While anime is often limited to a stereotypical image centering around “kawaii” and “yamete kudasai” (please don’t tell me you can hear it), this medium houses countless fictions that are so ‘kowai’ that it might affect you. That’s how well-written the darkest fictions of anime are. It can be so twisted that you will be forced to ask, ‘Is this the true nature of the human psyche?’