History MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/GushingOverMagicalGirls'' [[note]]Mostly for the sadistic sexual torture routinely performed on-screen. The fighting itself is a 4.[[/note]]

* ''Anime/{{Kite}}'' ([[SelfCensoredRelease Clean edited version]]) [[note]] A very hard 9. Over the top bloody and repeated shootings with explosive rounds; including heads and chests bursting and dismemberment. One character has his hand blown off before being shot in the junk and head. Several innocent/unarmed victims. Brief onscreen rape of high-school age teens. The unedited version is a 10 as the rape scenes get the full hentai treatment.[[/note]]

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' [[note]]Extremely intense and visceral sequences of ultraviolence and gore, with all sorts of depravity and inhumanity being up for grabs. This includes [[CruelAndUnusualDeath excessive gore]], fiery battlefield scenery with lots of casualties, [[{{Gorn}} gory]] {{splash panel}}s of [[SceneryGorn horrific apocalyptic imagery]], plenty of [[BodyHorror psychosexual body horror]], disturbing creature designs and [[ColdBloodedTorture sadistic, brutal torture]]. [[ImAHumanitarian Cannibalism]], blood orgies and [[RapeAsDrama explicitly pornographic rape scenes]] are commonplace. The worst of these is [[spoiler:the inhuman mass death and chaos of [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot the Eclipse]], where every member of the Band of the Hawk are messily butchered and brutalized in ultra-gory fashion by hungry Apostles and most infamously, [[Characters/BerserkCasca Casca]] being [[BrainBleach spitefully raped by Griffith]] as [[Characters/BerserkGuts Guts]] is {{forced to watch}} with his very eyes ([[EyeScream one of which gets gouged out]]).]] Needless to say, all of this is played seriously for all its horror and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt the manga's extraordinarily detailed art-style]] doesn't help it. Definitely ''NOT'' for the faint of heart.[[/note]]

* ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'' (The anime)

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Alicization arc [[note]]For the absolutely unhinged rape scene where Raios and Humbert rape Ronye and Tiese and was bloody murdered by Kirito.[[/note]]

* "Manga/{{Pluto}}" (2023) [[note]] For multiple bloody aftermaths of human murders and suicides. A man also attempts to commit suicide by biting his tongue, causing a fair amount of blood to leak out. A man's infant is killed in an explosion, with the bloody crib seen in the aftermath; this would be higher if the infant's body or the death was directly shown. [[/note]]

* ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' [[note]] For a young girl getting slapped by her own father as discipline, leaving her crying intensely. Otherwise a 0. [[/note]]

* Anime/SpeedGrapher

* Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime [[note]]For pretty much anything Quartzmon does on-screen (which features liberal use of body horror). Otherwise a 3 at maximum.[[/note]]

SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness applied to AnimeAndManga. Note that anime is one of the few mediums where it's really common to see [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids works aimed at children that go above a 5 on the scale]], with some older series getting up to a 10 although modern series rarely go above a soft 9. However, this ''is'' a somewhat relative term, as Shonen and Shojo are aimed at a 12-18 demographic as opposed to younger children. Comparatively, Seinen and Josei works (aimed at 18+ audiences) are free to do as they please, with ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' being by far the ultimate example.

* ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'' (the original manga) [[note]]Mass death, destruction, torture and BodyHorror are commonplace, with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating monster eradicating and torturing entire villages by the hundreds. Even generic villains here take mass murder to a level that would make most ''Anime/DemonSlayer'' villains look like childplay, to the point where a villain has to literally attempt omnicide to truly qualify as a CompleteMonster (approximately 3 out of 50+ in the original manga, all being arch-villains with immense resources). It's thankfully held back to level 5 by the actual massacres occurring offscreen and the resulting carnage not being too detailed or graphic -- this would be a hard 10 if it were to be drawn with more detail.[[/note]]

* ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'' [[note]]Mass death, destruction, torture and BodyHorror are commonplace, with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating monster eradicating and torturing entire villages by the hundreds. Even generic villains here take mass murder to a level that would make most ''Anime/DemonSlayer'' villains look like childplay, to the point where a villain has to literally attempt omnicide to truly qualify as a CompleteMonster (approximately 3 out of 50+ in the original manga, all being arch-villains with immense resources). It's thankfully held back to level 5 by the actual massacres occurring offscreen and the resulting carnage not being too detailed or graphic -- this would be a hard 10 if it were to be drawn with more detail.[[/note]]