Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness applied to Anime & Manga. Note that anime is one of the few mediums where it's really common to see 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 Berserk being by far the ultimate example.
Anime is one of the few mediums where violence has become less intense as time has gone on, as Moral Guardians had enough influence in the 2000s to purge out the ultra-violent series and encourage publishers to pick up series that score in the mid-range. Safe to say that an absolute gorefest like Fist of the North Star won't be published in modern Shonen Jump anytime soon.
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Level 0
Level 1
- Akazukin Chacha note Slapstick violence and magical attacks, but no blood.
- Azumanga Daioh
- Bakuten Shoot Beyblade
- Cardcaptor Sakura note Usually it's a 0, but some episodes feature a couple of brief, but somewhat intense fighting sequences.
- Doraemon
- Hitoribocchi no OO Seikatsu
- Kiki's Delivery Service note Kiki gets attacked by crows, and there is a climax involving a blimp crash and Kiki having to save Tombo from falling off a tower. Otherwise a 0.
- Love Live!
- Lucky Star
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
- Only Yesterday note For a young girl getting slapped by her own father as discipline, leaving her crying intensely. Otherwise a 0.
- Patlabor note For the New Files OVA and the first movie. Frequent, often slapstick but relatively realistic mecha-on-mecha action, but no actual deaths occur. Some of the plots averted by SV2 threaten mass death, and a character commits suicide by jumping off an oil rig, but no deaths are seen.
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) note Threats of danger, but they are defeated before anything bad happens.
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (anime) note The constant slapstick sometimes gets too brutal for a 3, but nowhere near the level of the manga.
- Digimon Adventure note Brutal deaths and torture are presented in a cartoonish way (especially concerning Puppetmon and Piedmon). Digimon can reincarnate and can usually be killed guilt-free.
- Digimon Frontiernote Lots of intense fighting scenes, but no gore. Digimon usually can be killed guilt-free since they reincarnate.
- Dragon Ball
- Dragon Ball GT
- Dragon Ball Super
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
- FLCL
- Futari wa Pretty Cure
- Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (highest) note Most episodes tend to have a level of 0-3. There are a couple of episodes that make it to 4, such as the stepmother burning to ashes in "The Six Swans", with a realistic reaction. The titular character in "Bluebeard" also engages in sadistic violence, by stabbing and impaling his wives to death. The same episode also has hanging corpses of wives, and rose petals turning to blood with a very small amount splattering on the protagonist. A key is also stained with rose petals turning to blood, repeatedly bleeding even after washing. It ranks a 4, as the blood comes from inanimate objects which cannot bleed, and the blood is not detailed.
- HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
- Howl's Moving Castle note Here for Howl profusely and audibly bleeding while heavily injured in bird form. It would be a 6 were it not for him bleeding Black Blood that was mostly obscured by dark lighting. Otherwise a 1. Sophie gets confronted by two guards near the beginning, with undertones of more sinister intentions, but Howl finds her before things could get worse.
- Kinnikuman (anime)
- Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005)
- Lycoris Recoil
- Noirnote A very hard 4. Frequent gunplay and even a few realistic stabbings throughout (one of the lead villains is a Psycho Knife Nut, of all things), yet absolutely no blood save for a couple of moments where it’s very briefly shown, and never detailed.
- Pokémon movies note Especially for the Electric Torture in Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
- Ranma ½
- Reborn! (2004) (anime)
- Ringing Bell (1978) note A deer is bitten in the neck by the wolf, with a minor amount of blood seen for less than a second. Other violence is mostly containable to 2 or a soft 3.
- Sailor Moon (anime)
- Saint Seiya (anime)
- The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent
- Terror in Resonance
- Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (uncut anime)
- Zombie Land Saga note Here mainly because of Sakura's death by vehicular manslaughter in the first episode; it's portrayed too realistically for a 3, despite the lack of visible external injury. The cast frequently lose limbs, their heads, get shot or thrashed around, but since they're undead and don't bleed, it's all played for goofy slapstick.
Level 5
- Astra Lost in Space
- Bleach (anime)
- Digimon Adventure tri. note Digimon are killed off for real and their deaths look way more realistic, also some Body Horror
- Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna note For the scene where Omegamon got both of his hands cut off by Eosmon depicted in gross detail. Otherwise a 4 with no blood or graphic violence, although it does feature one of the most profilic serial kidnappers in Digimon history.
- Digimon Tamers note Bloodless Carnage, but Digimon do get Killed Off for Real in a less cartoony way and there are major consequences
- Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time note For pretty much anything Quartzmon does on-screen (which features liberal use of body horror). Otherwise a 3 at maximum.
- Dragon Ball Z Kai
- Durarara!!
