Dementia Animes

Lain Iwakura, an shy and introverted 14-year-old, is one of her school's many girls to receive a troubling email from her classmate Chisa Yomoda—the very same Chisa who committed suicide only recently. Lain has neither the ability nor the knowledge to manage even basic technology; but when the technophobe opens the document, it leads her straight into the Wired, a virtual realm of communication networks close to what we know as the internet.Lain's world is turned upside down as she starts to discover mysterious mysteries one after the other.
Mysterious people called the Men in Black start appearing everywhere she goes, posing their questions and somehow knowing more about her than even she does. With the increasingly blurring lines between reality and cyberspace, Lain is plunged into more strange and disturbing occurrences where identity, consccousness, etc.Published by Chiaki J.Konaka, whose other works include Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain is a collection of psychological avant-garde mysteries that follows Lain as she makes critical decisions that will impact both the real world and the Wired. In closing one world and opening another, only Lain can know the sense of their existence.

The 365-day animation consists of a series of 8760 pictures, all different shapes and colours, hand-drawn in 365 days by the director every day. This is the ultimate analog approach taken by the digital-era abstract animated film maker.

A man whose true name and origin are both unknown is the enigmatic, yellow-masked Storyteller. He appears at dusk where kids assemble and recite eerie tales based on Japanese urban legends, which his young audience eerily eats up to. The Storyteller, however, is no ordinary tale teller. To add visuals to his already demented narrative, he introduces a kamishibai, a typical paper-scrolling device.A series of short horror stories, Yami Shibai begins with a bachelor who immediately senses a malevolent glare being pressed into him after moving into a new apartment.
A single talisman rests on his ceiling, but he has no way of knowing that it is one of the few safeguards which separates him from a boundless pit of suffering. -- story becomes more disturbing, more disgusting, and more sickening than the last one as the audience of the Storyteller finds themselves drawn into the twisted world of his words.

It is the year 2010 on the planet of cats where lies Meguro City, a megalopolis entirely run by the Catty & Co super-corporation. This global empire's sinister power reaches out malignantly throughout the feline world. A carefree, one-year-old kitten, Tamala wants to escape this cruel world and board her spaceship in search of her original home.

Nishi is reconnecting with his high school sweetheart, Myon, after watching her hop on a subway at the last second and seeing her ankle crushed between the doors. Still very much in love with Myon, Nishi is shocked to hear that she's engaged with another man. Nishi agrees to meet Myon's fiancé in the Yakitori restaurant of her family, but Yakuza members storm the joint and kill Nishi when he attempts to stop them from raping Myon.Nishi, who is now dead, wakes up and encounters an ever-shaping god who mocks him for dying. The god asks Nishi to go through a portal and vanish from life, which Nishi refuses, instead opting to run past the god and recover.
With a new outlook on life and experience of how the Yakuza will attack him, Nishi kills one of the Yakuza with his own weapons, fleeing with Myon and her sister in a stolen car.Acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa's debut movie, Mind Game's constantly changing visuals tell a tale of living one's life without regrets which is unlike any other.

Poputepipikku takes ridiculous comedy up to 11 with its references to pop culture and surreal hilarity. For two bonafide protagonists of high school girls, Popuko's short and incredibly quick to rage, and Pipimi's tall and unshakably cool, they throw genres against the wall and don't hesitate to see what sticks. Parody is mixed with suspense, action, crudeness, and the ultimate aim of being a true anime.

If you don't want to make any friends like Nobuaki Kanazawa, it can be tough transitioning to a new school. But soon, when his class receives a text from someone named "The King," the explanation for his antisocial conduct becomes apparent. There are rules for the "King's Game," and all class members must participate. Those who fail to play will receive a deadly penalty if they leave halfway or don't obey an order within the allotted 24-hour time.Having previously played the game, and watching others around him die, Nobuaki is trying to alert his clueless classmates. Unfortunately, after the King's game declares its first losses, they just believe him.
Nobuaki, trapped in a horrible situation with no hope of escape, has a choice: to place his own life above those around him, or to do what he could before to save his classmates.

Destiny is an ever-spinning wheel for the Takakura family, pointing vigorously in its direction with equal waves of joy and sorrow before ticking on to the next wishmaker. Since their parents gone, the Kanba and Shouma twin brothers live alone with their beloved little sister Himari, whose bad health can not decline any longer.On the day that Himari is allowed to leave the hospital briefly, her brothers take her out to the aquarium to celebrate where her abrupt collapse brings out the supposed fate of the family. Nevertheless, when a penguin hat from the aquarium's souvenir shop inexplicably revives Himari, the hand of fate begins to tick faithfully forward.
With her remarkable recovery, however, comes a cost: there is a new presence within her body, whose reason for holding her destiny at bay sends the boys on a wild goose chase for the elusive "Penguin Drum." In their quest, the boys will have to follow the threads of fate leading from their own surprising history and into the lives of other wishmakers fighting for the Penguin Drum, all hoping to do so.

