9 Most Gruesome Deaths In Anime
The gore the merrier.
Anime comes in many shapes and sizes; you’ve got Studio Ghibli at the top of the food chain, thanks to classics like Spirited Away or My Neighbour Totoro. There are kid’s adventure shows like Pokemon, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Dragon Ball, and then there’s the grown-up stuff like Ghost In The Shell or Attack On Titan.
There’s something for everyone basically, but anime is also home to some of the sickest, goriest death scenes in any medium. Bodies explode, get ripped to shreds or twisted in ways God didn’t intend, and the animators don’t spare the red ink when it comes to depicting these nightmarish moments.
Most of these scenes are for pure shock value, but a couple manage to sneak a point across with the violence too. Excessive as they might be it's kind of fun to see how far they’ll push the limits, so here we’ll take a look at the most gruesome deaths anime has to offer.
Just be sure to have a barf bag ready; it may come in handy.
9. Bisected Down The Middle - Dead Space: Downfall
Dead Space: Downfall is the animated prequel to the original game, showing what happened on the Ishimura when The Marker was brought onboard. Downfall is better than it has any right to be for a tie-in, and while the dialogue is quite cheesy it moves at a fast pace and the characters are likeable.
Anybody who played the game will know how the movie ends, so it’s no surprise when the heroes start dying. Downfall is dripping in gore too, so they don’t die pleasantly. The absolute worse goes to Shin, who saves her teammate from a Necromorph with her trusty plasma cutter.
Unfortunately, her friend had gone insane by that point, so he sneaks up behind her and plunges his cutter into her stomach. She screams in agony while he slices upwards and finally through her head. He finishes the job by slicing down again and totally bisecting her, which brings a whole new meaning to the term splitting up.