- GTO: The Early Years note Fights are common, usually involving fists or blunt weapons, and frequently involve blood. Only one character dies on the page, but offscreen or Attempted Rape is not uncommon, and several characters get disfigured by sharp objects or fire.
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
- Hunter × Hunter (1st anime adaptation)
- InuYasha (The anime) note Every horrific act imaginable, but relatively toned down compared to the original manga.
- Haruhi Suzumiya note While fights are rare in the series, and discounting the few fights there are would put the series at a level 2, the fights can get pretty bloody.
- Maria the Virgin Witch
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
- Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Odd Taxi
- One Piece (uncut anime)
- Oshi no Ko note Mostly for the somewhat bloody deaths of Ai and Goro
- Princess Tutu (2002) note A soft 5. While most of the violence averages around a 3, there are several sword fights and stabbings, sometimes self-inflicted, with sight and spurts of blood just frequent enough to reach this level.
- Rosario + Vampire
- Starship Troopers
- Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation (1999)
- Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind (2009)
- Sword Art Online: pre-Alicization
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Witchblade
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (original manga)
- YuYu Hakusho
Level 6
- A Silent Voice (2016) note For Shoya briefly having a dream of Shoko's bloody corpse and his non-fatal fall into a pool of water, with a lot of blood.
- Black Clover note Initially, fights usually do not have blood, but there have been instances of crushed limbs, limb dismemberment, and stabbing. This changes in the Dark Triad and Lucius arcs where fights become increasingly more bloody and tense, with characters routinely being mutilated by absurdly powerful attacks and in the Lucius arc, seemingly killed, and the Dark Triad incorporating Body Horror in their attacks. However, most attacks inflict clean wounds, preventing it from going higher.
- Blue Exorcist
- Cat Soup (2001) note Some cartoonish gore, surrealist presentation prevents it from going higher.
- D.Gray-Man
- Death Note note The more violent deaths, apart from heart attacks, and some attempted rapes push it up to this. The anime's finale might score a 7 due to the extreme amounts of blood.
- Dirty Pair note The original anime and Project Eden fall here, featuring some mildly gory deaths of aliens and some blood from fighting. The Adam Warren Dark Horse adaptation reaches an 8 at it's peak.
- Dragon Ball Z
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Complete (2009) note The Blu-ray version makes the final battle much Bloodier and Gorier, with Cloud being graphically impaled with blood multiple times. Otherwise a 4 like the original version.
- Full Metal Panic! note Averages here between the four series. The first series is a solid 6, with a very bloody headshot being the worst of it. The haunted house episode of Fumoffu is a 5 for some High-Pressure Blood played for laughs, but the rest of that series is at 4 for slapstick that gets excessively rough. The Second Raid has far more frequent blood spray during shootings, a focus on blood stains, and implied animal cruelty, reaching a 7 in the process. Invisible Victory is even Darker and Edgier in tone, but still never goes past a 7.
- Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
- Kinnikuman (manga)
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica note For the scene where Charlotte eats off Mami's head, but it's framed in silhouette. Otherwise a 5 for very painful and traumatic but relatively bloodless violence towards young children.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold note Here because one of the live action sequences which end each episode shows a chicken being ritually decapitated. The episodes themselves tend to hover around Level 4.
- Naruto
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi
- Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
- Ode to Kirihito note Rapes via Gory Discretion Shot, blood from gunshots and a brief non-sensationalized surgery scene.
- Paprika (2006)note Mainly for the Mind Rape of Atsuko/Paprika (borderline 7) and a couple of very bloody, albeit brief, gunshots.
- The Promised Neverland
- The Rose of Versailles
- Sabagebu!
- Sailor Moon (manga)
- Saint Seiya (manga)
- Sky Blue (2003)
- The Sky Crawlers (2008)
- Spirited Away (2001) note It largely gets rated this high for all the blood splattering around when Haku (in dragon form) is wounded.
- Street Fighter II V
- Tenjho Tenge
- Trigun (anime)
- Violet Evergarden
Level 7
- A Certain Scientific Railgun
- Alabaster note Horrifingly grotesque mutations by a flawed invisibility gun, taken down a level due to it technically not dismembering anyone but merely making it look like such. Partially onscreen rape of a teenager.
- Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)
- Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King note Mostly a level 6 due to the extremely intense, yet mostly bloodless fighting scenes, but the huge amount of spilled blood in the final fight against Conrad puts it to this level.
- Black Lagoon (season 1) note Frequent and bloody gun violence throughout, though nothing beyond action movie level until season 2.
- Bleach (manga) note Mainly due to the Bloodier and Gorier later arcs, beforehand a Level 5 or 6.
