The anime world is usually vibrant, cool, and thrilling, so it would be worth experiencing the fictional world. However, not all anime worlds are worth venturing into because of the darkness that sometimes accompanies them.
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Heroes? Villains? These anime say it’s not that simple. Step into stories where morality bends, motives clash, and judgment is yours alone.
Also, there are some anime worlds where survival seems impossible even if you trained hard enough, find a good mentor, and even stumble upon a power-up. While there are some worlds where the good times outweigh the bad, there are others where grief and death are constant companions that permeate the plot. Here is a list of anime worlds that will break you and won’t survive.
10Attack on Titan
The Titans Don’t Care Who You Are
Attack On Titan
Some anime offer you hope, but this series gives you a wall, a uniform, or a countdown to your funeral. No one is special, and the abnormal titans do not discriminate who to devour.
Even if you are brave enough to join the Survey Corps, we sawhow it ended for Sasha,Erwin, Hanges, and many others who were either crushed, devoured or bitten in half. However, staying in the wall is no better because Trost fell in minutes, and so did Wall Maria.
If you are still wondering whether you will make it, think about how many people had to kill friends who turned into titans or the noble sacrifice of soldiers against the Beast Titan. In the same vein, can anyone carry the weight of thousands of deaths on their conscience like Eren and keep going?
9Tokyo Ghoul
A City That Feeds On The Weak.
Tokyo Ghoul
This anime is a slow, merciless death sentence masquerading as an urban fantasy. You can’t walk home alone at night, nor will you hear the ghoul behind you, which means you are prey in the predator city if you are human.
Tokyo looks normal in the anime with its vibrant colors and bubbles, but beneath the surface aremonsters in human skin. People are haunted by their classmates, someone they just smiled at, and these monsters can smell your fear.
And even if you see them coming, what will you do? Ghouls are faster, stronger and hungry. Even if you are a ghoul, some humans haunt them too. Humans treat ghouls like animals, and ghouls treat humans like livestock.
8The Promised Neverland
You Escape It Or Feed It
The Promised Neverland
If you are older than 12, you have already passed the expiration date. The only people who are deemed worthy in this anime world are children raised on lies.
What makes this world a tragedy is that the children are loved and groomed until the age of 12, when they will be slaughtered, but under the pretense that they are adopted. However, they are sold as human meats for demons. Isabel, “the mum” who raises and loves the children, is a caretaker who keeps them for the monsters.
This world raises children like pigs for slaughter. Also, the world outside confinement is worse because it is just like trading a slaughterhouse for a war zone. This world is no place for the young because it is built on deception, and the children are doomed before they even know what it means to dream.
7Death Note
You Never Know Who Is Playing God
Death Note
People often say Yagami Light only kills criminals, as if that protects someone or makes the world safer. However, “criminal” is just another word for inconvenience for Light in the anime.
Speaking out, investigating, or getting too curious means interference with Light, which will only lead to death. This world is dangerous because there are no monsters to run from, and the justice system is a pen and note.
The smartest character, L, could not even outwit Light; ultimately, he lost. Also, do not think you are lucky if you stumble upon the Death Note. The note will make you a player in a game with rules you will never understand.
Shinigamis, like Ryuk, are just spectators who dropped the book to see what happens. They will let you spiral out of control and destroy the people you love; to them, it’s fun. We all saw how the fun turned out for Light.
6Chainsaw Man
Being Human Is A Liability
Chainsaw Man
This anime conjures a gory image with its mercilessmonsters that can wreak havocas they want. You can train very hard and still die a joke in this anime world.
Characters like Himeno, Aki, and many hunters casually die because the devils they face are very strong. Is it the Gun devil, who can kill thousands of people in minutes, or the Eternity devil, who can trap people in a time loop until you lose your sanity, that can be easily defeated?
In this world, nowhere is safe because most devils are dangerous and violent. While certain wars usually have a winner, Chainsaw Man does not, and civilians are just numbers.
Guts Survive, But It Is Not Something To Aspire To
In this anime world, people do not die with dignity; they are either dismembered, gutted, or defiled. While people think Guts' existence is proof that the strong can survive in Berserk, it is not that easy.
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Also,Guts is strongenough to survive because he has nothing to lose. Guts has been haunted by demons every night and betrayed by someone he trusts. However, he keeps going because revenge is all he has left.
There are also nighttime monsters, so people can only strive during the day and live in terror at night. And even if one manages to survive physically, the emotional trauma of losing loved ones is a torment.
4Hellsing Ultimate
There Are No Rules, only Carnage
Hellsing Ultimate
The world of Hellsing Ultimate is punishment for humans because they are prey. People are eliminated if they are in the way of the strong and the holy killers and Nazi vampires that permeate the series is no place for any ordinary human.
The church is not a sanctuary, and places like the Iscariot organization do not protect the innocents; they eliminate them if they are inconvenient. Father Anderson will offer prayer to the needy and drive a bayonet through their hearts to ensure they are not monsters.
Even Seras Victoria, who became a monster, could not survive hell in the anime world. Humans are like dust in the corner of a wall between monsters.
The Monsters Have Faces
Parasyte: The Maxim
At the beginning of the invasion, the government can’t help you, the police are guessing, and the media is confused by the tumultuous occurrences. By the time anyone figured out what was happening, dozens of people were already dead.
The Parasites are worm-like aliens who invade the hosts’ brains to take over their bodies. The parasites quickly learned how to blend in better and adapt to humans. In other words, they wear human faces, mix with people and kill when they want to.
So, what can humans do? Pray or be hopeful? Even Shinichi, who has Migi, a parasite, as his companion, lost everything— his mother, his humanity and even the ability to cry. In Parasyte, the mind will crack first before the body gives out.
2Jujutsu Kaisen
Gojo Will Not Save You
Jujutsu Kaisen
Junpei was a regular kid, bullied and depressed until he met Mahito. He did not pick a fight or ask for pain or manipulation but was chosen by chance. Junpei was turned into a monster like many other civilians in Shibuya.
Being a civilian or a bystander means nothing in this world of curses, because your life can end like it means nothing.Even strong sorcerers like Nanami, Nobara, Geto, Yaga and many others could not survive the tumultuous world of Jujutsu Kaisen.
Gojo could have been the safety net, but then he was sealed in the Shibuya arc, and later in the manga, Sukuna slashed him in half. The world of Jujutsu Kaisen kills people, whether innocent or sorcerers, and most of the time, it turns people into monsters.
1Demon Slayer
Nighttime Is A Death Sentence
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
The Demon Slayer Corp does not come knocking with a letter of acceptance; they usually show up after a demon has already wreaked havoc. Tanjiro only joined the corps after his entire family was murdered by a demon, and he was only left with his sister,Nezuko, a half-demon.
In the world of demons, nowhere is safe after sunset. The demons do not need reasons to prey on and kill humans. Even strong demon slayers are not invincible. Kyojuro Rengoku died in the Mughen Train arc, and Tengen lost an arm and nearly lost his life.
In the end, many of the demon slayers died to save humanity. In other words, you are either a human waiting to be devoured by a demon, a demon slayer who isn’t sure which day will be the last or a demon who cannot walk in sunlight. Perhaps the lucky ones are the dead.
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