Web Animation / On The Edge

"I'm Shigeo Ijuin. I'm a "Torture Sommelier". I help others get true justice."

— Opening narration of the Torture segments

On The Edge (ヒューマンバグ大学_闇の漫画, "Human Bug University Dark Manga" in Japanese) 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:

• Torture: Self-proclaimed "Torture Sommelier" Shigeo Ijuin tortures criminals in gruesome ways to avenge said criminals' victims. Later on, these episodes focused on Kabuto Kotoge, a young Yakuza who tortured whoever messed with his clan or at the very least, set underground businesses in his clan's territory.
• Punishment: It follows the hardships of Jiro Kurebayashi, a former delinquent with a strong sense of justice. His superhuman strength and violent resolve when beating evildoers to a pulp earned him the name "Red Demon".
• Unfortunate Life: It centers around the misadventures of Hirofumi Satake, a seemingly ordinary man with the ability to survive rare, incurable diseases and poisons, as well as general life-threatening situations.
• Dream Hunter: This segment follows a man named Joji Kito traveling around the world to taste various delicacies, no matter if he is grossed out and/or falls ill from eating them.

The English channel can be found here. The original Japanese channel can be found here.

The channel is a rebranding of Crazy Human University which has an anime adaptation called The Human Crazy University.

On The Edge provides examples of:

• Acid Attack: The episode Delinquent saves a mother and child from acid attack starts with a guy throwing acid at a woman for dumping him. Later on, another criminal tries to do this to Ota's sister (and by extension, her baby), only for Jiro to get in the way and take the blow for them. However, the criminal throws acid on a random man, melting his face.
• An Arm and a Leg: In the episode Wanaka is pissed when he finds out that a little girl is smuggling guns..., a pissed off Wanaka sliced Matsuzaki's right arm for talking back to their boss about being told to quit the Yakuza and live a normal life instead of using his daughter to smuggle illegally-modded airsoft guns behind his back. However, the former spared the latter afterward with a warning.
• Ant Assault: The episode Feeding to Army Ants has Shigeo subject a delinquent loan shark who killed a man's wife and sister-in-law to the titular punishment.
• Ass Shove: Some of the tortures featured involve shoving things into the victim's backside.
  • Rhaphanidosis: A sleazy go-getter who forced a miscarriage on his pregnant wife and then took embarrassing pictures of her after stripping her down, is punished by Shigeo ramming a white radish into his anus, followed by an enema with live candiru.
  • Impalement: Shigeo subjects a gang leader who beat up a couple and had the woman gang-raped in front of her boyfriend to the titular punishment. Said crook died the next day.
  • The Pear of Anguish: Both a corrupt Minister of Justice and his delinquent son who framed a mentally-disabled man for murder and rape (which led said man to death row) are subjected to the torture with the titular device. They both died in minutes.
  • Disembowelment: A delinquent who got his girlfriend hooked on drugs until she took her own life is subjected to the titular punishment: Shigeo shoves a giant hook up the scumbag's backside, which is chained to a rock at the top of a tall rack that held it in place. When Shigeo drops the rock, the hook yanks the delinquent's guts out through his anus.
  • Rat torture: Rats go in from your bottom and eat your insides: The titular punishment originated in 1980s Argentina consisted of shoving one end of a tube into the victim's anus and set fire to the lid of a rat container at the other end, forcing the rats to crawl through the tube and eating the victim from the inside. Shigeo uses this on a loan shark for kidnapping and torturing his client's girlfriend for 33 days. After 52 days of long torture, the scumbag dies.
• Asshole Victims: All of Shigeo's victims are criminals that ruined their victims' lives, so they deserved the punishment. So are Jiro Kurebayashi's victims, who end up beaten to a pulp but kept alive so that the police can collect them.
• Bad People Abuse Animals:
  • Puppy Killers: The pet store Jiro applied to work for is revealed to be a puppy mill. The boss and owner of said puppy mill was a callous, authoritarian bastard who responds violently to criticism, until Jiro gives him a well-deserved beating for it. The death of a very sickly chihuahua he cared for was the last straw for him.
  • Serial attacker that attacks pets and kills the owners...: A delinquent targeted a little girl named Misa and her dog Koro after claiming the latter bit him. Later on, he tried to kill them both only for Jiro to block the stab with his hand and give the bastard a beating.
  • Thinly slicing skin with a wood shaver has a cruel pet shop owner named Inukai purposefully poisoning pets people buy from his store to make profits. Anyone who discovers the truth behind his practices are also poisoned.
• Bait-and-Switch: In the episode Wanaka is pissed when he finds out that a little girl is smuggling guns..., Kotoge and Kitaoka follow a little girl wandering in the middle of the night and see her with an older man wearing a hoodie. At first, they thought the man was going to kidnap her, but the girl then opens her backpack to reveal she was smuggling handguns for him.
• Bash Brothers: The Iron Sword Brothers from the episode Kurebayashi is killed by sword-weilding brothers... [sic] are a pair of flashy delinquents whose preferred weapons of torture and murder are iron swords.
