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Still to this day, Monkey Bone scares the SHIT out of me. I don't know what it is but everything about that film makes me feel dirty and like I'm made of cheap plastic
You are a King you managed to talk about all these disturbing,horrific and discusting animations which some I've seen before well moust of them like Felidae, Animal Farm, Bear foot Gen, Frits the Cat and others but seeing you make an entire 1 hour video about these animations is bout Amazing and Incredible at the same time which is the reason why after I saw your video about you talking about Box trolls I just felt in love with you Chanal
The scariest thing about Barefoot Gen is that during the bombing, when you see the mother curl down and cover her baby: that's real. She was mummified and found sometime after the bombing. And after the bombing, when the "zombie" people start walking around with burnt skin and glass sticking out of them ... that was also real. People who survived the bombing but were close to the site were burned from head to toe and pierced by debris. They would walk around in a state of shock and extreme pain, begging for help.
I've been doing research on the Hiroshima bombing by translating drawing testimonies from survivors on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's website for my own story. Everything depicted in _Barefoot Gen_ is very real; people who were close to the hypocentre being carbonized into human-shaped lumps of carbon (carbonization is the term for what happened to the woman and other people in the first part of the sequence), people's skin melted and hanging down, people being stabbed by dozens - if not hundreds - of glass shards turned shrapnel by the pressure wave, said pressure wave pushing people's eyes out of their sockets, people witnessing their family, friends, and strangers being burned alive trapped under the burning houses, etc. Very run-on sentence, but it's all there in the movie.
It gets so much worse once you realise how the people who survived and werent near the site still suffered horribly due to radiation poisoning, for anyone who plays fallout think of the ghouk though admittedly not as grotesque but think along those line sbevause survivors of those bombings is what directly inspired the original look of the ghouls just turned up to 11
I feel like the reason why it looks disturbing is because it was directly lifted from a real-life event. Also, as a person who is currently learning about WW2, I can't wait to find the time to watch this movie.
I always interpreted Toruku being a boy in a sheep’s coat as him “coming back different” after the wolf’s attack. Lambs are often seen a symbol of innocence, and maybe his experience with the first wolf was more aggressive than the others.
I always interpreted the One Beer episode as less of a demonization of alcohol but rather a parody of PSAs and special episodes that overemphasize their message for shock value.
This is my take as well. Growing up in the 90s, kids TV was saturated in anti-drug PSAs and heavy-handed "very special episodes" that weren't too far off from this. I think now it's missing that context and just comes off as a bizarre failure of humor.
this is pretty much how it was. there's been talk for a long time about how the network was constantly pushing for tiny toons to have more morals and stuff like that in it, and so the crew decided "fuck it" and made the most over the top and insane psa so they'd never be asked about it again
I am so glad you brought up Death Parade. I loved it and wished there was more. Especially being into psychology and interested how human mind thinks and works. Should get more recognition!
I had a hard time with it, especially the darts episode. It's too much to know that good people get sent to the void, which happens a lot in the anime, while bad people get rewarded. The arbiter system sucks, they kinda are terrible at judging souls.
i feel like that is kinda the point though its very hard to judge people and the human brain off of a simple game and the show really gets that point across @@WobblesandBean
Same here! Death Parade is a show I hold extremely dear partly because the animation and soundtrack (among other things) are both amazing-- but more than anything the story and overall physchological part of it really stuck with me. (I won't spoil anything, but those who have seen the show will probably know what I'm talking about here) When I first watched it it was just fine-- I was probably a bit too young tbh, but couple years later I had decided to re-visit the show. To make a long story short: I had begun falling into a pretty bad place mentally at the time (one I've still not quite recovered from 6+ years later), and the final 2 episodes of Death Parade just broke me with how close to home it hit. One scene in particular might honestly have saved my life, or at the very least given me some new insight to just hang in there a little bit longer.
*Tier 1, Superficial and Well-Known:* - WaterShip Down (1978): 3:02 - Few UA-cam Animations, made from David Firth to Lee Hardcastle: 4:40 - Happy Tree Friends: 5:36 - Song of the South: 6:40 *Tier 2, Low-Level Disturbing or Banned from TV:* - PLAYGROUND- trailer (UA-cam Video): 8:22 Video: ua-cam.com/video/P8U22dvli4w/v-deo.htmlsi=e6KiwfizzsSZwJoY - Cat Soup (2001): 9:30 - Beavis and Butt-Head's Hero [One Banned Episode]: 10:55 - Tiny Toons Adventures' One Beer [One Banned Episode]: 13:13 - Made In Abyss: 14:36 - Death Parade: 17:35 - Persepolis (2007): 20:12 *Tier 3, Medium-Level Disturbing and Uncomfortable:* - Paranoia Agent: 21:40 - Animal Farm (1954): 23:25 Movie: ua-cam.com/video/Svi0jrOeQoU/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared - Fantastic Planet (1973): 25:20 - The Wolf House (2018): 26:32 - Devilman Crybaby: 28:06 - My Little Goat (UA-cam Video - 2022): 31:24 Video: ua-cam.com/video/c8DLl05iM4w/v-deo.htmlsi=NwckfMJYvbedeZVN - Plague Dogs (1982): 33:43 - Malice in Wonderland (1982): 35:52 *Tier 4, High-Level Disturbing or Horrific and Controversial:* - Mad God (2021): 37:00 - Higurashi no Naku Koro ni aka Higurashi When They Cry: 39:09 Note: Take in mind, there are five seasons (first three from Studio DEEN (2006 - 2009; last two from Studio Passione (2020 - 2021) and a couple of specials (all from Studio DEEN). So if you're willing to watch them in order: 1. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Nekogoroshi-hen (special) 3. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku: Outbreak (special) 4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai 5. UraHigu (special - optional) 6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira (special - optional) 7. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei 8. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni GOU 9. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni SOTSU - Felidae (1994): 41:02 - Upcoming adaptation of Junji-Ito's Uzumaki: 42:24 - Ralph Bakshi's animations: 44:16 - Belladonna of Sadness: 46:51 - The Kid and the Camera (UA-cam Video): 48:18 Video: ua-cam.com/video/IyhoT3smJEQ/v-deo.htmlsi=Bri7TQ4G9sm_Dfon *Tier 5, Deeply Disturbing or Extremely Controversial and Repulsive:* - UA-camr Dolly Flesh's videos: 51:06 - Barefoot Gen: 53:25 - Aum's Propaganda Film(s): 56:07 - Shoujo Tsubaki aka Midori: 58:38 - Pika Don: 1:01:06 Video: ua-cam.com/video/SwdmgOfnQ9s/v-deo.htmlsi=gaie3VIpeWO4QNK1
If I remember correctly, "One Beer" was an example of Writer Revolt. The writers were strong-armed into doing an anti-drinking PSA and didn't want to, so they made it as on-the-nose as possible. I could be misremembering, of course.
Yeah. I think it was coming off the 80s where kids cartoons were required to have some kind of message besides being toy ads and appease media watchdogs. That mindset stuck around to an extent in the 90s.
I took Japanese as a second language in high school, my teacher was originally from there and she showed us Barefoot Gen. I remember when we watched the bomb dropping scene the class went completely silent. No film in my entire life has made me so thoroughly horrified with the reality that the United States didn’t teach us about much. That movie put the bombing into perspective for everyone in that class. By the end, I, and a few others, were holding back tears. Would definitely recommend it.
I wish we had Japanese in my high school, I would’ve loved to take that. But yes, Barefoot Gen definitely shows the true horror and reality of what the bombs did to Japanese civilians and what they went through afterwards.. Knowing that it came from an actual man’s experience during the bombing and it’s what he saw makes it even more heartbreaking.. There’s a lesser known sequel that also does a good job showing the after affects of the bombing, like people getting sick from radiation, crops being hard to grow, the Americans showing up, etc.
I never even knew it had been animated until now, but I remember reading the manga and it had a profound impact. I think there was an image of a baby trying to suckle from its burned-up mother. And then the horrors of the fallout, with people experiencing radiation poisioning with no frame of reference for what was happening to their bodies... (shudder) It really stuck with me.
I love the manga, because it shows how terrible the climate had gotten in Japan, with these poor young men crying because they didn't want to die, but had to be brave kamikaze pilots, and the whole system of ratting out your neighbors for the terrible crime of thinking war sucks.
Even if the US tried, I don't think words and history books are enough to portray how awful this was. Probably Barefoot Gen also isn't enough, but it's way better than a lecture or a book. It would be hard to go to history class if it was truly portrayed how awful so many of these events were. Instead of just saying "these two countries went to war and this guy did this"
I get it, but stop painting imperial Japan back then as these poor victims of what the US did during the war . Look up Unit 731 and the Nanking Massacre and get back to me. It’s horrific that happened to innocents , but let’s just say that Japan was poking bears left n right during the war
A disturbing/cool animation I really like on UA-cam is Jack Stauber’s “Opal”. The different types of animation he uses like clay, paper, and even including music in his pieces I find to be super interesting and inspiring for horror
Yes! I'm a long time jack stauber fan and I've always loved Opal because it's so creatively dark and once again is scary because it's realistic and shoes the horrors of it from the perspective of a child. With the blind smoke addict grandpa that has scary mental episodes, a father that has also been abused, even to the point of disfigurement, and then turned down when he reached out for help so has become narcissistic and obsessed with his own looks ans seems known for guilt tripping Opal, and lastly the drug and alcohol addicted mother, responsible for this abuse and who expect her young daughter to take care of her during her substance induced manic episodes and overdoses
The image used at 42:26 and in the thumbnail is actually from a manga called PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama, not by Junji Ito- it's a very interesting collection of horror stories that fans of Ito might enjoy. The next image at 42:27 is from Chainsaw Man lol
PTSD radio is definitely on my list after hearing about the mangaka. Shame we'll never see an end to it unless it becomes a multiple author type situation and he recommends the place to another artist 😂😭
@@AbdefFable1 I know. :/ I don't understand why he didn't just move to a different studio and continue his work. With all the spooky stuff he claims made him quit, he never once attempted to rent a different workspace.
