Mr. anime: dark history anime youtube

Ergo Proxy

• Episodes:  23
• Dubbed: Yes
• Studios: Manglobe
• Genres:  Sci-Fi, Mystery, Psychological

A good psychological dark anime is Ergo Proxy, which is one of the darkest tv shows of all time, but! it is so sad to see such a masterpiece Underrated and unknown to anime fans nowadays.

The story of this good mystery dark anime starts After the explosion of the methane hydrate layer, the remaining mankind is forced to live in isolated domed cities. They live in a controlled society and are assisted in daily life by autonomous robots called AutoReivs.

In one of these cities, Romdo, Inspector Re-l Mayer, leads an investigation concerning AutoReivs that have gone mad after being infected by the Cogito virus. In the process, she comes in contact with a monster called Proxy. Elsewhere in the city, immigrant Vincent Law is on the run after being framed for involvement in several Cogito cases. Together, they set out on a journey to the dome city of Moscow in order to unravel the mystery of the Proxies.

Read Also: Here are the 20 Best Anime Series About Demons

History Mr. Anime — Chekhov rifle in real life

Then anime video sector and ThehardMode consisted exclusively from reviews. There were simply no other genres. On the channel of the first one could find reviews for such a classic as Evangelion, Green Green, Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Angel Links and many others. But it all started not even with anime.

Trey, born in 1989, was originally a fan of films, and when a favorite site appeared known as Youtube, the sector created a channel on which the sketches and short comedic films of their own manufacture, where his parents and younger brother appeared in episodic roles.

After some time, Trey told about his second love In addition to the film — Anime. He changed the benchmark of the channel, began to make reviews for different classic titles, collected a collection of DVDs with them, and pseudonym Mr. Anime took the alias.

For the next five years, he made different reviews on his favorite TV shows, from time to time continued to lay out sketches, conversational videos on other topics, as well as — video with weapons. Probably it will sound stereotypically, but in the country , where weapons wearing the weapon, like many of his fellow citizens, there were a lot of pistols, automata and shotguns, which then fled in his video, how for the sake of review, So for the sake of the joke.

In addition, in one of the video, he condemned shooting at school and said that this was one of those things that could happen with each. Having gained a few thousand subscribers quite large at that time, and giving impetus to the emergence of many other channels dedicated to anime, the weapon, which was so loved by the tray, shot.

Shortly before the end in the video of the 2012 of the year, which was called «Mr. Anime something», he says to the intrigue that he has a plan that he wants to implement, but the details will reveal later. Donyn is unknown, whether this video is connected with further tragic events, but one of its existence, and the more the name makes the situation with a terrible.

In his last released video, he told that he had found his job. It was a full-fledged work for the whole day, but he reassured subscribers that even though there will be a change in the channel, he will not abandon him.

A week after he downloaded the last video, it became known that the tray killed his family. Another OldFag Anime YouTube was informed about this wide masses — Gigguk, familiar with a small correspondence seser after three recommended him in one of his videos, as a cool novice anime survey.

As expected, the seser played his younger brother with a weapon and accidentally shot him, after which he died. Shocked, the seser came to a terrible decision to shoot his parents, so that they did not feel hot for the death of a younger son …

Unfortunately, it differs from the more fierce and real version. If you believe the information from the documentary video MORBID REALITY FILES # 2, on March 20, the seser killed his mother, lumbering her in the garage, he shot her four times. His brother began shouting and complaining about the noise, tray returned to the house and shot him in the stomach. The boy was able to survive, ran into a bath where he tried to hide from his brother. The seser rose to the room to the parents, where his father rested and also shot him twice, after which he returned down, broke the door to the bathroom, where his brother was wrung out of pain and fired again … Unfortunately, the story did not end.

When the police arrived in the house, the third did not find it. They found the inscriptions on the walls, where the blogger repents for the deed and wrote that he did not know why he did it, for he loved his parents and brother. Later, he was detained near one of the schools, which came with a gun and a hundred ammunition to arrange shooting. However, he could not accomplish his conceived, since previously the murder sighed him. As he himself said at the interrogation, everything was too real and terrible.