• Batter Up!: Shigeo hits some of his victims at his mercy with a bat or a nightstick before torturing them.
• Big "NO!": In the episode Crucifixion after Shigeo hired a hacker to delete every single copy of the rape porno Mark made to blackmail Yuri with, he screams this before Shigeo jams the final stake through his skull.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The main antagonist of Thinly slicing skin with a wood shaver, Inukai poses as a friendly pet shop owner, and a long-time friend of Kotoge's boss'. In actuality, he is a greedy man that poisons the pets his customers buy for the sake of keeping his company afloat by buying more pets from there. He also kills anyone who discovers the truth behind his business.
• Blackmail: Miyako falls victim to this at the hands of a porn site owner when a homemade porn she made with her ex went public. She gave him her personal info and did as he said to take the video down, only for the pig to break his promise and post even more videos of her on his site as well, which led her to take her own life.
• Black Market: The Dream Hunter episode Panda BBQ has Joji's friend Wan Maren take Joji to the black market to taste panda sashimi. While he gets distressed at first, he marvels at the taste upon eating it.
• Blood from Every Orifice: The Unfortunate Life episode Maruburg Disease (sic) has Hirofumi suffer the symptoms of the titular Marburg Disease after a bat peed on his mouth.
• Bludgeoned to Death: The episode 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.
• Born Lucky: Hirofumi Satake is always subjected to all kinds of exotic and incurable diseases, but he somehow always gets over the disease in the end.
• Break the Cutie: The daughter of Shigeo's client in Feeding to Vultures has one of her fingers chopped off, and is raped repeatedly. Thankfully she survives and reunites with her family in the episode, a rarity in the series, but not without some pretty nasty emotional scars.
• Bring My Brown Pants: The victim from the episode Skewing Fingers - The most painful torture in the world passed out and lost control of his bladder from the excruciating pain of having his fingers skewed by Kitaoka for running an underground brothel in Yakuza territory.
• Bullying the Disabled: The opening of Serial attacker that attacks pets and kills the owners... has two delinquents bully a kid in a wheelchair until Jiro shows up to give them a lesson.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor:
  • A lethal example: the client's daughter in 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.
  • Another lethal example is shown in the opening of Torture Sommelier vs Elite Yakuza of the Kyogoku Clan, where a man got his female coworker Reina drunk to have his way with her. Much to the potential rapist's dismay, Reina died of alcohol poisoning and he threw her corpse into the water in a panic.
• Carry a Big Stick:
  • The episode Boiling Oil Bath Torture stars "Nighstick Sagara", a Yakuza who carries a nightstick as his preferred weapon.
  • The episode Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza [sic] has Shigeo shove a mace on Kagawa's mouth before torturing him.
• Con Man: The episode 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.
• Continuity Nod:
  • 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.
  • The opening to Torture Sommelier VS Kyogoku Clan Yakuza has Shigeo and Rukawa torture a doctor by using a container full of rats with a tube shoved into his anus for running over a schoolgirl and disposing of the body, referencing the episode Rat torture: Rats go in from your bottom and eat your insides.
• Cop Hater: In The most ancient torture known to man, Shigeo's client is so fed-up with the police being unable to find his daughter's killer, he outright despises them, and goes to Shigeo for assistance instead. Adding onto this is how they told him that even if they find the person who kidnapped her, he'll only be in jail for 15 years.
• Crapsack World: 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 or some other terrible affliction.
• Demon Head: 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. The homeless past of the torture sommelier suggests this to be entirely symbolic, representing how Shigeo sees the devil coming out of his clients for suggesting him to kill criminals.
• Devious Daggers: The episode Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza features the titular Kagawa, a Yakuza who made a living through human trafficking whose preferred weapon is a dagger. He raped and killed the client's daughter Satsuki for trying to escape him.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • The Guord Torture(sic): A client's sister committed suicide because her boss Gotoh used her after he covered for her mistake and she couldn't take it anymore. She was forced to steal the company's money for Gotoh.
  • Garrote's Chair: Miyako took her own life after being constantly blackmailed and raped by the owner of a porn site that hosted a video of her and her ex, which led to her fiancé Kentaro to seek revenge against the sleazy pig. Unfortunately, said pig hired a delinquent to kill Kentaro, leading to his situation in the beginning.
  • Wicker Man: A man on a subway train is accused of groping a woman. This was a scheme set up by a delinquent in order to gain money by leeching off of her, who would obtain the money from his targets after suing them. Even though the man tried to prove his innocence, the police did not believe him, he admitted to the crime that he hadn't committed, and it became so overbearing that the man decided to end his own life.
  • Gochiso-zeme: A young woman named Chika took her own life after the owner of an Inami restaurant (who was the CEO's son) raped her for three days in a shed after she said no to him too many times.
  • The Burning Pot: The client's friend took her own life after Professor Yoshida punched and stomped on her stomach when she revealed she's pregnant with his child so she will miscarry.
