Crunchyroll: Top 10 Must-Watch Horror Anime of All Time, Ranked!

The word “Horror” has different meanings for every single individual based on their experiences. For someone experiencing something supernatural can be horrifying, while for some, it can be exciting and adventurous.

Not everyone has a common thing that horrifies them. The subject of horror can be literally anything; it depends on the experience of the one horrified.

Crunchyroll has a huge library of anime; among them, there are few horror animes that excel in displaying horror in their own unique way.

So, let’s begin with the list of top 10 horror anime on Crunchyroll.

10. Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories

Yamishibai will spook you right away with its story-telling and smart use of background music.

A suspicious guy with a mask on his face visits the place where the children play and recite the most horrifying stories based on Japanese urban legends.

He uses a paper scrolling device called kamishibai to add the visuals with his spooky stories. Each day he comes up with the new stories, and the children find themselves drawn towards the world of horror.

9. Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories will take you back to the times of your childhood.

After being exorcised by a certain student a few years ago, the ghosts have come back to take revenge.

After losing their mother, Satsuki and Keiichirou Miyanoshita move to their mother’s hometown to join a local school where they find out about it being haunted.

Not taking it seriously, they soon witness the ghosts and find out that they are after them.

8. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is an alternative version of Attack on Titan you never knew existed.

Kabane are human-eating monsters that emerged from a mysterious virus during the Industrial revolution. The only way to kill them is by destroying their steel-coated hearts.

Humanity has survived by building a wall around their habitation where the only way to enter is by a heavily armored train which can pierce their hearts.

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress | OFFICIAL TRAILER

Ikoma, a young man with a dream to fight those monsters using the trains, will come sooner than he expected.

7. Another

Another defines horror with pure excellence.

The town of Yomiyama was cursed with eternal gloom after North Middle School’s class 3-3 student Misaki passed away.

Kouichi Sakakibara joins the same high school, 26 years after the incident, and instantly discovers the gloomy environment surrounding the school.

But soon finds his interest in an eyepatch-wearing girl named Mei Misaki, whose existence is ignored by everyone else.

Ignoring those, he gets close to Misaki while slowly uncovering the truth behind the plagued town.

6. School-Live!

School-Live displays the life of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse through a sweet and horrifying story.

Everything seems to be going well for Yuki Takeya, a highschool girl who never wants to leave the school to keep enjoying the cheerful life with her fellow members of the School Living Club.

School-Live! Complete Series - Official Trailer

The eternal joy was nothing but a delusion to escape from the horrifying reality of being amid a Zombie Apocalypse as the only survivor with nothing to communicate to anyone from outside.

5. Mononoke

Mononoke deals with a Medicine seller who wanders around Japan to exorcise spirits.

The Medicine Seller is a mysterious master of the occult. He travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called “mononoke,” which, after locating, he has to learn its form and its truth to kill it with his mighty exorcism sword.

His journey leads him to an Inn where a pregnant woman named Shino is resting, but soon finds out that the room is infested by the Zashiki Warashi, a lethal band of mononoke and he begins his investigations to exorcise it.

4. Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Greed for the power will lead to your destruction, Puella Magi Madoka Magica warns you through its shocking story.

After encountering Kyuubey, a magical cat-like creature, and Homura, the new transfer student, the lives of Madoka and Sayaka change drastically.

Kyuubey offers them to grant them any of their wishes if they become a magical girl to gain the power to fulfill their dreams.

But Homura urges them to not accept the offer as she is a magical girl herself who knows the consequences of becoming one.

3. Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan exquisitely depicts the survival of humanity against the Titans.

Centuries ago, mankind was forced to live within defensive barriers in fear of Titans, human-eating monsters.

After centuries of peace, a colossal titan manages to breach the defensive wall and begins the survival against man-eating abominations where Eren Yeager lost his mother and joined the Survey Corps to dedicate his life for his revenge against titans by eradicating each of them.

Attack on Titan - Official Trailer w/ Intro from Voice of Eren

In this brutal journey, he is accompanied by his adopted sister, Mikasa Ackerman, and childhood friend Armin Arlert.

2. Parasyte: The Maxim

Parasyte: The Maxim displays the idea of coexistence with sheer brilliance.

After a sudden attack of parasitic aliens on Earth, the humans are unaware of the fact that they take full control of their after burrowing into their brains.

Shinichi Izumi was a victim of such parasites that took control over his right-hand, failing to take over his brain.

Having no choice but to cooperate, Migi, the parasite, helps Shinichi to eradicate the threat upon humanity.

1. The Promised Neverland

A promise is more fragile than a sheet of glass in this world of treachery, that’s what The Promised Neverland depicts with a terrifyingly beautiful story.

The Promised Neverland, hands down, is the best horror anime of all time available on Crunchyroll. The story of Emma, Norman, and Ray can also be streamed on HIDIVE, HULU, and Funimation.

The Grace Field House is inhabited by orphans surrounded by a forest and a gate as the way to enter. They are looked after by Isabella, who is called “Mama” by the orphans.

The one rule they have to follow is to never go outside the boundary of the house. Every few months, a child is adopted and sent to a new family, they cannot be contacted ever again.

The Promised Neverland Trailer 1

Getting suspicious of that, the three oldest siblings trying to uncover the truth face the cruel fate waiting for them, including their Mama’s twisted nature.