Is it possible to make a truly scary anime? What is horror anime missing compared to live movies?

Is it possible to make a truly scary anime? What is horror anime missing compared to live movies?

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Man, Corpse Party wasn't scary, but I did feel like shit when I finished it.
>Seiko is murdered by her best friend
>Soul trapped and agonizing for all eternity
>Some monster still slaughters her dead body in front of her friends to tease them
>She still forgives the friend that murdered her
>Friend is saved, Seiko is still trapped and agonizing for all eternity
>Real villain is saved, Seiko is still trapped and agonizing for all eternity
>Everyone in the real world forget her, Seiko is still trapped and agonizing for all eternity

>She forgave all of them.

>What is horror anime missing compared to live movies?
Art and animation. If those aren't top-notch it'll immediately kill any tension. Gakkougurashi immediately stopped being scary when they showed the zombies and they were all awful CG.

>>She still forgives the friend that murdered her

She was possessed, why the fuck shoudn't she "forgive" her?

Cute anime girls turn horror into humor, see: Another

I think Corpse Party lost a lot of tension when it was adapted. Between the top-down 2D art and the audio, the game really messed with your imagination.

The whole suffering-the-pain-and-despair-of-the-moment-of-your-death thing would probably break somebody who wasn't best girl.

In Book of Shadows Saeko freaks the fuck out and runs away (right into a neck-level piano wire) after Naomi manages to save her from hanging.

Actual horror/scary-ness.
Perhaps I'm being the odd one out, but 2D is never scary in my books. They're capable of creating tension comparatively to live-action, sure. But making me frighten even from a jump scare? Never.

Yami shibai had a few good episodes.

Yoshiki was the best. Nuff said.

Season 3 was so bad. I'm still angry about it.

Lain was pretty tense. It would have to be something like that.

Only in season 1, seasons 1 and 3 are shit

Second OAV of Seto no Hanayome. Funny considering this one's a comedy

It's a cartoon. At best you'll scare some little kids and traumatize them turning them into pussies with a phobia of cartoons.

Don't forget sound as well. And directing.
To be frank it needs to be a good anime, which is a rare sight.

The only anime in my HDD and I'm not joking.

That looks horrific, but is the entire series lit like this?

Kishinuma death scene still gives me the creeps, they really went full despair with those OVAs.

Best parts were the fucking godly OP song and the bath special with Yuka.

Anything that seems supernatural can be explained logically, and the slasher/culprit is not of a supernatural origin. This is seemingly impossible for the Japanese though, since they can't help but make curses and gods and demons or some other dumb bullshit part of their horror, especially in anime

Is it worth watching if I haven't played the game? What about manga?

The scariest horror anime i watched was the one where they showed magical girls being endlessly raped by tentacles with no hope of rescue and not even being allowed to die while they scream and beg for it to stop.

Just imagining being in their shoes makes me shiver.

>Is it worth watching if I haven't played the game?
It might be but just bare in mind that the game is better in just about every way.

I haven't read the manga but I've heard it's decent enough.

The only thing in anime that could even remotely scared me was that particular arc of Ghost hunt. the one about labyrinth or something I think.

Nope, They'd have to filter out a long of things and it wouldn't be worth it.

I mean reading trash is pretty nasty but it's just a load of organs splattering every where.

game is much better

>she didn't get any other scene other than the opening of the 1st episode

Well, that was disappointing.

youtube.com/watch?v=RdVIcVcquSk
This scene fucking ruined me, and I cried like a bitch.
God, this whole series was way to cruel to Seiko. There is no way at all to give her a happy ending, let a lone a happy ending with Naomi.

Episode 22 of oniisama e... is the only anime that scared me.

I'd love to see Junji Ito's works as a good anime. Unfortunately, they failed completly in making Gyo.

I don't believe that it's harder to make a scary anime than making a scary live movie. However, I'm a bad test person. The only movie that really scared me was Blair Witch Project when I watched it at the age of 12 or so and I watched a whole lot of horror movies.

It is, or did you forget about Gravitation?

Being a literal homophobic isn't healthy, user.

Corpse Party was never scary.

It was tense, disgusting, shocking, violent, unsettling and heartbreaking, but it wasn't scary.

The only remotely scary party across the entire series was the radio show playback in BoS.

