History NightmareFuel / FuanNoTane

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SchmuckBait C'mon, don't you wanna hug the cute lil' baby?]]]]

* The notes at the end detailing year and location of the incidents. It's scary enough for people who might recognize or even live near some of those places, but then things like ''"All Stores Nationwide", "Unidentified Underpass"'' pop up. But scariest of all, there's [[spoiler:''"[[NothingIsScarier Location Withheld]]"'']].

* One story features a group of schoolboys looking at pictures hanging up on a wall. The photographer of the photos notices that a picture has a weird face on it. Before he can point this out to the others, ''[[AnimateInanimateObject the face in the picture itself]]'' tells the boy to not tell anyone, before making an ABSOLUTELY [[NightmareFace demented angry face.]] While this is more or less typical for the manga, this ghost is different in that ''[[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects it looks like it was 3D modeled]]'', which makes it [[UncannyValley ten times as worse.]]

* One story features a group of schoolboys looking at pictures hanging up on a wall. One of the boys notices that a picture has a weird face on it. Before he can point this out to the others, ''[[AnimateInanimateObject the face in the picture itself]]'' tells the boy to not tell anyone, before making an ABSOLUTELY [[NightmareFace demented angry face.]] While this is more or less typical for the manga, this ghost is different in that ''[[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects it looks like it was 3D modeled]]'', which makes it [[UncannyValley ten times as worse.]]

* On a meta level, the whole series is this. [[ParanoiaFuel No matter where you are, no matter what you're doing]], you could run into some horrible ''thing''. And while you might be lucky and get away with nothing worse than the scare of your life, you might not be so lucky. You might lose an ear or an eye, have your finger broken, or just straight-up ''die''.

* The whole manga is a textbook way to induce fear in those who have Ommatophiobia (phobia of eyes [especially unnatural eyes]) and Social Anxiety Disorder, as one symptom of SAD is the fear of being watched. It is taken UpToEleven and then some.

* Fittingly enough, the series ends with Nightmare Fuel. The final story, "Epilogue", features Masaaki Nakayama telling a story about how he's a "natural-born coward", and one of the things that scared him as a kid was a picture book. It featured cute animals covering their faces, and one the next page, revealing them with a cry of "Byah!" The last page featured a human boy... but his face was a NightmareFace. It scared Nakayama so badly that he taped the pages shut. Ten years later, he found the book again in a bookstore... but the boy's face was cute and normal. "Maybe I was hallucinating because of fear?" he wonders, as we cut back to his studio. Then he hears something say "Byah!" behind him. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/10_43.jpg The final panel]] is the {{NightmareFace}}d boy staring at him from the hallway.

* "Calling". A boy is watching TV when someone knocks at the door. Disinterested, he says his mother's not home. The knocks come louder. Annoyed, he yells that his father isn't home either. Then the knocks come ''really'' loud. Fed up at this point, he yells that there's nobody home. And then he turns ''to the camera'', to a voice who calls him a liar. Terrified, he flees the house, only for the voice to knowingly whisper: "It's no use..."

* The notes at the end detailing year and location of the incidents. It's scary enough for people who might recognize or even live near some of those places, but then things like ''"All Stores Nationwide", "Unidentified Underpass"'' pop up. But scariest of all, there's [[spoiler:''"Location Withheld"'']].

* The notes at the end detailing year and location of the incidents. It's scary enough for people who might recognize or even live near some of those places, but then things like ''"All Stores Nationwide", "Unidentified Underpass"'' appear pop up, and scariest of all, ''"Location Withheld"''.

* The notes at the end detailing year and location of the incidents. It's scary enough for people who might recognize or even live near some of those places, but then things like ''"All Stores Nationwide", "Unidentified Underpass"'' appear, and scariest of all, ''"Location Withheld"''.

* The notes at the end detailing year and location of the incidents. ''"All Stores Nationwide", "Unidentified Underpass"'', and scariest of all, ''"Location Withheld"''.

-->"..the scariest part is that ''no one at the hospital will talk about it.'' Which implies that ''everyone'' has seen this thing at some point, and (understandably) been scared shitless by it, but they ''can't discuss it openly.'' Imagine having that kind of experience, and having no one you can talk about it with--not even to check to make sure other people have seen it too, and you're not just going crazy. That damn thing would be hiding behind every pleasant sentence spoken between any coworkers in that place, undermining every positive emotion, making any smiles false, turning everyone into a liar, each person wondering, "Did they see it too? Are they thinking about it right now? How come no one else will talk about it? Am I the only one?"

