[Question] Number one horror anime

[Former jinchuriki kushina]

you can choose an other horror anime beside those options , because i haven't watched enough anime horror an i know just a few of them .

 

[natssuu]

Death Note isn't a horror, it may have a dark atmosphere but there's nothing horrifying in the series.

OT: I'd have to say Mirai Nikki, though I've heard Higurashi is far better but I haven't bothered with it yet.

 

[20k]

Mirai Nikki isn't horror...

Hellsing is the best, second is Higurashi.

Well actually the best horror anime is Mnemosyne but its not on your list...

 

[Totsuka No Tsurugi]

Mirai nikki is a horror ?
am pretty sure it was about a yandere stalker who own a phone which can predict the future

 

[Supermacaquecool]

@Totsuka, 20k: Actually, Mirai nikki is labeled as: Action, drama, Horror, mature, mystery, psychological, romance, school life, shounen, supernatural and tragedy. As you can see, the main genres are Action, drama and horror, so it does count.
About this... I wasn't scared at all xd What I like of MN is its drama and character development mostly.
Hand't watch Higurashi...
I hate Another (I find it fuking dumb!)
Blood+ has some dark topics there, but again no. Saya is actually a super bright character (I loved Diva btw xd). -According to its genres, while it has a bit of horror, the predominating ones are supernatural, romance and mystery-.
As some above me have said, DN hasn't in its main genres Horror (it has Action, drama and fantasy).
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Personally, I prefer Mononoke (the anime not Miyazaki's movie). It's one of the few that has actually scared me, and has Horror as its main genre, followed by historical, mystery, seinen, supernatural and tragedy.
Also it seems that Shingeki no Kyojin it's a pretty gud option too..hadn't read it tho o_o

 

[20k]

@Supermacaquecool: Where do you get those labels from?

 

[Supermacaquecool]

@Supermacaquecool: Where do you get those labels from?

Mangafox and some other sites xd
However, I think they're accurate. Some of the horror genre's characteristics -according to Mike Chinn's book Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel- are:
-The atmosphere: it has to create the panic sense, some even have fatalist and sarcastic climate. The decadent environments are a must.
Many of the current horror stories set a environment that is familiar to us to later twist it.
I think MN achieves this, while not perfectly. Let's take as an example the first arc (in which the third is killed). Yukiteru is the typical aloof weird kid that has no friends and is constantly bullied (well, Yukiteru is a bit of a extreme example...but I met a classmate that was very alike o_o). The story developes in the classroom, his home and the usual route he takes to go to the said places. This setting is familiar to us, so it's effective because we can relate.
Regarding the decadence, it's not that strong because let's say those places are very common and normal...I think that the decadence was more within the MC...Let's say that his way of living was decadent because he was miserable and trapped in a sort of fantasy world.
Now, they way the environment is twisted is with the presence of the serial killer. Suddenly those common and familiar places weren't safe anymore. There was some demon lurking...
-The Violence (either gore or not): One of things human value the most is their physical integrity and thus the violence (the deformation of the human body) is a topic that freaks the audience easily (or used to xd Lately the audience seems to be desensitized regarding violence...but that's another thing). Usually, as the violence shown become more realistic the greater it's the impact.
The fact that destroying the diary provokes the death of the owner helps to minimize the violence in MN, but let's say that the characters are very vulnerable and easy to kill (they can die devoured by dogs, with their throat slice by hand knifes, poisonous gas, gun shots....so it's realistic enough it my opinion.)
-The topics:The topics must appeal the fears and worries of the audience.
This probably the strongest point of MN. As enemies we have a serial killer (that is one of the most common horror fantasies of modern times), a terrorist (at least Minene looked like one in the second arc xd) and some other picturesque characters. Also it touches many sensitives topics such as murder out of benefit, rape, family disintegration, the weight of our decision and so many other stuff xd
So...I believe Mirai Nikki can be labeled as horror.

 

[20k]

They must not be very good...

 

[Supermacaquecool]

They must not be very good...

I edited my previous post. Read it, and then you can answer back xd

 

[Morgiana]

Really haven't seen many, other than Mirai Nikki and Elfen lied

 

[YowYan]

you forgot to add Elfen Lied

 

[Miles vi Britannia]

Favorite horror anime is probably Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, though to be honest it's one of the few horror stories I've seen to begin with. The story starts off seeming like it'll be some happy school story when suddenly, bam, crazy stuff happens. Higurashi's very interesting in that there are a number of different arcs that aren't really in sequential order per say but follow different possibilities for the story where slightly different events take place, causing massive changes in what happens overall. At the beginning I thought that I would not care for it much since I'm not a horror fan and it seems nigh impossible to like a cast of characters that do the most brutal things to each other. But boy was I wrong, the character development is so great I HAD to love the cast, I found that once I actually learned about their stories I ultimately became very attached to all of the main characters and the way they carried the story was really something to see.

In reality I might like Death Note and Future Diary more, but not for horror factor by any means. I wouldn't say Death Note felt like much of a horror at all and honestly Future Diary's horror element was very limited. Future Diary was a pretty screwed up and bloody story at times, but it didn't really have that horror feel to it. It's kinda like how I would deem Deadman Wonderland (which is very, very similar to FD) as like a pseudo-horror of sorts, because while it is very violent and definitely has shock factor, it's not frightening in the creepy horror sense. Higurashi on the other hand? Well at least in the first season, there is an extreme creeping element of horror where the characters are dominated by paranoia and there's that constant unease about the future where even close ones could be preparing to kill each other and a lack of trust is a huge theme of the first season.

 

[Drakengard]

Waiting for Shingeki no Kyojin to become an anime

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I also don't see how Death Note's horror though, I don't believe it's classified as such either but I might be wrong

 

[Mellorox9]

definetly not Mirai Nikki... Higurashi must be. I think Death Note is the best, but i don't really consider that horror