Chaos;Head
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Takumi is a reclusive otaku who wants nothing more than to be left alone to play online games and watch anime. He only attends the minimum necessary to pass his classes, and rarely leaves his cramped room except to purchase the newest figurines. One evening, while Takumi is chatting online with his friend "Grim," a stranger called "Shogun" joins the channel and, after "Grim" leaves, posts a series of disturbing photographs depicting a man impaled to a wall with metal stakes. The following day, Takumi is horrified when he wanders into an alley and once again sees Shogun’s images – but this time, the gruesome scene is reality. From then on, Takumi sees the world through a new set of eyes; imaginary delusions meld with reality, and he isn't sure who he can trust. With suspicions and confusion at every turn, Takumi must struggle to determine what's going on - but most importantly, whose eyes are those eyes?
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Serial Experiments Lain
Alt titles: Lain
- TV (13 eps)
- 1998
"I have only abandoned my body, I still live here" - are the words emailed to friends of Chisa, several days after her death by suicide. As Lain delves deeper into the world of the "Wired" (also known as the internet), the line between it and reality becomes more and more unclear. Close the world, open the nExt.
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4 people think you'd like this because...
add recUnusual occurances stretch the boundries between real and unreal. The more events unfold, the more you question. What is the real story?
Both anime have a lead character who is obcessed with the online world and begin to have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality.
Both animes have an anti-social main character with questionable multiple-personality issues. Each anime questions the line between reality and fantasy, oftentimes creating somewhat abstract scenes as it stretches the boundaries of reality. I think if you liked one, you'd definitely like the other.
These shows blur the reality between the real world and a cyber world. You will frequently be asking youself whats going on, but the mystery is something you must wait to the end to have fully explained.
The story is quite deep and involved, and might turn a lot of people off, but if you enjoy one, you should like the other.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Alt titles: When They Cry - Higurashi
- TV (26 eps)
- 2006
Maebara Keiichi, an ordinary high-school boy, has transferred to a new school in Hinamizawa, a small rural village. At the outset everything seems peaceful and Keiichi becomes friends with a nice group of schoolgirls with whom he spends many idle summer afternoons. Suddenly violence encroaches upon the blissful peace of the village and Keiichi becomes entangled in an endless cycle of fear and death. The inconsistent, but inevitable horrors of Hinamizawa are told and retold becoming an endless and inescapable nightmare of insanity. Will it end even if the mystery of Hinamizawa is solved?
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add recBoth anime have cute characters surrounded by a dark mystery, are capable of grusome, evil things and characters which drown in acute paranoia. The two are very, very similar.
Both Higurashi and Chaos;Head have a deep story which will keep you confused for a while slowly giving away details to make sense of the whole situation. In both anime, you usually see the story from the main characters perspective where he is the least informed of the characters about what is happening and later on becomes the hero. Also, they both share the theme where the characters go a 'bit' insane because of psycological reasons.
Both share similar psychological aspects and do have some nice twists and turns. The story(plot) themselves aren't exactly very similar but the animation on both are amazing, the mystery elements on both are great and they are both titles that can be interesting throughout, can get you thinking and leave you with things to think about.
Although Higurashi is ALOT more gorey than Chaos, both these animes are the same when it comes to horror filled delusions. Both main male characters seem to suffer under paranoid delusions. Murder, unconceivable deaths, and two faced secretive characters make up these dark, and sometimes confusing animes.
Paranoia Agent
- TV (13 eps)
- 2004
In the streets of Tokyo, a new menace has surfaced: Shounen Bat, a young boy who wears golden roller skates and a baseball cap, and likes to whack people on the head with a golden baseball bat. These seemingly unconnected and random attacks soon become a police investigation... but after all is said and done, is there a pattern to this chaos?
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add recTwo shows with a mix of humor, the bizzarre, and the surreal that revolve around strange crime sprees.
To be honest, both series both have the premise of something ordinary to start of with...but eventually end up somewhere completely different from where you expected. The psycological aspect of both shows is rather interesting and will probably appeal to both audiences.
Both Paranoia Agent and Chaos;Head are thrillers with a seemingly untouchable villain with unknown motives or origin. Both shows are all about uncovering the thruth behind this person, before much more harm is done. If you liked this in one of these shows, you'll enjoy the other as well.
Welcome to the NHK!
Alt titles: NHK ni Youkoso!
- TV (24 eps)
- 2006
Tatsuhiro Sato is a university dropout and a "hikikomori" – a person suffering from social withdrawal. To Sato’s dismay, his self-imposed exile from the world is rudely interrupted when a mysterious girl knocks on his door. She has charged herself with the task of curing Sato of his hikikimori ways! Now, as new problems ranging from hentai games to internet suicide spring up, can Sato manage to overcome his hermit-like ways, or will the imaginary N.H.K conspiracy force him to remain a hikikomori forever?
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add recChaos;Head is a true mix of genres. When first starting to watch it, the male protagonist reminded me of the lead from NHK. The geeky, hikkikomori who is afraid of the outside world and relies on the pc to live out his existence.
NHK is probably more to peoples tastes as it stays within one genre, but if you're open minded and enjoy some action, I would say you should give Chaos;Head a whirl too.
Both of the main characters are hikkikomoris. In Welcome to the NHK, Sato meets a mysterious girl who helps him recover from being a hikkikomori. While in Chaos;Head, Takumi's sister tries to help him from his ways. But unlike Welcome to the NHK, where the plot continues to lead you on with Misaki helping Sato to not be a hikkikomori, in Chaos;Head the main plot is for Takumi to discover what's happening in the world. Anyways, I totally recommend both animes, Welcome to the NHK for those who like normal stories, and Chaos;Head for those who like a bit more action and supernatural stuff.
Boogiepop Phantom
- TV (12 eps)
- 2000
Strange things have been happening at a local high school... mysterious disappearances, strange powers and brutal murders all emerge amongst kids who, up till now, have been perfectly normal. Even the Shinigami (Angel of Death) herself has been sighted. What's happening? The answers lie in the mysterious creature known as Boogiepop...
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add recAside from the fact that Boogiepop Phantom is much more a cult-series than Chaos;Head, and the latter is definitely easier to digest, Chaos;Head and Boogiepop share their feeling of creepiness and thriller-like mystery surrounding a certain "untouchable person". If anything, Chaos;Head is like Boogiepop, but made accessible for a larger audience. Fans of either that are looking for something similar, but different on the heaviness, give this one a try.
