Body Horror/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

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** It's actually much more horrible than described here, because Tetsuo, while his body is growing horribly, actually ''crushes'' his girlfriend inside himself while screaming for somebody to save her. That detail alone can keep you from sleeping for many nights after watching this movie.

** The Akira transformation scene is satirized in an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' with Mrs Claus turning into a big octopus-like blob monster. Even the [[Gainax Ending]] is parodied by Santa shouting "My wife! What the Hell just happened to my wife?!"

* In ''[[Blood Plus|Blood+]]'' the entire Chiropteran outbreak is basically the epitome of this trope.

* In episode 14 of ''[[Thriller Restaurant]]'', Anko's wart takes control of her body and mind. It also manages to ''swap faces with the real Anko.''

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Mayuri Kurotsuchi's first introduction has him sever his arm and then regrow it. Thankfully it does end in a normal arm, but the images are disturbing enough to qualify. This was downplayed in the anime.

** Let's just say everything Mayuri does eventually devolves into this trope.

** The anime, in turn, has a scene in the second episode where Orihime's dead brother Sora gets eaten and transformed into a Hollow. Which didn't happen in the manga.

* ''[[Devilman]]'': Any creature you can find in this series counts, including the main character. Amorphous slimes fulls with eyes, fangs and tentacles and oozing vile fluids are the less nightmarish thing you will find.

* The manga ''[[Parasyte]]'' could be considered [[Seinen]] [[Body Horror]]. Alien parasites fall to Earth and infiltrate the brains of humans, effectively killing the host and turning the head into a shapeshifting monstrosity with a hunger for human flesh and enough intelligence to pass for human. A teenager spots one of the parasites entering through his arm, and ties it off before the parasite can reach the brain. Problem is, [[Evil Hand|now he's got an amoral shapeshifting entity where his right arm used to be...]]

* ''Everything'' by manga artist Junji Ito. He is especially well-known for ''[[Uzumaki]]'', a three-volume manga about a town that is "infested by the spiral," which manifests itself in various horrific ways. You will never look at a cinnamon roll the same way again.

** His manga ''[[Gyo]]'' might be a better example, since in ''Gyo'', the characters themselves remain conscious enough to ''realize'' what is happening to them. Also a classic example of [[It Got Worse]].

*** [[Schmuck Bait|"This hole...It was made for me!"]]

* The manga ''[[Franken Fran]]'' exists solely for this trope. In an early example, Fran is asked by a cop to look into a rash of severed limbs. She finds they're all from the same person, which seems impossible given there are far more than two arms and two legs in the pile... then she tracks them to the source. {{spoiler|It's a young woman whose body has a massive oversupply of stem cells, causing her to continuously grow limbs and organs - she is quite literally trapped in a gigantic, ever-growing tumor. Her parents took to hacking off the spare limbs to keep it under control.}} Oddly enough, that's one of the few chapters with a ''happy'' ending.

*** It should be noted that this wasn't what Fran ''intended''. It was a potential side effect Fran was attempting to fix, but she {{spoiler|tried to kill Fran, then stole and used the treatment before Fran could fix this problem.}} The series is ''big'' on [[Laser-Guided Karma]].

** A common aesop to each chapter is why exactly we don't do certain things, like trying to be more anatomically similar to anime characters (you basically need your entire skull redesigned and have to use silicon baths to keep your face from falling apart), ressurection (the person who died might not want to be revived), immortality (above) and superpowers (human bodies are not designed to maintain superman-level powers).

** An even better example might be Majin Buu's ability to pour himself down his victims throats.

** If you pay attention, Frieza's transformations weren't exactly comfortable. First his body gets swollen to ridiculous sizes at random intervals, then he has the spikes jutting out of his back and his skull elongating, then finally all of his skin shatters from his body like glass with long audible cracking.

** Broly full stop. Not only does his Legendary transformation literally erupt from underneath his skin, later during Bio-Broly, he turns into a gooey mutation.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has a few instances. Notably the [[Tear Jerker]] episode where {{spoiler|Tucker turns his daughter and her dog into a chimera.}}

** The resurrection of Trisha Elric at the beginning is a [[Came Back Wrong]] example of this trope, and is horror enough for an entire series, along with {{spoiler|Tucker accidentally turning himself himself a freakish humanoid chimera in an attempt to revive Nina}} and the return of Gluttony in the movie.

** The Kimimaro battle. Anyone who pulls out his own bones to fight is a shoo-in for this trope.

** Three words: Dead Soul Technique a.k.a. Kabuto's ability to take a human corpse and take control of it (he may also alter its appearance).

*** Speaking of Orochimaru—{{spoiler|Kabuchimaru}}. As in {{spoiler|Kabuto taking bits of Orochimaru's DNA and fusing it with his own}} to find out if he's capable of {{spoiler|resisting its growth}}. It was bad enough in the [http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-356/page017.html beginning], but now he {{spoiler|even has a ''snake'' growing out from ''the base of his spine''}}.

** {{spoiler|Danzo's arm}}. If it wasn't bad enough that it's implied to have {{spoiler|a human ''face'' grafted onto it}}, we see that it's also the living embodiment of {{spoiler|[[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]}}.

** Almost payback for Tyki's [[Body Horror]] infliction on Allen: He transforms rather gruesomely into a demonic knight thing that turned the Black Knight scary again. He now uses weird energy circle things to basically trounce his enemies left and right. It also seems to have a taste for blood.

** [http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/190/16/ This] is how Kanda spent his childhood. [[Freudian Excuse|That explains]] [[Jerkass|a lot]].

* ''[[Guyver]]'' has a number of examples, but perhaps the best two are Sho's initial bonding to the Guyver unit before it develops its "exoskeleton", and Aptom. Thanks to the experiments conducted on him, he can physically ''fuse'' with other living creatures, [[I'm a Humanitarian|absorbing them into his body]] to acquire their powers and repair his own injuries.

** And because Aptom is kind of a bastard, he tends to do this while the Zoanoids he's absorbing are ''still alive''.

* ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'': Yuuji finds out, that he {{spoiler|has the silver Tomogara, a giant knight, within him... By having it ''slowly'' crawl out of his body, while he's hovering in mid-air.}} The process is eventually stopped and reverted, but he suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] after it.

* As if poor [[Me and the Devil Blues|RJ]] didn't have enough to deal with, what with his only friends being [[Satan|Ike]] and [[Bonnie and Clyde|Clyde]], his hand starts developing extra fingers and later an ''extra hand''.

* ''[[Claymore]]'' thrives on this trope. If a Claymore overuses her powers, her body undergoes increasingly grotesque mutations until she finally loses control and becomes an "Awakened One", a monstrously powerful demon. Add to that the fact that every Awakened One is unique (Outside of identical twins) and you have a whole cesspool of this trope. Heck, just add the violence levels and the abilities some Claymores have developed just from ''coming close'' to awakening and you've got about as much as a series can handle.

** That doesn't add the fact that the halter tops they wear apparently conceal something so horrifying that it has yet to be shown in ''any'' format (And with all the gore that the series is fond of, ''not'' showing something is [[Serious Business]]). In fact, Claymores are the only women ever who can stop themselves getting raped by showing off their nude bodies. Some would have you believe the space between their breasts is a mass of open sores, others think it's a youma's head grafted there.

 

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