The Most Disturbing Anime Ever Made, and You Have Not Seen Most of Them

Everybody can name the same five disturbing anime moments. This episode is about the ones that never make the list.

The game is Name That Nightmare, two clues a round, ten rounds, guess the anime from the description. Then Jardo gets into the deep cuts: Now and Then Here and There, a 1999 series that looks like a standard isekai and is actually about child soldiers.

Narutaru, which uses a cute art style as a weapon. Barefoot Gen, which animates Hiroshima and was shown to Japanese schoolchildren.

Blood-C, whose ending got blacked out on broadcast. And Mononoke, the argument that disturbing can also be gorgeous.

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