  • The most ancient torture known to man: This time, a witness to the crime is the one who offs themselves. They are a truck driver that had accidentally killed a handcuffed high-school girl with pepper spray in her eyes running across the street, all as a result of her teacher kidnapping her and attempting to rape her. The event was so traumatizing that the truck driver took his own life when he was sent to prison.
• Drugs Are Bad: In "Disembowelment," a delinquent got his girlfriend hooked on drugs and when she ran out of money to feed her addiction because of the massive debt she racked up, she started selling her body behind her father's back to avoid worrying him. When she became a junkie, the bastard then doubled up the price until she couldn't take it anymore and took her own life.
• Drunk Driver:
  • The opening to the episode 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.
  • The criminal from the episode Torture Sommelier VS Kyogoku Clan Yakuza was driving his boat under the influence and killed both the client's wife and daughter in his way. To make matters worse, the perp had ties with the Yakuza and couldn't be caught until the client turned to Shigeo for help.
• Ear Ache: In the episode Legendary Delinquent vs the madman that wants to murder Satake, Hirofumi gets his ear bitten clean off by a guy who accused him of "doing bad stuff to Misa". Turns out the guy contracted HIV from his girlfriend Misa, who accused Satake of raping her to cover up her cheating.
• Eaten Alive:
  • The episode The Boats features Scaphism, a Persian method of execution involving placing the victim in an enclosed boat coated with milk and honey and leaving them in a body of water, where insects and maggots eat them alive. Shigeo uses this to punish a marriage fraudster.
  • The opening of Breaking Wheel has Shigeo punishing a criminal by caging him in a hole full of rats. In the main plot of the episode, he also threw the delinquent into the hole, since he got bored of just watching him suffer in the breaking wheel.
  • The episode Feeding to Vultures involves Shigeo shoving a criminal, who kidnapped and raped a model, inside a maggot-filled donkey carcass, and leaving him alone inside a cage full of vultures. This torture started in ancient Greece and was used against heretics.
  • The episode Feeding to Army Ants has Shigeo covering a criminal's body in honey and release army ants on him, which proceed to feast on the bastard until he dies. This torture started in South America, especially in the Amazon rainforest.
  • The episode Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza has the titular Yakuza being fed to hungry dogs by Shigeo and Rukawa for raping and killing the client's daughter. This torture is mostly used in Mexican cartels, and the ending narration states that other countries used dogs as a method of torture as well.
• Entitled to Have You: Dr. Murata from the episode The yakuza that specializes in torturing women: was possessive of his wife Yuriko and asked Kotoge to kidnap her. When his boss said yes, he sent Sunaga with him as he specialized in torturing women.
• Epic Flail: The opening of The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart has a murderer who fled to Iran getting his legs crushed by a flail at the hands of an unnamed local Torture Sommelier as Shigeo watches.
• Eye Scream:
  • Giant Hogweed: Hirofumi gets some of the titular plant's sap in his left eye when he tried to trim it. When the paramedics came to his aid, it swelt up along with his hands.
  • The Scavenger's Daughter: Shigeo's client lost her left eye (and her baby, as she was pregnant at the time) after escaping from a pair of thugs who kidnapped both her and her husband before consulting his services.
  • Feeding to Army Ants: Shigeo's client loses his right eyeball after he, his wife and her sister get brutalized by a gang of thugs after refusing to pay the loan shark. When Shigeo takes the loan shark for torture, he yanks out the bastard's right eyeball with his own hands, before losing his remaining one to the fire ants Shigeo has brought.
  • Torture Sommelier vs Elite Yakuza of the Kyogoku Clan: When Shigeo and Rukawa came to the rapist's residence to torture him for raping and burning his client's daughter alive, he whips a random junkie in the eyes with his belt, blinding him for life as it had metal wires while Rukawa collected the rapist for him.
  • Torture Sommelier VS Kyogoku Clan Yakuza: Shigeo attacks a lunging Shiratake by throwing metal rods at him, landing at his throat and left eye before taking the knocked-out perp he defended for torture.
• Fake Charity: The Punishment episode 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.
• Fall Guy: The driver of the car who chased the client's son in the episode Breaking Wheel was actually a rando hired by the actual driver, a spoiled delinquent rich kid who liked to drive recklessly.
• False Rape Accusation: In the episode Legendary Delinquent vs the madman that wants to murder Satake, Misa accused Hirofumi Satake of raping her and giving her HIV to her boyfriend to cover up her cheating, which sent him off to beat Hirofumi at the beginning of the episode.
• Fat Bastard:
  • The Inami restaurant owner from the episode Gochiso-zeme is a rotund man who harassed and raped his female employees.
  • The porn site owner from Garrote's Chair is an overweight man who raped a woman and uploaded it on his site.
  • Professor Yoshida from The Burning Pot is a disheveled, rotund teacher who manipulates a student into having sex with him and then sending thugs to rape the friend and film it all. And according to Shigeo's white-haired informant, it's not the first time he does this kind of thing.
