Most Shocking Moments In Anime! [Archive]

Flashjeff

Sep 5, 2004, 19:34

Given the large number of fans who follow anime here, I'm sure most of you have watched scenes in your favorite shows that made you eyes bulge, your jaw drop and cry out: "Holy s@#$!!!" :shock: Well, here's my "Holy s@#$!!!" moment.

In episode six of Fushigi Yugi, Miaka, trapped in a mirror dimension watches in horror as an evil doppelganger uses a mirror to suck the lifeforce away from Tamahome and Hotohori. Realizng the double is a dark reflection of herself, Miaka shatters a plate and rams a pointed shard into her own chest!!! The doppelganger cries out from pain and morphs into one hell of an ugly creature whose *** Tamahome and Hotohori whomp, with Nuriko finishing it off with a boulder she drops on it.

With the creature gone, a seriously wounded Miaka reappears, but is brought back from the brink of death by her friends. I've watched that episode three times now and I literally cringe and clutch at my own chest when I watch that scene. For a show that alternates between martial arts action, romantic melodrama and slapstick humor worthy of The Three Stooges, that remains the most shocking moment I've ever seen in an anime series.

Well, that's my example. How about telling everyone about yours!

Fantt

Sep 6, 2004, 00:49

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that from an anime geared toward adolescent girls either. After watching that episodes and a few others, I'm convinced that FY won't be coming out on the Cartoon Network anytime soon, and if it does it will be horribly watered down.

As for Oh Crap! moments in anime, my first would have to be in Akira when Testsuo causes the guys in that hospital to explode, covering the walls and ceiling. I wasn't really expecting that.

Also, pretty much the entire series of Lain is full of freaky stuff that you aren't really expecting. I loved it for that, and for the theme song.

Glenn

Sep 6, 2004, 04:01

Mine would be towards the end of Berserk when Gattsu cuts his arm off. I had a hard time watching that the first time, and I still do. That he did it with a broken sword makes it even worse! :shock:

Flashjeff

Sep 6, 2004, 18:21

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that from an anime geared toward adolescent girls either. After watching that episodes and a few others, I'm convinced that FY won't be coming out on the Cartoon Network anytime soon, and if it does it will be horribly watered down.

I agree completely. It's hard to believe that FY is a shojo series, given that it has more than it's fair share of bloodshed, violence and death, not to mention instances of attempted rape and suicide. And no, the show won't make it onto Cartoon Network, not even in its Adult Swim programming.

:okashii:

Eve

Sep 6, 2004, 19:05

^FY? what anime is that?

Most shocking moments....Dont have any yet..although it was kinda bs in Tenjou Tenge when this guy got stabbed like 100 times in the leg and he is still managed to walk after

ZellX

Sep 6, 2004, 23:05

whell i waz surprized that when inuyasha had a hole right though him buy koga and the poison jewel shard.he some how just got up and kept fighting

Fantt

Sep 7, 2004, 00:27

Eve: FY == Fushigi Yuugi...

Eve

Sep 7, 2004, 05:16

aye..i knew that -.-

Glenn

Sep 7, 2004, 13:26

How about 3X3 Eyes? All of it. :D

skunkworks

Sep 7, 2004, 17:39

My jaw dropped when I saw Jubei fight the giant stone devil in Ninja Scroll. Classic.

x2468

Sep 14, 2004, 03:10

i've got a ton, but i cant remember em all right now. The ones i most remember are in the Cowboy Bebop movie when the dude suddenly pulled out a granade and blew himself up in that train. Also, i remmeber being pretty shocked when i was a kid and Heero blew himself up. "mission accepted" BAM. uhhh oh and in Blue Gender when the dude was like semi-concious and he looks up and see the little girl, then out of knwo where a bug comes buy and eats her or somthin. i was like whoah, didn't see that coming.

oh and pretty much all of La Blue Girl was a bit of a shcoker :D :p :blush:

