch every anime OP in order when I stumbled across something wholly unique:
myanimelist.net/anime/9882/High_School_Mystery__Gakuen_Nanafushigi

To my knowledge, this unsubbed show is the only TV anime of its kind. It resembles the hyper violent 80's/90's OVA of the time. No other anime on TV looks like this before or since. From what I gather each episode is a new Demon/Legend cursing someone, kind of like Junji Ito short stories. People die pretty regularly, and we do see blood, though obviously as a TV show it's not gonna be gory like an OVA. I really hope this gets subbed/I learn Nip someday, this looks really cool.

youtube.com/watch?v=JoTYReERZnE

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Horror anime usually get meme studios doing the production on them.
A prime example is the Junji Ito Collection, the quality of which was an absolute fucking joke. Bravo studio deen (they also raped Umineko back in the day)
Horror manga just don't usually have the audience required to get a big budget high quality adaptation.

The one major benefit a horror anime would have is adding in sound for atmosphere and creepy music. The problem is, making a slow paced atmospheric horror anime just isn't cheap, and a lot of them just outright bomb. What horror we do get often tend to be mixed with comedic elements, so stuff like Shiki and Tasogare Otome are more or less what you can generally expect, I don't think we'll be getting another Ghost Hound of Flowers of Evil.

Manga is easier to use as horror because you can set the pace and every time you turn the page, you have a chance to seem something unsettling. This is why Junji Ito’s stuff is great in manga form but not so great in anime form.

There’s a certain type of commitment one has in reading manga and again turning the page that brings about an unsettling anticipation that just can’t be translated into an animated medium without proper cinematagrophy which anime kind if lacks unless they have a visionary or a huge budget.

GIve Ito to a real team and it could be done.

Let's not forget about this masterpiece.

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And Blood-C and Mayoiga. I love that director, he clearly gives no fucks.

Blood-C was just gore and fights, not horror

Not just that, but they started it with one of Ito's worst fucking "series" possible. The kid that sucks on iron nails all day is the most boring fucking shit he's ever done.

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dont you talk shit about blood-c, that shit is my favorite animated shlock

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Based Souichi
I guess Tomie was the one everyone was waiting for but it was a DVD only release for some fucking reason instead of actually airing like the rest
Doomed show from the start

I love it too, and that director has a golden touch to make all of his anime worthwhile in some aspect. Weird that he took a 3 year hiatus after Mayoiga, and I haven't watched his new anime yet, which I'll start tonight.

What killed Souichi for me is just how much of a fucking faggot he is, and that's probably because there's too much of him. I'm glad they didn't go for Uzumaki since it's been done to fucking death, but I wish it was anything but Souichi.

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Going in blind is the best way to watch this. Those dolls shots always makes you wonder whether there will be a jumpscare or not.

I can't remember a better simulwatch than with this series. No one had any fucking idea what was going on.

Horror manga > horror anime
Also corpse party is trash

Korean manwha(?) and webtoons are unironically better when it comes to horror.

I still curse the friend that linked that bongchongdong whatever story to me. I nearly broke my screen because of the jumpscare.

This, and even then Yami shibai was only good for the first season

That's thanks to the jumpscare since people weren't expecting animation.

>Ayumi that high
Cringe and cuckpilled

Horror outside of literature/drawn media requires good sound design to be effective, which itself is already a fucking rarity in anime (only nature stuff like Mushishi comes to mind), on top of an unsettling atmosphere which can be achieved without expensive static shots or gore everywhere.

When YouTube Poop can create more effective horror than anime, you know you dun goofed
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>requires good sound design to be effective, which itself is already a fucking rarity in anime
The fucking public domain sound effects that I first heard in Morrowind keep appearing in anime, last season was the door opening sound in Domestic na Kanojo.

This is it, pretty much. Take something like Uzumaki, for example. The two-page spreads are some of the most enchanting horror drawings out there and it's because you get to spend as much time as you want soaking up every detail. Anime doesn't give you that luxury, it's moved on to the next sequence before most people can adjust their pace.

The wizard chick was hot as hell.

It takes hard work, thought, and effort to make something scary without it turning it into jumpscare or gore city. I expect the anime industry to pump out more profitable isekai than spend actual brainpower on a well done horror anime.

Horror in anime requires a bit of creative thinking since you're naturally limited to a budget. You can only put in so much money towards animation, sound design, voice acting, etc as well as time constraints on top too. You could probably make something really damn good if you had the right team and director behind it but as far as investments go it's pretty risky business.