Honestly, the worst part in Higurashi for me was when one of the twins had to peel her own fingernails off with that slam contraption. The panic and difficulty was something I felt potently, cos... yeah, that's awful.
I’m fairly certain we watched Barefoot Gen in high school when we learned about Hiroshima. I remember my teacher emphasizing then that the animation IS disturbing but that’s the point. and that it’s important to see so we can avoid it ever happening again. Needless to say, we were sufficiently disturbed lol
My highschool history teacher had the first two issues of the Manga set out on her desk when we were doing our unit on the end of the second world war--not assigned to anyone, but still available if any of us wanted to read it. Everyone who opened them were visibly upset/disgusted, especially at the pages showing the nuclear fallout. Safe to say we were all pretty well disturbed!
50:26 Nah you have every right to be a worry wort about strangers I remember one time a man was trying to talk to me about something while I was walking my dog, Dolly. I was like 7-9 years old, I was getting a weird feeling about him, then my dog who had never got aggressive with people started to just puff up and growl like a feral dog which scared the man off because she was a 100lb golden retriever . She saved me basically. People are weirdos, always look out for your kid!
I've had two attempted kidnappings that involved stalking. One happened when I was 8 and I can still see the man's face - I'm 33. It was in walmart. I physically ran into him. Every parent has every reason to be worried about strangers.
Remembering my first introduction to Made in Abyss was Mitty, a little girl whose body was horribly mangled and destroyed because of an experiment and her last words to her friend during the transformation was "Please kill me" Also remembering another shocking scene in Plague Dogs where one of the dogs (the one who believes there are good humans) actually manages to find a loving human who was willing to take them in. But when the dog tried to climb to hug the man, the dog steps on his gun trigger and accidentally shoots him in the face. What makes that scene really upsetting for me is that the dogs *almost* had a happy ending, if it weren't for the accidental shooting.
@@timedebtor its been a long time since Ive seen the video but I don’t think he put in Utsu Musume Sayuri (2004) or A Short Vision (1956). Those are really dark
There was an episode of Happy Tree Friends that was dark, even for the series. It's called "Wishy Washy" and is about Petunia having plumbing problems and so she invites Lumpy over to fix her plumbing and everything goes downhill as expected, but Petunia is a germophobe and she gradually has a mental breakdown and eventually skins herself with a potato peeler and bleeds to death while laughing to herself. This episode is the only time a character has ever canonically committed suicide in the series and it was removed from UA-cam because of it.
One of my favourite 'disturbing' animated films is called When the Wind Blows. It was based on a graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, who also wrote The Snowman, which is practically a Christmas classic. It follows an elderly couple at the height of the Cold War, a nuclear attack happens and the couple survive. We see them experience the effects of radiation poisoning and slowly die.
I was watching this with my husband and I told him “I’d be shocked if Plague Dogs” isn’t on this list and sure enough it was lol. When I watched that movie for the first time I was not prepared with how disturbing, graphic, and horrific it was. But it has an important message. I still think it’s a great movie but if you love animals it might be a really difficult watch. That movie doesn’t hold back at all. And it’s graphic right off the bat.
Its so cool seeing Belladonna of sadness on an iceberg. Literally one of my favorite movies. Its such an artistic beautiful experience. Sad and bleak but also such an experience. Thanks for giving it some much due attention.
It's because it's more disturbing to know that this stuff can actually happen. It takes basically zero effort to just shove some blood and gore on screen.
You really hit the nail on the head. I had this familiar feeling when I watched that part of the video which I really couldn't put my finger on, but looking back it was definitely that "lost episode" vibe
My sister is 12 years older than me, and when i was 6 she was reading animal farm (George Orwell) for her senior literature class. I stole the book seeing animals in the cover and read it. Despite my horror and not truly understanding big words and scenes, i understood what was going on. I got upset at the ending and my 6yr old self wrote a new ending at the back of the book (my sister had to pay for it 😭) where the sheep leave via the gate. I think young kids can and should learn and understand Animal Farm. I truly think they can grasp the concept and that it will help their perspective.
One time, I discovered Princess Mononoke in with the kid's movies at Walmart 😂 I can only imagine a grandma buying it for their grandkids and not realizing there are graphic scenes of village slaughter and rampaging demons.
@@lemon7806even the kid friendly ones have weird moments. Like why does the cat bus have balls in Totoro? Or what was up with that dragon being cut up my paper airplanes in Spirited away?
I watched all the Ghibli movies for the first time with my sister in theaters this year and I was surprised at how much gore there was in it! It’s so casual too
Princess Mononoke was one of my favorite movies when I was 3 or 4 lol I think I always watched it by myself though, so my parents had no idea what it was I was so obsessed with. That said, my parents were never strict about letting me watch more mature media anyways.
I've witnessed a lot of these disturbing content iceberg type of videos in the past but I gotta say, yours might be the most digestible I've ever seen. Usually they're all very matter of fact in the way they present these disturbing works which can get very exhausting and start to lull you into a sense of emptiness. But what sets you apart from all the others is you provide a lot of meaningful commentary that really helped ground these works and your presentation of them with some level of humanity. Felt pretty reassuring to have you sort of guiding and walking with us through it all. I watched this late at night and I don't feel like I'm gonna have trouble sleeping for once. Fantastic video but I definitely don't envy you man lol
Here's a theory about My Little Goat, what if the Mother Goat was actually married to the Wolf Father but when she found out he was abusing the children she took them away to the woods to protect them?
Maybe. We literally know nothing about either character, if they even are separate characters. I still think it's pretty literal, though. The wolf and the abusive father are two separate characters, the kid ran away from his dad and just happened to be found by the delusional mom.
I don't think so, because the human kid wanted his mom, implying he had a mom that died (or that he at least know how she looks like). He would'nt try to scape mom goat at the begining if she was his mother
I would think Akira and Where the Wind Blows belong in Tier 1 for sure. Also, Grave of the Fireflies and the freaky-ass Mark Twain claymation thing. This video was well-done, by the way.
it’s been said time and time again but the scene in Spirited Away where Chihiro’s parents turn into pigs is disturbing, but there’s another one i haven’t seen talked about as much. when a polluted spirit comes into the bathhouse and they clean it, idk that just stuck with me. great video as always!!
My daughter and I adore watching Spirited Away! When she was younger, the scene where No-Face chases Chihiro through the bathhouse used to make her nervous though!
@@thestraydogmy mom told me recently that she gets this stomach-dropping feeling of panic during that scene. i honestly used to think she just got grossed out but now having my own share of media that gives me the same feeling i completely understand. idk what my dad was thinking buyin that for me when i was 4 lmfao
Amazing video mate, credit to you for all the work you put into them. To offer one more up, "When The Wind Blows" is quite a disturbingly sad animation about the life of a couple before and after an atomic bomb, set in the British countryside.
I'm so happy someone's talking about Higurashi. I will say though that it's more than just the shock-value and gore as that's mainly reserved to season 1 and the last two seasons (Gou and Sotsu). It's a series centering around breaking past trauma, as difficult as it may be, and that trusting others around you that care for you, that you can call friends and family, is the main point of the series. Season 2 increases the animation budget a bit more, though it still looks dated compared to modern anime (except for obviously the last two seasons as those came out in 2020/2021 compared to the original 06/07 release for 1 and Kai). Ryukishi07, who wrote the visual novels and did the original art for them too, also spent time working as a civil servant, so a lot of what he encountered in his work, which becomes apparent and a more "real" horror in especially the Satoko arcs, influenced Higurashi. Definitely at least get through season 2 if you didn't already as it eases up on the gore and visceral horror of season 2, and also is the more satisfying, hopeful, and "definite" end to the series for most!
I came to the comments section to find a comment like this and second it. There is SO much more to Higurashi than violence and misery for the sake of shock value. I originally came into the anime looking for that shock factor alone, and expecting little else; I was in a dark place and just seeking out horror content for catharsis. The series' heart and message took me by complete surprise, but they were exactly what I needed in that moment in my life. Higurashi will always mean a lot to me.
Hey so by the time I’m watching this it has about 1500 views and 245 likes, this video it’s incredible and I hope you know it, you are an incredible creator and deserve for love for your content because you put yourself through literally hell for us so thank you alot and keep up the amazing work! Because I truly appreciate it!!!
PARANONIA AGENT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITES GROWING UP!! I loved scary stuff and horror as a kid. I had watched it on Adult Swim at like 9-10 and became so obsessed with it. I’d stay up late just to watch the episodes. I found part of season 1 on UA-cam for free later as an adult but I don’t think I ever watched the rest of it. Such a damn good animation series. It captivated the fuck outta little me.
Yah know, in Barefoot Gen, the little boy main character isn't just an invented character. It's based on a survivor of the bombing and what he witnessed as a child. It was a while back but last I checked he was still alive. Again that was years ago so he might have passed by now idk for sure. The point is it was his real-life experience.
I totally expected you to list When The Wind Blows after Barefoot Gen. The animation is unique and also uses practical effects. This animation changed me.
I've been waiting for this lol. You've covered a few good ones already, but this is the goldmine right here! I'm surprised, "When the Wind Blows" isn't on here. It makes me feel sick. Follows an old couple slowly dying after a nuclear bomb. The animation mixed with stop motion is something you'd be into for sure! Also, though I'm sure this one is more well known since it's a Studio Ghibli movie, Graveyard of Fireflies is another animated war film following a brother and sister and.. just have tissues ready.
Yay you talked about Felidae! Glad to see Devilman Crybaby too but I was just happy to see Felidae since myself and a few others in that community post brought it up.
As someone who went to school and also works in Animation: Animation was NEVER MEANT for just / only kids at first! It was mostly adult until around the 40s and 50s when it changed to non-specific and then for kids (mostly). Ex. The Flinstons started off for adults, but kids started watching it. It then became for kids.
