Line #16 NightmareFuel/DearBrother


1	[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanakoscreams_9868.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:288:You don't want to know [[{{Fingore}} why]] [[KickTheDog she's]] [[DomesticAbuse screaming]]. ]]
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4	For a very melodramatic shoujo originally from TheSeventies, the animated version of ''Dear Brother'' ([[TheNineties from 1991]]) gives some REALLY creepy scenes.
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7	* Rei Asaka's apartment, which only has mirrors and {{Creepy Doll}}s aside of two/three furniture pieces. And this is without counting a certain spot in school, with the knife holes on the walls... RoomFullOfCrazy, indeed. Doubles as a TearJerker, considering the circumstances in which we find out about it.
8	* Nanako has a nightmare in which Fukiko picks up the kenzan [[{{Fingore}} she dropped onto Rei's hand]] and ''maims her with it''. [[GoryDiscretionShot We're never shown explicitely what she does]], but Nanako does give a chilling scream, [[EyeScream clutching at her eyes]].
9	** The ''kenzan'' deal is pretty scary in itself in the anime, due to the effective placement of the {{Pastel Chalked Freeze Frame}}s and the borderline PsychologicalHorror handling. Nanako's picture above is her horrified reaction to it.
10	* Mariko and her boxcutter. It's ''even creepier'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTcloRBfT5E in the anime. (around 2:15)]]
11	** The boxcutter deal came to a head in Episode 27, when Aya's bullying crosses a line too many and thus provoking Mariko to enter a TranquilFury and slash Aya with said boxcutter.
12	* The scene where Rei, after being overloaded on drugs and with a high fever, mistakes Nanako for Fukiko and tries to ''kill'' her. And herself. Then turns into a TearJerker when Nanako ''barely'' manages to snap her out of it, and Rei collapses in tears.
13	* In the manga, [[http://fuckyeahyear24.tumblr.com/post/9917318294/knifeyutensil-have-i-mentioned-how-much-this Fukiko is very good]] at pulling {{Nightmare Face}}s.
14	* While comparatively mild, after Nanako runs out of her birthday party, Mariko grows depressed and refuses to eat anything. Kaoru notices and tries to cheer her up, but Mariko angrily rejects her, saying [[BerserkButton "What good is health? Who cares about health!"]]. The usually level-headed Kaoru becomes so infuriated that she lifts her into the air, shaking her and screaming into her face.
15	* In Episode 13, after we just hear Mariko telling Nanako and Tomoko a tale of StarCrossedLovers [[SuicidePact committing suicide]], Fukiko hears music playing and investigates. While first seeing nothing, we then see a shot of Rei ''appearing out of nowhere'', her silhouette pressed against the window and looking utterly terrifying. [[NightmareFace And when we do see her expression, she looks half-dead.]] That same scene ends with [[TheOphelia Rei laughing hysterically and jumping out a window.]]
16	--> '''Rei''': I waited. Forever. ''Forever.''
17	** Rei was already making horrible, half-dead faces by the first episode. After Fukiko tosses an umbella at her and refuses to give her a ride, she takes some pílls and looks like a ghost while doing so.

Context NightmareFuel / DearBrother