The Executioner and Her Way of Moments has many moments horror that will make even seasoned stomachs curl.
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- The opening of the anime seems dramatic and cool with its visuals... and it also shows Menou's desiccated corpse along with her flesh and eyes being brought back gradually over top of it when she is "resurrected".
Volume 1: Thus, She is Reborn
- Menou's flashback to her hometown being "blanched." It isn't violent or gory, but the image of everyone turned to salt is an eerie image. What's worse is that the Lost One responsible for everything did it on accident, and reduced to moaning and sobbing things like "I didn't mean to..." in horror, so in shock that all she can do is helplessly try dusting the remains of people's bodies off of young Menou.
- When Flare kills the Lost One, her Guiding Force reacts by absorbing the "salt" around her body and transforming it into a massive, eerie titan in order to try and fight back, looking like something out of Drakengard.
- When Momo punches the dragon she overpowers into the wall, its eyeball is seen visibly hanging out.
Volume 2: Whiteout
- The transformative effects of monstrine involve a painful transformation into a monster. Then Manon reveals that she's spiked the food she's served to the Fourth council members with this same substance, holding their bodies hostage and demonstrating its effects at a council meeting. It's as frightening as it is cathartic.
- Flare’s murder of Manon’s innocent Lost One mother is quite chilling, especially as we seen young Manon’s reaction and Flare’s order to her mother to not use her power, lest Manon be hurt.
- The "birthday party" of Pandemonium: as Manon lays dying, a hand erupts from her stomach, later followed by a smiling, cheerful little girl.
- Pandemonium is described as twisting and stretching her neck in the light novels until her head comes off. It's a disturbing enough image, but the anime runs with this and has her stretch her neck until it's longer than her entire body.
- Pandemonium's first appearance: bursting her way out of Manon's body in gory fashion, before summoning a group of monsters by twisting her own head off her body. Not helped at all by her disconcertingly youthful design.
- Even if Pandemonium is the embodiment of chaos, it's still disturbing to see a little girl's body being crushed into a bloody mess under the pressure of the etheric vein.
- Pandemonium gathers all her energy and transforms into a grotesque giant centipede with writhing human arms for legs.
