High School is a scary time for all of us: acne, grades, worrying about what your peers think about you and to be fair I could probably go on forever. However, I assume none of us had a high school experience like some of these anime characters have. So whether you are procrastinating on doing some homework or looking for something to watch while you're skipping school, here’s a great list of eerie education at it’s finest.
10) School Days
What at first sounds like a just a story of a love triangle, School Days is yet another anime that isn’t what it seems at first glance. The story starts with Makoto Itou, a school boy who notices pretty girl Kotonoha at school one day, immediately smitten. Friend and classmate Sekai takes notice of his attraction for Kotonoha and promises to help him get them together, for a price. This anime is filled with lies, deceit, sexual abuse and perhaps go as far as murder, what sounds like a modern day Shakespearean tragedy this story will keep you on your toes the deeper it gets.
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School Days cover art, showing off all the main characters. Little do we know what grusome horror awaits these students.
9) School-Live!
It is the job of the School Living club at Megurigaoka High School to make school life the best for its students, but things are not always as they seem. We soon learn that these adorable girls have a much bigger problem at hands, a zombie apocalypse. Poor Yuki Takeya is unable to perceive what is going on around them as she acts blissfully unaware of the zombies, how will these girls make it out alive if one of their club members can’t even comprehend the horrors at hand?
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Kurumi with her trusty shovel, ready to take on some zombies.
8) Ookami Kakushi
After moving to a new village with his father and sister, Hiroshi Kuzumi soon realizes the odd traditions that have been kept alive by local villagers. After winning the affection of a new classmate of his, and finding out many of his other classmates have mysteriously died he grows suspicious. All he’s told by his aloof classmate Nemuru is to “stay away from the old part of the village.”
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Nemuru Kushida as she dawns her reaping attire, which she uses to hide her identity when slaying humans.
7) High School of The Dead
In a zombie ridden town, Highschool of the Dead focuses on a group of highschoolers and their companions as a zombie outbreak starts to affect their school, and ultimately the world. The unique group goes on a quest to hopefully find their family members, beat the zombies with their impressive combat and hopefully stay safe. We watch as this unlikely group of heroes navigate the undead world around them and try their best to make it out unscathed.
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Rei and Takashi, two of the main characters from High School of the Dead. Rei is covered in blood.
6) Hell Teacher Nube
A fun, loving teacher who wants nothing more to protect his students and keep his secret hidden. What is his secret? Under his glove he has a monster hand and he is a trained exorcist that is ready to defeat any ghosts or demons that come near his students. A More lighthearted horror than some of the other entries on this list, Hell Teacher Nube deals with all kinds of supernatural entities but has enough of a humor value to give you a warm fuzzy feeling by the end of it.
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Cover art for Hell Teacher Nube, which perfectly shows off Nube's monster hand.
5) From The New World
In a future world, not much like our own, we meet Saki Watanabe, a girl whose psychic powers have awakened in her. She is thrilled to be able to attend Sage Academy, a school for psychic students where all her friends attend. But the happiness doesn’t last long as we see her and her friends realize the dark truths to their society and uncover the darkness around them.
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One of the antgonists, known as "Fiend" after being lured into a trap set by Saki and friends.
4) Boogiepop Phantom
5 years prior to the events of the story, serial killings started happening all over town. Now in the present, the urban legend that is Boogiepop is back, once you meet Boogiepop you are no longer seen again. Is Boogiepop real? Or is it all in our minds. And where do these highschool students end up when they disappear?
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Boogiepop Phantom cover art which features a close up on Boogiepop. She is very strange.
3) Corpse Party: Tortured Souls
After 9 students at Kisaragi Academy perform a “charm” of sorts so they can stay friends forever, an unruly evil gets released instead. Now, they are trapped in an alternate dimension of the school that once stood in their schools place. What awaits them in this new world is a bloodbath of their worst nightmares where they will be tortured beyond belief. Will they escape?
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The very gruesome cover art for Corpse Party: Tortured Souls. It really captures the gore that this series has.
2) Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
High School student Teiichi Niiya stumbles across the ghost of Yuuko Kanoe, a girl who died many years ago and is the topic for a popular ghost story that is often spread throughout the school. After noticing he can see and talk to her he decides to help her find out the truth of how she died, because she cannot remember. He begins a Paranormal Club at the school to help dive deep into her past and give her the peace she so desperately searches for.
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Teiichi after being pushed down the stairs by Yuuko’s ghost
1) Another
Kouichi Sakakibara just transferred to a new school. This new school sort of has a gloomy aura surrounding it, but what's even weirder is the girl with the eye patch that everybody ignores, even the teacher. Other students tell him not to befriend her but he does and suddenly his life is changed, as he feels he must get to the bottom of what's going on behind the scenes in class 3-3. Will him and his new friend be able to break the curse plaguing their classmates, or are they destined to meet the same fate?
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Mei and Kouichi, the two main characters, standing on the cover art. What could Mei's eyepatch be hiding?
