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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Best Horror Anime To Creep You Out (Or Horror-Adjacent To Entertain You Through Your Halloween Hijinks)


First, we'll start with my lists because we all know that's what you're here for. (And you know how I looooove to make lists.) Some of these will be true horror, featuring hideous monsters, slashing serial killers, and bloody gore. Others will be horror-adjacent, featuring the tropes of horror stories or horror characters in non-horrific settings, such as headless detectives, monsters chillin' at school, and chosen ones with creepy BFFs.

The Top Twenty-One All-Time

1. Perfect Blue

2. Higurashi When They Cry

3. Serial Experiments Lain


4, Bakamonogatari (and the rest of the -gatari series) 

4. Angels of Death

6. Akira

7. Junji Ito Collection

8. Shiki

9. Yamibashi: Theater of Darkness


10. Blood C

11. Killing Bites

11. Another


13. Dead Space

14. Parasyte

15. Red Garden


16. Ghost Hunt

17. Call of the Night

18. Devil Lady


19. Hell Girl

20. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

21. Demon City Shinjukin



Top Vampire Anime

  1. Call of the Night
  2. Shiki
  3. Rosario +Vampire
  4. Blood C
  5. Nightwalker: Eternal Darkness
  6. Dance in the Vampire Bund / 
  7. Diabolik Lovers
  8. A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives
  9. Vampire Hunter D
  10. Actually, I Am

Top Slasher / Serial Killer Anime

  1. Perfect Blue
  2. Higurashi When They Cry
  3. Angels of Death
  4. Another
  5. Future Diary
  6. Karakuri Circus
  7. Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne
  8. Ninja Scroll
  9. Talentless Nana
  10. The Magical Girl Site

Top Monster Anime

  1. Akira
  2. Parasyte
  3. Dororo
  4. Chainsaw Man
  5. Frankenstein Family
  6. Hellsing
  7. Berserk
  8. Claymore
  9. Nyaruko: Crawling with Love
  10. The Island of Giant Insects

Top Monster-Girls Anime

  1. Bakamonogatari (and the rest of the -gatari series)
  2. Monster Musume
  3. Rosario + Vampire
  4. Killing Bites
  5. Journal of the Mysterious Creatures
  6. Monster Girl Doctor
  7. Interviews with Monster Girls
  8. How Not To Summon a Demon Lord
  9. Arifureta: From Commonplace To World’s Strongest
  10. Omamori Himari

Top Ghost Anime

  1. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
  2. Ghost Hunt
  3. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
  4. Ghost Stories
  5. Corpse Party: Tortured Souls
  6. Death Parade
  7. Ghost Hound
  8. Mononoke
  9. The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
  10. Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation

Top Zombie Anime

  1. Tokyo Ghoul
  2. Attack on Titan
  3. Dead Space
  4. Sankarea: Undying Love
  5. Corpse Princess
  6. Is This a Zombie?
  7. Kabeneri of the Iron Fortress
  8. Zombieland Saga
  9. High School of the Dead
  10. LilyC.A.T.

Top Aliens Monster Anime

  1. Parasyte
  2. Red Garden
  3. The Promised Neverland
  4. Argento Soma
  5. BEM

Top "And Then There Were None" / Deadly Games Anime

  1. Angels of Death
  2. Killing Bites
  3. Future Diary
  4. Akudama Drive
  5. Darwin's Game

Top Monsters at School Anime

  1. Rosario + Vampire
  2. Beastars
  3. Monster Musume
  4. High School DxD
  5. Testament of Sister New Devil
  6. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
  7. Vermeil in Gold
  8. Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-Kun
  9. Sankarea: Undying Love
  10. High School of the Dead

Top Horror Anthology Anime

  1. Pet Shop of Horrors
  2. Boogiepop Phantom
  3. Yamibashi: Theater of Darkness
  4. Junji Ito Collection
  5. Hell Girl
  6. Ayakashi: Samurai Horror
  7. Mushi-shi
  8. Boogiepop and Others
  9. xxxHOLic
  10. Monogatari

Top Demons/ Devils Anime

  1. Demon City Shinjukin
  2. Devil Lady
  3. High School DXD
  4. Testament of Sister New Devil
  5. Devil Man
  6. Devil May Cry
  7. Hell Girl
  8. Vermeil in Gold
  9. Demon Slayer
  10. Demon Lord Dante

Top Witch Anime

  1. Witchcraft Works
  2. Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
  3. The Ancient Magus Bride
  4. Howl’s Moving Castle
  5. Kiki’s Delivery Service
  6. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
  7. Burn The Witch
  8. Witch Hunter Robin
  9. Grimoire of Zero 
  10. Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Top Yokai Anime

  1. Undead Murder Farce
  2. Kamisama Kiss
  3. Spirited Away
  4. Tsugumomo
  5. Noragami
  6. Mushi-shi
  7. Spice and Wolf
  8. Elegent Yokai Apartment Life
  9. Into the Forest of Fireflies’ Light
  10. Natsume’s Book of Friends

Other Lists

The following are also interesting lists of top horror anime, many of which -- you'll notice -- agree with me. 

10 Best Horror Anime That'll Give You Nightmares For Days

10 Best Horror Anime To Watch This Halloween

The Best Horror Anime of All Time

10 Best Horror Anime of All Time

Anime Monsters: 15 Of The Most Terrifying Creatures and Demons

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