History NightmareFuel / RingingBell

** In the English Dub, [[VocalEvolution Chirin's voice becomes gruffer and deeper]] after he finishes weeping over accidentally destroying eggs from a mother bird's nest, [[GutturalGrowler which is a huge contrast]] to Chirin's cute and cheerful voice heard for the majority of the film. [[EvilSoundsDeep His voice remains like this for the majority of the film]] until he grows up to become a fully grown ram.

** Which of course, almost leads to [[DownerEnding the very ending of the film. the very profoundly bleak and heart wrenching ending of this movie,]] and just how it nearly [[SurpriseCreepy comes out of nowhere, like an actual]] GainaxEnding, makes it worse.

** The ''Lyrica'' adaptation from 1977 is even worse! [[BloodlessCarnage While blood isn't present]], [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence it graphically]] described [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Chirin being soaked in his mother's blood]] after she's killed! Making Chirin's emotional reactions extra heartbreaking. The same goes for the extended versions of the story.
** The 2003 flash adaptation by Storygate Picturebooks depicts the aftermath of the death of Chirin's mother similar to the original book. Unlike the original book version, the aftermath starts with strange wavy lines in front of a blood red background before it cuts to Chirin hiding in a small pit of hay. Then Chirin's mother's dead corpse slowly starts emerges as it hides Chirin's body. The sequences ends with a closeup shot of Chirin's eyes glistening as he sheds a SingleTear in front of the same blood red background.
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_3013.jpeg Unlike the Sanrio adaptation where he blew the door open, Woe breaks into the side of the sheep stable and feasts his eyes on the first snack he sees…Chirin and his mother.]]
** Try to imagine a more realistic picture of Chirin's mother's corpse, the kind you don't see from a censored lens. She would probably have teeth marks, her throat torn open, some skin ripped off, some disembodied features…''and a disemboweled stomach''. This also applies to the corpse of her husband and her fellow ewes in the extended versions.

* Begins with the scene where Woe kills Chirin's mother.

* Begins with the scene where Wor the Wolf King kills Chirin's mother.

* The original book has this [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/d7aec9f54e2cce355ec863815f254a12/tumblr_inline_o5gxi94b0O1qmby87_1280.jpg creepy illustration]] of Chirin first meeting Woe/Wor [[DissonantSerenity while Chirin's smiling]]. A reminder that this took place minutes after Chirin discovers his mother's death.

** Try to imagine a more realistic picture of Chirin's mother's corpse, the kind you don't see from a censored lens. She would probably have teeth marks, her throat torn open, some skin ripped off, some disembodied features…''and a disemboweled stomach''. This also applies to the corpse of her husband and her fellow ewes

** The ''Lyrica'' adaptation from 1977 is even worse! [[BloodlessCarnage While blood isn't present]], [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence it graphically]] described [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Chirin being soaked in his mother's blood]] after she's killed! Making Chirin's emotional reactions extra heartbreaking.

** The book as well as other adaptations, including the ''kamishibai'' version, has the entire flock being killed off by Woe. Note the illustration in the ''kamishibai'' version when he first meets Chirin. His stomach is big…and it’s filled with probably the guts and wool of Chirin's family. What makes this version darker is that Chirin was left as a soul survivor and he was probably traumatized so much, that it lead to his revenge.

** The book as well as other adaptations, including a ''kamishibai'' version of the story, has the entire flock being killed off by Wor, hence his stomach suffering from being full when he first meets Chirin.

* As Chirin's still trying to convince Woe on becoming a wolf. We get a scene where Woe is seen killing a deer, while [[https://i.imgur.com/6uaRTWM.png Chirin is secretly watching him in shock and fear]], but still puts on a tough appearance. This is one of the few moments in the movie where we get an on-screen kill.

** The book as well as a ''kamishibai'' version of the story has the entire flock being killed off by Wor, hence his stomach suffering from being full when he first meets Chirin.

* The artwork of the Lyrica comic adaptation is [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/aec86f4bba526ce6da096a9f08797b13/tumblr_psfxakCH5a1sulc1a_1280.jpg pretty]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/7dc709235a4a2221b9e5f3b1552b9faf/tumblr_psfx63db5M1sulc1a_1280.jpg nightmarish]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/9e893e03ddc8d1d8f2457d542a1aa93f/tumblr_psfx65Jcja1sulc1a_1280.jpg as]] [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/c5773c266b87c9e3c19485066e754a6a/tumblr_psfx66qYbK1sulc1a_1280.jpg well]].

For a 45 minute long animated film made by the [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} people who brought you]] [[Franchise/HelloKitty Hello Kitty]], ''Chirin no Suzu'' is filled with some surprisingly [[TearJerker/RingingBell heartbreaking]] [[SurpriseCreepy and terrifying moments]]. [[CreatorsOddball This movie is considered to be one of Sanrio Animation's]] [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest works as a result.]]

* Chirin's TransformationSequence into a demonic-looking [[UncannyValley ram-wolf]] hybrid. The animators did a bang-up job of turning a sheep into something ''utterly terrifying.'' Watching him [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomp]] an entire pack of savage guard dogs is the stuff nightmares are made of. Little wonder the sheep were terrified of him.

--->''"Chirin tried to tell the frightened sheep that he had once lived with them in the meadow. But nobody believed him. The creature they saw before them was not one of their kind. Chirin was neither wolf nor sheep; he was an animal which caused only fear and terror."''