History WebAnimation / OnTheEdge

* ConMan: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVHvPJdL6Xk The beatiful con artist]]'' a couple of them running a scam posing as a matchmaking agency. One of the latest clients who complained in person was also matched with one, which was the last straw for Jiro.

* DropTheHammer: In some episodes, Shigeo uses a sledgehammer on his victims' limbs to keep them from moving or fighting back.
** In ''The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart'', Sofia brought a war hammer on the Attorney General to break his bones after slashing Kashima's guts out.
** The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XplGelo6MvI The ruthless Yakuza Togashi shoots his victims' legs and smashes them with hammers]]'' stars the titular "Hammer" Togashi, who is one of Kotoge's bosses whose preferred murder method is crushing his victims into a paste with his hammer after shooting or stabbing them in the knees.

''On The Edge''[[note]]ヒューマンバグ大学_闇の漫画, "Human Bug University Dark Manga" in Japanese[[/note]] is a manga dub channel created by Katsuo Hirayama. It features segments starring a specific character and their ways to deal with violent and extreme situations:

* PandaingToTheAudience: The ''Dream Hunter'' episode ''[[https://youtu.be/dy2mBE_KAu0 Panda BBQ]]'' features a dark example: Joji gets invited to eat panda sashimi by his friend Wan Maren, a fellow Dream Hunter from China.

-->-- '''Opening narration of the Toture segments'''

-->-- '''Opening narration of the Shigeo Ijuin episodes'''

* FlayingAlive: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnY49H3nOM Thinly slicing skin with a wood shaver - Yakuza style torture]]'', crooked pet shop owner Inukai is subject to having his skin scraped off with a wood planer after Kotoge's boss found out about his business. After the boss gave him the first scrape, he left the rest of the work to Kotoge.
* ForScience: The eponymous doctor from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb4DtBl0XA Immoral Doctor]]'' offered Kotaro Kurebayashi a large sum of money in exchange for donating his stillborn son's body for research, ''moments after the event''. Thankfully, his younger brother Jiro showed up and punched the crap out of the shady doctor.

* FakeCharity: The ''Punishment'' episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdMIRmvrFE0 Why did he punch the guys that were collecting donations for children?]]'' centers on Jiro getting a job at a charity to help sick children. However, he starts noticing something off with the charity. The higher-ups praised the winners and demoralized the losers. When he went back to the office to retrieve his wallet, he overhears the higher-ups talking to each other about how they're getting rich with the charity business and how people are too dumb to notice.

* CrapsackWorld: Almost every character in this series is a twisted killer, rapist, or fraudster or tortures people that commit said crimes. Those that aren't are victims of atrocious crimes.

* CrapsackWorld: Almost every character in this series is a twisted killer, rapist, or fraudster or tortures people that commit said crimes.

* FalseRapeAccusation: In the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYc2_njssRw Legendary Delinquent vs the madman that wants to murder Satake]]'', [[spoiler:Misa accused Hirofumi Satake of raping her and giving her HIV to her now-HIV-positive boyfriend to cover up her cheating, which sent him off to beat Hirofumi at the beginning of the episode.]]

** In the episode ''Spanish Donkey'', a delinquent tried to get off scott-free after leading a gang that killed an innocent man by claiming there was a "misunderstanding" and that the gang was actually targeting someone else, which resultled in the lower members taking the fall for his crime. Shigeo implements this same idea by acussing the delinquent of running his victim over with a car, which causes the delinquent to admit to his crime. To further rub salt in the wound, under the guise they themselves had a "misunderstanding", and caught the wrong guy, they kill him anyway.

* WhatADrag: In the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIRcTzB9lNc Torture Sommelier VS Kyogoku Clan Yakuza]]'', Shigeo tortures the criminal Suzuki for running over his client's wife and daughter with his boat by chaining him to a boat and dragging him through dirty waters, occasionally stopping to make him crash into spiky blocks in the boat's sides, then finishing the bastard off by crashing the boat into him.

* DemonHead: In most episodes, Shigeo's clients, who are often either distraught or traumatized from the hell they've endured from their attackers, obtain faces resembling an oni when they're finished explaining their stories.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The ''Torture'' series, espescially episodes that star Shigeo, more often than not make references to the Devil, Hell, or demons. It is explained in ''The homeless past of the torture sommelier'' that this is primarily due to Shigeo's outlook on the world. His philosophy is that some people judge others and look down on them to feel better about themselves, and that when they begin doing heinous crimes, the devil within them comes out, including even in his own clients. It is for this reason that he considers himself "The Devil".

* RuleOfSymbolism: The ''Torture'' series, espescially episodes that star Shigeo, more often than not make references to the Devil, Hell, or demons. It is explained in ''The homeless past of the torture sommelier'' that this is primarily due to Shigeo's outlook on the world. His philosophy is that some people judge others and look down on them to feel better about themselves, and that when they begin doing heinous crimes, the devil within them comes out, including even in his own clients.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The ''Torture'' series, espescially episodes that star Shigeo, more often than not make references to the Devil, Hell, or demons. It is explained in ''The homeless past of the torture sommelier'' that this is primarily due to Shigeo's outlook on the world. His philosophy is that some people judge others and look down on them to feel better about themselves, and that when they begin doing heinous crimes, the devil within them comes out.

** ''The Scavenger's Daughter'' makes a reference to the earlier episode ''Death by a Thousand Cuts'' when Shigeo tears the thugs' flesh off with a pair of red-hot pliers.
** ''Crucifixion'' also makes a reference to the episode ''Ana-Tsurushi: Hanging upside down in feces'' when Shigeo subjects a random criminal to the latter episode's titular punishment, adding poisonous snakes to the mix this time.
** In ''The most ancient torture known to man'', Shigeo and Rukawa break a criminal's bones as they fit him into a wheel, referencing the episode ''Breaking Wheel''.
** ''Disembowelment'' shows Shigeo watching over a roaring brass bull in which a delinquent is cooking to death, referencing the earlier episode ''The Bull of Phalaris''.
** The opening to ''Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza'' [sic] has a stalker having his waist squeezed under a rope, referencing the episode ''The Guord Torture'' [sic].
** The opening to ''Fast shooting duel'' has Shigeo and Rukawa put a burning hot pot over the drunk driver's head for running over his client's 7-year-old daughter, referencing the episode ''The Burning Pot''.

* DrunkDriver: The opening to the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mecmuIcb1Ag Fast shooting duel]]'' starts with one who ran over a 7-year-old girl and took his car to the scrapyard to hide the evidence.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4L08lINY5E Torture Sommelier vs Elite Yakuza of the Kyogoku Clan]]'': The episode's client Goro Oshima found out his daughter Haruko was raped and then burned alive. Then he turned to Shigeo after the cops took too long to catch the perpetrator, whom Godai reveals was a former Kyougoku-gumi member named Tatsuo Fujioka, who was excommunicated for being a chronic druggie.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: A lethal example: the client's daughter in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN-AEMNsNsI Force Feeding Acidic Waste Water]]'' died after her boss forced her to chug a ''whole bottle'' of tequila and left her laying on the pavement.