• Fingore:
  • In the episode Feeding to Vultures, the client receives a mail, containing a finger from her daughter, sent by her kidnapper and threatens to kill her if the client didn't give him money.
  • The episode Skewing Fingers - The most painful torture in the world has Kitaoka torture a guy by sticking bamboo skewers under his fingernails for running an underground brothel in Yakuza territory.
  • The episode You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl... has Kotoge cut subordinate Yamada's pinky with a knife for sleeping with a Yakuza leader's girlfriend, then the leader cuts three more of his fingers with his scythe.
• Flaying Alive: In 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.
• For Science!: The eponymous doctor from 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.
• Force Feeding:
  • In the episode Gochiso-zeme, Shigeo force-feeds a bowl of feces to a sleazy restaurant manager for raping Chika into suicide.
  • Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza has Shigeo force-feeding two of Sunaga's henchmen a ladle of molten lead. This goes as well for them as it sounds.
  • In the first episode, The Boats, Shigeo punishes a marriage scammer via scaphism and force-feeds him the honey and milk mixture needed for the punishment to work.
• Forcibly Formed Physique: The episode The Duke of Exeter's Daughter has a criminal tortured in the titular device for strangling random women to death.
• Foreign Queasine: The main premise of the Dream Hunter episodes. Joji Kito travels around the world to taste various delicacies he finds, no matter if he's grossed out or contracts diseases from eating said foods.
• Glasgow Grin: In the episode The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart, Sofia slashed the mouths of both Kashima and his father the Attorney General in a single swing of her sword. When she interrogates Kashima for his crime, he could somehow still talk.
• Gorn: The criminals are tortured in gruesome ways.
• Groin Attack:
  • Spanish Donkey has Shigeo put a gang leader in the titular device for torturing and killing his client's son.
  • In the episode The Heretic's Fork, Shigeo tears out one of the rapist's testicles with a pair of alligator pliers. When the scumbag swears that he won't rape anymore, Shigeo hands Rukawa the pliers to tear the remaining one.
  • The Burning Pot: Before using the titular device, Shigeo crushes Professor Yoshida's testicles with a hammer as payback for raping a student and getting her pregnant.
• Gutted Like a Fish:
  • In the episode The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart, after Kashima stated his reason to kill Sara Taylor, Sofia finishes him off by slashing his stomach.
  • In the episode Fast shooting duel, Shigeo tortured scummy TV host Shintaro Murasame with a breast ripper (specifically, an iron spider), enlarged and modified to rip a victim's belly. Five hours later, the scumbag falls off and dies, his guts spilling all over the floor.
  • In Kotetsu's explanatory narration of Boiling Oil Bath Torture, a Yakuza cuts a man's stomach open for stealing from his gang.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Matsuzaki from Wanaka is pissed when he finds out that a little girl is smuggling guns... was a Yakuza who joined at the same time as Kabuto, but he was known for having a short fuse, threatening to kill people who set him off. This rendered him unable to work his way up to the ranks. Thus he leeched off of his girlfriend who worked as a hostess and sold illegally-modified airsoft guns by having his daughter smuggle them to buyers behind his girlfriend's and boss's back.
• Hate Sink: In-Universe in the episode Garrote's Chair. As a finishing blow to his torture of the owner of a porn website, Shigeo gives the people viewing his torture the option to vote on whether he should be alive or not. In the end, it turned out that he had already gained a pretty bad reputation following his attempted blackmail of Miyako.
• Hikikomori: Nobunaga Sato from the episode Kurebayashi cries for an unfortunate mother... was a college graduate who applied for work in a hundred companies and got rejected by them all. The bullying he received at the company that did accept his application (a printing factory) drove him to become a shut-in.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Shigeo always spices up the torture he commits onto criminals by using the same exact under-handed techniques and/or excuses they've used to escape the law against them.
  • In the episode Spanish Donkey, a delinquent tried to get off scot-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.
  • In Rabbit Torture, a popular streamer uses his popularity to blackmail one of his fans into sending him nudes, and threatened to share them online if she didn't have sex with him, upon which he'd erase all the evidence. At the end of his torture, Shigeo asks him how many subscribers he has, and decides to revolve him around the wheel in one lap for each subscriber that he has.
  • In The most ancient torture known to man, a high-school teacher kidnaps and rapes one of his students in order to "vent". Shigeo asks the teacher how many times he's done this, and decides to finish him off by throwing one set of stones at him for each time he committed this crime.
  • In the episode Torture Sommelier VS Kyogoku Clan Yakuza, Shigeo chains the criminal to a boat and drags him through dirty water (occasionally stopping just to make him crash into the spiky surface of the boat) for ramming his boat into his client's daughter and wife while drunk. Then Shigeo releases the chains and has Rukawa finish the bastard off by ramming him with the boat.
• Hot Blade: Death by a Thousand Cuts features a gang boss who raped and tortured a high-school girl with his two buddies for 40 days, referencing the real-life case of Junko Furuta. Shigeo tortures the leader with a burning hot knife, even after turning off the burning hot steel pillar he tied the scumbag into.
