The Boy of Death - Recommendations

• Web (12 eps)
• 2023

From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales. 

• Music Video (24+ eps)
• 2020 - ?

Vocaloid composer DECO*27 and The Caligula Effect game director Takuya Yamanaka launched a series of anime music videos called "Milgram," named after Stanley Milgram's famous social psychology experiments. The premise of the music project is that the characters are all killers, and their stories are revealed through songs. After each "round" of music videos, the audience is encouraged to "judge" the killers by deciding whether or not they can "forgive" them for their crimes.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2020

The series follows a group of historic writers (all based on real people) who use their special abilities to rescue books that have been cursed by the “Taints,” an evil force. While its premise is fantastical, the series’ core focus will be on its characters, some of whom you may recognize, including Ryunosuke Akutagawa and H.P. Lovecraft.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2021

The aforementioned Ai scored a “Wonder Egg” from a gachapon machine at a deserted arcade. But when Ai falls asleep and a girl (!) emerges from her Wonder Egg, the worlds of dreams and reality begin to collide. And it’s all connected.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2013

Pastor Sung, the beloved shepherd to his rural flock, finds himself under the thumb of Elder Choi, an unscrupulous man who manipulates him into swindling the villagers out of the money they’re to receive for a relocation project that involves the village being flooded to make way for a new dam. Realizing that Sung and Choi are not only stealing from the villagers, but putting them in peril, the warnings of a local outcast Min-chul fall on deaf ears. The villagers have come under the spell of these trusted men of God. But Min-chul will not be silenced. When his daughter is put in harm’s way, against all odds, Min-chul unleashes hell on the fakes.

• OVA (12 eps)
• 1991 - 1993

What if dragons existed, hidden in plain sight, magically disguised as the boys next door? The Ryudo brothers seem like typical neighbors, but they hide a mystical secret. They are ancient dragons pledged to protect humanity from evil. Now, as mankind drives itself to extinction, the brothers answer the call of their destiny. Firebreathing dragons once more roam free, and the Earth is transformed into a world of enchantment! 

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2021

The official music video for the Vocaloid song Arandano, by the producer NILFRUITS.

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2020

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2011

Unflinching in its depiction of violence, The King of Pigs begins moments after the brutal murder of a woman at the hands of her husband, a once-successful businessman, Hwang Kyung-mi (Oh Jeong-se, The Unjust), and flashes back to his school days and the abusive events that have shaped his life and that of his estranged fellow classmate Jung Jong-suk (Yang Ik-june, Always Behind You). As school boys, both men were considered part of a lower class of student known as “pigs.” Pitted against the affluent, upper-class “dogs,” the “pigs” hope an end to the abuse will come in the form of transfer student Kim Chul (Kim Hye-na, Flower Island), a rebel who will show the cowering students how to fight fire with fire.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2002

Hajime Shiroishi is a disturbed, troubled boy. He is bullied endlessly by his classmates, betrayed by those he calls friends, and privy to the bizarre sexual exploits of his parents; and to top it all off, he can’t cope with the fact that the idea of violence excites him thoroughly. As each day passes, Hajime finds himself slipping more and more into madness and the rage within him builds. It is only a matter of time before he snaps and becomes who he was meant to be: the ruthless and deranged Ichi the Killer...