Yondaime

Sep 14, 2004, 05:05

love hina, when motoko tries to become feminine.....yeesh

ZellX

Sep 15, 2004, 12:30

i rember from love hina

babar-san

Sep 19, 2004, 01:10

ummm, i would have to say that some of the most shocking scenes in anime for me have come from urotsukidoji. it is horror/hentei, and i dont expect many ppl have seen it. i dont generally watch this kind of stuff, but the first 4 episodes were amazing. the shocker was when Nagumo's friend made a pact with a demon in episode 2, and was forced to do some horrific things, i wont mention what they are, but anyone who has seen it can probably guess.

glxwill

Oct 8, 2004, 12:01

when misato died in the evangelion movies

anime_artistuk

Oct 13, 2004, 00:30

I'd have to say when Asuka died in the movies. Not only was it painful and unexpected (because she was doing so well!) but the EVA's had to attack her 3 times to kill her!

Reiku

Oct 13, 2004, 19:12

When Julia died in the Cowboy bebop Finalie...

...this is sort of a spoiler thread, ne?

If manga counts--then when Kaoru "died" towards the end of the Rurouni Kenshin manga.

Camui

Oct 14, 2004, 02:27

When Julia died in the Cowboy bebop Finalie...

...this is sort of a spoiler thread, ne?

If manga counts--then when Kaoru "died" towards the end of the Rurouni Kenshin manga.

doesn't Kenshin die too??...and don't they have a son together??..(sorry for spoiling..I didn't know about it someone spoiled it for me...)

one of the most shocking moments for me was in Angel Sanctuary when Sara was killed...its was soo asd after her and Setsuna finally get to be together... and then he has himself killed to get her sould back from Hades...I started crying soo badly :( ...can you believe that is how the anime ends?!?..it was good, but I have to admit I was disappointed...hopefully its not gonna be the same way in the manga...

if manga counts then another shocking moment would have to be in Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances)...when Soichiro and (omg I forgot her name!!...ahhhhh!! :( )...well... hopefully you guys know who I mean..anyways the schocking part is when they sleep together in the 6th manga...I was beyond shocked..I mean I knew they loved it each other and I'm a understanding of that...I just can't believe they did that soo soon...I mean like what are they 14 and 15!!...another thing that was weird about that is that things seemed normal at the end of that manga, but I'm not sure what happens later on... :( ( I can't believe I forgot her name... :( )

willuknight

Oct 14, 2004, 14:47

1) Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien

In like episode 4, where that thing happens..... Oh **** !!!!!

2) Koi Kaze episode 6
"Is it wrong to think about my sister while i'm masterbating"

It was at that point that i decided i was going to stop watching this creepy show, despite people encouaging me to watch it... Koi Kaze is CREEPY !

3) Full Metal Alchemist 50
Where that character dies... (you know who i mean)
I was thinking OMFG !!!

Eternal Wind

Oct 15, 2004, 16:15

I'd have to say when Asuka died in the movies. Not only was it painful and unexpected (because she was doing so well!) but the EVA's had to attack her 3 times to kill her!
No,Asuka is NOT dead........where you get those info from? :?

*SPOILER*
Asuka and Shinji wre the only left in the movie

EscaFlowne

Oct 15, 2004, 21:13

:balloon:

When the Story of Dilandau became clear in Escaflowne of course!?!?!

:souka: :relief: :? :souka:

anime_artistuk

Oct 17, 2004, 22:10

No,Asuka is NOT dead........where you get those info from? :?

*SPOILER*
Asuka and Shinji wre the only left in the movie

Well, I have seen it but I din't really get much of it. I know she din't really die, but she did for like, 20 minutes or so.

