Dying sucks. I mean, I’ve never done it myself, but it looks pretty rank. In the Halloween spirit, I could have just posted an ordinary “Top 10 Horror Anime” or something to that appeal, but I realize there are plenty of great lists already floating around the community at this time. Besides, I probably haven’t even seen ten horror anime. But back to dying. I know it’s depressing in real life, but in anime, where anything and everything is exaggerated to so much as a head tilt, deaths can pretty . . . graphic, and most are so tragic we feel as if we lost a sibling, or a mother, or a dog. Also, in the instance of Another or Higurashi, death is unusually cruel to witness and done so in the strangest of places. So what I’ve decided to do is compile my top ten places in anime I would hate to be caught dead in. Dying sucks, so enjoy! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
By the way, there are ***SPOILERS*** for the following anime, in no particular order:
The Future Diary, Psycho-Pass, Higurashi, Steins;Gate, Madoka Magica, Deadman Wonderland, Sword Art Online, Another, [C] Control, and Attack on Titan
# 10. From [C] Control, The Financial District
Do you know how to spend your money wisely? If not, you better learn fast! Because here, if your game of Pokemon results in your defeat, then you better expect to return home to an entirely different world. That’s right, put your money on the wrong slot and the collateral damage is astronomical! You could lose your job, your house, your family, and even your own life. And it’s all because you wanted to play the lottery. Shame.
# 9. From Psycho-Pass, The Vaults of Sybil
Do you ever feel like you witnessed something that you shouldn’t have? Well b*tch, you just done it. You can’t “unsee” the computational law enforcement enterprise that runs the ‘utopia’ with an iron fist. The Chief is probably waiting behind the damp steel wall with the Dominator under her whim, ready to unleash your termination. Now your splattered body lies on the cold, hard, metal ground, just awaiting a mindless cleaning robot to sweep you into the trash. I would say curiosity killed the cat, but you’re a human, and I know you’re smarter than a domesticated fur ball. How embarrassing.
# 8. From Deadman Wonderland, The Deadman Wonderland Amusement Park
Really, a horror amusement park? It’s cliche, but still a ruthless place to waste your life in. Imagine all of the cute bird costumed-people lined around the stadium, the audience thinking it’s all just apart of the thrilling show! NO. These security guards are armed with machine guns and rifles, and won’t think twice about your sorry corpse. Escape isn’t an option at Deadman Wonderland, so the only way to leave is by living and risking it all in the games, or by dying while the death is quick and painless. All the crowd would do is point and laugh at your decapitated head. That’s sickening!
# 7. From Steins;Gate, Any Lost World Lines
World line Theory. Whether you believe it or not, it’s a thing in this time-traveling masterpiece. So Okabe uses the microwave time machine to repetitively go back and save his friends from an ominous organization. After overworking his brain for 25 episodes, Okabe finally will get to sit on the couch and do whatever mad scientists do best. But what if this supposed “savior world line” still contained tragedy? The movie dives into that, but consider this different position: What if you ended up in a random world line where the microwave gets destroyed and your friends aren’t there anymore? What then? Let’s say that your family doesn’t recognize you either, and refuse to let you in, believing that you died in this timeline. You’ll now spend your remaining days roaming the sweaty streets of Akihabara until you die of depression. In a lost world line void of your existence, you were just a null concept, unmemorable and nonexistent. Scary AF.
# 6. From Sword Art Online, The World of Aincrad
That’s right, of only 10,000 recipients of the first-ever virtual reality video game, how exhilarating! Upon your full-dive, however, there’s no escape. In a mere month, 1/5 of all players died, and you very well could have been one of them. Kirito eventually finds Asuna and also happens to know a lot of the ins-and-outs due to beta testing, so he’s all set with a dandy life. What about you? This is your first time, but you don’t get nearly as lucky as “The Flash.” You’re pretty pathetic as it is, and you don’t get along with others, so a guild is out of the question. Solo-playing might be the only way to go! WAIT, this is a trapped room – no Teleport Crystals allowed, too! They’re pouring in from the right and the left, and no one can hear your senseless yelping! It only takes 12 seconds to deplete your dinky life meter. As you fade and start to shatter, all you can do is pity yourself.
# 5. From The Future Diary, The Gasai Estate
Y’all know what goes on in this house, so I won’t even start. Even if you were a welcome guest and your terms were fair with Ms. Yuno, “you know” she’s got one giant, stark, pink eye aimed in your direction. The lights are out, so Yuno will take care of whatever you need. Thirsty? She’ll get you some water from the tap. Hungry? She’ll slice you an apple. Bathroom? Just down the hall, but only use the restroom. One turn to the left or the right will take you to a dark, damp, foul-smelling cage with two rotting corpses and vomit in it. Where were Yuno’s parents this evening?? “Oh, they went out, but don’t let that bother our private time together, Yuu-ki~”
# 4. From Attack on Titan, Outside Wall Maria
Up for a game of tag? Great, they’re it, RUN, HIDE, not that it’ll do you any good because they can just sniff you out like bacon on a Sunday morning. Have you ever seen a mouse scrambling around a maze trying to find the prized cheese? It’s a horrifying sight, the poor cheese! Now, remove the walls and throw in 100 more mice. That’s just a square mile or two outside Wall Maria, where death is the only option – Just how long can you keep on running? Even the monarchy smells your fear from the Interior’s comfy walls!