As it turned out, he was preparing a shooting in the cafeteria of his senior school for several months. At the interrogation, he told that he considered the opportunity to enter the building by car during the annual festival and start shooting. The sector was expected that about 70 people could kill. However, doing something with his parents was not included in his plans. Waking up that day in the morning, he did not even think about the like, just at one point realized that his family would be ashamed for what he wanted to create. However, it was what happened that he did not give it to led the terrorist attack at school.

Now Trey Sisler is serving a life imprisonment.

Corpse Demon (Shiki)

• Episodes: 22
• Dubbed: Yes
• Studios: Daume
• Anime Genres: Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, Vampire

Shiki is not only a great horror dark anime series but also a psychological mystery story that will mess with your head about who are the bad ones, humans or vampires? The story revolves around many sudden deaths start occurring in the quiet village of Sotoba. So, Doctor Toshio Ozaki initially suspects an epidemic, but soon becomes convinced that something strange is happening.

He will uncover that Shikis are responsible for that, and from there a war between humans and Shikis will start! While, the Shikis, believe their-selves to be innocents, they now have only their will to live as they clash with the fear of the paranoid/unbelieving villagers. Shiki explores the boundary that separates man from a monster.

Read Also: The Top 21 Best Scariest Horror Anime Series to Watch!

Akami Ga Kill

• Episodes: 24
• Dubbed: Yes
• Studio: White Fox
• Anime Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Shounen

Since the first time Akami Ga Kill aired in 2014, I fell extremely in love with the show, but since then we still waiting for the 2nd season of this amazing fantasy dark anime series to come out.

Overall, the show highlights the Night Raid story; a covert assassination branch of the Revolutionary Army. Though the Night Raid members are all experienced killers. They understand that taking lives is far from commendable and that they will likely face retribution as they mercilessly eliminate anyone who stands in the revolution’s way.

This merry band of assassins’ newest member is Tatsumi, a naive boy from a remote village who had embarked on a journey to help his impoverished hometown. And was won over by not only Night Raid’s ideals, but also their resolve.

Akame ga Kill! follows Tatsumi as he fights the Empire and comes face-to-face with powerful weapons, enemy assassins, and many challenges to his own morals and values, and ultimately, what it truly means to be an assassin with a cause.

4 Made in Abyss

Though Made in Abyss starts out rather innocent, presenting itself as a mysterious fantastical world waiting to be explored, it gradually reveals itself to be much darker and gruesome than unsuspecting viewers may expect. The titular Abyss refers to a massive, largely unexplored chasm, wherein strange creatures roam freely and relics of long-lost civilizations await. Riko, an orphan aspiring Diver, and Reg, a robot with unknown origins, team up and choose to brave the depths of the Abyss together, each for their own reasons, but nothing could possibly prepare them or the viewers watching their journey for the events that are to unfold.

The Future Diary (Mirai Nikki)

• Episodes: 26
• Dubbed: Yes
• Studios: Asread
• Genres: Action, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural, Thriller

So many heartwarming moments and romance mingled with dark themes and gory scenes, this is what the Future Diary anime tv shows have to offer!

The story follows the reserved boy Yukitero Amano, who spends his day writing a diary on his cell phone, and occasionally talking to his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina, and Mur Mur. Well, the joke is on Yukitero as Deus turns out to be the Lord of time and space, and Mur Mur is his servant.

Deus grants Yukitero a Random Diary, which gives him detailed entries of what happens during the day. He, along with eleven others, are pinned against each other, having different diaries. The last person standing becomes the new god of time and space. Yukitero teams up with Yuno Gasai, a Yandere insane stalker who would do anything to guarantee his survival.

Death Parade

• Episodes: 12
• Dubbed: Yes
• Studios: Madhouse
• Genres: Game, Mystery, Psychological, Drama, Thriller

Death Parade is one of my favorite dark game anime of all time! yeah, this is a really good Japanese anime series that will teach you the darkest truths and the hidden natures of human beings. The plot is set After death, and, at the instant of their death, they arrive at the Quindecim, a bar attended by the mysterious white-haired Decim.