You left out the part about made in abyss where it constantly features children pissing or shitting themselves or being weirdly sexualized. Yeah they are cartoon characters but its just weird and gets uncomfortable very quickly. sometimes the show feels more like a display of a fetish with the story occasionally sprinkled in and its honestly why I couldnt fully enjoy it. The children being put in those weird fetishy situations doesnt contribute to the horror or story at all and I wish it was left out entirely. I know its a controversial ice burg but I think its still important to like- mention that since its in a ton of episodes, especially the weird piss/naked stuff
When I first watched it I was like 12 or 13 so I didn't see it as too weird. But not it just fucking murders the show, like the concept is super cool, but that is all so disgusting and unnecessary.
As someone who’s watched “My Little Goat”, when the mom is looking in the stomach for Toruku, you can see what seems to be a foot in the bottom right corner. That is Toruku. Also, the human child is named Natsuki, his dad says it when he comes looking for him
An Important thing to mention about cat soup is what it was based off. Cat Soup was based on a Manga called "Cat Noddle Soup" from the Mangaka Nekojiru who sadly committed suicide on May 10, 1998. Cat Soup was created afterward as a respected tribute to the writer. I hope Nekojiru can rest in Peace and is in a better place now.
The animation that traumatized me as a child was a Disney short called “the little match girl”. For context, I have thanatophobia and I have always had thanatophobia. When I was a little kid, the most horrifying thing I could imagine was someone being ok with death.
Disney did a cartoon based on "The Little Match Girl?" I gotta see this! [8 minutes later] Both sad and beautiful, just like the original Hans Christian Anderson story. Thanks for inadvertently introducing me to this! (Also, I did not know that the fear of death had a name until today. I thanatophobia REALLY bad as a kid. If I saw a drawing of someone sleeping and thought they were dead, I'd freak out!)
@@tmamone83 Disney actually made one as well, in 2006. It was directed by Roger Allers and nominated for an Academy Award. I didn't know about the Columbia Pictures short before your comment, so thanks! Always cool to see lesser-known cartoons from that era.
Made in abyss is one of my favorite shows ever. I love the mystery and world building. And the hollows are so interesting as well as the monsters. I recommend you all watch it. Edit: there is also an amazing game for the pc and switch
your thoughts on the weird stuff with the kids? I wanted Made in Abyss to be good, and damn it the show was good. but ive not seen season two because i cant justify it. ill watch an episode, see some of the most dark and twisted stuff ever, ill be like "damn this is good!" and then theyll start talking about how reg gets hard when he touches nanachi's fur.
@@KrazyKatz117 I'd still recommend it, I'm not a fan of those parts either but it is accurate to a boy reg's age and it doesn't really go beyond that. The manga was so much worse lol. But it's absolutely worth the rest of the story you get in season 2 and 3, it only gets better and more fucked up
@KrazyKatz117 This was exactly why I had to stop reading it. The mangaka is such a blatant pedophile, it makes it impossible to enjoy the manga/anime whatsoever. Also, if you're wondering if it gets worse with the child stuff, yeah. Yeah, it does. It reached a point in the manga where I just can't justify reading it any longer. It sucks because the concept and artwork is so insane and amazingly awful but holy crap does the author LOVE sexualising children, like holy shit. Absolute shame. Also, for some reason so many of the fans defend it as "oh, well it's just drawings its not real. Oh, it's just loli/shouta" but like?? Those are actual kids, not adults who look like kids. And regardless of the fact that it's just drawings it's still pedophilic af. If a friend came up to me and was like "hey check this out" and showed me explicit drawings they had made of children I'd be contacting some people
@@ssimplysaintt Yeah, I hate the unnecessary and frankly disgusting pedo parts of the anime. However I originally loved the world, creativity and characters so I ignored it at first. Its too bad it gets worse later. The last thing I watched was the Made in Abyss Movie about Bondrewd and the experiments, it kind of scarred me for life lol. I don't know if I can stomach watching it again to be honest. I haven't watched season two and knowing more about its author really ruined the show for me. I still love what I did see (minus the pedo things though). But dear god is it ever disturbing. XD
I will say that the Higurashi series definitely has reasons for all the gore and misfortune, and behind the facade there’s a really good and heartfelt story. I definitely recommend reading the VN, and I recommend it’s counterpart Umineko even more. One of the best written stories I’ve ever come across
Yep, I remember watching that when I was around 9yrs old.Then showing all my friends. Share the trauma. Apparently there were a few unhappy parents and a lot of explaining to do.
I’ve actually watched the tiny toons episode “one beer” at about 5 or 6, when I was younger, me and my sister watched this show a lot and my parents bought one of the box sets for it, and I specifically only remember this episode from the scene with bugs having the horns and them taking turns drinking it, I knew it was about alcohol but I never fully thought about the meaning of it or what was happening 💀
We read Persepolis in high school and honestly, it’s one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, despite the negative topics. How the main character overcomes her everyday challenges is what keeps me engaged :]
Honestly anime has a LOT of dark and disturbing series out there so I do wish to see a dark anime iceberg from you someday (though maybe I'm asking to much but there are plenty of other series you didn't tackle like berserk and an anime called blood c) EDIT: I also forgot to mention serial experiments lane
I watched Persepolis and it made me cry so much. Don’t know but the hardest part was that the main characters family reminded of mine in some ways. Especially the grandmother. My own grandmother was as tough. From what my mom has told. She died when I was six
I read the novel in high school when I saw it I our library, but can't recall the movie. All I know is it was depressing, even worse knowing the political crap going on is still going on today.
I'm excited to see what you continue with! Knowing more now about the author of the novel, I expect there is no end to the exciting imagery available to adapt and I'm excited to see where you go with it! You're animation style is gorgeous and the trailer is a triumph even of itself. I am a huge horror fan, so seeing the very well made animated trailer for Playground got me really excited and is why I delved more into the book and the author to get more of the content. Thank you! 🤘
Oh wow! You discussed Cat Soup! I was wondering how well known it was, since I've only ever seen it from Tumblr. But I guess it's more well-known than I thought.
I'll never understand how 9 was disturbing to anyone. Movies literally about overcoming horrible nuclear war and restoring life to a planet that was once dead through the existence of nine strange dolls who ultimately are the key to nature's survival and prosperity
I see that most of the comment section is about the shows that you mentioned, but i’ve noticed a drawing table in the back, most likely a drawing table for animation because of the see through glass. So maybe we’ll see some of your disturbing animation or just some good art?🤔
Higurashi isn't about one event it's about a time loop of one of the characters trying to save their friends from the brutal fate they're going to have having to witness them dying every single time for over 100 years
Ngl, I hv no idea how Redo of a Healer didn’t end up on this list. The stuff that show portrays is more screwed up and disturbing than like 90% of the stuff on this list.💀
I can handle a lot of animated gore in movies, and I can handle a lot of gross stuff in animated movies, but that part of Felidae with the dead kitten fetuses... its the one thing I'll never get over. Like its a scene that doesn't just gross me out, it just makes me sad man. It just makes me go '
I remember watching Barefoot Gen bombing scene on YT when I was a 6th grade student… and for quite a few years I had an awful fear of nukes being unexpectedly dropped on my city, burning me alive… thank God I don’t have it anymore.
I haven't seen Persepolis yet, but it really reminded me of the movie The Breadwinner. Have you seen it? It's made by Cartoon Saloon (you know, the studio behind The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers) and it's amazing. The animation is stunning. It follows an 11-year-old girl living in Kabul under the Taliban, just as the War on Terror is starting. It's rough but beautiful. I definitely recommend it. Edit: And if you liked Devilman Crybaby, watch something else by Masaaki Yuasa. That man's incredible. All of his movies are weird af, with amazing and very unique animation, exploring very human themes in the most batshit, expressive way possible. Everything he makes is totally unique and different and yet unequivocally his. Mind Game or Inu-Oh are great examples. My personal favourite, albeit slightly less insane than those two, is the short show The Tatami Galaxy - seriously, one of the best shows I've ever watched - and its "spiritual sequel", the movie Night Is Short, Walk on, Girl.
Wee bit of pedantry: the animated Animal Farm from 1954 was absolutely intended for adults. There's a live action Animal Farm from 1999 which is rated PG, but it's "for children" much in the same way that the similarly rated Dead Poets' Society or The Hunt for the Red October are for children... which is to say, not particularly, except that it's colorful and has talking animals.
Higurashi, I really deeply love the original visual novels. If anyone on this iceberg finds it at all interesting then I’d highly recommend either reading the original visual novels or going to the manga adaptation over any of the anime adaptations, which have always been mid at best at conveying the story and “completely misses the point” in the case of the more recent Higurashi anime. The original visual novels are still very much about small town paranoia and cycles of violence but once you know the author was a social worker in the past, it becomes pretty clear the visual novel at least has some pretty heavy criticisms of the stigma around mental illness in Japan as well as clear frustration around cultural attitudes around child abuse and “family” matters. Considering the author’s other big series is also about a pretty abusive family (who look well to do on the surface ofc) and how the trauma from each generation royally fucks them all up it doesn’t feel accidental. (As well as meta narratives about murder mysteries)
Fun fact: Zippity Doo-Dah from Song of the South was featured in the Disney Sing-a-long Songs VHS series. I didn't learn it wasn't exclusive to those tapes until I dated a guy whose mother was British and she owned a copy.
Paranoia Agent isn't exactly about mental illness, rather it's about a cultural obsession with distractions and saving face by avoiding responsibility. All of the characters are very flawed or unfortunate individuals who try to avoid taking responsibility for their choices and shortcomings, then Shonen Bat shows up and knocks them down once they feel they can no longer avoid the consequences. This basically shuts down their minds so they don't have to suffer the social shame while the public obsession with the mysterious attacker serves as a distraction. Essentially, Shonen Bat is a sort of living meme or thoughtform, a personification of shifting blame and making excuses, generated and given power by the collective desire of a scapegoat by people who feel they can't be honest about their problems. In a sense, he's actually _saving_ his victims, only in a very unhealthy sort of way.
One disturbing animation I've been looking for that I remember from my childhood is this one: A stop motion retelling of the Three Blind Mice. In the film, the primary mouse sabotages his two other mice pals. To get cheese from a human boy, i.e. leading them to accidents getting trapped, etc. Eventually, in the future, he gets caught somehow by the boy who is now a man. Then, at the end, we see the mice, without their tails and eyes, walking around helplessly blind. Then below them in a glass cabinet, are their lost limbs... which are all still alive and moving. This chilled me to the bone and now, I want to find it again to see if it's as creepy as I remember.
