With Halloween only a couple of days away, some of you might be looking for Halloween-themed anime to watch this weekend. Are you a sucker for the storybook classics? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! Here’s a list of classic horror anime to watch this year!
Blue Gender
Synopsis
Blue Gender takes place in the not too distant future in a world where things have gone terribly wrong for humanity. Humans have been replaced at the top of the food chain by the Blue, a race of bug-like aliens that have colonized Earth and pushed humans aside. A space station, Second Earth, has been constructed as a safe haven for humans, with the hope of one day reclaiming the Earth once more.
Yuji Kaido was cryogenically frozen, having been suffering from a disease known as B-Cells. Once awakened, he joins a team of soldiers that have come to Earth to extract him. Unfortunately, nothing goes according to plan as they make their way back to Second Earth.
The Devil Lady
Episodes: 26
Genres: Action, Drama, Horror,Psychological
Synopsis
Fudo Jun is a beautiful supermodel who is idolized by many. She also has a dark secret that not even she knows about at first, for within her veins run the genes that hold the next step in the evolution of mankind. The same blood as the beastlike superhumans that terrorize the city. Unlike the rest of them, though, Jun has managed to hold a tenuous grip onto her humanity, and she is recruited by the mysterious Asuka Ran, member of a secret organization within the government, aimed at controlling, if not eliminating, these berserk destroyers of mankind. Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place?
Yokai Ningen Bem
Episodes: 26
Genres: Horror
Synopsis
Three monsters, Bem, who looks like a gangster, Bero, who looks like a boy, and Bera, a witch, act as agents of justice, hoping that they will be allowed to become human. Several episodes involve them protecting a young boy. The style of animation is fairly distinctive, and the storylines not without interest.
Gakkou no Kaidan(Ghost Stories)
Episodes: 19
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Synopsis
Years ago, all of the ghosts in a haunted schoolhouse were banished by a certain student. Now, they’re back—and they want revenge…
Satsuki and Keiichirou Miyanoshita are two siblings recovering from the tragic loss of their mother. After moving to their mother’s hometown, they learn that the local school they have transferred to is an old building—one said to be haunted. Despite initially brushing it off as a silly rumor, the two soon discover that ghosts are indeed real and that they’re after them! Gakkou no Kaidan is the creepy tale of the lives of these siblings and their newfound friends as they try to survive the school’s ghosts—with a little help from their pet cat along the way.
Serial Experiments Lain
Episodes: 13
Genres: Dementia, Drama, Mystery,Psychological, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
Synopsis
Lain Iwakura, an awkward and introverted fourteen-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school to receive a disturbing email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who recently committed suicide. Lain has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology; yet, when the technophobe opens the email, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. Lain’s life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she goes, asking her questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she herself knows. With the boundaries between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring, Lain is plunged into more surreal and bizarre events where identity, consciousness, and perception are concepts that take on new meanings.
Written by Chiaki J. Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a psychological avant-garde mystery series that follows Lain as she makes crucial choices that will affect both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain will realize the significance of their presence.
Haven’t watched or heard about any of these aside for Lain xD
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Interesting choices. I heard Serial Experiments Lain was good horror anime. I think I heard the name Blue Gender a long time ago. I think they showed this anime years ago in Adult Swim along with Inuyasha and Case Closed.
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I think they did show it! Wow, what a throwback.
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Haha I don’t remember much but I think I remember they even showed promo videos in the old Dragon Ball Z vhs. That anime looks bloody.
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IT IS.
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I’m willing to believe it lol. That anime Devil Man Lady looks interesting too. Looks like a classic horror anime.
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Yeah, it’s super old. But it’s still pretty great!
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I heard it was pretty good for a classic. Classic anime are pretty good to watch.
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I agree!
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For some reason, it sorta reminds me of the anime Witchblade. I haven’t seen it but it looks like it.
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I haven’t watched any of these. I’m interested with Blue Gender.
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Blue Gender is a really great show. You should definitely give it a try!
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Other than Serial Experiments Lain I haven’t watched any of these. I should definitely add these to my list to check out at some point.
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I loved Serial Experiments! Hope you like the recommendations!
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