That said, it's just too late for Japan. They've lost their edge completely when it comes to horror. Watch Ringu compared to the recent Sadako 3D movies. Watch Ao Oni or the fucking Corpse Party live action movie. It's the same with games and mango too.

>It was tense, disgusting, shocking, violent, unsettling and heartbreaking, but it wasn't scary.
It wasn't even that. The scenario they create is so contrived that it's difficult to suspend your disbelief and sympathise with the characters, and the gore seems to have been thrown in to keep our interest rather than to shock. I don't think any of the death scenes were as disturbing as the particularly gory bits of eva.

>Corpse Party wasn't scary
It was much scarier in low detail sprite and text form.

Mainly because when Blood Drive rolled around everyone who wasn't Yoshiki turned into a gibbering retard.

>contrived
It's just a standard "ghost holds grudge over murder" scenario.

>the radio show playback in BoS.
That bit was great.

Also, Sayaka did nothing wrong. ;_;

youtu.be/h0ytFDJjKmg

Best BGM

just make a ghost or a skeleton come at the screen at 5-10 minute intervals with a loud scream

Ghost Hunt was pretty spooky, but I think truly scary with anime is impossible. The viewer doesn't have that connection to reality with animated characters so already whatever happens to them is not as real as it would be with real people. Like if anime tried to replicate the lost footage style films, it wouldn't be half as scary because the characters aren't real so it's not remotely believable therefore you couldn't possibly be scared by it. The closer horror relates to the viewer the more scary it is, which is why Paranormal Activity works so well, it turns an everyday standard setting into something scary, the viewer themselves will be in a setting similar to the film so that makes it far more unsettling which helps to make it scary.

Blair Witch Project was shit though, watched it yesterday for the first time.

That's probably the least horrifying of all the death scenes.

I'm just sad the series was a 4 eps. Felt too rushed compared to the game.

I think it can work a tiny bit if they do something like hauntings related to crimes that happened a long time ago. Like the backstory in Corpse Party. It's hard to screw up reading about a crime that happened many years ago.

Yes, and the scene where those people that were acting normal earlier in the day suddenly pour out like zombies one night.

It doesn't help that I watched a marathon of the show at fucking midnight beside a huge window.

Only Ghost Hunt was able to scare me legitimately. Others were just immersion-breaking scenarios or downright nasty gore.

Should I just get the 3DS version of Corpse Party when it comes out? It's supposed to be the most complete version of the first game, right?

Or just emulate the PSP version. There aren't going to be many changes and no significant ones from what I've read.

>implying movies are scary

Are you 10?

Yes, but it would require extensive use of CGI.

I haven't watched Ghost Hunt. Is it complete or it has a "read the source material" ending?

The premise/ending of possession/transformation H doujins cross into pretty decent horror territory. One of the chapters in
Hasshaku Hachi wa Kairaku Meguri ~Igyou Kaikitan~ has a pregnant woman forcibly turned into a cow and it shows her foetus slowly morphing into a calf.

Kowabon was alright.

>Transformation H doujins

But that's not scary, that's hot.

They are, aren't they?
Depending on how it happens and what the end result looks like it could also be completely offputting or even disturbing though.

Am I the only one who thought Another at least started out kinda spoopy? The first few episodes were nice and slow paced and they had a "scary" vibe (with the character/art and sound design) until it all went to shit. Even the first death scene had an impact on the audience since it was unexpected and bizarre.

It was genuinely creepy, especially with the backstory. The whole thing was one big waste of potential.

literally the scariest part was it's theme
(it starts pretty quiet)

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Those tits are too distracting

Half of the gore in the game is filled with panty shots.

And the creator's piss fetish.

Which version is the best for BloodCovered ? PC or PSP ?

The 3DS version looks like it's gonna be the ultimate version, with everything from both previous releases along with new chapters.

Otherwise, you're better off playing both of them.

Ok i guess i'll wait for the 3DS version if they use the dub from the PSP, i don't know why they hired new seiyuus for the PC version and i don't want them.
By the way is there a release date for the 3DS ?

>I don't know why they hired new seiyuus for the PC version and i don't want them.

The PC version was released first. The indie seiyuu in it are the original ones.

The 3DS version comes out at the end of August and it has all of the PSP voices.

>The PC version was released first. The indie seiyuu in it are the original ones.
I see. I thought it was the opposite.
I want the PSP voices for consistency since it's the same seiyuus in the 2nd and 3rd games.

