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Jigoku Shoujo

Also known as Hell Girl.

Studio: Aniplex , Studio DEEN , Funimation , SKY Perfect Well Think
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Somewhere in the vast sea of the Internet, there's a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear and drag whoever torments you into the inferno. Very little is known about the girl - all we know for sure is that she lives with her equally enigmatic grandmother, that three magical straw dolls accompany and serve her, and that whenever a posting on the Jigoku Tsushin moves her, she becomes the Jigoku Shoujo.


Tags: Revenge , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Bullying , Episodic , Afterlife , Curses , Urban , Ghost , Oiran , Detective , Gore , Crime , Conspiracy , Cosmic Horror , School , Blackmail , Rural , Torture , Aliens , Circus , Twins , Veterinarian , Kuudere ,

Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou

Also known as Corpse Party.

Studio: Asread , MAGES. , Studio Mausu , Media Factory , Movic , Maiden Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Nine students gather in their high school at night to bid farewell to a friend. As is customary among many high school students, they perform a sort of ritual for them to remain friends forever, using small paper charms shaped like dolls.

However, the students do not realize that these charms are connected to Heavenly Host Academy—an elementary school that was destroyed years ago after a series of gruesome murders took place, a school that rests under the foundation of their very own Kisaragi Academy. Now, trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful ghosts of the past, the students must work together to escape—or join the spirits of the damned forever.

A feast for mystery fanatics, gore-hounds, and horror fans alike, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou shows a sobering look at redemption, sacrifice, and how the past is always right behind, sometimes a little too close for comfort.



Tags: Ghost , Gore , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Isekai , School , Body Horror , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Teen Cast , Skeleton , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Torture , Survival , Revenge , Exorcism , Curses

Kurayukaba

Also known as Kurayukaba.

Studio: Twin Engine , Team OneOne
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery

Business is slow for the Ootsuji Detective Agency. Sotaro and his juvenile sidekick Saki will take any job that comes along, even one that sounds like a lot more risk than it’s worth. It’s festival season in the city but away from the public eye, a wave of mysterious disappearances has occurred. A newspaperman hires Sotaro to investigate, suggesting that answers might lie somewhere in the Dark, the notorious, anarchic maze that is the city’s physical, social, and moral underground. Sotaro subcontracts the gig to Saki, but soon enough regrets it when the kid also goes missing. Now Sotaro is obligated to venture into the Dark himself, and confront its dubious subterranean denizens, including the malicious Laughing Masks gang and the renegade police squad piloting the fearsome Demon 463 armoured train!



Tags: Detective , Trains , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Steampunk , Guns , Work , Urban , Circus , Police , CGI