I’m shocked how many of these I’ve seen, and how many I’ve seen as a child because of my dad. I watched Watership Down when I was really young and he knew damn well what that movie was and was about.
I heard that Watership Down was never meant for kids (I think it was stated by the author himself) but you know the stereotype "If it's animated or its about animals, it for kids!" Smh
@@user-AtiredAnimator my dad knew damn well it wasn’t a children’s movie 😭 he also had me watch the 70s animated version of The Hobbit and probably thought I could handle it
I haven't watched Death Parade in years but hearing you talk about it reminded me about how much I used to love this show If anyone is interested please go watch it, its not a long show and its super interesting
Higurashi is my favorite show ever even though it’s so brutal. There are will many scenes I still can’t watch even though I’ve seen it multiple times. The mystery is so insane and I’ve never found anything like it especially in the way it connects to other series by the same author
i was sooooo excited about the made and abyss clip in the Tier 2 beginning, i didn't know there was a season two! the first season ending episodes made me cry so bad- love Mitty The Kid and the camera is one of my all time favourite horror shorts, it definitely belongs here
The Tragedy of Man! It's a Hungarian animated film about Adam and Eve searching for the meaning of life through different time periods. Each time period has a different animation style (it legitimately could be its own video at this point with how much is going on lol). You can find it here on UA-cam
GAH its so refreshing to see someone talk about belladonna of sadness like that. not as some shock piece. its such an important film to me im so happy u get the message of it
As a kid I watched watership down and wasn't scared, but fascinated, I once went out to a ice cream shop years later and they would sell second hand books and had a watership down picture book, bought it on the spot, I love the original book and movie to this day
I loved Watership down as a kid and so naturally I fell down the rabbit hole which led to me watching Plague dogs… it’s still one of the only films that I can’t rewatch, the body horror and just feeling of absolute hopelessness was too much for me.
I kinda think it could also be about how issues generally caused by adults are blamed on younger people. Like everything's the youths fault despite them not causing the initial problem
50:11 ngl bro, this made me tear up. It’s so easy to deceive children especially when there below 10, it’s just so fucking sad that this things actually happens in the real world that we live in, and then the last image of the boy feet is when you realize that, the world we live in isn’t so sunshine and rainbows.
I love that you put Death Parade on here. An anime I feel that's disturbing and horrifying without any gore is Revolutionary Girl Utena. I highly recommend it but it's got some REALLY heavy topics. It's the fact that it's largely fantasy but it depicts real topics in a realistic and respectful way. Emotional incest, SA, domestic abuse, trauma. It's the one anime where I had to take long pauses between episodes because it was so heavy at times.
So happy to see someone recommending Utena. Just like you said, it touches on very heavy subjects and I too had to take breaks from it, but overall is a really good anime
no waayyy- I completely did not expect death parade to be on your tier list:')) this anime is part of my core memories.. I've never seen any other anime that did it like death parade and tbh it really deserves to be on this tier list. It's such an incredible anime.
Feeling really disturbed at the part about The Kid and the Camera (I've not seen it). Yeah I can see why that's the last one on the iceberg. Pig -'now on to Tier 5'. Oh god.
immediately after reading the video title, I remembered one of the first disturbing animations I saw (minus the classic MLP ones). It was an animatic by Tony Crynight called A Dog's Family, it's got 8 million views currently so i wouldn't be surprised if it's on this iceberg (i'm not done with the video yet) it upset me for weeks, huge tw for animal death
I mean the Beavis and Butthead episode was from 1995 6 years before 9/11 I think the joke is that back in the 90s a lot of news blamed youths and kids with the problem of society like music and video games at the time. Basically kids are more growing up to be stupid and not being like what adults were at the time.
The Kid and the camera is definitely one of the scariest for me in terms of well-written horror. Despite being 3D it really captures the textures and models used REALLY capture that creepy stop-motion kids show vibe. In terms of having context though and knowing how truly evil and vile Shoko was, the Aum Shinrikyo propaganda definitely makes me feel sick to my stomach. (Also I recently started playing Earthbound and found out that Aum Shinrikyo actually inspired the 'Happy Happyism' cult section in the game. The gas attacks happened a year after the game's release. I just have to mention that because I need to give the creators of that game mad respect for making fun despite the potential risks)
I’ve just started watching your Icebergs/videos & was wondering if you knew about Happy Tree Friends, lol. Remember Stick Death? The early 2000’s internet was wild. Cool to see Death Billiards on this list too. I wish there were more episodes of it. Just started watching Made in Abyss now as recommended from this video. It’s good so far but not as shocking as I thought it was going to be.
Ohhh... I was WRONG!😨 We got to the episodes where Nanachi shows up... & then we met Mitty😖 So... very shocking! Anywho, this series is pretty good! It reminds me a little of The Promised Neverland. Recommend that one if you haven't seen it already!
Love the list, I've seen all of these animations before, just Wolf House and Pikadon that I didn't know before. That being said, I think Opal, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Birdboy and Unicorn Wars should be on this list.
Another excellenty presented video. There's a bunch here I now want to check out, especially Made in Abyss, and some I know I'd be unable to deal with and do well to avoid .
Funny thing, 2 years ago in 11th grade, I hadda read Persepolis in school. And yes, it was very dark. We actually got to watch the movie too, and let me tell you, the book is a lot more 18+ than the movie.
I feel like 'Where the Wind Blows' should be on this list. A cartoon about an elderly British couple trying to 'keep calm and carry on,' while they slowly die from radiation poisoning in the aftermath of WWIII? Seeing them slowly decay and get sicker and sicker, while waiting for help that's never going to come? The movie is pretty light on gore but the subject matter is horrific in and of itself IMO.
Don't forget the Secret of Nimh (the owl gave me nightmares as a kid), and the Night of the Living Pets episode of Tiny Tunes, where Elmira has a nightmare about the pets she literally killed (I think she loved them to death?) that come back as zombies. They were buried in her backyard too, I think. I remember the scene of her trying to bathe a zombie cat and it just... disintegrates. That episode scarred me as a kid. An awesome but disturbing anime that's unnerving because of some of the stories, is Petshop of Horrors. One of my favorites to this day. The anime was never finished, and the manga series is nearly impossible to find in English these days, but it's worth a look.
I very much appreciate these types of videos, thank you for taking out the time to do this for us. Also, on a side (and more happier) note, I also have a parrot, who was on my shoulder while watching, and was trying to sing to your bird when he/she was on screen :) Cheers, and keep up the great work .
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Still to this day, Monkey Bone scares the SHIT out of me. I don't know what it is but everything about that film makes me feel dirty and like I'm made of cheap plastic
For anyone asking what's that picture from ,its from the chainsaw man manga , and great video pig really enjoyed it
I was second guessing where I'd seen them for a sec. Heheh.
You are a King you managed to talk about all these disturbing,horrific and discusting animations which some I've seen before well moust of them like Felidae, Animal Farm, Bear foot Gen, Frits the Cat and others but seeing you make an entire 1 hour video about these animations is bout Amazing and Incredible at the same time which is the reason why after I saw your video about you talking about Box trolls I just felt in love with you Chanal
The scariest thing about Barefoot Gen is that during the bombing, when you see the mother curl down and cover her baby: that's real. She was mummified and found sometime after the bombing. And after the bombing, when the "zombie" people start walking around with burnt skin and glass sticking out of them ... that was also real. People who survived the bombing but were close to the site were burned from head to toe and pierced by debris. They would walk around in a state of shock and extreme pain, begging for help.
Also anyone wearing patterns like flowers that used light colored dyes had the patterns burned onto their skin.
I've been doing research on the Hiroshima bombing by translating drawing testimonies from survivors on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's website for my own story. Everything depicted in _Barefoot Gen_ is very real; people who were close to the hypocentre being carbonized into human-shaped lumps of carbon (carbonization is the term for what happened to the woman and other people in the first part of the sequence), people's skin melted and hanging down, people being stabbed by dozens - if not hundreds - of glass shards turned shrapnel by the pressure wave, said pressure wave pushing people's eyes out of their sockets, people witnessing their family, friends, and strangers being burned alive trapped under the burning houses, etc. Very run-on sentence, but it's all there in the movie.
Sounds like something out of a junji ito book. Poor souls
Yup perfect for a body horror film
It gets so much worse once you realise how the people who survived and werent near the site still suffered horribly due to radiation poisoning, for anyone who plays fallout think of the ghouk though admittedly not as grotesque but think along those line sbevause survivors of those bombings is what directly inspired the original look of the ghouls just turned up to 11
Barefoot Gen is actually based on author Keiji Nakazawa’s real experiences as a survivor of Hiroshima.
Professor? LOL
There is a picture of him and his dead sister at his back. It's heartbreaking.
I feel like the reason why it looks disturbing is because it was directly lifted from a real-life event. Also, as a person who is currently learning about WW2, I can't wait to find the time to watch this movie.
I always interpreted Toruku being a boy in a sheep’s coat as him “coming back different” after the wolf’s attack. Lambs are often seen a symbol of innocence, and maybe his experience with the first wolf was more aggressive than the others.
I always interpreted the One Beer episode as less of a demonization of alcohol but rather a parody of PSAs and special episodes that overemphasize their message for shock value.
That's how I took it, too.
Also that is Buster, Plucky, and Hamton, they are the next generation or Toons, not younger versions of Bugs, Daffy, and Porky
This is my take as well. Growing up in the 90s, kids TV was saturated in anti-drug PSAs and heavy-handed "very special episodes" that weren't too far off from this. I think now it's missing that context and just comes off as a bizarre failure of humor.
this is pretty much how it was. there's been talk for a long time about how the network was constantly pushing for tiny toons to have more morals and stuff like that in it, and so the crew decided "fuck it" and made the most over the top and insane psa so they'd never be asked about it again
Don't you think that subtlety would be lost on the shows targeted demographic, though?