Japanimaniac

Oct 18, 2004, 00:25

My three top shocking moments are:

1) The entire final scene in the last episode of Cowboy Bebop...and especially when Spike died.
2) When Goku self-destructed himself to try to kill Cell. Sure, Goku had died before, but this was the first time he'd died when I was actually following DBZ.
3) It's from a game, but ah well. In Xenosaga Episode 1 when Albedo pulled off his head while talking to MOMO. That just freaked me out.

Duo

Oct 18, 2004, 00:38

In trigun when wolfowood died, and Vash killed Legato

and when Cher dies in Wolf's Rain, so unexpected.

Reiku

Oct 24, 2004, 08:51

doesn't Kenshin die too??...and don't they have a son together??..(sorry for spoiling..I didn't know about it someone spoiled it for me...)

That's only in the "Reflections" OVA In the Manga they do have a kid--but it never shows then die...

They also majorly changed the ending in the anime.

***MASSIVE, CANNOT-BE-UNREAD SPOILER AHEAD***

In the manga, when they get back from fighting Shishio the next and last major enemy they face is Enishi--the little brother of Kenshin's first wife. Enishi forms a syndacate, and they all attack Kenshin at the Kamia dojo, and when the dust settles Kenshin finds Kaoru's body with a no-dachi driven through her chest...

...but it later turns out that this was a fake, and that Enishi is holding Kaoru captive on an island.

The problem is that many people stopped reading the manga after Kaoru's supposed death--thinking it was real and not wanting to see what happens next without the possibility of Kenshin and Kaoru finally getting together.

***END OF MASSIVE, CANNOT-BE-UNREAD SPOILERS***

So basically they changed it to prevent a bunch of people from getting all depressed and not watching the last few ep's of the anime. Unfortunatly the substitute plotline they came up with just doesn't have the same "Grand Finale, all accounts are paid" feel to it--so it was a big dissapointment for me after reading the manga and waiting ep after ep for that story arc to begin.

Camui

Oct 25, 2004, 02:11

oo ic..this makes me think I should probably get ito this series..seems more interesting than I thought...I've watched it, but they stoped giving new epis, but hopefully they'll give newer ones soon

CerberaLM

Dec 27, 2004, 15:47

i ain't watching anime like i used to and i can't remember all...

one that really got to me was in CLAMP's 199x where Kamui decapitates his best friend Fuuma in a swordfight then cries his heart out as he holds Fumma's head in his arms... 0.o ack!

Kiyomi

Jan 1, 2005, 02:03

1)when Elie was kissed unexpectedly by Lucia in Rave. i mean he just grabbed her and kissed her.
2)when Aki did the same thing to Aya in Ayashi No Ceres.
3)When Miaka dies in the OVA of Fushigi Yuugi.
4)when Madlax is finally knowing the truth in Madlax.
5)when the main characters of The Lament of the Lamb die together saying how much they cared for each other. (they were siblings)

and many more

Japanimaniac

Jan 1, 2005, 13:18

The entire second half of Blue Gender was a shocking moment, because you kept thinking Marlene and (can't remember his name...it's on the tip of my tongue...) were going to be together, then you were like "HOLY CRAP!" cuz something else would happen.

Faustianideals

Jan 1, 2005, 13:36

the most shocking moment in anime for me was when Integra from Hellsing stabbed her neck to prevent the bacteria from spreading after she was bit by a vampire! :bluush:

Eternal Wind

Jan 2, 2005, 17:01

Well, I have seen it but I din't really get much of it. I know she din't really die, but she did for like, 20 minutes or so.
Haha~ya,she looks dead alright...but not dead... :D

layn

Jan 2, 2005, 21:00

The most shocking moments are :
1. Shinji helplessly called his father not to kill Toji (Evangelion)
2. Quick dead in Gundam anime

necrozombie

Jan 7, 2005, 03:45

mine would have to be at the end of escaflowne with dilandau and how he's actually celena. ><

i fell off the stoopid sofa screaming: WTF?

then.. *tries to remember the other one*..

