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  • The flashback to the origins of the Friend cult.
  • "We're friends, right?"
  • Kenji's first meeting with Friend on-stage; it goes from the surreal as Friend descends from the rafters seemingly under his own power, to the chilling as Friend asks how Kanna is, then revealing they're her father.
  • While also listed as a Funny Moment, the chapter 'Robot Conference' where the engineer is trying to explain the mecha problems. All these full-grown adults are coming up with ideas for a giant robot designed to kill thousands of people at the very least like little boys playing a game.
    • Made even more chilling when the engineer insists he's leaving and is promptly told he'll never see his daughter again; looking around the room, he's met with a number of smug smiles.
  • The events that transpired in the science room also qualify, both in story and out.
  • The entirety of Koizumi's stay at "Friend Land" tapped directly into a person's small, natural measure of paranoia very effectively. The "Bonus Level" arc was especially creepy.
  • The few moments where Urasawa drew mysterious characters in a stylized ghostly art-style. Specifically Professor Shikishima's daughter in 21st Century Boys when she was shown in her creepy nurse outfit with those cold dead eyes.
  • Koizumi being forced to stay at Sadakiyo's house while he puts on his best Norman Bates impression.
  • The reveal that there were three boys wearing masks.
  • "I told everyone you were dead."
  • The lab incident. Fukubei in hanging from the ceiling with a rope around his neck, ecstatic beacuse he made the others witness a miracle... and then begins to choke. No wonder poor Donkey jumped out of the window.
  • Majoume has a disturbing encounter with Friend in the virtual reality game, and exits to see Friend, disconnected from the game, standing over him. Not only is this freaky as hell, it's a major hint that there is more than one Friend.
  • The end of the virtual reality game, when Friend takes off his mask and you see old Sadakiyo's head attached to a kid's body. And just everything about Tomodachi Land, really.
  • Fukubei looks in the mirror. He has no face.
  • That freaking tower with the eye symbol. There's something utterly disturbing about that.

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