Horror anime

No

Another was garbage unless you treated it as a comedy

Higurashi had some good moments.

I love Higurashi but it was not remotely frightening.

Depends on what you are rating the horror as. I think the best thing an anime/manga can do if it's attempting to be in the horror genre is to unnerve the viewer/reader. Higurashi accomplishes this so I think it's a good horror series.

I'm sorry for you user if you haven't watched the best comedy in years

There was also that OVA by Gonzo and Druaga character designer about that zombie voiced by HanaKana

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pie

>female character in the foreground
>female MCs in general

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>The Japanese are much better at live action horror

Care to name some?

Another was a comedy. Halfway through I turned the fucking subs off.

The Ring, for one

Another isn't actually scary, but I don't see why horror wouldn't work in episodes in principle. Horror games work fine even if the player saves, exits, and comes back later. If anything, I'd say they work better that way since you can get desensitized to the scary parts if you play too long in one sitting.

As for why there isn't any good horror anime, my best guess is that it's an intersection of two pretty unrelated non-mainstream interests. Finding people who are willing to watch anime is hard enough, finding people who are both willing to watch anime and willing to watch scary things is harder, whereas generally the horror fans are perfectly happy watching a romance or something if it's good.

anime just isn't scary.

The only type of horror anime can properly pull off is psychological horror, and even then it hardly ever works well.

>horror

That usually implies you get scared. All Another did to me was make me laugh every time someone died in a ridiculous fashion. The rest was gore and some plot.

Cartoons aren't scary.

>Another
>good
It was a fun trainwreck

Ghost Hound, when they explore the hospital it was pretty spooky

Another wasn't a horror anime. It was gory and violent but not scary.

Ghost hound was fucking comfy, thanks for reminding me, user.

Does anybody have that copypasta where MC-kun dresses as Napoleon and starts plowing the heroine in the middle of class, knowing that his classmates aren't allowed to acknowledge them?

Cause you're not looking hard enough retard. Watch Perfect Blue, Akira, and maybe corpse party.

Because horror is as subjective as comedy; some people get scared and surprised at physical level from the smallest things while some don't.

Episodic horror to me sounds like a cheap excuse for simple characters that you barely give a fuck about getting killed by jump scares; while you can make short episodes work with cool weekly monsters and one-time gimmicks, it's much harder to make impactful characters or an interesting plot without giving them a good while to develop.

Glad I wasn't the only one watching this as it aired and losing my sides.

>but I don't see why horror wouldn't work in episodes in principle
Keeping the mood intact across a serialized show is damn near impossible. Once you hit the credits your audience will have a week to process things which resets the tension. Even on a binge a serialized show is going to have natural breaks and stops because of the episode-by-episode format.

Horror games have the advantage of putting the player directly in the situation, so even if they save and walk away. When they boot the game back up they are still stuck in that dark basement with ghouls coming out of the darkness and they only have 2 bullets left.

The tension in horror games resets everytime you die. If you make a game where you die a lot, then it becomes numbing trial & error. On the other hand, if it's too easy then you won't have any tension in the first place.

More of a horror comedy. Some of the shit that happens is off the fucking wall.

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What about horror manga, like Hideshi Hino?

I read the prequel in manga some time ago and loved it, was this one bad because of the adaptation or was the original support bad as well?

Shiki was a good horror anime. It would have been better without all the stupid hairstyles though.

Many horror anime from the 90's were cool as fuck. Check Wicked City (pic related) or Demon City Shinjuku.
There's not enough horror anime.

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Mahou shoujo site was decent HSL was also good

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>horror has to be super scary
I prefer the jap horror style more, just grotesque or eerie feel not try hard scary scenarios.
Detective and SOL horrors are the way to go.

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>gets triggered if someone makes fun of his hair
>fat lips
>cares about his shoes
Josuke was practically a girl

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The only good horror type anime can pull off is body horror, but it's sevearly underused