OH. when wolfwood died in trigun. i had a little hissy fit and i actually cried. ;_;

wooooolfwooood. ><

Japanimaniac

Jan 7, 2005, 03:50

I only got to see like six episodes of Escaflowne before they took it off the air for being "too mature"...and during that time I was too busy drooling over Merle to get much of the story. XD

necrozombie

Jan 7, 2005, 04:01

I only got to see like six episodes of Escaflowne before they took it off the air for being "too mature"...and during that time I was too busy drooling over Merle to get much of the story. XD

XD they cut out so much of it then. it was on fox or something right?

i remember that. the actual episodes are a thousand times better.

YOU MUST SEE ESCAFLOWNE.

<3dilandau... ;_;

Japanimaniac

Jan 7, 2005, 04:07

Yeah. It came on right around the time when I was really getting into anime (before I knew stuff was edited to death before it went on TV), and I was like "YEAH! I've heard of this one!". And then...gone. Stupid Fox...THEY TOOK MY MERLE AWAY FROM ME!!!

necrozombie

Jan 11, 2005, 00:09

merle doesn't wear underwear. XD

it's very apparent when she's jumping all over van.

Japanimaniac

Jan 11, 2005, 02:31

I fail to see the problem in that. :-)

necrozombie

Jan 11, 2005, 03:15

i didn't think you would, but it's always nice to mention little details like that. espcially when they're about a cat girl's lack of underwear.

XD <3

Slayer4U

Jan 16, 2005, 15:23

When Makoto shishio er....bite Kenshin...That was really gross and painful.

Pali1985

Jan 16, 2005, 21:59

im not sure what u mean by shocking, but following the dailylife definition i'd say after i found out most of Card Captor sakura's characters were Gay or Lesbian

Kenshi

Jan 17, 2005, 13:12

Any of the deaths in the end of Last Exile were shocking to me. Simply because I developed a connecrion to the characters throughout the series, and when some of my favorite ones died, I was crushed for the moment.

magusmonk

Jan 19, 2005, 08:04

x the movie. the dude is holding his friends head in his hands. thats just messed up

Flashjeff

Jul 15, 2005, 19:05

Well, to revisit this thread, I've got a brand new example: the first five minutes from the first episode of Elfen Lied with the murderous Lucy slicing and dicing guards to shreds with her vectors. Arms, legs, heads, torsos, you name it, it was whacked like wheat with a sickle while blood was quite literally everywhere. That was the sickest, most gruesome stuff I've EVER seen in an anime series before!
:shock:

Hiroyuki Nagashima

Jul 15, 2005, 21:05

"Elfen Lied "
A child must not look!! :shock:

Promotion
http://www.advfilms.com/trailers/Web%20Movies/Elfen Lied Anamorphic_ADV_LG16x9_1Mbps_001.wmv
site
http://www.advfilms.com/titles/elfenlied/index.php
commentary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfen_Lied

In Japan, cruel depiction was cut and it was broadcast at midnight.
(AT-X, it is no cut.)
Is cruel depiction no cut in an overseas edition?
For example, such a scene
http://s03.2log.net/home/yosaba/archives/blog1155.html

Ranna-chan

Jul 16, 2005, 03:03

Nearly everything and anything in Furi Kuri: FLCL to me is shocking.

I really have not seen that many anime shows, but the most shocking to me was when Vash killed Legato in Trigun. I kind of expected everyone in Wolf痴 Rain to die. However, I was crushed when Spike dies in Cowboy Bebop. I did not want to believe it; even though there was tons of foreshadowing.