* The titual prediction in "Prediction" isn't really scary, but the ghost delivering it, whose face consists of three giant eyeballs? ''Terrifying''.

** [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1107421.html?thread=33719005#cmt3371900 5As one reader noticed, the "baby" isn't even the creepiest part of the story.]]

* "The Rear Guard's Decision". A young boy never looks at his reflection when leaving the gym, because, for some reason, it's ''distorted into a horrible, blank, staring face.]].

* The author tells a rather creepy story about a childhood experience that he believes is his only real supernatural encounter. He was part of the swimming club in his home town and in order to allow the children to practice more for an upcoming summer competition, the coach takes them all to this small dormitory middle school outside the town. The pool was outdoors with a plastic tent covering it, and there were no lights. Regardless, they practice in the pool until late in the evening when their coach arrived and told them that they're done for the day. The author and a friend go the bathroom for a bit, only to come back to the pool and see their coach and the rest of the team standing outside looking into the tent. They all look dumbstruck and frightened, and when the author's friend took a peak, all emotion drained from her face. Their coach proceeds to count the students, finding that they're all with him, before locking the tent. The author didn't see anything, and constantly asked his friends what they saw, only for them to stay quiet about it. That is until the trip back to the city, where his friend asked if he at least was able to see what was in the far left corner of the pool... the half-submerged, corpse-like body of a child, just staring at them with dead eyes. The author can't say if he actually did.

* This is approximately 85% this trope, executed very subtly. The other 15% are [[BreatherEpisode apparently pointless or goofy stories]] that don't seem to fit with the rest, but for some reason only make it creepier. From [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fuan_no_tane/v01/c000/12.html the one]] about the cloth-sack headed thing that waits outside the school, to [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fuan_no_tane/v02/c000/16.html the one]] about what the nurses have to do when in the corridor of the hospital after a baby's been born... Needless to say, not one to read in the dark at 3am.
* ''Fuan no Tane'' is a textbook way to induce fear in those who have Ommatophiobia (phobia of eyes [especially unnatural eyes]) and Social Anxiety Disorder, as one symptom of SAD is the fear of being watched. It is taken UpToEleven and then some.

* The author tells a rather creepy story about a childhood experience that he believes is his only real supernatural encounter. He was part of the swimming club in his home town and in order to allow the children to practice more for an upcoming summer competition, the coach takes them all to this small dormitory middle school outside the town. The pool was outdoors with a plastic tent covering it, and there were no lights. Regardless, they practice in the pool until late in the evening when their coach arrived and told them that they're done for the day. The author and a friend go the bathroom for a bit, only to come back to the pool and see their coach and the rest of the team standing outside looking into the tent. They all look dumbstruck and frightened, and when the author's friend took a peak, all emotion drained from her face. Their coach proceeds to count the students, finding that they're all with him, before locking the tent. The author didn't see anything, and constantly asked his friends what they saw, only for them to stay quiet about it. That is until the trip back to the city, where his friend asked if he at least was able to see what was in the far left corner of the pool. [[spoiler: The half-submerged, corpse-like body of a child, just staring at them with dead eyes.]] The author can't say if he actually did.

* The author tells a rather creepy story about a childhood experience that he believes is his only real supernatural encounter. He was part of the swimming club in his home town and in order to allow the children to practice more for an upcoming summer competition, the coach takes them all to this small dormitory middle school outside the town. The pool was outdoors with a plastic tent covering it, and since there were no lights. Regardless, they practice in the pool until late in the evening when their coach arrived and told them that they're done for the day. The author and a friend go the bathroom for a bit, only to come back to the pool and see their coach and the rest of the team standing outside looking into the tent. They all look dumbstruck and frightened, and when the author's friend took a peak, all emotion drained from her face. Their coach proceeds to count the students, finding that they're all with him, before locking the tent. The author didn't see anything, and constantly asked his friends what they saw, only for them to stay quiet about it. That is until the trip back to the city, where his friend asked if he at least was able to see what was in the far left corner of the pool. [[spoiler: The half-submerged, corpse-like body of a child, just staring at them with dead eyes.]] The author can't say if he actually did.

* ''Fuan no Tane'' is a textbook way to induce fear in those who have Ommatophiobia (phobia of eyes [especially unnatural eyes]) and Social Anxiety Disorder, as one symptom of SAD is the fear of being watched. It is taken UpToEleven and then some.