Halloween is approaching, so here’s another list.
Creepy, scary anime
1. Denno Coil, episode 19 — The series becomes darker and more intense in its second half. This episode, in which Yasako and Fumie are besieged by “illegals” while Kyoko’s cyberbody wanders in an obsolete space, is surprisingly scary for a show that began so playfully.
2. Mushishi, episode 4 — All of the stories in Mushishi are strange. A few are nightmarish, like this one about dreams.
3. Divergence Eve, episode 8 — The series is creepy from beginning to end, and I could reasonably pick any episode for this list. The eighth has perhaps the eeriest scene, in which Leblanc gives Misaki a tour of a room with unsettling specimens.
4. Vampire Princess Miyu OVA, episode 2 — Do you like dolls?
5. Serial Experiments Lain, episode 12 — Alice visits Lain’s home.
6. Hakaba Kitaro, episode 3 — Forget carnivorous plants. How about a vampire tree?
I watched the dubbed version of Mushishi on YouTube a little while ago. It could certainly be creepy (immediately after watching one episode, I was actually freaked out by a piece of lint on the carpet that looked like the mushi from that episode), but I really liked it. It’s a shame there aren’t more episodes. It doesn’t seem like a series that could stand up to a long run, but just a few more would have been nice.