MotomanInuyasha

Jul 16, 2005, 05:05

DBZ: when it took ten 30 minute episodes to display a fight that "only" lasted 5 minutes
Kurumi: Everything :okashii:
Inuyasha: when Suikotsu trys to kill those two kids
FLCL: "Rape" scene in episode five....
Evangelion: When Ray turned out to be shinji's mom, and they still had sex...NASTY

Flashjeff

Jul 16, 2005, 19:09

In Japan, cruel depiction was cut and it was broadcast at midnight.
(AT-X, it is no cut.)
Is cruel depiction no cut in an overseas edition?
For example, such a scene
http://s03.2log.net/home/yosaba/archives/blog1155.html

Nope, that scene was shown fully intact in the U.S. release. Even though it was animation, that, like almost everything else shocked me. The graphic nature of the violence in Elfen Lied was absolutely astonishing and made scenes like Tetsuo's hospital ramapge in Akira look like kiddie stuff.
:shock:

Dekamaster

Jul 19, 2005, 12:14

Gundam Seed ep 49. The stench of death haunts this ep. :souka:

noyhauser

Jul 24, 2005, 08:50

Bah. I'll give the Neon genesis death are "shocking." But they are nothing compared to two other items. The first is Grave of fireflies, especially at the end. However most people go into it with full knowledge of what they are about ti see. But nothing, nothing at all comes close to the constant series of deaths of the main characters during the Series Legend of Galactic Heroes. Its heartwrenching to watch characters you have watched grow for 50+ episodes die senselessly in war. Three of the deaths in particular really make you stop and think. (I won't post which ones because they are major spoilers)

Flashjeff

Jul 30, 2005, 20:16

I don't know if this qualifies as shocking after having recently seen Elfen Lied, but in the first episode of Gunslinger Girl, you've got this cute little girl named Henrietta who, one minute, is looking painfully shy and quiet, and the next, she's spraying a room full of hoods with bullets from a submachine gun hidden in a violin case with a murderously cold look on her face. All I could say after watching that was "Whoa!" If you've never heard of Gunslinger Girl, the best way to describe it as Romper Room meets La Femme Nikita. It's certainly a new and, I might add, disturbing take on the ages old girls and guns genre.
:eek:

Hiroyuki Nagashima

Jul 30, 2005, 22:56

"Gunslinger Girl"
http://www.gunslingergirl.tv/
http://www.mediaworks.co.jp/d_original/gunslinger/images/anime.jpg
http://www.mediaworks.co.jp/d_original/gunslinger/index.php

Parents were murdered cruelly, and Henrietta was raped beside the body overnight by a criminal. :shock:
t is protected by "a social welfare public corporation" after it was accommodated by a hospital
In fact, "a social welfare public corporation" is a secret intelligence service of a country.
"A social welfare public corporation" mechanizes her body and gives brainwashing by a drug.
And she is trained militarily and does work of assassination
Same as her else
Because a body is bad by nature, it was sold by parents, and it is a little girl.
The girl that it was extracted the internal organs by human traffic in Greece.
Miserable girls are gathered in "a social welfare public corporation".
It is too miserable MANGA. :bawling:
There are many dreary sad stories.

Miko-Kokoro

Jul 31, 2005, 02:26

In Peace Maker, when Tetsu decides to actually fight in the last few episodes, when he kills that one Character and finds out, it wasn't him who killed his parents.

Dekamaster

Jul 31, 2005, 10:51

Mycernius

Oct 18, 2006, 00:49

Hiroyuki Nagashima

Oct 18, 2006, 02:22

BLACK LAGOON The Second Barrage
I watched EP13-EP14.
EP13-EP14 is an episode of a killer of a twin child of Romania.
Music is the best, and quality is high, too.
However, it was a ghastly episode in illogical brutality.
I think that this episode becomes broadcast prohibition abroad.
I watched it and came to feel sick.:mad:

A child must not look.:shock:
Episode in the future is Russian Mafia VS Japan yakuza.
When I imagine it from the original,
This seems to considerably become a shocking episode.
:okashii:

Flashjeff

Oct 18, 2006, 17:38

I was partly shocked by the sudden killing off of Akemi in Saikano. She seemed such a strong character and then for her to die in Shujis arms kinda came as a blow.
@ Flashjeff: Henriettas berserker rage is awesome. Such a quite girl at the beginning. What is more shocking is the reactions of Guisse to her rampage. No recriminations to the fact she has just murdered those men, but more of why did you go berserk? Mind you the seies is full of shocks. How about the death of Elsa and her handler?

