9 Most Gruesome Deaths In Anime

Ninja Scroll is credited along with Ghost In The Shell and Akira with spiking interest in anime during its heydey, and it’s easy to see why. The film is a gorgeously animated, action packed adventure loaded with creative monsters and fun characters.

For villains you’ve got a snake woman, a hunchback freak with a beehive in his back and a dude who can merge into shadows. One of the most memorable is the first monster the hero encounters, who is super strong and can turn his skin to rock. He’s introduced slaughtering a group of ninjas, and he saves the worse treatment for the last guy.

He grabs him by the arms, slowly twisting them before literally disarming him. To add insult to injury he then drinks blood out of his severed arm. On the ranking scale of awful ways to die go, this one rates fairly high.