After death, humans go to either heaven or hell, but for some people, they face a bar-tender who challenges them in random games, that will decide their fate later! During these games, the true nature of humans appears, be good or bad, you are welcome to Quindecim, where Decim, will decide your afterlife! In the death parade people receive judgment, however, a strange, black-haired girl causes Decim to begin questioning his own rulings.

Perfect Blue (1997)

This dark anime masterpiece by director Satoshi Kon is a psychological thriller that audiences today will likely compare to Black Swan (2010). But the Western film merely follows in the footsteps of Perfect Blue (1997), a mind-bending mystery surrounding Mima.

Mima is the lead singer of CHAM!, a Japanese idol girl group that’s managed by Rumi Hidaka, a former pop idol whose far past her glory days. Though she has a strong career as a singer, what Mima really wants to do is act. When she finally lands a minor role in “Double Bind”, a detective series, her fans are angered by her change in persona from the innocent girl archetype her agency sold her as.

As the controversy around Mima grows, she finds herself stalked by an obsessed fan who has taken up “clearing” Mima’s name as his personal mission.

What makes it a dark anime?

Perfect Blue (1997) is a perfect slow burn of a movie. This dark anime exposes the sleazy underbelly of Asian idol culture. Many entertainment agencies in South Korea ban their talents from pursuing romantic relationships, effectively controlling a significant portion of their personal lives, in order to encourage fans to develop parasocial relationships with their stars. After all, if your favorite idol stays single then there’s a chance they’ll fall in love with you.

Industry shenanigans like this are part of why a stalker has openly threatened to murder Lisa Manoban, a member of the famous BLACKPINK idol group, if she doesn’t enter a relationship with him. Meanwhile, Japanese idols across the pond are forced to apologize to fans after being assaulted by them and shave their heads as punishment for having personal lives.

It’s been decades since this dark anime movie was released but idol culture doesn’t show signs of changing.

Want to see more of how fiction is fueled by real-world horrors? Check out From Dracula to Edward Cullen: The Evolution of the Vampire Myth.

22 The Promised Neverland

23 Episodes

The Promised Neverland is a masterpiece of bold twists that recontextualizes a peaceful orphanage into a holding cell where children become food for terrifying monsters. A risky escape ensues that only further highlights how little Emma and her friends know about the world’s dark realities.

They’re thrust into a deadly existence that would be a lot for anyone to endure, let alone a group of pre-teens. A fumbled second season confirms that The Promised Neverland’s manga is the superior way to experience this story. However, both evocative, thought-provoking seasons raise unruly questions about the state of mankind and if it’s destined to expire.

Death Note (2006)

What is justice?

That’s the question at the heart of our next dark anime recommendation, Death Note (2006). The show gets its name from a magical item called a Death Note, a notebook where Japanese death gods, known as shinigami, write the names of those destined to die. Since their power over life and death is tied to their personal Death Note, a shinigami can pass or lose this power to humans. For better or for worse, the Death Note owned by the Shinigami Ryuk falls into the hands of a high school student, Light Yagami.

Light is popular at school for being a genius and is well-known for his good breeding and background, thanks in part to the fact that his father works in law enforcement. This made him highly sensitive to issues of crime and justice, driving Light to use Ryuk’s Death Note as a way to deliver justice on those he sees as sinners.

What makes it a dark anime?

While he starts out with a fairly solid, if a bit questionable, moral compass, a life spent on a pedestal bolsters Light’s taste for retributive justice. Retributive justice is that gut reaction of anger, a desire to strike out at a wrong-doer, that you get when you experience or witness something you think of as unjust.

In their game of cat and mouse, rival geniuses Light and L share one sentiment: “I will hunt you down wherever you’re hiding and I will eliminate you. I am justice!”

Death Note (2006)’s dark anime status doesn’t hinge on how many people Light kills but rather, the darkness that lurks behind what we rationalize as morality. The YouTube channel Wisecrack goes further in-depth on how this dark anime show handles the question of what true justice really is.

Darker than Black

• Episodes: 37 / Two Seasons
• Dubbed: Yes
• Studios: Bones
• Genres:  Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Super Power

Oh my god, not only underrated but also an unknown tv show! it’s a shame that so many fans don’t even know that such a masterpiece anime even exists, darker than black can even compete with the most popular anime of all time. This is among the darkest anime series you will ever see! It got a unique dark theme, epic fights, heartwarming relationships, and a badass op mc.