- The Boy and the Heron (2023) note Mainly rated this high for the scene where Mahito cuts a giant fish open, and fish guts and blood spill out all over him. The scene where Mahito hits a rock over his head, with a moderate amount of blood spilling out, is at level 6. Otherwise, level 2.
- Cells at Work!
- Claymore
- DARLING in the FRANXX
- Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012)
- Dragon Ball (manga) note Level 4 prior to the appearance of Raditz, with an arguable exception of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai.
- Dropkick on My Devil note Yurine's punishments of Jashin-chan often have large blood squirts and can involve dismemberment, but any exposed organs or entrails are censored and the show itself is Black Comedy.
- Ergo Proxy
- Eureka Seven
- Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] note Lots of blood, but no real grisly mutilations.
- Fullmetal Alchemist note Includes both the manga and Brotherhood, though the rather grisly mutilation the homunculi face would go up to a 9 if they were actual people and not Humanoid Abomination with near-unlimited regeneration.
- Gushing Over Magical Girls note Mostly for the sadistic sexual torture routinely performed on-screen. The fighting itself is a 4.
- Haibane Renmei note Solely for the scene in which Rakka gets her wings, in the first episode; otherwise a level 3 or 4.
- Happy Sugar Life note Solely for the scene where Satou murders Shouko.
- Hellsing (first adaptation)
- Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)
- Kill la Kill note The offscreen child molestation isn't quite explicit enough for an 8.
- Macross Plus note The attempted rape and Guld's eyes exploding bloodily under extreme G-forces place it up here. The majority of the violence is bloodless dogfighting/mecha combat, however.
- Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury note For a terrorist bloodily exploding after being crushed by Aerial with a severed arm visible, and various moments of blood splatter from gunshots.
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) note For Nausicaä slaughtering the Tolmekian troops for murdering her father, with blood being seen in the background; Nausicaä accidentally stabbing Lord Yupa in a fit of rage, with blood dripping down her sword; some brief and bloodless impalements during a swordfight; the baby Ohmu getting brutally impaled and mutilated by Pejite men to be used as bait (this scene is a borderline 8, and it would be a 9 if the Ohmu didn't bleed blue blood); Nausicaä getting bloodily shot by said Pejite men, then having her wounded foot dragged into an acid lake (another borderline 8 scene); and the revived Giant God Warrior's flesh melting away to the bone (this scene is also a borderline 8, and it would be a 10 had the Giant God Warrior been drawn with more humanlike detail). Surprising for a PG film released in the US after the introduction of the PG-13 rating.
- One Piece (manga) note Many fights in the series can get pretty messy, with bones being broken in gruesome fashion, limbs getting injured to varying results, lots of blood flying everywhere, and a few grisly mutilations here and there being commonplace (although never too brutal to guarantee a higher ranking). It gets particularly intense especially during the Marineford arc (with Whitebeard having half of his face graphically blown off before getting blasted hundreds of times with gunfire and Akainu punching a gory hole through Ace's torso being the most extreme examples) and a few post time skip arcs, not to mention several instances of disturbing body horror.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt note Most of the violence is relatively cartoony and comedic in nature, and only gets on a 7 due to a scene in the final episode where Garterbelt gets his heart ripped out.
- Paranoia Agent note It reaches a 7 for the brief sight of a puppy hit by a car, mangled and covered in blood alone. However, although other onscreen violence is a 6 at most (with liberal use of closeups of bloodied bats and aftermaths of violence), it still fits here due to the bleak and disorienting tone, the cavalier attitudes towards murder and suicide expressed by some characters (including children), and one episode featuring a disturbing undercurrent of heavily implied sexual abuse.
- 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.
- Popee the Performer note Bloody headshots with gory holes left in them, gushing blood, cartoonish decapitation and bisection, suffocation, poisoning, cannibalism and starvation that could easily be a hard 8 or 9, but fits here due to the surreal and Black Comedy presentation of everything. This series was for children.
- Promare (2019) note Much of the violence is level 5 or 6. What gets this film here is footage of Kray Foresight shooting Deus point blank in the head with a resulting giant blood spurt, repeated several times.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion (2013) note It receives a light 7 due to Homura's rather bloody self-inflicted headshot.
- Reborn! (2004) (manga)
- Revolutionary Girl Utena note For the extremely dark subject matter surrounding sexual abuse. Would be an 8 if it was depicted in a more explicit manner as most of the victims of teenagers, but the abuser manipulates them into these acts in a non-violent fashion. Other violence caps at around a hard 4.
- Romancing Apoptosis Doll Sartain In Love note There's a very graphic death scene in Chapter 5. It's Bloodless Carnage because the victim is a doll, but it can be ranked higher if that were a real person.