# 3. From Madoka Magica, A Witch’s Labyrinth
Your partner just got shredded into pieces by the Witch’s minions, and now they’re after you. Can you hear the chant? It’s for you. They split into groups and run with their fluffy axes of death, feeding on your trail of anxiety and fear. Run faster on the multi-colored ribbon road, dodge the cotton men, AH, there are the henchman! RUN the other way, go, HURRY! They’re catching on to you. Finally, She feels your presence and hope has just been swallowed. The wall behind you seals up with puffy candy and She licks her lips, ready to taste your despair. You shoot magic, she slithers out of the way. She wraps her slimy body all around you, ready to feast, but she can’t help it – that’s just the cycle of things. And just like a cycle, she swallows you whole, never again able to see the light of the real world. Why did I say yes? Was my wish even worth it? I guess you’ll never know . . .
# 2. From Another, Class 3-C (Yomiyama)
“Things that were never properly buried come back to haunt the high school of the damned.” The worst part about sitting in this close-to-death class is know that you can and will die, you just don’t know how. The Calamity will consume you and the spread bloodshed by any means – you just have to die. A knife, a pole, a car, a fall, even an umbrella will do the trick. And your fellow classmates and family members will continue to perish aimlessly until the dead is sent back to death. That’s creepy!
# 1. From Higurashi, Shion’s Underground Torture Chamber
Like Yomiyama, all of Hinamizawa is one large blood-red target, but Shion’s “Fun-Fun Underground Torture Chamber” takes the cake for my most-feared location out of all of the anime I’ve seen. I won’t even sugarcoat this one like I did with the others, because you all know of the horrid sh*t that goes on in this hell hole. The hard, brown, dirt ground with cells built into the cavern. A splintery table with rusty metal clasps that will hold your shaking body as Shion readies whatever ancient instrument she pleases. Now I’m shivering, and it’s not because of the cold rain outside or low thermostat (or my heart lol)! Higurashi, you win, so take your scary-ass setting and get outta my cafe!
So to recap, dying sucks. It can be even worse, however, depending on WHERE you get spirited away. This Halloween season, do yourself a favor and DON’T visit any of these horrifying places! You’ll thank me later, I know it. If you are so daring as to dive back into these terrifying settings, then please, please make sure you return in one piece. I’d feel bad for anyone who had to spend their holiday scraping up your sorry corpse 😀 If you had similar thoughts, hit the like button! I have been waiting so long to write this post you have no idea! My question for you: Where in anime would be a terrible place to die? In the meantime, thanks so much for reading, and have a spooky Halloween!!
– Takuto, your host
Dying of Guilty Crown’s crystal cancer sounds like an unpleasant way to go.
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Oh yeah, that would totally suck. How did I forget that one??
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Terrible place to die? I would say London in Hellsing Ultimate. Nazi ghouls would eat you like Thanksgiving dinner.
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Yikes! Ghouls, dinner, Nazis?! I must be missing out on another occult horror. Thanks for the tip!
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Great post. I think outside the walls in “Shingeki no Kyojin” will make me go crazy due to fear. I would also like to add Impel Down from “ONE PIECE”. The torture methods there would put depictions of hell to shame.
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Thank you! I’d probably need a shrink (and several changes of underwear) each day just to avoid going mad in that wall. I’m not familiar with One Piece locations, but I do know that torture is pretty nasty LOL. That sounds like one of the worst ways to go.
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Hahaha. Same here. Again, great post. It’s something that I haven’t thought about. Very interesting.
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Aww, many thanks again, and sorry for the late reply 🙂
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Awesome post! And I agree with just about all of these! lol And I know this is an anime list but the first place that I thought of was Rokkenjima Island where Beatrice the Witch trapped the souls of the Ushiromiya family and just kills them over and over and over again for sport 😛
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Gah, thank you, Crimson!! I’m glad we have similar thoughts on horrible places to die in . . . Wait, that doesn’t sound very good. EHERM. Hey, is that Umineko by chance?? I heard that the adaptation was utterly terrible, so I’ve avoided it. What you describe sounds freaky cool, though. Do you recommend it?
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It is! Lol I haven’t watched the anime either 😛 looks terrible but I do recommend the manga if you don’t mind reading, they’re HUGE books though @_@
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So long as the book series is recommendable, then I’ll consider finding the first volume somewhere. How much of the series have you read? Or have you finished it?
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I’ve read 9 volumes, I think there’s like 11 – 12 out so far but that’s like ~27 normal sized volumes, it’s a series I recommend not leaving too much time in between and there’s lots of mind game stuff happening, since the MC has to approve that witches don’t exist, pretty challenging read if you ask me @_@
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Hmm, that is very interesting. Perhaps if I have the time, but if I need a good mind game later on I might hit it up.
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Well,I haven’t really seen much scary anime,so scary+anime=music videos and video games. For a real anime I guess anywhere there’s an enemy in the Feudal Era from Inu Yasha. I mean,it’s not like I’m a half demon,demon,fighter of any sort,magic user of any sort. I’d die for sure as my normal self. Music video,Trick and Treat. Video Game,either Misou (I think that’s how you spell it :P) or Mad Father. *Shutters* creepy stuff. ‘specially those video games. *shutters again*
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That’s okay, I’m just glad you gave it your best crack! The Feudal Era, yeah, I can see a couple of problems with that. And there’s that name again — Mad Father. I must be missing out on some scary stuff, even though horror isn’t my favorite genre.
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yah,I guess. It’s a cool game
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