I am so glad you brought up Death Parade. I loved it and wished there was more. Especially being into psychology and interested how human mind thinks and works. Should get more recognition!
not to mention the OP is a banger
death parade is fucking amazing its so well made and definitely a great anime to watch if you like thrillers
I had a hard time with it, especially the darts episode. It's too much to know that good people get sent to the void, which happens a lot in the anime, while bad people get rewarded. The arbiter system sucks, they kinda are terrible at judging souls.
i feel like that is kinda the point though its very hard to judge people and the human brain off of a simple game and the show really gets that point across @@WobblesandBean
Same here! Death Parade is a show I hold extremely dear partly because the animation and soundtrack (among other things) are both amazing-- but more than anything the story and overall physchological part of it really stuck with me.
(I won't spoil anything, but those who have seen the show will probably know what I'm talking about here)
When I first watched it it was just fine-- I was probably a bit too young tbh, but couple years later I had decided to re-visit the show. To make a long story short: I had begun falling into a pretty bad place mentally at the time (one I've still not quite recovered from 6+ years later), and the final 2 episodes of Death Parade just broke me with how close to home it hit.
One scene in particular might honestly have saved my life, or at the very least given me some new insight to just hang in there a little bit longer.
*Tier 1, Superficial and Well-Known:*
- WaterShip Down (1978): 3:02
- Few UA-cam Animations, made from David Firth to Lee Hardcastle: 4:40
- Happy Tree Friends: 5:36
- Song of the South: 6:40
*Tier 2, Low-Level Disturbing or Banned from TV:*
- PLAYGROUND- trailer (UA-cam Video): 8:22
Video: ua-cam.com/video/P8U22dvli4w/v-deo.htmlsi=e6KiwfizzsSZwJoY
- Cat Soup (2001): 9:30
- Beavis and Butt-Head's Hero [One Banned Episode]: 10:55
- Tiny Toons Adventures' One Beer [One Banned Episode]: 13:13
- Made In Abyss: 14:36
- Death Parade: 17:35
- Persepolis (2007): 20:12
*Tier 3, Medium-Level Disturbing and Uncomfortable:*
- Paranoia Agent: 21:40
- Animal Farm (1954): 23:25
Movie: ua-cam.com/video/Svi0jrOeQoU/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
- Fantastic Planet (1973): 25:20
- The Wolf House (2018): 26:32
- Devilman Crybaby: 28:06
- My Little Goat (UA-cam Video - 2022): 31:24
Video: ua-cam.com/video/c8DLl05iM4w/v-deo.htmlsi=NwckfMJYvbedeZVN
- Plague Dogs (1982): 33:43
- Malice in Wonderland (1982): 35:52
*Tier 4, High-Level Disturbing or Horrific and Controversial:*
- Mad God (2021): 37:00
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni aka Higurashi When They Cry: 39:09
Note: Take in mind, there are five seasons (first three from Studio DEEN (2006 - 2009; last two from Studio Passione (2020 - 2021) and a couple of specials (all from Studio DEEN). So if you're willing to watch them in order:
1. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Nekogoroshi-hen (special)
3. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku: Outbreak (special)
4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai
5. UraHigu (special - optional)
6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira (special - optional)
7. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei
8. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni GOU
9. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni SOTSU
- Felidae (1994): 41:02
- Upcoming adaptation of Junji-Ito's Uzumaki: 42:24
- Ralph Bakshi's animations: 44:16
- Belladonna of Sadness: 46:51
- The Kid and the Camera (UA-cam Video): 48:18
Video: ua-cam.com/video/IyhoT3smJEQ/v-deo.htmlsi=Bri7TQ4G9sm_Dfon
*Tier 5, Deeply Disturbing or Extremely Controversial and Repulsive:*
- UA-camr Dolly Flesh's videos: 51:06
- Barefoot Gen: 53:25
- Aum's Propaganda Film(s): 56:07
- Shoujo Tsubaki aka Midori: 58:38
- Pika Don: 1:01:06
Video: ua-cam.com/video/SwdmgOfnQ9s/v-deo.htmlsi=gaie3VIpeWO4QNK1
Thank you!
Fucking thankyou!
Thaaank You
I would like to add the higurashi anime is an adaptation of the visual novel game also named higurashi
You're so awesome
If I remember correctly, "One Beer" was an example of Writer Revolt. The writers were strong-armed into doing an anti-drinking PSA and didn't want to, so they made it as on-the-nose as possible. I could be misremembering, of course.
Yeah. I think it was coming off the 80s where kids cartoons were required to have some kind of message besides being toy ads and appease media watchdogs. That mindset stuck around to an extent in the 90s.
I took Japanese as a second language in high school, my teacher was originally from there and she showed us Barefoot Gen. I remember when we watched the bomb dropping scene the class went completely silent. No film in my entire life has made me so thoroughly horrified with the reality that the United States didn’t teach us about much. That movie put the bombing into perspective for everyone in that class. By the end, I, and a few others, were holding back tears. Would definitely recommend it.
I wish we had Japanese in my high school, I would’ve loved to take that. But yes, Barefoot Gen definitely shows the true horror and reality of what the bombs did to Japanese civilians and what they went through afterwards.. Knowing that it came from an actual man’s experience during the bombing and it’s what he saw makes it even more heartbreaking..
There’s a lesser known sequel that also does a good job showing the after affects of the bombing, like people getting sick from radiation, crops being hard to grow, the Americans showing up, etc.
I never even knew it had been animated until now, but I remember reading the manga and it had a profound impact. I think there was an image of a baby trying to suckle from its burned-up mother. And then the horrors of the fallout, with people experiencing radiation poisioning with no frame of reference for what was happening to their bodies... (shudder) It really stuck with me.
I love the manga, because it shows how terrible the climate had gotten in Japan, with these poor young men crying because they didn't want to die, but had to be brave kamikaze pilots, and the whole system of ratting out your neighbors for the terrible crime of thinking war sucks.
Even if the US tried, I don't think words and history books are enough to portray how awful this was. Probably Barefoot Gen also isn't enough, but it's way better than a lecture or a book.
It would be hard to go to history class if it was truly portrayed how awful so many of these events were. Instead of just saying "these two countries went to war and this guy did this"
I get it, but stop painting imperial Japan back then as these poor victims of what the US did during the war .
Look up Unit 731 and the Nanking Massacre and get back to me.
It’s horrific that happened to innocents , but let’s just say that Japan was poking bears left n right during the war
This man is about to go to places no person was meant to come to.💀💀
Yeah
“Come to” implies you currently reside within said realms 🤔
I hope this was just a "part 1" Because there are much... juicier ones out there.
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Ca ca ca cringe!
A disturbing/cool animation I really like on UA-cam is Jack Stauber’s “Opal”. The different types of animation he uses like clay, paper, and even including music in his pieces I find to be super interesting and inspiring for horror
I just discovered Jack's music. It's really good! I recommend giving it a listen
Yes! I'm a long time jack stauber fan and I've always loved Opal because it's so creatively dark and once again is scary because it's realistic and shoes the horrors of it from the perspective of a child. With the blind smoke addict grandpa that has scary mental episodes, a father that has also been abused, even to the point of disfigurement, and then turned down when he reached out for help so has become narcissistic and obsessed with his own looks ans seems known for guilt tripping Opal, and lastly the drug and alcohol addicted mother, responsible for this abuse and who expect her young daughter to take care of her during her substance induced manic episodes and overdoses
Pretty much all of Stauber's work belongs on this iceberg ^^')
The image used at 42:26 and in the thumbnail is actually from a manga called PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama, not by Junji Ito- it's a very interesting collection of horror stories that fans of Ito might enjoy. The next image at 42:27 is from Chainsaw Man lol
Yeah just figured that out. I used a bad source with a misleading title. Finished that part late at night so I probably didn't notice.
@@BionicPIGtv No problem, I just wanted people to know so they could find some other good disturbing media :)
I wish PTSD radio would be completed. But it never will :/
PTSD radio is definitely on my list after hearing about the mangaka. Shame we'll never see an end to it unless it becomes a multiple author type situation and he recommends the place to another artist 😂😭
@@AbdefFable1 I know. :/ I don't understand why he didn't just move to a different studio and continue his work. With all the spooky stuff he claims made him quit, he never once attempted to rent a different workspace.
Honestly, the worst part in Higurashi for me was when one of the twins had to peel her own fingernails off with that slam contraption. The panic and difficulty was something I felt potently, cos... yeah, that's awful.
I’m fairly certain we watched Barefoot Gen in high school when we learned about Hiroshima. I remember my teacher emphasizing then that the animation IS disturbing but that’s the point. and that it’s important to see so we can avoid it ever happening again. Needless to say, we were sufficiently disturbed lol
And the fact the author is hiroshima survivor makes it extremly sad too
I'm surprised that the grave of the fireflies wasn't mentioned
My highschool history teacher had the first two issues of the Manga set out on her desk when we were doing our unit on the end of the second world war--not assigned to anyone, but still available if any of us wanted to read it. Everyone who opened them were visibly upset/disgusted, especially at the pages showing the nuclear fallout. Safe to say we were all pretty well disturbed!
My teacher showed it to us in high school also
i saw it in school too, and I want scream sobbing. like wailing. I got in trouble for it for disturbing the class.
50:26
Nah you have every right to be a worry wort about strangers
I remember one time a man was trying to talk to me about something while I was walking my dog, Dolly. I was like 7-9 years old, I was getting a weird feeling about him, then my dog who had never got aggressive with people started to just puff up and growl like a feral dog which scared the man off because she was a 100lb golden retriever . She saved me basically. People are weirdos, always look out for your kid!
The Dog's a real one
I've had two attempted kidnappings that involved stalking. One happened when I was 8 and I can still see the man's face - I'm 33. It was in walmart. I physically ran into him.
Every parent has every reason to be worried about strangers.
