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Anime is one of the most diverse art forms in entertainment.
There are series with wonderful highs, brutal lows, and everything in between.
Some series have a little bit of both, starting with light-hearted fun before quickly venturing into vicious territory.
There aren’t many moretwisted moments in animethan those with a quick, dark turn.
These turns are usually entirely without warning, stunning audiences with brutal events that nobody could have seen coming.
When Conny gets adopted, she accidentally leaves her toy behind at the orphanage.
Like good siblings, Emma and Norman go to return it,finding her lifeless bodyin the process.
It’s a sudden, horrific turn that lets everyone know exactly whatThe Promised Neverlandis in a single episode.
Through one simple spell,he kills over 100,000 enemy soldiersin less than 10 minutes.
It’s an insane,one-man-army momentthat truly defines Ainz’s place as the being above all within Yggdrasil.
It’s a deep anime with several powerful themes found throughout.
It’s arguablyDeath Note’sdarkest moment,as Light watches as Misora walks away to her inevitable death.
Lelouch jokes to Euphemia that if he asked her tocommit genocideagainst the Japanese, she would.
Goku Black is inherently a dark character, and not just because Black is in the name.
Zamasu used the Dragon Balls to swap bodies with Goku.
Subaru is walking through a field of snow when he sees a cute rabbit just ahead of him.
As he goes to pet it, it bites his hand clean off.
It gets worse from there, as a horde of rabbits swarms Subaru and eat him alive.
It’s an odd moment that’s almost hard to understand the first time it’s shown on screen.
Ponzu and Pokkle’s deaths in the series illustrate this darkness better than anything.
They’re twogood friends inHunter x Hunter,investigating the enigmatic country called NGL.
In a way, they find what they’re looking for when they discover the Chimera Ants.
Unfortunately, the Ants discover them as well.
Ponzu getsgunned down viciously,while Pokkle gets lobotomized while he’s alive and eaten soon after.
One of the biggest proponents of the horror inMade in Abyssis the White Whistle Bondrewd the Novel.
Unit-01 is no stranger to defeating humanity’s enemies, the Angels, but it handles Zereul differently.
