Will any Japanese horror manga or anime be as terrifying as Lovecraftian horror?
Will any Japanese horror manga or anime be as terrifying as Lovecraftian horror?
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Joseph Adams
Uzumaki was lovecraftian horror.
Lucas Howard
In some ways Japan's non-horror creations have already become that terrifying.
Joshua Long
Eh, body horror is part of Lovecraft, but not the defining characteristic.
Luis Watson
Quite impossible as Lovecraft's horror is mainly driven by metaphors for the things that he fears. Namely inferior races, half breeds, existential dread, people who are more successful, and even air conditioners
Lovecraft is the amalgamation of a giant pussy and a literary expert.
It's hard to top him without being an even more pathetic of a cunt
Ryan Jones
the best lovecraft story is the one where this guy finds out his family was cursed by a dickass wizard to always die when they hit some age and there's this big desperate attempt to find a way to break the curse only for it to turn out the wizard was just breaking into their homes and murdering them the old fashioned way.
the one howard wrote about how ir conditioners made him paranoid they'd be used by zombies to keep their corpse-bodies fresh was also pretty good
Bentley Johnson
lol
What's the title of that wizard one? Haven't read it.
I do believe that Innsmouth is his best work because holy fuck. It was gushing in racism and pure loathing over the fact that people can appetite going race mixing.
I was told he wrote it precisely after being traumatized of finding out that he has an Indian ancestry. What a pathetic cunt
Jayden Jones
AHHHHH KUROMAN SAMA HELP
Julian Reed
>lovecraft
>terrifying
not enough onionfaced wojaks in the world
Jackson Morgan
i like lovecraft a lot but constantly praising him as the be-all and end-all of horror is so reddit
Lucas Parker
Is this picture supposed to convey the terror of Lovecraftian mythos? Damn, a giant tentacle monster thing in the sea, it's not like the kraken folklore predates that by a few centuries or anything.
Thomas Lewis
i actually agree. they never died or anything. just became something new.
Jackson Richardson
Nah, man
He definitely is ahead of his time. Horror at his time were often hack and slash thrillers and he wrote a letter condeming Weird Tales for those nonsensical horrors that stops being scary after you closed the book.
Hell, Lovecraft literally started his own school of thought called Cosmicism
Nigga has a LOT of insecuries on his shoulders
Jayden Baker
Lovecraft was never terrifying . He made some interesting allusions and stuff but thats it.
Luke Reyes
>and even air conditioners
Korean anime is a thing now
Juan Fisher
>I TURNED MYSELF INTO A REAL GIRL MORTY
Julian Jones
>Namely inferior races,
Reminder that this doesn't just include muh blacks but also the welsh, the irish, and italians.
Jack Torres
I don't know if it was the prose or whatever, very short story but Nyarlathotep gets to me, especially today.
Hudson Cruz
Some already have, Evangelion comes to mind.
Jason Morgan
>oh no looking at it is making me go insane
if they outsourced even more we might get that level of QUALITY. won't be long.
Brayden Bell
Mieruko chan's monsters are scarier than lovecraft, but their story is boring.
Parker Wilson
Evan Gray
>Will any Japanese horror manga or anime be as terrifying as Lovecraftian horror?
Yes. It will happen the day that Saya no Uta gets adapted into an anime. Seriously anons, check this shit out. It's written by Urobutcher, and is one of the most dark and intense things I've ever read.
Innsmouth is good, but my favorite is the Dunwich Horror.
Asher White
Uzaki-chan is as terrifying
Parker Lewis
OOOOHHH NOT THE PURPLE LIGHT AND TENTACLES
I AM GOING INSANE
HELP ME NIGGERMAN
Parker James
Urasekai LNs were pretty spooky and trippy enough for me
Easton Young
>the welsh, the irish, and italians.
Based
Christopher Murphy
People who draw shit like this don't understand that the entire idea of the old gods is that they are incomprehensible beings
Your mind would not be able to comprehend what you're looking at and would be driven to madness
It's like if a 4th dimensional shape suddenly appeared in our universe, it wouldn't make any sense
Chase Hill
you never read uzamaki huh
Jace Edwards
You are correct but at the same time wrong
Cthulhu is a priest for the Great Old Ones and many layers below the Old Gods
Secondly, he is famous precisely because, unlike Azathoth and Shub Niggurath, his image was actually made concrete and not out of methaphors
Draco was the first cosmic diety to have an actual discernable image however, he hardly appeared on the story
On the other hand, Madness of Cthulhu featured a scene where one of the cast literally rammed a boat into the Great Old One's head and split it so bad he fell back to sleep
Guy went insane of course and Cthulhu is going to rise again
Parker Cruz
>Niggurath
>Nigger wrath
Jayden Gray
Japan fucks with this stuff all the time, they do it in their own way which I don't mind really it's not hurting anyone
Owen Stewart
I never found Lovecraft terrifying. I just like the lore.