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Psychological Anime

Eden of the East - mystery, psychological, romance, amnesia, social-networking, society.

On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be called as "Careless Monday," does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then, 3 months later... Saki Morimi is a young woman currently in the United States of America on her graduation trip. But just when she is in front of the White House, Washington DC, she gets into trouble, and only the unexpected intervention of one of her fellow countrymen saves her. However, this man, who introduces himself as Akira Takizawa, is a complete mystery. He appears to have lost his memory. and he is stark naked, except for the gun he holds in one hand, and the mobile phone he's holding with the other hand. A phone that is charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash.

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Elfen Lied - drama, horror, psychological, romance, science fiction, amnesia, gore, multiple personality, mutants, superpowers, tragedy.

The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet..

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Higurashi: When They Cry - drama, horror, mystery, psychological, thriller, death, gore, harem.

On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as a full-fledged member of the "club," Keiichi and the gang plays all sorts of activities ranging from card and board games to hide-and-seek. But just as Keiichi was beginning to be assimilated in simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa. As Keiichi dives deeper into the mystery, he finds that his new found friends may not be all what they claim to be.

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Hell Girl - horror, mystery, psychological, supernatural, death, revenge, tragedy.

Somewhere in the vast sea of the Internet, there's a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear and drag whoever torments you into the inferno. Very little is known about the girl - all we know for sure is that she lives with her equally enigmatic grandmother, that three magical straw dolls accompany and serve her, and that whenever a posting on the Jigoku Tsushin moves her, she becomes the Jigoku Shoujo.

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Monster: horror, mystery, psychological, thriller, crime, historical, police.

Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, had it all: incredible skill at his work, a rich and beautiful fiancee, and a promising career at his hospital. However, after becoming disenchanted by hospital politics, he chose to save the life of a young boy who got shot in the head over the life of the mayor. As a result he lost the support of the hospital director, as well as his position in the hospital and his fiance. A short time later, the hospital director and the doctors that replaced him were murdered, and once again he was catapulted back onto the top. But as the chief suspect of the murders, Tenma did not get a easy life. As a matter of fact, it seems that the boy he saved was much more than he had appeared to be... Now to clear his name and to correct his past mistake, Tenma must get to the bottom of these and other murders, and investigate the truth of the Monster who is behind all of this.

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In most psychological thriller anime like Death Note and Code Geass, the weapons used are entirely fictional. Take for instance the Death Note or Geass, both are capable of giving the wielder of this weapon tremendous amounts of power and control. My fear factor usually doesn't change as most viewers are mature enough if they are watching these types of anime.

However, if you look at conventional weapons like guns, anime like Black Lagoon place a much higher gravity on the death by gunshot, but if you were to compare it to something like One Piece, a gun doesn't do much but devil's fruits do. Even swords, depending on the tone and mood may seem like a bloody blade with an edge for massacre or merely a stick.

Fictional weapons such as Zearth or the Evangelion's is not something I find scary as I'm fairly sure they do not exist, but for weapons that exist irl and especially when special dates etc are mentioned makes it way more scary although something you can't understand is even scarier. Anime like Monster and Higurashi proves this while in Elfen Lied everything are far too supernatural to make it really scary.