Remember when anime was a relatively niche/nerd thing?

[Ducktales]

Im new to anime (not counting the stuff we grew up on / DBZ and all that) because my kids like Naruto (not me so much) . But I do love the animation and good stories. I’m a big hardcore horror fan. The dark shyt. Can someone recommend me some good hardcore Japanese anime . I just can’t get arch it on my own unless it’s dark mature story line

 

[Regular Developer]

Can we start with the art?

 

[Regular Developer]

Im new to anime because my kids like Naruto (not me so much) . But I do love the animation and good stories. I’m a big hardcore horror fan. The dark shyt. Can someone recommend me some good hardcore Japanese anime .

Maybe Attack on Titan? I don't know if that qualifies as dark, but that's a grown person anime.

 

[Ducktales]

Maybe Attack on Titan? I don't know if that qualifies as dark, but that's a grown person anime.

I actually seen it and think it was a good show, but for some reason It couldn’t pull me in all the way with the story. Made it two episodes in

 

[Jaguar93]

Im new to anime (not counting the stuff we grew up on / DBZ and all that) because my kids like Naruto (not me so much) . But I do love the animation and good stories. I’m a big hardcore horror fan. The dark shyt. Can someone recommend me some good hardcore Japanese anime . I just can’t get arch it on my own unless it’s dark mature story line

Death Note, Monster, Berserk 1997, Attack on Titan, Gantz, Devilman Crybaby, Parasyte, The Promised Neverland, Perfect Blue, and Paranoia Agent.

 

[parallax]

way back in the day right before toonami lit anime on fire, sci fi during the summer and syndication was really the only way to reasonably watch anime. there were also dudes who would add subtitles on tapes and trade them around. everything is a lot easier to access, but i really dont care for most modern anime anymore. not that comics are much better, but i used to collect us newtypes and now i dont even look up at anime anymore

 

[Uchiha God]

Im new to anime (not counting the stuff we grew up on / DBZ and all that) because my kids like Naruto (not me so much) . But I do love the animation and good stories. I’m a big hardcore horror fan. The dark shyt. Can someone recommend me some good hardcore Japanese anime . I just can’t get arch it on my own unless it’s dark mature story line

Most of the stuff that's been recommended to you in this thread isn't really horror. Just broaches slightly more adult themes than Naruto.

If you want horror, you're probably better off starting with "Uzumaki" (which is ironically Naruto's last name, but has no relation to the show Naruto) - just google "Junji Ito collection". Junji Ito does horror and a lot of trippy shyt with his stories.

 

[yardman]

Im new to anime (not counting the stuff we grew up on / DBZ and all that) because my kids like Naruto (not me so much) . But I do love the animation and good stories. I’m a big hardcore horror fan. The dark shyt. Can someone recommend me some good hardcore Japanese anime . I just can’t get arch it on my own unless it’s dark mature story line​

Demon Slayer, Serial Experiments Lain, Hellsing Ultimate, Vampire Hunter D (2000), Berserk, Tokyo Ghoul, Blame!, Parasyte, Chainsaw Man

*bolded means goated
*italicized are personal favs​

 

[Givethanks]

Yeah but i think even back in the early 2000s cats would try to say anime was some nerd stuff but everyone watched Dragonball and all the other animes that would come on TV back in the day. Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Big O, etc.

I remember pokemon having the gospel intro.

I don't really care for it too much these days but anime is definitely mainstream and not niche.

That's what I'm feeling, i feel like every young boy liked Anime/Manga as a kid.

I feel like today you have a lot more anime/manga that's closely related to Dragon Ball in some way. Then when you start getting into the stuffs thats not popular that's when people start to look at you weird.

Obvs I'm not chatting about Hentai and fan service when it's kids has always been weird to me

 

[Still Benefited]

Direct correlation with the rise in c00ning as predicted

 

[Jaguar93]

Most of the stuff that's been recommended to you in this thread isn't really horror. Just broaches slightly more adult themes than Naruto.

If you want horror, you're probably better off starting with "Uzumaki" (which is ironically Naruto's last name, but has no relation to the show Naruto) - just google "Junji Ito collection". Junji Ito does horror and a lot of trippy shyt with his stories.

The problem is that those Junji Ito animations are terrible. He better off reading the manga.

 

[VegetasHairline]

I actually seen it and think it was a good show, but for some reason It couldn’t pull me in all the way with the story. Made it two episodes in

Start it again and keep watching.

 

[Givethanks]

Im new to anime (not counting the stuff we grew up on / DBZ and all that) because my kids like Naruto (not me so much) . But I do love the animation and good stories. I’m a big hardcore horror fan. The dark shyt. Can someone recommend me some good hardcore Japanese anime . I just can’t get arch it on my own unless it’s dark mature story line

Check out the Seinen genre

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

La Blue Girl

 

[yardman]

My first grade backpack had Goku on it, that wasn’t crazy at all, mad kids had the same. Been reading Shounen Jump since elementary school, got that shyt in the mail every month. First manga I flipped through though was Berserk (reading the manga in ‘03 fukked my head up, “Gambino!” lol). My grandmother’s husband’s son was an artist and anime head, nikka had a big ass poster with Guts on it, arms crossed with the prosthetic arm and repeating crossbow. It was Yuyu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin (the creator is a weirdo, btw) and DBZ first, in terms of active engagement though.

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