• Human Traffickers: Kagawa is the leader of the Jingi Gang, which makes a living off of human trafficking. When his most recent victim Satsuki tried to escape, he slashed her tendons to keep her from running before raping and killing her.
• Hypocrite: Many of Shigeo's victims complain about how what he does is illegal. While that is technically true, they themselves aren't so above it, as their crimes are always what got them there in the first place. Shigeo always points this out whenever they complain.
• I Surrender, Suckers: In the episode Amou clan rat race for the open seat as clan leader, Mr. Minamida apologizes to Mr. Kitagawa right when the latter was about to finish him off, causing Kitagawa to desist and tell him to leave town. However, it was an act and Minamida sets him on fire the moment he wasn't looking.
• Idol Singer: In the episode The violent idol management company gets punished, Jiro gets a job as the assistant manager for a group of these.
• If I Can't Have You…:
  • Yoichi Kashima from the episode The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart raped and murdered his English language teacher for turning him down. He didn't get arrested because his father was the Attorney General.
  • The intro of Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza [sic] features a stalker who strangled a young woman named Miho to death for dating someone other than him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
  • In this episode, Shigeo impales a delinquent who ambushed the client and his fiancée and raped her, which drove her mad and committed suicide.
  • Darius is a Torture Sommelier descended from Transylvanian nobility who specializes in impalement. In this episode, Shigeo receives his assistance when accepting a request to torture an oversea criminal named Brad, a fraudulent tour guide who raped and strangled a Japanese tourist, and his father, a congressman who covered up the crime. While Shigeo and Darius impaled the two, Darius also installed a heater in the pile that would burn the victims from the inside, which Shigeo compares to the Chinese torture, Shakuja.
• Inelegant Blubbering: The criminals bawl their eyes out in pain after enduring Shigeo's tortures.
• The Informant: Shigeo has two: a pale white-haired guy wearing black clothing and a hostess in a blue cocktail dress. The episode Crucifixion introduces a third one, a middle-aged man in Skid Row who assisted Shigeo in his search for criminal Mark Ikegami.
• Infernal Retaliation: In the episode FIre can't stop the legendary delinquent [sic], Kaneko and Narita burned Jiro alive for a second time, only for Jiro to power through the burns and knock Kaneko with a single punch, while his friend Katakura punched Narita.
• Iron Maiden: The episode Gochiso-zeme's prologue has both Shigeo and his assistant Rukawa stuffing a corrupt politician and his hitman into the titular device.
• Japanese Delinquents: Jiro Kurebayashi is a guy in his twenties who had a past as a notoriously strong delinquent. However, he has a great sense of justice and is still strong enough to dish out beatings to anyone despicable enough to deserve it and has the decency to turn himself in whenever he does.
• Karmic Death: Shigeo's tortures often suit his victims' punishment. For example, in this episode, the Corrupt Corporate Executive forced a woman into bottling an entire tequila and she died from alcohol poisoning. As punishment, Shigeo forces a mixture of water, car battery fluids, and even tequila, down in the CEO's throat until he drowns.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Many criminals get away with their crimes only for their victims to hire Shigeo to give them their overdue punishment.
• Karmic Misfire: Sometimes, there's cases where the criminals not only avoid punishment but use their power and/or connections to have an innocent suffer it in their place. The Pear of Anguish is an example of this, featuring a corrupted Minister of Justice framing a mentally-disabled man for the rapes and murders committed by his son, leading to said man's execution.
• Kidnapped from Behind: Shigeo's preferred means of capturing criminals is by faux-garroting them.
• Kill It with Fire:
  • The Bull of Phalaris: A delinquent who broke into the client's house while he was at work, raped said man's wife and murdered her along with her two kids (the oldest being 3 years old) is punished in the titular device. As the victim starts to writhe in painful agony, Shigeo explains how the bull works.
  • The Wicker Man: A delinquent who had his girlfriend accuse a man of touching her to the point he takes his own life after being forced to admit to it to the police, is shoved into the titular device. He dies a long, painful death.
  • The Tire Necklace: A Loony Fan who stalked, then raped and impregnated a famous athlete is subjected to the titular torture: Shigeo places a tire around the rapist's neck, pours gasoline on it and sets it ablaze, burning his vocal cords and disfiguring his face as the tire melts. This torture originated in South Africa.
  • At the end of Feeding to Army Ants, Shigeo orders Rukawa to burn down the loan shark's corpse along with the fire ants feasting on it to prevent infestation.
  • Boiling Oil Bath Torture: Kotetsu Kuga finds out a subordinate of his named Azuma ratted the location of his money out to a rival gang named "Giga Death". After killing all of said gang's members, Kotetsu throws him into an oil-filled barrel and had his other subordinate Nojima boil it down and put a plate with a candle floating on the boiling oil, which will set it along with him on fire if he moves too much. When he managed to resist until the candle went out and confessed to his betrayal, Kotetsu burns him anyway by throwing a burning cigarette butt at the oil.
  • 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. When Shigeo tortured him by nailing piles into his head, he got tired and burned him alive instead.
