recommend dark/violent anime

magick

something along the lines of Ninja Scroll , i needs me fix!

Im not really into cutie anime unless its a comedy of some sorts like project A-ko.

Ive seen Princess Mononoke/ghost in the shell/cowboy bebop/ grave of the fire flies (what a depressing movie)

anything ye would recommend , try and write a lil summary on it plz thx

MarkHall

Dead leaves is quite dark and very very mental.
Plus it has a drill cock.
http://www.dead-leaves.com/index2.html
Very enbjoyable but Strangly wierd flick.

Sephiroth_dude

Devil Man and Genocyber both very violent and dark :cool:

DingChavez

Berserk, then read the Manga,

tman

Another vote for the excellent Berserk. No summary needed, just watch the damn thing!

Claymore is definitely worth a watch, it's very violent throughout and gets pretty damn dark around episode 12-13:eek:
I started watching it without reading anything about it first, and actually enjoyed it all the more for it... so I won't bother writing a summary for that either...

Genghiz Cohen

Elfin lied, freaky stuff, some very gory parts (Girl gets her arms and legs torn off), bit of nudity as well(watch out for that).

CuLT

Crying Freeman.

kawaii

You should watch Black Lagoon! Quality!

Also +1 for Elfen Lied and Berserk.

Moneymaker

Since when is Bebop dark??

I suggest you try Hellsing and also Death Note, quality stuff.

Black Lagoon and Beserk are good shouts too.

rgt320q

'nother recommendation for Elfen Lied and Berserk here.

elpresdentde

berserk but read the manga after the series or maybe lone wolf and cub

chopperbyrne

Cyber City: Oedo 808

Numina

Went on the recommendation of Elfen Lied, and I ****ing love it! I find myself humming the theme tune every now and again

Ninja_scrotum

Ninja Scroll is my fave manga, so I think you can trust me on these few...

Fist of the North star (the movie not the series)
- ultra violent mad-max style manga where people are at war over who is the "real" fist of the north star. Just an excuse for violence really. And there are some really cool fights in it.There's a guy in it who can chop crowds of bad guys up by just waving his hands about the place.


Wicked City
-made by the same guy who did ninja scroll. The barrier between hell and earth is breached.... or something. Pretty good. Includes some tentacle hentai rape, but not much, so it's ok.

Cyber City
-Excellent classic 80s cyberpunk anime that the pokemon generation dont have a ****ing clue about. Set in the future, like 2074 or something!.... Convicts are given thousand year prison sentences. They can knock years off the sentence by doing dirty and high danger jobs for a secret-evil-government-corporation-guy. It's only 3 episodes, each one focusing on a different convict and his job. Deadly buzz.

Battle angel alita
-Set in the future again.... a robot-smith finds the torso and head of a female cyborg in a junk yard. Fixes her all up and guess what, turns out shes programmed to be an assassin. Shenanigans. Great. The comic is better though.

Blackjack
-Blackjack is a surgeon with the hands of god! He performs impossible operations for a massive fee. When olympic athletes all over start to show superhuman abilities, such as running at 60mph etc. Black Jack stumbles upon the secret which has caused this... Hmmmmmmm....

I heard that [/B]Perfect Dark is a good, dark n' scary manga, but I've never seen it so I cant comment on it.

G'luck!

carbonkid

...check out darker than black ^_^

sme

basilisk

ergo proxy - don't know if this would considered dark, definitely atmospheric.

DingChavez

Ninja_scrotum wrote: »

Ninja Scroll is my fave manga, so I think you can trust me on these few...

Fist of the North star (the movie not the series)
- ultra violent mad-max style manga where people are at war over who is the "real" fist of the north star. Just an excuse for violence really. And there are some really cool fights in it.There's a guy in it who can chop crowds of bad guys up by just waving his hands about the place.

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The series is still pretty violent and awesome. No where near the movie but it still should be watched! And the manga...

Ninja_scrotum

DingChavez wrote: »

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The series is still pretty violent and awesome.

The series is good, it's just that the animation can be a bit crap, AND the blood IS WHITE!!!! WTF!!!! It gets really annoying after the 2nd episode when you're just waiting for some good red bloody spatters. But the blood is always stupid milky white!

In the film, the blood is good old red every time.

wayne040576

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Elfin lied, freaky stuff, some very gory parts (Girl gets her arms and legs torn off), bit of nudity as well(watch out for that).

Yeah, But I thought Elfin Lied was slightly ruined by the extremely childish dialogue\voice acting at times (both english and japanese soundtracks were the same). It's actually a problem that a lot of Anime suffers from. One minute you're watching something extremely dark and depressing, next minute, it might as well be Pokemon. And I don't mean the way some add a bit of comedy to lighten the mood slightly, it's more of an inconsistency with the script\acting.

Spunge

I just finished watching elfen lied too. Really loved it, the intense violence got me interested then after a few episodes it was all about the characters. Great stuff. Watching a few other things at the moment but nothing grabs me like elfen lied or death note did. The search continues.

brianthebard

sme wrote: »

basilisk

ergo proxy - don't know if this would considered dark, definitely atmospheric.

Second the basilisk suggestion. Its a fairly short series with feck all in the way of story except that there are two ninja families locked in a feud to the death. Lots of fights ensue. In fact there are probably at least two battles per episode.