Just about everything in Saikano was shocking, from the deaths of characters like Akemi to Chise's "Dark Phoenix" moments throughout the series where she soars in and blows up everything. As for Henrietta, she was rather fond (and overprotective) of her handler Jose, whenever she perceived him as being threatened, it's "Moe, Larry! The cheese!" time! Gunslinger Girl was certainly startling, even to a veteran anime fan like me!

Dutch Baka

Oct 18, 2006, 18:14

The end of Beserk was just crazy, and .... WOW

(but I didn't like that end)

Sugar-San

Oct 29, 2006, 00:56

The most schocking Moment was in Sailor Moon (I was at the age of 6 or 7) and Bunny died. I was crying. *lol*
And then another Moment was in Jeanne D'Arc, when the guy, who was possessed by the evil, had to die. That was so sad.

mika_r

Oct 31, 2006, 12:08

the last ova of kenshin... i couldn't stop crying!!!!!!!!! it was so sad... so so so so sad... so so SO sad.

... so.... sad... i... couldn't stop crying for 2 hours...

Hiroyuki Nagashima

Oct 31, 2006, 21:22

the last ova of kenshin... i couldn't stop crying!!!!!!!!! it was so sad... so so so so sad... so so SO sad.
... so.... sad... i... couldn't stop crying for 2 hours...

rurouni kenshin silent jealousy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oJ2rTEuF8k&eurl=

It is one of the best masterpiece of Anime.:cool:

Rena

Nov 1, 2006, 18:41

Narutos fillers are a shock. I mean thats just too much :|..so sorry.

Inu-chan

Nov 2, 2006, 07:32

Sailor Stars with Sailor Moon losing her star seed to Galaxia in 199

And the End of Evangelion Movie... WAY too weird sometimes!

o0littlehands0o

Nov 10, 2006, 08:16

mine's not from anime (altho it's getting made into an anime :D), but Death Note when Raito regains his memory and shows how his predictions all came true...**** that was so COOL~~:cool:

Patator

Nov 17, 2006, 00:07

For sure the movie "Otaru no haka".
I couldn't imagine before watching this film that an anime could be so sad !

Alma

Nov 23, 2006, 06:08

:okashii:

i've read just a part of this thread for now... it is quite spiler thread :blush: so i'll stop...

i haven't seen so many anime (at least not as much as i wanted)...
for now..

i have to agree with this...

My three top shocking moments are:
1) The entire final scene in the last episode of Cowboy Bebop...and especially when Spike died.

Satsui

Nov 24, 2006, 14:47

When I saw the artwork for Street Fighter Alpha: Generations. I was disgusted.
Gouki's face looked like a dried up peach!

If it's the moment thing, it's gotta be something from the Full Metal Panic! series. .

computercore999

Dec 9, 2006, 00:11

SPOILER
when L died in the death note manga, i almost cried :bawling:
END OF SPOILER

aeromaniak

Dec 9, 2006, 07:32

waru mina, but the my moment of shock is from little Naruto, or more precisely Sakura: at the begining of the chunin exam, she's feeling real bad for not being able to fight along with sauke and naruto. So in a harsch battle against some treacherous sound ninjas, as her bodies are down, she unleashes herself (first cutting gher hair half short) and bites on the arm of the ennemy. And she hangs on with all she's got while the bad guy is punching her head like crazy to escape... Surprising Sakura, really.

Then my "oh crap" moment would definitely be from my favorite anime: Nadia and the secret of blue water (Fushigi umi no Nadia) at the very last episod when everyone character you really care about is being torn in pieces... so outrageous :-( but i guess it's just the japanese way...

so long pals!