• Know Your Vines: In Giant Hogweed, Hirofumi is tending to a plant his girlfriend Chie gave him. To his surprise, it started growing at such a fast rate that he decided to trim it, only to get the sap on his left eye and hands, which swelled them up and caused him burning pain. When he got rushed into the hospital, the doctor tells him that the plant he tended to was the titular giant hogweed.
• Kubrick Stare: Shigeo's clients display this kind of stare when they show their need for vengeance.
• Lack of Empathy: Pretty much all of Shigeo's victims show no regret or remorse for the atrocious crimes they've committed or how they affected the lives of others. Shigeo claims that this makes his job much easier, likely because he doesn't need to feel as bad for killing them in cold blood.
• Loan Shark: The episode Feeding to Army Ants features one who forced the client, named Ken Iwata, to pay what he owed. When he refused, the loan shark sicced thugs on him, his wife, and her sister.
• Loony Fan: The episode The Tire Necklace features one who stalked, raped, and impregnated a famous athlete named Kyoko Oizumi for marrying someone other than him.
• Losing Is Worse Than Death: Invoked in the episode Crucifixion. Before he is finished off, Mark Ikegami gloats about how he still wins in the end, because the video he used to blackmail Yuri will be permanently online. However, Shigeo, aware of the video, hired a professional hacker who successfully took down every copy of the video. It isn't until it is announced to him that he ultimately lost that he screams in agony before getting the last stake jammed through his head.
• Lured into a Trap: In Feeding to Vultures, Shigeo contacts a hostess named Emma to infiltrate a host club named "Vivia", which the criminal who raped his client's daughter frequents. Once she has him in her thrall and takes him to a hotel room, a waiting Shigeo faux-garrotes the bastard and captures him for torture.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The channel lives on this trope.
  • How Shigeo even gets clients when he doesn't advertise his services, let alone capture (scummy) people for torture without getting caught by the police in the first place seems unexplainable.
  • The reason for Jiro's black hair turning red and pointing up before he starts beating despicable criminals is unknown. Heck, Jiro's whole existence is this.
  • Hirofumi Satake's strange ability to survive and heal from exotic incurable diseases and poisons can't be explained by doctors.
• Model Scam: The client from Lead Sprinkler became a victim of this; she was drugged and raped before the alleged agency (actually a criminal group) worked her like a slave.
• Molotov Cocktail: Mr. Minamida from the episode Amou clan rat race for the open seat as clan leader is a Yakuza who uses these as a main weapon.
• Monster of the Week: Each of the Torture and Punishment episodes have one new main villain for Shigeo and Jiro to go after.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: At the start of the Dream Hunter episode Roasted Armadillo, Joji saw a crocodile and his guide told him to leave it alone.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Jiro's victims end up beaten to a pulp whenever they do something despicable enough to trigger his "Red Demon" persona.
• No Name Given: Shigeo's informants have no name given. However, the episode The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart reveals that the white-haired informant's name is Godai.
• "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization:
  • The delinquent from the episode The Heretic's Fork justifies his rape streak in the middle of his torture, only to have one of his testicles torn out by Shigeo's alligator pliers until passing out. However, the titular instrument stabbing his chin and sternum kept him from doing so.
  • The Romanian criminal father-son duo from Ijyuin meets a descendant from Transylvania tell Shigeo and Darius that the girl the former has raped enjoyed it, leading to obvious results. When the two criminals start begging Shigeo for forgiveness while impaled on a heated tin pile, he throws the rationalization back at them before heating the pile all the way, melting the tin, and causing them a slow, painful death.
• Off with His Head!: "Scythe" Sakamoto from the episode You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl... loved to chop people's heads off with sickles.
• On the Rebound: Mark Ikegami from the episode Crucifixion, was a high-school dropout who lied about his credentials to an unsuspecting young woman named Yuri, just because he wanted girls. Out of fear that Yuri would find out about his lies, he dumped her and attempted to date another woman. He would then attempt to get back together with her when that didn't work out. After she refused, Mark attempts to blackmail her with a pornographic film of him raping her, and proceeded to stab her to death when she still refused.
• Orifice Invasion: The pedophile from the episode The Snake Pot is in the receiving end of this as the increasing heat in the pot caused the snakes to panic and slither into every orifice of his body.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Several of Shigeo's clients are the victim's parents, who turned to him to avenge their murdered children.
• Pædo Hunt:
  • In the episode The Snake Pot, a sleezy, unemployed man goes around his town abducting little girls and raping them. In one instance, he buries his victim in a nearby mountain when he inadvertently kills her.
  • The villain in the episode The most ancient torture known to man is a high-school teacher named Yoshinori Satonaka, who had on at least 20 occassions abducted and raped his own female students. Two years ago, he inadvertently caused the death of the 15-year-old daughter of Shigeo's client in a car accident after spraying pepper spray in her eyes.
