Boasting a kick-ass art style and a narrative more faithful to its source material than the 90s iteration (which was forced to come up with its own stories in order to fill in the holes left by a then-incomplete manga), Hellsing Ultimate feels like the Japanese equivalent of 2000’s horror action films like Underworld and Constantine.

Set in an alternate reality where vampires run amuck and have to be hunted down by the Hellsing Organization, Hellsing Ultimate is a reboot of the infamous 90s anime and a great place to start for horror fans aiming to dip their toes into Eastern animation. While this list is obviously based on personal opinion, we’ll only be considering Japanese productions as proper “anime,” which means no Western animations like Netflix’s Castlevania ! With that out of the way, don’t forget to comment below with your own favorite anime horrors if you think we missed a particularly spooky one. With that in mind, we’ve decided to come up with a list highlighting six of the best anime for horror fans, as not all nightmares have to be in live-action! However, from the Cenobite-inspired God Hand of Berserk to the near-Lovecraftian archeology of Made in Abyss, there’s no denying that Japanese artists often manage to sneak in some unexpected scares into their work.Īnd with decades of Japanese animation to choose from, there are bound to be at least a few oddball productions likely to satisfy audiences with a craving for animated frights. With the exception of genre masters like Junji Ito, anime and manga aren’t exactly the most horror-friendly mediums out there.

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