AndymanOnFire

Not really into Manga/Anime but watched Deathnote, really class. You should check it out.

irish_boy90

i vote elfen lied and hellsing.

selpher

Gantz!

AngryBadger

selpher wrote: »

Gantz!

+1

Guyver: The Bioboosted Armour. Very violent show, I think the original was probably slightly more gruesome, but the remake is still extremely violent.

Two thumbs up!

IronWolf

Monster (terribly underrated imho)
Hellsing (OVA's are visually stunning)
DeathNote

TheThing!

Not into Anime Manga scene at all but I think Hellsing is really cool. Alucard!!!

IronWolf

Just want to add Black Lagoon to the list, its not all grim but there's some pretty dark a disturbing back stories in there too if thats your thing (not to mention some great action scenes).

Chunky Monkey

Bleach isn't dark as such but it gets twisted at times. It's weird cos it goes from very cutsie to actually ye it is fairly violent. Dunno if this is classified as anime but Full Metal Alchemist is very twisted as well. Both brilliant series.

Shinji Ikari

magick wrote: »

something along the lines of Ninja Scroll , i needs me fix!

Im not really into cutie anime unless its a comedy of some sorts like project A-ko.

Ive seen Princess Mononoke/ghost in the shell/cowboy bebop/ grave of the fire flies (what a depressing movie)

anything ye would recommend , try and write a lil summary on it plz thx

From a psychological perspective, The End of Evangelion, is one of the darkest and disconcerting anime, or indeed films in general, I've ever seen. It has VERY heavy Psychological and Philosophical overtones however so be prepared for weirdness.

K.O.Kiki

Kaiba
From the art-style, you'd think it was some old-school, kiddy fare.

You could not be further from the truth.
Kaiba deals with adult situations, questions of humanity & self, love (especially love!), death, despair, tragedy... Look, it's not for kids!

myiarts0

Ahh, this is indeed weird..
But I see its another great work of art too..

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Cravez

Im currently watching through Kurozuka. Very good so far and very dark. Think Ninja Scroll/Basilisk with Death Note's animation style and vampires set in a post apocalyptic Japan.

DandareRastaban

Well.. dark?

Bloody dark:
"Devil may cry"
"Hellsing"
"Hellsing Ultimate"
Cyberpunk dark:
"Bakuretsu Tenshi" (eng. "Burst Angel" - best mecha anime ever for me)
Psychological and dark:
"X"
"Angel Sanctuary"
Magical and dark:
"Rental Magica" (very good but you need to watch whole series to understand whole plot since the timeline isn't ... normal ^^')

There are more I could recommend and bit less dark like "Venus versus Virus" or "XXXholic" and "XXXholic Kei"

Nerin

Vampire hunter d,akira,highlander search for vengeance. Devil may cry isn't that dark,still,i like it. Also-i'm an anime noob.

corkstudent

New Getter Robo. There are some Ninja Scroll like elements in that, and it's dark and violent.

Overheal

Akira has a nice edge of darkness... I should be ashamed of myself for the things I refuse to watch then eventually do. Akira is a true epic.

Sephiroth_dude

fist of the north star is very violent,kenshiro punches people and there heads explode :O.

Nerin

Overheal wrote: »

Akira has a nice edge of darkness... I should be ashamed of myself for the things I refuse to watch then eventually do. Akira is a true epic.

I really liked it,but i felt it let me down somewhat,probably due to preconceptions to what was going to happen

Overheal

rofl. Yeah, its like we were going to learn the meaning of life from a 1988 anime?

Nerin

Overheal wrote: »

rofl. Yeah, its like we were going to learn the meaning of life from a 1988 anime?

Erm actually no,i meant the ending. But if you want to read that much into it...princess mononoke had messages about protecting nature for example. But i wouldn't read too much into akira. Just felt it was built up for me,and then felt it fell short of what i was expecting.

Overheal

The ending is what i meant. they built up like you were going to learn some ultimate truth, and then a very strange ending indeed. Apparently the manga did it differently.

Nerin

Overheal wrote: »

The ending is what i meant. they built up like you were going to learn some ultimate truth, and then a very strange ending indeed. Apparently the manga did it differently.

I also had it built up by my friend who got me into anime...

fitz0

Overheal wrote: »

The ending is what i meant. they built up like you were going to learn some ultimate truth, and then a very strange ending indeed. Apparently the manga did it differently.

Very very differently. Im only on volume 4 but Its different from the start. Far better than the film but the films very good in its own right.

Overheal

well I hear its very long, and id have to pay to get a copy, so i cant be bothered. PDF files just arent the same; you get about 10 pages in before you say feck it ill just BUY Harry Potter 6.

Sephiroth_dude

golgo 13 is quite dark,also angel cop if you can get your hands on it.

owlwink

Urosukidoji and Barefoot Gen are two I have noticed nobody has mentioned.

Also Paranoia Agent is dark, but more psychological.

Fnz

Fullmetal Alchemist is excellent - the juxtaposition of the light hearted with the messed up stuff is great. Be forewarned though, it does has cutesy/adorable parts.

I'll throw Aachi And Ssipak out there too as it's batsh1t crazy and has some pretty dark parts. Opening five minutes here (quality isn't the best):

mylittlepony

Hellsing

Doomed Megalopolis

Sephiroth_dude

Heres a clip of devil man

Shinji Ikari

Riki Oh. Its a manga which was later developed into a Hong Kong martial arts film....Ultra Violent.