• Police Are Useless: Many of Shigeo's clients tried to report the criminals to the police only for the police not to do anything, forcing them to turn to Shigeo to get justice for themselves. In addition, even if they do catch them, the criminal might be off with a light sentence, due to connections or by technicalities, when many of the clients demand "an eye for an eye."
• Potty Failure: The Boats has Shigeo inflict this on a marriage scammer whose latest victim requested his services, by way of scaphism. After seventeen long days of soiling and wetting himself from being force-fed the mixture of honey and milk for the punishment along with being eaten alive by maggots and flies, the scumbag finally dies.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Jiro's black hair turns red when he switches into his "Red Demon" persona, which is triggered by evil acts.
• Powerful Pick:
  • Mr. Noda uses an icepick as a weapon to kill or torture people. Despite being a short-range weapon, he compensates with his speed and fast consecutive thrusts to incapacitate opponents.
  • Mr. Kitagawa from the episode Amou clan rat race for the open seat as clan leader uses a pickaxe as his weapon of choice.
• Psycho Knife Nut:
  • The episode Scorching Soy Sauce Method features one who killed the client's twin daughters. However, it turns out he was being used by a gang boss who claimed to have made a Deal with the Devil.
  • In the episode Kurebayashi meets Satake, Hirofumi gets attacked by a musclebound, underwear-clad man brandishing a knife. Things get more unfortunate when a second knife-wielding killer shows up.
• Raging Stiffie: In this story, after Hirofumi got treated for getting bitten by a Brazilian wandering spider (the titular Banana Spider), he has an erection after waking up, which is a secondary effect of the spider's venom.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: If the Asshole Victim of the Week is a rapist, Shigeo will torture them in the most gruesome ways, while Jiro will beat the crap out of them without holding himself back.
• Rejected Apology: The gang leader from Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza apologizes for his crime when asked if he had any remorse for what he did. This is rejected, however, when he is asked what his victim was like, and tried to justify not knowing by casually mentioning that he killed many other women before, and never got to know them, implying that he doesn't see women as people, and believes them all to be alike.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Yakuza-style punishment: Tattoo peeling, Kotoge seeks to avenge Mr. Eto after the latter was beaten bloody to death. When he finally found the murderer, he painfully peeled off the tattoo on the bastard's back and proceeded to crush his skull by throwing stones at him.
• Run for the Border: In the episode Rabbit Torture, by the time the client reports Yoriki to the police for extorting his sister until she committed suicide, he had already moved to the Philippines to avoid arrest by the authorities. Fortunately, Shigeo accepts the client's request for his torture and contacts JJ, a Filipino priest and fellow Torture Sommelier, to assist him in hunting him down.
• Rule of Symbolism: 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, even in his own clients, who request him to perform the murders. It is for this reason that he considers himself "The Devil".
• Sand Necktie: In The most ancient torture known to man, Yoshinori Satonaka is buried up to his chest so that Shigeo and Rukawa can torture him by stoning.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Shigeo's victims bring up their connections with powerful people before he tortures them. However, he doesn't care and tortures them anyway. What's more, he captures the powerful person connected with the criminal as well.
• Serial Killer: The aptly-named episode The Serial Killer features one who wants to spread COVID to as much people in the mall as possible. When Jiro confronted him, the criminal pulled out a knife and targeted a little boy he coughed on previously.
• Shady Scalper: The Evil Scalper stars one who bought all of a store's PRS5s in stock, sending many people back home. Jiro was really pissed off as he went there to buy one for his nephew Yutaka's birthday, and he waited for the bastard to be somewhere else quiet to beat the crap out of him.
• Shout-Out: In the opening of The violent idol management company gets punished, Jiro answers "Baron Deino…?" to a teacher who asked him the name of the dictator in the picture. Later in the same episode, he goes to a job interview to become assistant manager for an idol agency and tells the interviewer "he looks up to Dario Brando," much to the interviewer's chagrin.
• Sinister Scythe: The episode You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl... features Sakamoto, a bloodthirsty Yakuza leader whose preferred weapon is a sickle.
• Slipping a Mickey: In the episode Lead Sprinkler, the criminal group posing as a modeling agency put something into the client's drink after a photoshoot and had their way with her.
• Smarmy Host: Shintaro Murasame from the episode Fast shooting duel is a TV host who always talks big about justice and doing what is right. But in private, he is a complete sleazebag who made connections to politicians and the Yakuza.
• Snuff Film: In the episode Garrote's Chair, Shigeo live-streams his torture of the porn site owner on the latter's own website, and makes the In-Universe viewers vote whether he should die or survive. Since the sleazy pig already had a bad reputation for raping and driving Miyako to suicide and killing her fiance Kentaro to avoid punishment, the public voted for his death.
• Spiteful Spit: In The Scavenger's Daughter, one of the thugs held in the titular device spat on Shigeo's face. He kicks both of them in the face in retaliation and administers the proper torture.
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • The opening of Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza [sic] features one who stalked a young woman named Miho and strangled her to death for dating a guy who wasn't him.
  • The Loony Fan from The Tire Necklace obsessively stalked a famous athlete. When he found out she was going to marry, he got pissed off to the point of breaking into her house and raping her.