Remembering my first introduction to Made in Abyss was Mitty, a little girl whose body was horribly mangled and destroyed because of an experiment and her last words to her friend during the transformation was "Please kill me"
Also remembering another shocking scene in Plague Dogs where one of the dogs (the one who believes there are good humans) actually manages to find a loving human who was willing to take them in. But when the dog tried to climb to hug the man, the dog steps on his gun trigger and accidentally shoots him in the face. What makes that scene really upsetting for me is that the dogs *almost* had a happy ending, if it weren't for the accidental shooting.
WHAAAAAT
Researching dark and obscure animation is one of my favorite hobbies. This video is gonna be great
any you really enjoy that weren't on the list? I was kinda expecting birdboy and unicorn wars
@@timedebtor its been a long time since Ive seen the video but I don’t think he put in Utsu Musume Sayuri (2004) or A Short Vision (1956). Those are really dark
There was an episode of Happy Tree Friends that was dark, even for the series. It's called "Wishy Washy" and is about Petunia having plumbing problems and so she invites Lumpy over to fix her plumbing and everything goes downhill as expected, but Petunia is a germophobe and she gradually has a mental breakdown and eventually skins herself with a potato peeler and bleeds to death while laughing to herself. This episode is the only time a character has ever canonically committed suicide in the series and it was removed from UA-cam because of it.
Jesus, if the people who got rid of that episode had more of a problem with suicide than murder, they have some serious self reflecting to do.
I remember this episode clearly!! The body of the moose floating, the scene where the lion gets his guts sucked and obviously the skinning 😭😭
One of my favourite 'disturbing' animated films is called When the Wind Blows. It was based on a graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, who also wrote The Snowman, which is practically a Christmas classic. It follows an elderly couple at the height of the Cold War, a nuclear attack happens and the couple survive. We see them experience the effects of radiation poisoning and slowly die.
Raymond Briggs felt so strongly about the Cold War that the elderly couple were based on his parents.
I was watching this with my husband and I told him “I’d be shocked if Plague Dogs” isn’t on this list and sure enough it was lol. When I watched that movie for the first time I was not prepared with how disturbing, graphic, and horrific it was. But it has an important message. I still think it’s a great movie but if you love animals it might be a really difficult watch. That movie doesn’t hold back at all. And it’s graphic right off the bat.
Its so cool seeing Belladonna of sadness on an iceberg. Literally one of my favorite movies. Its such an artistic beautiful experience. Sad and bleak but also such an experience. Thanks for giving it some much due attention.
Belladonna of sadness is extremely underrated. I love that movie too
Belladonna of sadness is beautiful and it's also wild and disturbing but sensual as it was actually a hentai film believe it or not
@@snowqueen_8958 yeah it was released as part of a set of hentai if I recall correctly. I think the other one was a film about Cleopatra?
@@sammgemm Not necessarily hentai since the sexual scenes are supposed to be unpleasant like a grotesque abstract painting
@@sugarsunshineandcarbs well if anything it was like the other movie next to that Cleopatra hentai movie. It was a strange set lol.
It's sad that the most disturbing ones are the ones that are closer to reality
reality is often scarier than fiction
@Zzyned what's your 4 favorite happy tree friends characters & 4 made in abyss characters?
It's because it's more disturbing to know that this stuff can actually happen. It takes basically zero effort to just shove some blood and gore on screen.
Because people use reality to disturb you
some one needs to touch grass
The Beavis and Butthead episode sounds more like a creepy pasta than an actual episode
You really hit the nail on the head. I had this familiar feeling when I watched that part of the video which I really couldn't put my finger on, but looking back it was definitely that "lost episode" vibe
My sister is 12 years older than me, and when i was 6 she was reading animal farm (George Orwell) for her senior literature class. I stole the book seeing animals in the cover and read it. Despite my horror and not truly understanding big words and scenes, i understood what was going on. I got upset at the ending and my 6yr old self wrote a new ending at the back of the book (my sister had to pay for it 😭) where the sheep leave via the gate. I think young kids can and should learn and understand Animal Farm. I truly think they can grasp the concept and that it will help their perspective.
The Animal Farm cartoon was funded in part by the CIA
I watched the cartoon as a 7 year old because my Dad wanted me to, and I was inconsolable for like two hours after it I think ^^')
What was the ending
Thank you for mentioning Death Parade! It’s definitely one of the best animes I’ve seen and it’s insanely underrated
One time, I discovered Princess Mononoke in with the kid's movies at Walmart 😂 I can only imagine a grandma buying it for their grandkids and not realizing there are graphic scenes of village slaughter and rampaging demons.
If you're gonna accidentally buy a fucked up Ghibli movie at least it wasn't Grave of the Fireflies!
@@lemon7806even the kid friendly ones have weird moments. Like why does the cat bus have balls in Totoro? Or what was up with that dragon being cut up my paper airplanes in Spirited away?
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So, if you don't like the balls of the cat bus, then try to never watch Ponpoko.
I watched all the Ghibli movies for the first time with my sister in theaters this year and I was surprised at how much gore there was in it! It’s so casual too
Princess Mononoke was one of my favorite movies when I was 3 or 4 lol
I think I always watched it by myself though, so my parents had no idea what it was I was so obsessed with. That said, my parents were never strict about letting me watch more mature media anyways.
I love these like disturbing iceberg videos like this and the ones Wendigoon does, I would love to see y’all do a collab someday!
I've witnessed a lot of these disturbing content iceberg type of videos in the past but I gotta say, yours might be the most digestible I've ever seen. Usually they're all very matter of fact in the way they present these disturbing works which can get very exhausting and start to lull you into a sense of emptiness.
But what sets you apart from all the others is you provide a lot of meaningful commentary that really helped ground these works and your presentation of them with some level of humanity. Felt pretty reassuring to have you sort of guiding and walking with us through it all. I watched this late at night and I don't feel like I'm gonna have trouble sleeping for once. Fantastic video but I definitely don't envy you man lol
Here's a theory about My Little Goat, what if the Mother Goat was actually married to the Wolf Father but when she found out he was abusing the children she took them away to the woods to protect them?
Maybe. We literally know nothing about either character, if they even are separate characters. I still think it's pretty literal, though. The wolf and the abusive father are two separate characters, the kid ran away from his dad and just happened to be found by the delusional mom.
I don't think so, because the human kid wanted his mom, implying he had a mom that died (or that he at least know how she looks like). He would'nt try to scape mom goat at the begining if she was his mother
I would think Akira and Where the Wind Blows belong in Tier 1 for sure. Also, Grave of the Fireflies and the freaky-ass Mark Twain claymation thing. This video was well-done, by the way.
I agree, I was thinking about some of these myself
I think When The Wind Blows would belong on lower tiers just because of how unknown it is, but it definitely belongs in this iceberg
I remember you making a poll about this video. Would like to see the video game version of this!
it’s been said time and time again but the scene in Spirited Away where Chihiro’s parents turn into pigs is disturbing, but there’s another one i haven’t seen talked about as much. when a polluted spirit comes into the bathhouse and they clean it, idk that just stuck with me.
great video as always!!
My daughter and I adore watching Spirited Away! When she was younger, the scene where No-Face chases Chihiro through the bathhouse used to make her nervous though!
My mom personally hates the pig parents and giant baby lol
@@thestraydogmy mom told me recently that she gets this stomach-dropping feeling of panic during that scene. i honestly used to think she just got grossed out but now having my own share of media that gives me the same feeling i completely understand. idk what my dad was thinking buyin that for me when i was 4 lmfao
Amazing video mate, credit to you for all the work you put into them. To offer one more up, "When The Wind Blows" is quite a disturbingly sad animation about the life of a couple before and after an atomic bomb, set in the British countryside.
The soundtrack is amazing too
I'm so happy someone's talking about Higurashi. I will say though that it's more than just the shock-value and gore as that's mainly reserved to season 1 and the last two seasons (Gou and Sotsu). It's a series centering around breaking past trauma, as difficult as it may be, and that trusting others around you that care for you, that you can call friends and family, is the main point of the series. Season 2 increases the animation budget a bit more, though it still looks dated compared to modern anime (except for obviously the last two seasons as those came out in 2020/2021 compared to the original 06/07 release for 1 and Kai).
Ryukishi07, who wrote the visual novels and did the original art for them too, also spent time working as a civil servant, so a lot of what he encountered in his work, which becomes apparent and a more "real" horror in especially the Satoko arcs, influenced Higurashi. Definitely at least get through season 2 if you didn't already as it eases up on the gore and visceral horror of season 2, and also is the more satisfying, hopeful, and "definite" end to the series for most!
is there anywhere i can watch the newest seasons of this anime? i can't find them, and I just recently watched the 2006 version
I came to the comments section to find a comment like this and second it. There is SO much more to Higurashi than violence and misery for the sake of shock value. I originally came into the anime looking for that shock factor alone, and expecting little else; I was in a dark place and just seeking out horror content for catharsis. The series' heart and message took me by complete surprise, but they were exactly what I needed in that moment in my life. Higurashi will always mean a lot to me.
@@farewelltimetofly Higurashi: Come for the Murder, Stay for the Found Family
Hey so by the time I’m watching this it has about 1500 views and 245 likes, this video it’s incredible and I hope you know it, you are an incredible creator and deserve for love for your content because you put yourself through literally hell for us so thank you alot and keep up the amazing work! Because I truly appreciate it!!!
PARANONIA AGENT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITES GROWING UP!! I loved scary stuff and horror as a kid. I had watched it on Adult Swim at like 9-10 and became so obsessed with it. I’d stay up late just to watch the episodes. I found part of season 1 on UA-cam for free later as an adult but I don’t think I ever watched the rest of it. Such a damn good animation series. It captivated the fuck outta little me.
Yah know, in Barefoot Gen, the little boy main character isn't just an invented character. It's based on a survivor of the bombing and what he witnessed as a child. It was a while back but last I checked he was still alive. Again that was years ago so he might have passed by now idk for sure. The point is it was his real-life experience.
I totally expected you to list When The Wind Blows after Barefoot Gen. The animation is unique and also uses practical effects. This animation changed me.
bro dropped this right when i sat down with dinner in hand🙂
AKA the PERFECT time!