Idol party J-pop CHAM! Has been entertaining its fans for the last two years. Unfortunately all good things have to come to an end and CHAM! One of its members, Mima Kirigoe, will leave the party to pursue her career as an actress. While Mima's option is met with a mixed response, she hopes that her fans will continue to back her up.Nevertheless, after her departure from the party, Mima's life begins to change dramatically. She takes on a role in a crime drama show, trying to shed her pop-idol face, and her career as an actress slowly becomes more demanding and exhausting for both Mima and her manager, Rumi Hidaka.
To add to Mima's increasing frustration, an obsessive fan who is unable to admit that Mima is no longer an innocent idol starts to harass her; a new secret website starts to impersonate her life in detail; and CHAM! Despite her it also appears to be doing well.Each disturbing development, one by one, drives Mima to become increasingly unhinged and unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy.

The notorious Shounen Bat (Lil' Slugger) terrorizes Musashino City residents. The attacker, spinning around on his rollerblades and running people down with a golden baseball bat, appears difficult to apprehend. His first victim, Tsukiko Sagi, the well-known but timid character designer, is accused of orchestrating the attacks. Believed only by her stuffed pink anthropomorphic cat, Maromi, Tsukiko is only one of several victims of Shounen Bat's.As Shounen Bat continues his implacable assault on the area, detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa begin investigating the attacker's identity.
Nevertheless, growing numbers of people fall prey to the infamous golden bat, and the assailant's news starts to spread throughout the area. When chilling rumors circulate among adults and children alike, fear begins to set in.Can the two investigators uncover the truth behind Shounen Bat, or does the fear get to them first?

The dream world can be an amazing insight into the subconscious, revealing one's deepest wishes, ambitions, and memories that have been repressed. One ambitious tech lab has created the "DC Mini," a tool with the ability to dig into other people's dreams. Atsuko Chiba and Kosaku Tokita worked hard to develop this technology, aiming to use it to examine patients 'minds thoroughly and to help them heal their psychological disorders.Nevertheless, getting access to a person's darkest corners comes with enormous responsibility. The DC Mini could be used in the wrong hands as a means of psychological warfare and trigger mental breakdowns in targets minds.
If this technology is stolen and people start behaving differently around them, Atsuko and Kosaku realize they are facing a big problem on their hands. Enlisting the assistance of Officer Konakawa, who was undergoing this experimental therapy, they look for their mental terrorist in both the true and dream worlds.

The planet stands on the verge of catastrophe in the year 2015. Humanity's last hope rests in the hands of God, a special entity under the United States, and their Gospels, giant computers capable of destroying the Angels that are heralding the destruction of Earth. Gendou Ikari, the organisation's president, is searching for compatible pilots who can synchronize with the Gospels and understand their true potential. Talented personnel are Misato Katsuragi, Head of Operational Operations, and Ritsuko Akagi, Chief Scientist, to assist in this defensive effort.
For the first time in years, meeting his father, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari's ordinary life is irreversibly changed when he is whisked away into the depths of Nerv and into a frightening new destiny; he has to become the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01 with the fate of humanity on his shoulders.Written by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a heroic tale of a young, legendary child. Yet as this psychological drama unfolds, ancient secrets start bubbling to the surface underneath the big picture ...

It happened quite unexpectedly, without any warning-all the memories of all the people on Earth were swept away as if by a sudden storm. One man goes on a journey of salvation and hope, through a ruined America, in a post-catastrophic Earth inhabited entirely by savages without knowledge of their past civilization.

In the summer of 1983, Keiichi Maebara had just moved to the peaceful little village of Hinamizawa, and soon became inseparable friends with schoolmates Rena Ryuuguu, Mion Sonozaki, Satoko Houjou and Rika Furude. Underneath their seemingly idyllic existence, however, lurks darkness.Keiichi learns about the local legends surrounding her as the village prepares for its annual festival. To his surprise, he learns that in recent years there have been many murders and disappearances in the area, and that they all seem to be associated with Oyashiro, the patron god of the festival and the area.
Keiichi attempts to inquire about these events with his new mates, but they are suspiciously quiet and fail to give him the answers he wants. When more and more strange things happen, he wonders what else his friends could hide from him, and whether he can trust them at all.When madness and fear begin to take root in the heart of Keiichi, he stumbles straight into the mysteries at work in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni , a tale told through several arcs.