• Start My Own: In the episode Amou clan rat race for the open seat as clan leader, Mr. Minamida decided to recruit some members of the "Rising" Gang and then start his own in Suzaku Town. Of course, Kabuto and Mr. Kitagawa are sent to kill him for his betrayal.
• Stewed Alive: The opening to Rat torture: Rats go in from your bottom and eat your insides has Shigeo boil two rapists alive in a huge pot.
• Stripped to the Bone:
  • Death by a Thousand Cuts: The gang leader who kept a high-school girl in captivity for 40 days is reduced to a skeleton after 43 days of being administered the titular punishment. By the last day, Shigeo was so focused on torturing the bastard he even talked to the skeleton.
  • Feeding to Vultures: After the vultures feasted on the rotting donkey carcass as well as the criminal who kidnapped and raped a model shoved inside, only the bones of both remained.
• Surprise Car Crash: The most ancient torture known to man has a high-school teacher kidnapping one of his students in his car. When she tried to flee, she got hit by a truck.
• Taking You with Me: Near the end of the episode Amou clan rat race for the open seat as clan leader, Mr. Minamida fakes surrender and throws a Molotov cocktail at Mr. Kitagawa, only for the latter to survive long enough to finish the former off with his pickaxe before collapsing dead to the ground.
• Tears of Blood: Some of Shigeo's clients cry blood, especially when they lost a family member to the antagonist's actions. In the episode Feeding to Army Ants, a man who lost his eye protecting his wife and his sister-in-law cries blood out of his missing eye.
• Tongue Trauma: In The Scavenger's Daughter, after two thugs kidnap a couple, one of them cut the husband's tongue with a knife for trying to defend his wife and shoved it down his throat, not without wrapping it in tinfoil beforehand.
• Too Dumb to Live: In Rabbit Torture, despite his crime being well-known, a popular streamer still continues to make streams while living in the Phillipines. This alone is what made it so easy for Shigeo to find him.
• Tragic Stillbirth: In the Punishment episode Immoral Doctor, Kotaro and Miki's baby was delivered stillborn. The doctor told them beforehand that their upcoming baby had brain hernia and it was very possible it wouldn't survive childbirth.
• Unconventional Food Usage: The titular punishment in the episode Rhaphanidosis involves shoving a long white radish into the victim's anus.
• Unwilling Suspension:
  • Ana-Tsurushi: Hanging upside down in feces - Shigeo has three gangsters hanging by the feet before subjecting them to the titular punishment: dipping them into a pool of feces and insects, some of them poisonous.
  • Judas' Cradle: A fortune teller who brainwashed her clients into spending themselves broke for her gets hanged by her hands, feet, and waist by Shigeo before dropping her into the titular device until she died.
  • Fast shooting duel: A sleazy TV host is hanged by the belly by Shigeo's giant breast ripper and is left there until he falls off and dies.
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story:
  • Death by a Thousand Cuts references the real-life case of Junko Furuta. However, the criminals do get arrested in this story while the head rapist is tortured by Shigeo for 43 days.
  • Rat torture: Rats go in from your bottom and eat your insides references the infamous Hello Kitty murder case, only that the criminals here stuff all the victim's pieces (rather than just the skull) into a teddy bear and do get punished.
• Villain Protagonist: The episode Kurebayashi cries for an unfortunate mother... centers on Nobunaga Sato, a college graduate turned shut-in who got rejected by a hundred top companies in the city.
• Villain with Good Publicity: The college professor that raped one of his students in The Burning Pot had stated that he was going to become the university's president, meaning that no one else there was aware of his crimes.
• We Used to Be Friends: Mr. Minamida and Mr. Kitagawa Amou clan rat race for the open seat as clan leader were good friends back then, and their boss put them both in charge of the young members. However, it all went downhill when Mr. Tomura, the Managing Director, passed away and fought over who got to take his place. When the boss promoted the latter, the former got pissed off to the point of setting fire to Kitagawa's car and starting his own gang in Suzaku Town.
• What a Drag: In the episode 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. This is a modern rendition of keelhauling, a torture method used to punish pirates back in the 17th century.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Shigeo displays these whenever he opens his eyes, to show his resolve to punish criminals.
• Would Hit a Girl: Jiro and Shigeo have no problems with physically harming women if they are the villain.
• Would Hurt a Child: A pair of delinquents in Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza beat the shit out of a little girl who asks them to move off of playground equipment, which causes Shigeo's client to attempt to confront them.
• Yakuza:
  • Kotetsu Kuga is the new boss of the Kyougoku-gumi who tortured anyone who threatened innocents. Furthermore, he seeks to purge his crime family of the evilest elements.
  • Kagawa is the leader of the Jingi Gang, who made a living through human trafficking and killed a young woman named Satsuki for running away.
• Yubitsume: In You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl..., Yamada gets his pinky finger cut by Kotoge as punishment for sleeping with the boss Sakamoto's girlfriend. However, Sakamoto pulled out his sickle and cut three more of his fingers.