The story starts off when Misaki Kirihara finds herself at odds with an infamous Contractor surnamed Hei. Called “Black Reaper” in the underground world, Hei, like his other contractors takes missions for the mysterious and ruthless Syndicate while slowly peeling back the dark layers covering a nefarious plot that threatens the very existence of Contractors.

Darker than Black is an anime and manga written by Tensai Okamura, who showcases one of the best sci-fi dark thrillers taking the form of a subtle exposé on a war in which politics and justice have no sway—a war waged exclusively in the shadows.

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

Now here’s a dark anime that’s a consistent fan favorite. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) is widely considered as one of the best 90s anime of all time.

The Evangelion here is a giant bio-machine that humans of this futuristic earth use to fight Angels, extraterrestrial harbingers of doom who bring cataclysms to Earth. It’s not exactly a ‘save the world’ story given that the Earth of Evangelion has already been subjected to an apocalyptic event that the Japanese to regroup in a settlement called Tokyo-3, a fortified futuristic version of the real-world city.

What makes it a dark anime?:

Like Code Geass (2006), this anime series features giant robots piloted by teenagers being used as engines of war. Sounds grim? It gets grimmer than that. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) was among the first anime to turn the beloved mecha genre on its head, turning it from a feel-good ‘kids beat up bad guys’ story to a real contemplation on the psychological effects of war. Many of the characters in this dark anime clearly suffer from mental health issues, the most common of which is PTSD. No surprise there, seeing as many of the mecha pilots in Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) are basically child soldiers.

20 Blue Literature

12 Episodes

Blue Literature, otherwise known as Aoi Bungaku, adapts six classic Japanese stories across a dozen episodes. Blue Literature receives some understandable criticism for the varying qualities between stories due to the different production teams that work on them, but they’re unilaterally praised for telling mature stories in an anthology context.

Blue Literature digs deep into human psychology and posits that people are inherently flawed. The stories unpack love affairs, betrayal, and free-floating suffering, with no one leaving any Blue Literature episodes better off than when they started.

Long before VTubers

What is Anime Yutub today? A huge number of channels worldwide dedicated to the reviews of anime, their analysis, channels involved in individual large titles . Channels of voice acting or dedicated to cosplay, work in the industry, directors and mangaams, otaku sobbies, analysis of the anime games and manga. Recently, it also joined him and a huge amount of VTubers as the level of Hololive , and something dug and degenerative in the spirit of Haachama CH.

In 2006, Anime Tusovka on YouTube was not easy to be born, but there was no such, limited to the whole pair of famous names. The very first Anime-Yutube, at least in the West, is the channel «Anime Hard Reviews». Now there is no original channel, but all the videos of this guy who began to record reviews in 2006, can be found on its second channel ThehardMode. The second pillar Anime YouTube, who appeared after Hard was the most three seater from the LensCapproductions channel known on the pseudonym Mr. Anime.

And if the first at its disposal was just a camera installed in a better perspective, then the second even used in his video Intro, which was something unprecedented in those wild years. True, these are all technical innovations, which limited Mr. Anime. Well, if you do not count the camera, which was manually controlled, and the tray approached and removed it right in the frame with a calm face.

1 Berserk

No list of dark fantasy anime would be complete without including Berserk, one of the most influential dark fantasy works ever created. Berserk’s world shows no hesitation in proving how dark it can be, with abuse and massacre being the order of the day. Yet it is also intricate and thoroughly fantastic, with elves and demons being likewise commonplace. Guts’ journey is fraught with trauma, tragedy, and betrayal, with him and his loved ones being subject to profound psychological horror. Truly, there is no story quite as emblematic of the dark fantasy subgenre as that of the Black Swordsman, and that’s exactly what makes it one of the best. While the 1997 Berserk anime does end on a massive cliffhanger, it still hasn’t been topped as the greatest dark fantasy anime.

Akira (1988)

Back to the cyberpunk side of dark anime movies. Akira (1988) is set in the dystopian future of, wait for it, 2019. Shotaro Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang, rips through the streets of Neo-Tokyo with his best friend, Tetsuo as they duke it out with the Clowns, a rival biker group.

