Princess Tutu (anime)/Nightmare Fuel

Oh, come on, the series is called Princess freaking Tutu! And the first season was interesting, but kinda fluffy, so there isn't possibly any room for Nightmare Fuel in the second, right? How bad can it get?

Turns out, Pretty bad.

Warning: the majority of the more disturbing scenes take place in the second season, so spoilers will probably abound.


 * Perhaps the creepiest scene in the entire series is when Rue, after, comes "home" to a slightly too-friendly . He wraps his arms around her waist, and talks to her about . While he cuddles her hand, she . She's about to when he murmurs, "When you  She
 * Then there's the last two episodes, where . Their chant of "" starts out unsettling and gets worse the more it's repeated.
 * Not only do Pique, Lilie and Mr. Cat suffer this fate, but a quick scan of the crowd in the finale shows ‘’everyone’’ did. Every minor character  They weren't even aware of it.
 * Who could forget Drosselmeyer, the gleeful master of tragedy who ? His startling appearances adds to the creepiness of his slow disintegration from narrator/weird commentary guy to malicious writer-god.
 * Then there's Fakir's backstory. Those ravens that seem ever-present whenever battles or foreshadowing's afoot? The ones that congregate on rooftops and are generally unnoticed? The townspeople sort of know, but mostly ignore the "outbreak" of ravens that has apparently lasted for nine years.
 * The scene in the cemetery where Rue finds out just what
 * The fact that  Thank god Fakir turned out to be a Spanner in The Works, or this would've been a depressing finale.
 * Drosselmeyer's clockwork world, full of clown-like puppets and nothing else. When Princess Tutu is taken there, even the story stops, and he simply makes her dance for him as a puppet and tries to force her into a Sadistic Choice.
 * The music used when Drosselmeyer is angry or up to something sinister. The latter's heard in episode 25 when.
 * Episode 24 has the . Rue and Tutu try to stop him but he shoulders on past, cawing and flying freely to his doom.

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