Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,510
edits
Darker and Edgier/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions
BOT: Changing the link(s) to the category page for "Yandere" to point directly to the trope page for "Yandere" instead.
No edit summary |
(BOT: Changing the link(s) to the category page for "Yandere" to point directly to the trope page for "Yandere" instead.) |
||
Line 30:
** ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' is also a good example, thanks to emulating the above show.
* In-universe example in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'': Renge's first appearance has her making a video where the normally-cheery members of the club become darker personae, e.g. the [[Keet]] becoming a callous bully. It sells well enough to take the club out of debt.
* ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]'' seems to follow a zig-zag pattern with this trope and [[Lighter and Softer]]. The series started fairly light hearted, and comical, up until the chapter where Ultimo, the embodiment of good, beats up an evil doji into a rather nighmarish pulp while ''smiling.'' Then they threw in the main character's best friend turning into a [[
* Once in [[The Seventies]], there was a short shonen manga by Kazumasa Hirai and Hisashi Sakaguchi. Its name was ''Wolf Guy'', and it was about the adventures of young werewolf Akira Inugami and his [[Hot Teacher]] Akiko Aoshika. Decades later, Yoshiaki Tabata and Yugo Yuuki (the authors of [[Akumetsu]]) took the basic concept of this manga and re-made it into a seinen story named ''[[Wolf Guy|Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' - which is full of Gorn, [[Fan Disservice]], etc. Inugami gets almost killed several times, Aoshika-sensei is almost completely broken in all senses, and [[Big Bad]] Haguro Dou goes from a mere Yakuza heir to one of the most despicable [[Complete Monster]]s in manga.
* ''AD Police'', the spin-off of ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'', is darker, more violent and adds some psychological spins to the original series concept. The TV spin-off they produced to this spin-off a decade later surprisingly was [[Lighter and Softer|closer in tone]] to the original Bubblegum Crisis.
| |||