The original Higurashi VN did horror somewhat alright. Although it's more of a mix between mystery and physiological thriller than straight up horror for the most part.

I don't understand how people can get scared at a fucking TV screen. How impressionable are you?

Yeah, there's way too much fucking piss in that game.

I agree, I haven't heard anything of Another when I started watching it so I had no idea in what I was getting into in more ways than one

I had the pleasure of watching that trainwreck unfold as it aired. It was amazing.

You know what the problem is?
People insert jump-scares into every fucking thing.
It doesn't make a good horror, it's just a cheap jolt that shows how trash the creator's creativity is.

It's not just a problem with anime, most things made nowadays aren't 'truly' scarey and instead rely on loud noises.

>Yeah, there's way too much fucking piss in that game.

Has the creator ever outright stated that he has a pissing fetish?

Honestly I'm trying to think of an anime that ever legitimately worked as horror to me even for part of the series and I'm drawing a blank. Maybe the first 2-3 episodes of Higurashi? Even that didn't work to the end of its first arc though.

Another is the only anime that actually managed to be "scary", too bad it got an awfull and cliched story(but which horror movie doesn't?). The whole Another atmosphere made you feel that something was about to jump into your face though it never actually happened, if they pair Another director with a competent writer they could create a masterpiece.

>any horror
>ever good
Pick one, this genre is literally made for 5yo.

Ai Nonaka's voice was wasted on that character.

Agreed, such a shame she died so early.

1st arc of Higurashi was pretty good from what I remember.

Not really horror but a proper Tsukihime adaptation could have some geniunely creepy moments, especially far side of tsuki

Why not just emulate the PSP version?

I prefer youtube.com/watch?v=Z6DZOgjA0nU

Also didn't Seiko and the others souls who died in heavenly host get saved by Ayumi sacrificing herself in Corpse Party Blood Drive?

Mononoke had great tension building and direction which actually gave me goosebumps many times. Such a shame it never got another season. The cat story was probably my favorite one.

Spoiler that shit man.

But really Blood Drive feels sort of tacked on plot wise in my opinion, and the designs of the new characters feels outlandish.

The 5th is really good too. But Higurashi is more insane than really scary. Even if "Usoda" IS scary.

That song really makes me wish there was more of an in-depth look at what happened at the school back in the day. The lore of Corpse Party is the best part for me.

>Mononoke
I didn't really find it scary in any way, but it was atmospheric as fuck.

Fuck you, now I need to rewatch it.

Also:
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I too want to shiver. What anime?

It wasn't scary more sort of kind of eerie feel to in but in a good way.

Corpse Party was made largely by its sound direction combined with text description and only sparingly used CGs leaving you to visualize much of the detail yourself. The anime demonstrated that if it was shown in any more detail and without the binaural sound direction you just get cheap guro porn instead.

Speaking of lore and tacked-on plots, are the timeloops actually canon and they repeated the scenario several times before getting the true end, or is Book of Shadows just what-if stories?

Ayumi is cute!

This. I was blown away by the sound in the games and it was almost all that was needed to let your imagination do the rest.

I think the only episode from book of shadows that is canon is the Blood Drive prologue you get from completing the other chapters. The other chapters are basically from the time loop bad ending from the first game.

The sound effects are the best I've ever heard from any visual novel. Higurashi and Umineko could benefit from them.

The incense arc gave me the creeps. When the dudes discover what happened to them and start "freaking out" made me jump.

The first Bakeneko arc before its spinoff was really good.

But then you have funky shit like the necklace from Sachiko's Birthday 2U being in Blood Drive implying that the gag comedy game is somehow canon, a game which also implied that the time loops are canon

>Timeloops

Welp, looks like I'm never gonna play anything past the first game. Timeloops are way too overused at this point.

While Another wasn't actually scary it did do one thing really well for most of it

It had amazing sound design. If that sound design was added to a more seriously creepy anime it might actually scare people.

3D people

Seiko didn't deserve anything that happened to her.

They play a very small part in that they help link the three main games together. It's not as if your enjoyment will be any less if you give them and their implications no thought at all though.

The anime is just a brainless gorefest that tries to kill of as many of the cast as possible as opposed to tge game.

>implying live movies are scary

Go watch Ghost Hound.