Similar to Ghost in the Shell (1995), this dark anime film is a landmark piece of the sci-fi genre. It’s a complicated tangle of political turmoil, inter-gang violence, and terrorism. Add a dash of human experimentation and you get the world of Akira (1988).

The film kicks off when Tetsuo runs into Takashi, a man with psychic abilities, who recently escaped from a government laboratory with the help of resistance fighters. When the government comes for Takashi, they take Tetsuo with them and discover that he has powerful psychic abilities that are on par with the titular Akira who reduced Tokyo to rubble in 1988.

What makes it a dark anime?

Artist Katsuhiro Otomo used Akira (1988) to contemplate Japan’s nuclear bomb traumatized past by transporting it to a distant future world. Tetsuo’s descent to madness can be read as a cautionary tale about the potential risks of nuclear energy told by a Japan that was, and still is, reeling from the devastating effects of the atomic bomb.

While its contemporary, Grave of the Fireflies (1988), takes a personal approach to the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, Akira (1988) is allegorical, using Tetsuo’s growing pride and ambition to be the savior (and destroyer) of the new world as a way to warn us about the other side of what is often touted as a safe and clean source of energy.

Red Garden (2006)

Just like Jigoko Shoujo (2005), the 2006 anime series Red Garden stands out for its uniquely feminine take on the dark anime style. While it’s classified as a seinen anime series (basically an older brother to the shounen genre) Red Garden (2006) closely follows the personal lives of each of the main protagonists.

In a break from anime tradition, the girls aren’t Japanese high school students. Instead, they all attend a prestigious private school in Roosevelt Island, New York City. The all-female lead cast could be part of the Clueless (1995) cast if they weren’t stars of a horror anime series.

Kate Ashley is a ‘perfect student council president’ type who struggles under the pressure of needing to be a model student. Meanwhile, Rachel Benning fits the mean girl stereotype, acting more concerned about her nails than other characters while straining under the way she’s seen as an easy woman a la Heather Chandler. Rose Sheedy fills the sweet and timid role and Claire Forrest plays the stereotypical tomboy.

What makes it a dark anime?

For a supposedly male-oriented show, this dark anime series is extremely sensitive to women’s issues, particularly the dangers of teenage girlhood. The show isn’t all drama as many of its scenes are still dedicated to fighting supernatural creatures but its dark anime status is more melancholic in nature than the others on this list.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Ghost in the Shell (1995) is a classic dark anime that’s been adapted as a Hollywood live-action movie starring Scarlett Johansson. While the live-action flopped, the original anime remains one of the most critically acclaimed films by director Mamoru Oshii.

The film is a neo-noir cyberpunk story set in a futuristic version of 21st-century Niihama Prefecture and follows the officers and detectives of Public Security Section 9 on their quest to fight crime and even prevent it. The story takes full advantage of its setting, envisioning a wide array of cyber-criminals along with good old political intrigue. But of the many members of Public Security Section 9, the most recognizable is Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg who serves as the second in command of the group. Her less-than-human nature is what gives the show its name.

What makes it a dark anime?

Aside from its already grim setting, Ghost in the Shell (1995) is a dark anime thanks to its introspective look at the common sci-fi premise of man vs. machine. The breakneck pace of technology and our collective desire for improved standards of living make it possible that our future is one full of cybernetically enhanced humans who rarely get ill and are functionally immortal. But to achieve this level of indestructibility and perfection means removing everything that is imperfect, that is, what is human about a human.

Ghost in the Shell (1995) is a lesson in existential philosophy that presents itself as an action sci-fi movie. Major Kusanagi is barely human when she appears in the film as most of her body has been replaced with cybernetic parts. Her growing distance from humanity makes her wonder if the ‘ghost’ in this cybernetic ‘shell’ still exists; the ghost, in this case, being her human soul. Her line of thought brings audiences to the next question: Are souls real? If they aren’t, is Kusanagi still human?

This dark anime film still has rad fight scenes but its haunting take on the Ship of Theseus, the paradox seen in Wandavision (2021) miniseries, is a part of what gives Ghost in the Shell (1995) so much staying power.