I've been waiting for this lol. You've covered a few good ones already, but this is the goldmine right here! I'm surprised, "When the Wind Blows" isn't on here. It makes me feel sick. Follows an old couple slowly dying after a nuclear bomb. The animation mixed with stop motion is something you'd be into for sure!
Also, though I'm sure this one is more well known since it's a Studio Ghibli movie, Graveyard of Fireflies is another animated war film following a brother and sister and.. just have tissues ready.
Yay you talked about Felidae! Glad to see Devilman Crybaby too but I was just happy to see Felidae since myself and a few others in that community post brought it up.
As someone who went to school and also works in Animation: Animation was NEVER MEANT for just / only kids at first! It was mostly adult until around the 40s and 50s when it changed to non-specific and then for kids (mostly).
Ex. The Flinstons started off for adults, but kids started watching it. It then became for kids.
You left out the part about made in abyss where it constantly features children pissing or shitting themselves or being weirdly sexualized. Yeah they are cartoon characters but its just weird and gets uncomfortable very quickly. sometimes the show feels more like a display of a fetish with the story occasionally sprinkled in and its honestly why I couldnt fully enjoy it. The children being put in those weird fetishy situations doesnt contribute to the horror or story at all and I wish it was left out entirely. I know its a controversial ice burg but I think its still important to like- mention that since its in a ton of episodes, especially the weird piss/naked stuff
Classic anime move -__-
When I first watched it I was like 12 or 13 so I didn't see it as too weird. But not it just fucking murders the show, like the concept is super cool, but that is all so disgusting and unnecessary.
As someone who’s watched “My Little Goat”, when the mom is looking in the stomach for Toruku, you can see what seems to be a foot in the bottom right corner. That is Toruku. Also, the human child is named Natsuki, his dad says it when he comes looking for him
An Important thing to mention about cat soup is what it was based off. Cat Soup was based on a Manga called "Cat Noddle Soup" from the Mangaka Nekojiru who sadly committed suicide on May 10, 1998. Cat Soup was created afterward as a respected tribute to the writer. I hope Nekojiru can rest in Peace and is in a better place now.
The animation that traumatized me as a child was a Disney short called “the little match girl”. For context, I have thanatophobia and I have always had thanatophobia. When I was a little kid, the most horrifying thing I could imagine was someone being ok with death.
I remember that short. It was so sad I remember tearing up when watching it in class even tho it was the 2nd time I saw it
Disney did a cartoon based on "The Little Match Girl?" I gotta see this!
[8 minutes later]
Both sad and beautiful, just like the original Hans Christian Anderson story. Thanks for inadvertently introducing me to this!
(Also, I did not know that the fear of death had a name until today. I thanatophobia REALLY bad as a kid. If I saw a drawing of someone sleeping and thought they were dead, I'd freak out!)
No, wait, slight correction. Disney didn't do the "The Little Match Girl" cartoon. It was Columbia Pictures. Still a good cartoon, though.
@@tmamone83 Disney actually made one as well, in 2006. It was directed by Roger Allers and nominated for an Academy Award. I didn't know about the Columbia Pictures short before your comment, so thanks! Always cool to see lesser-known cartoons from that era.
@@farewelltimetofly Ohhhhhh, I see.
Made in abyss is one of my favorite shows ever. I love the mystery and world building. And the hollows are so interesting as well as the monsters. I recommend you all watch it.
Edit: there is also an amazing game for the pc and switch
And if we're talking disturbing.. The almost-amputation scene is still SEARED into my head lol. Amazing show thru and thru tho.
your thoughts on the weird stuff with the kids? I wanted Made in Abyss to be good, and damn it the show was good. but ive not seen season two because i cant justify it. ill watch an episode, see some of the most dark and twisted stuff ever, ill be like "damn this is good!" and then theyll start talking about how reg gets hard when he touches nanachi's fur.
@@KrazyKatz117 I'd still recommend it, I'm not a fan of those parts either but it is accurate to a boy reg's age and it doesn't really go beyond that. The manga was so much worse lol. But it's absolutely worth the rest of the story you get in season 2 and 3, it only gets better and more fucked up
@KrazyKatz117 This was exactly why I had to stop reading it. The mangaka is such a blatant pedophile, it makes it impossible to enjoy the manga/anime whatsoever. Also, if you're wondering if it gets worse with the child stuff, yeah. Yeah, it does. It reached a point in the manga where I just can't justify reading it any longer. It sucks because the concept and artwork is so insane and amazingly awful but holy crap does the author LOVE sexualising children, like holy shit. Absolute shame. Also, for some reason so many of the fans defend it as "oh, well it's just drawings its not real. Oh, it's just loli/shouta" but like?? Those are actual kids, not adults who look like kids. And regardless of the fact that it's just drawings it's still pedophilic af. If a friend came up to me and was like "hey check this out" and showed me explicit drawings they had made of children I'd be contacting some people
@@ssimplysaintt Yeah, I hate the unnecessary and frankly disgusting pedo parts of the anime. However I originally loved the world, creativity and characters so I ignored it at first. Its too bad it gets worse later. The last thing I watched was the Made in Abyss Movie about Bondrewd and the experiments, it kind of scarred me for life lol. I don't know if I can stomach watching it again to be honest. I haven't watched season two and knowing more about its author really ruined the show for me. I still love what I did see (minus the pedo things though). But dear god is it ever disturbing. XD
I will say that the Higurashi series definitely has reasons for all the gore and misfortune, and behind the facade there’s a really good and heartfelt story. I definitely recommend reading the VN, and I recommend it’s counterpart Umineko even more. One of the best written stories I’ve ever come across
Another artistic film set during war is When the Wind Blows! It's set in the UK during a hypothetical nuclear blast and follows and elderly couple.
Yep, I remember watching that when I was around 9yrs old.Then showing all my friends. Share the trauma. Apparently there were a few unhappy parents and a lot of explaining to do.
I'd really love a video on Persepolis, everything from the story to even the art style is so gripping, I can't believe I've never heard of it before
Not surprised Midori is included in this iceberg. I watched it awhile back out of morbid curiosity. Was kinda hard to watch through ngl.
I’ve actually watched the tiny toons episode “one beer” at about 5 or 6, when I was younger, me and my sister watched this show a lot and my parents bought one of the box sets for it, and I specifically only remember this episode from the scene with bugs having the horns and them taking turns drinking it, I knew it was about alcohol but I never fully thought about the meaning of it or what was happening 💀
We read Persepolis in high school and honestly, it’s one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, despite the negative topics. How the main character overcomes her everyday challenges is what keeps me engaged :]
Honestly anime has a LOT of dark and disturbing series out there so I do wish to see a dark anime iceberg from you someday (though maybe I'm asking to much but there are plenty of other series you didn't tackle like berserk and an anime called blood c) EDIT: I also forgot to mention serial experiments lane
I watched Persepolis and it made me cry so much. Don’t know but the hardest part was that the main characters family reminded of mine in some ways. Especially the grandmother.
My own grandmother was as tough. From what my mom has told. She died when I was six
I had to read it for my world literature class in high school
I read the novel in high school when I saw it I our library, but can't recall the movie. All I know is it was depressing, even worse knowing the political crap going on is still going on today.
Thank you for the shoutout on Playground- trailer! I'm working on making it a feature film/ serie!!
I'm excited to see what you continue with! Knowing more now about the author of the novel, I expect there is no end to the exciting imagery available to adapt and I'm excited to see where you go with it! You're animation style is gorgeous and the trailer is a triumph even of itself. I am a huge horror fan, so seeing the very well made animated trailer for Playground got me really excited and is why I delved more into the book and the author to get more of the content. Thank you! 🤘
Oh wow! You discussed Cat Soup! I was wondering how well known it was, since I've only ever seen it from Tumblr. But I guess it's more well-known than I thought.
I'll never understand how 9 was disturbing to anyone. Movies literally about overcoming horrible nuclear war and restoring life to a planet that was once dead through the existence of nine strange dolls who ultimately are the key to nature's survival and prosperity
I see that most of the comment section is about the shows that you mentioned, but i’ve noticed a drawing table in the back, most likely a drawing table for animation because of the see through glass. So maybe we’ll see some of your disturbing animation or just some good art?🤔
I hope so! I'd love seeing it
An adult swim claymation (I think) about a little girl named Opal and her broken family really hits home for me, mainly with the scene of her father
Higurashi isn't about one event it's about a time loop of one of the characters trying to save their friends from the brutal fate they're going to have having to witness them dying every single time for over 100 years
Ngl, I hv no idea how Redo of a Healer didn’t end up on this list. The stuff that show portrays is more screwed up and disturbing than like 90% of the stuff on this list.💀
I can handle a lot of animated gore in movies, and I can handle a lot of gross stuff in animated movies, but that part of Felidae with the dead kitten fetuses... its the one thing I'll never get over. Like its a scene that doesn't just gross me out, it just makes me sad man. It just makes me go '
I remember watching Barefoot Gen bombing scene on YT when I was a 6th grade student… and for quite a few years I had an awful fear of nukes being unexpectedly dropped on my city, burning me alive… thank God I don’t have it anymore.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up Where The Dead Go To Die, It's often considered to be the most depraved animated movie ever created.
Me too. I searched the comments because I figured someone had to say it already. I guess even a list like this draws the line somewhere.
I haven't seen Persepolis yet, but it really reminded me of the movie The Breadwinner. Have you seen it? It's made by Cartoon Saloon (you know, the studio behind The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers) and it's amazing. The animation is stunning. It follows an 11-year-old girl living in Kabul under the Taliban, just as the War on Terror is starting. It's rough but beautiful. I definitely recommend it.
Edit: And if you liked Devilman Crybaby, watch something else by Masaaki Yuasa. That man's incredible. All of his movies are weird af, with amazing and very unique animation, exploring very human themes in the most batshit, expressive way possible. Everything he makes is totally unique and different and yet unequivocally his. Mind Game or Inu-Oh are great examples. My personal favourite, albeit slightly less insane than those two, is the short show The Tatami Galaxy - seriously, one of the best shows I've ever watched - and its "spiritual sequel", the movie Night Is Short, Walk on, Girl.
