Curated category
Dark fantasy anime and manga
- Berserk: The Golden Age ArcBerserk: The Golden Age Arc arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 4th of February 2012, promising something the franchise had never attempted before: a…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)Ufotable announced the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in June 2018. Director Haruo Sotozaki and producer Hikaru Kondo led the project.
- Berserk (2016 TV series)Berserk, Kentaro Miura's sprawling dark fantasy manga, returned to Japanese television screens on the 1st of July 2016 with a new anime adaptation that…
- DevilmanDevilman is the manga series by Go Nagai that sent a 16-year-old reader named Nanase Ohkawa into a state of shock she never forgot, and eventually led her to…
- Berserk (manga)Berserk, the dark fantasy manga series created by Kentaro Miura, opens with a man born from the corpse of his hanged mother.
- Berserk (1997 TV series)Berserk, the 1997 anime television series, opens not with a hero's journey but with a survivor's rage. Guts, a lone mercenary warrior, is shown already…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no YaibaDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba began its life in Weekly Shonen Jump on the 15th of February 2016 as a quiet manga about a charcoal-selling boy whose family…
- Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan is a Japanese dark fantasy anime series that began as a manga by Hajime Isayama in 2009 and became, by nearly any measure, one of the most…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba , The Movie: Mugen Train" became the highest-grossing film of 2020. That year, COVID-19 had shuttered or reduced theaters…
- Jujutsu KaisenJujutsu Kaisen is a manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami that debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump on the 5th of March 2018, and went on to become…
- Puella Magi Madoka MagicaPuella Magi Madoka Magica arrived on Japanese television on the 7th of January 2011, and within weeks it had upended everything audiences thought they knew…
- Tower of GodTower of God begins with a boy named Twenty-Fifth Bam who has never seen the sky. He has spent most of his life in the darkness beneath a vast and mysterious…
- Black ButlerBlack Butler, the manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso, opens on a single night in Victorian-era London that changes everything.
- Attack on TitanAttack on Titan begins in the year 845, when two enormous humanoids punch through the outermost of three great circular walls and leave a boy named Eren…
- Fullmetal AlchemistFullmetal Alchemist began in a single magazine page published on the 12th of July 2001 in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, the monthly anthology put out by Square Enix.
- DororoDororo begins with a bargain no father should ever make. A powerful daimyo named Kagemitsu Daigo strikes a pact with 48 demons, offering them anything they…
- Fate/stay nightFate/Stay Night began not as a game but as a story Kinoko Nasu wrote in college with no particular destination in mind. He only completed what would become…
- Claymore (manga)Claymore is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi, and it opens on a world where the line between human and monster is drawn in…
- Blue ExorcistBlue Exorcist opens with a teenager pulling a sword from a scabbard - and discovering he is the son of Satan. Rin Okumura does not learn this quietly.
- Bastard!!Bastard!! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara, and it is named after its own irreverence.