Omg I've read the book The Breadwinner
@@adeponol Awesome! Have you seen the movie too? I don't know anything about the book, so I'm wondering how different it is..
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Wee bit of pedantry: the animated Animal Farm from 1954 was absolutely intended for adults. There's a live action Animal Farm from 1999 which is rated PG, but it's "for children" much in the same way that the similarly rated Dead Poets' Society or The Hunt for the Red October are for children... which is to say, not particularly, except that it's colorful and has talking animals.
Yeah, him saying it was made for children kind of bothered me.
Higurashi, I really deeply love the original visual novels. If anyone on this iceberg finds it at all interesting then I’d highly recommend either reading the original visual novels or going to the manga adaptation over any of the anime adaptations, which have always been mid at best at conveying the story and “completely misses the point” in the case of the more recent Higurashi anime.
The original visual novels are still very much about small town paranoia and cycles of violence but once you know the author was a social worker in the past, it becomes pretty clear the visual novel at least has some pretty heavy criticisms of the stigma around mental illness in Japan as well as clear frustration around cultural attitudes around child abuse and “family” matters. Considering the author’s other big series is also about a pretty abusive family (who look well to do on the surface ofc) and how the trauma from each generation royally fucks them all up it doesn’t feel accidental. (As well as meta narratives about murder mysteries)
Fun fact: Zippity Doo-Dah from Song of the South was featured in the Disney Sing-a-long Songs VHS series. I didn't learn it wasn't exclusive to those tapes until I dated a guy whose mother was British and she owned a copy.
Paranoia Agent isn't exactly about mental illness, rather it's about a cultural obsession with distractions and saving face by avoiding responsibility. All of the characters are very flawed or unfortunate individuals who try to avoid taking responsibility for their choices and shortcomings, then Shonen Bat shows up and knocks them down once they feel they can no longer avoid the consequences. This basically shuts down their minds so they don't have to suffer the social shame while the public obsession with the mysterious attacker serves as a distraction. Essentially, Shonen Bat is a sort of living meme or thoughtform, a personification of shifting blame and making excuses, generated and given power by the collective desire of a scapegoat by people who feel they can't be honest about their problems. In a sense, he's actually _saving_ his victims, only in a very unhealthy sort of way.
One disturbing animation I've been looking for that I remember from my childhood is this one:
A stop motion retelling of the Three Blind Mice.
In the film, the primary mouse sabotages his two other mice pals. To get cheese from a human boy, i.e. leading them to accidents getting trapped, etc.
Eventually, in the future, he gets caught somehow by the boy who is now a man. Then, at the end, we see the mice, without their tails and eyes, walking around helplessly blind.
Then below them in a glass cabinet, are their lost limbs... which are all still alive and moving. This chilled me to the bone and now, I want to find it again to see if it's as creepy as I remember.
I’m shocked how many of these I’ve seen, and how many I’ve seen as a child because of my dad.
I watched Watership Down when I was really young and he knew damn well what that movie was and was about.
I heard that Watership Down was never meant for kids (I think it was stated by the author himself) but you know the stereotype "If it's animated or its about animals, it for kids!" Smh
@@user-AtiredAnimator my dad knew damn well it wasn’t a children’s movie 😭 he also had me watch the 70s animated version of The Hobbit and probably thought I could handle it
Yeah my dad was the same he showed me wizards and alot of other messed up animations
I haven't watched Death Parade in years but hearing you talk about it reminded me about how much I used to love this show
If anyone is interested please go watch it, its not a long show and its super interesting
Higurashi is my favorite show ever even though it’s so brutal. There are will many scenes I still can’t watch even though I’ve seen it multiple times. The mystery is so insane and I’ve never found anything like it especially in the way it connects to other series by the same author
i was sooooo excited about the made and abyss clip in the Tier 2 beginning, i didn't know there was a season two! the first season ending episodes made me cry so bad- love Mitty
The Kid and the camera is one of my all time favourite horror shorts, it definitely belongs here
The Tragedy of Man! It's a Hungarian animated film about Adam and Eve searching for the meaning of life through different time periods. Each time period has a different animation style (it legitimately could be its own video at this point with how much is going on lol). You can find it here on UA-cam
GAH its so refreshing to see someone talk about belladonna of sadness like that. not as some shock piece. its such an important film to me im so happy u get the message of it
As a kid I watched watership down and wasn't scared, but fascinated, I once went out to a ice cream shop years later and they would sell second hand books and had a watership down picture book, bought it on the spot, I love the original book and movie to this day
I loved Watership down as a kid and so naturally I fell down the rabbit hole which led to me watching Plague dogs… it’s still one of the only films that I can’t rewatch, the body horror and just feeling of absolute hopelessness was too much for me.
For the Beevis & Butthead one I think it’s supposed to show how if there’s a few bad people in a community, people blame the whole community.
I kinda think it could also be about how issues generally caused by adults are blamed on younger people. Like everything's the youths fault despite them not causing the initial problem
50:11 ngl bro, this made me tear up. It’s so easy to deceive children especially when there below 10, it’s just so fucking sad that this things actually happens in the real world that we live in, and then the last image of the boy feet is when you realize that, the world we live in isn’t so sunshine and rainbows.
I love the mention of Death Parade, but also I would like to hear your opion of Magnetic Rose.
Fun fact about the animated adaptation of animal farm: the cia played a big part in funding it
Thank you bionic, the image of the sleep faery is burned into my retinas and I can't unsee it it's terrifying
I love that you put Death Parade on here.
An anime I feel that's disturbing and horrifying without any gore is Revolutionary Girl Utena. I highly recommend it but it's got some REALLY heavy topics.
It's the fact that it's largely fantasy but it depicts real topics in a realistic and respectful way. Emotional incest, SA, domestic abuse, trauma. It's the one anime where I had to take long pauses between episodes because it was so heavy at times.
So happy to see someone recommending Utena. Just like you said, it touches on very heavy subjects and I too had to take breaks from it, but overall is a really good anime
@@danielrueda7498 Oh yeah. It's really nice to see an anime touch on them in such a respectful manner
no waayyy- I completely did not expect death parade to be on your tier list:')) this anime is part of my core memories.. I've never seen any other anime that did it like death parade and tbh it really deserves to be on this tier list. It's such an incredible anime.
Feeling really disturbed at the part about The Kid and the Camera (I've not seen it). Yeah I can see why that's the last one on the iceberg. Pig -'now on to Tier 5'. Oh god.
Yeppp
Yep, that one got to me 😐
immediately after reading the video title, I remembered one of the first disturbing animations I saw (minus the classic MLP ones). It was an animatic by Tony Crynight called A Dog's Family, it's got 8 million views currently so i wouldn't be surprised if it's on this iceberg (i'm not done with the video yet)
it upset me for weeks, huge tw for animal death
I mean the Beavis and Butthead episode was from 1995 6 years before 9/11 I think the joke is that back in the 90s a lot of news blamed youths and kids with the problem of society like music and video games at the time. Basically kids are more growing up to be stupid and not being like what adults were at the time.
I'm so happy that more people learn about Death Parade. I watched it during a terrible time, but I still loved it and took some parts of it with me
The Kid and the camera is definitely one of the scariest for me in terms of well-written horror. Despite being 3D it really captures the textures and models used REALLY capture that creepy stop-motion kids show vibe.
In terms of having context though and knowing how truly evil and vile Shoko was, the Aum Shinrikyo propaganda definitely makes me feel sick to my stomach. (Also I recently started playing Earthbound and found out that Aum Shinrikyo actually inspired the 'Happy Happyism' cult section in the game. The gas attacks happened a year after the game's release. I just have to mention that because I need to give the creators of that game mad respect for making fun despite the potential risks)
I’ve just started watching your Icebergs/videos & was wondering if you knew about Happy Tree Friends, lol. Remember Stick Death? The early 2000’s internet was wild. Cool to see Death Billiards on this list too. I wish there were more episodes of it. Just started watching Made in Abyss now as recommended from this video. It’s good so far but not as shocking as I thought it was going to be.
Ohhh... I was WRONG!😨 We got to the episodes where Nanachi shows up... & then we met Mitty😖 So... very shocking! Anywho, this series is pretty good! It reminds me a little of The Promised Neverland. Recommend that one if you haven't seen it already!
Love the list, I've seen all of these animations before, just Wolf House and Pikadon that I didn't know before. That being said, I think Opal, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Birdboy and Unicorn Wars should be on this list.
Another excellenty presented video. There's a bunch here I now want to check out, especially Made in Abyss, and some I know I'd be unable to deal with and do well to avoid .
be carful with made in abyss, just because it's dark doesnt mean it has that weird anime shit, just this time with kids
To anyone curious, the name of the goat short in tier 3 is called My Little Goat.
Funny thing, 2 years ago in 11th grade, I hadda read Persepolis in school. And yes, it was very dark. We actually got to watch the movie too, and let me tell you, the book is a lot more 18+ than the movie.
I feel like 'Where the Wind Blows' should be on this list. A cartoon about an elderly British couple trying to 'keep calm and carry on,' while they slowly die from radiation poisoning in the aftermath of WWIII? Seeing them slowly decay and get sicker and sicker, while waiting for help that's never going to come? The movie is pretty light on gore but the subject matter is horrific in and of itself IMO.
Don't forget the Secret of Nimh (the owl gave me nightmares as a kid), and the Night of the Living Pets episode of Tiny Tunes, where Elmira has a nightmare about the pets she literally killed (I think she loved them to death?) that come back as zombies. They were buried in her backyard too, I think. I remember the scene of her trying to bathe a zombie cat and it just... disintegrates. That episode scarred me as a kid. An awesome but disturbing anime that's unnerving because of some of the stories, is Petshop of Horrors. One of my favorites to this day. The anime was never finished, and the manga series is nearly impossible to find in English these days, but it's worth a look.
I very much appreciate these types of videos, thank you for taking out the time to do this for us. Also, on a side (and more happier) note, I also have a parrot, who was on my shoulder while watching, and was trying to sing to your bird when he/she was on screen :) Cheers, and keep up the great work .