- Samurai Champloo
- Seoul Station (2016)
- Serial Experiments Lain (1998) note For a little girl being bloodily shot multiple times, along with some fairly nasty body horror during the final episode. Otherwise level 6 for some other disturbing scenes of violence that are usually not directly shown.
- Spy X Family note It ranks here for the surprisingly extremely brutal, blood-drenched aftermaths of Yor's assassinations. Otherwise level 6 for on-screen violence being limited to beatings, stabbings, and shootings with minor blood spillage.
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) note Due to the extremely brutal Chun-Li vs. Vega fight scene.
- Tales from Earthsea (2006) note For a dragon briefly ripping out the throat of another dragon, resulting in blood vomiting; a man stabbing his own father leaving a puddle of blood; a young girl getting caught by slavers with the implication of more perverted intentions; and a man slicing off the arm of a wizard, resulting in some blood and the stump getting shown on-screen, though said arm is reattached. Otherwise a 2.
- Tekkonkinkreet (2006) note A few brutal and bloody stabbings and shootings, very brief (close to split-second) sight of a pair of severed ears in a box, and mostly impressionistic Eye Scream of the lead villain. The artstyle gives it some distance to the point where it’s a light 7, however.
- Wolf's Rain
Level 8
- 91 Days
- 3×3 Eyes
- Akame ga Kill!
- Armitage III
- Banana Fish note Two onscreen scenes of violence in particular rank at level 8 alone: Ash jamming a power drill into Eduardo Fox’s stomach after he is stabbed in the shoulder, and Ash stabbing a fork into a prisoner’s crotch. While much of it is implied, this series' extremely dark and complex treatment of child trafficking, sexual abuse, and rape is just intense enough to reach an 8 as well. Other violence caps at a hard 7, mostly headshots and stabbings with profuse bloodspray.
- Banished from the Hero's Party
- Battle Angel Alita (Manga, OVA, Last Order, Mars Chronicle)
- Belladonna of Sadness (1973) note Several rape scenes of considerable detail.
- Berserk (1997) note Here as a result of the Limited Animation. The horrific rape scene during the eclipse, which scores a 10 in the original even without gore, is lowered here due to being mostly offscreen. Despite this, the eclipse is still a borderline 9.
- Berserk (2016) note Similar to the 1997 anime, but far more graphic. It would be ranked higher if not for the poorly-done animation.
- Black Butler
- Black Lagoon (season 2 and Roberta's Blood Trail) note The Vampire Twins arc goes here due to huge blood splashes during the twins' killings, a torture scene and the semi-graphic violence against children. Later arcs include implied dismemberment with a chainsaw, a graphic jigai scene, and in Roberta's Blood Trail, a non-graphic rape scene in flashback.
- Blame!
- Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
- Blood+
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan note The main character is constantly killed in cartoonish, darkly comedic ways with outrageous amounts of blood splatter and gore being commonplace. Would be a 9 or 10 if it wasn't so silly.
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (manga) note Lots and lots of High-Pressure Blood, in keeping with the old Jump series it parodies, but outright gore is rare - except for the Shinsetsu arc, which has moments of hideously detailed Body Horror that easily border on a 9.
- Boogiepop Series (2019 adaptation)
- Brutal: Satsujin Keisatsukan no Kokuhaku note Many bloody and graphic kills but never truly gory. Intense and frequent depictions of sexual and physical violence against women and children.
- Case Closed (both the anime and manga)note Similar to the Simpsons, it is hard to rank this series due to it being around for a very long time. In general, there are many blood-drenched crime scenes. Explicit gore is generally silhouetted at least in the anime, but some of the deaths are brutal enough to be here. In the first issue of the manga, a man is decapitated while on a roller coaster, with his neck spurting blood all over the passengers. This part was censored in the first anime adaptation, but the remake uncensors it. In "Mountain Village Bandaged Man Murder Case" and the anime adaptation, a woman's dismembered body is discovered, with a man trying to pick up her body as the head rolls away. This scene would be at least a 9 normally, but avoids it due to the dim lighting obscuring most of the gore. There are many more scenes that could be mentioned, but as mentioned before, the length of the series would make it prohibitively long.
- Coffin Princess Chaika
- Change 123
- Code Geass note Due to the infamous Elevens genocide towards the end of Season 1 and the dead children's bodies in the flashback of Episode 16. Otherwise a Level 6.
- Cowboy Bebopnote A light 8, mainly for the multiple shots of corpses and copious bloodshed in “Pierrot Le Fou” (where people are maimed so badly you can see their bones.) and “The Real Folk Blues.” Otherwise a level 7 for occasionally bloody but goreless fire fights.
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Darker than Black
- Delicious in Dungeon note Detailed butchery of monsters for the purpose of preparing them as food. While normally not too graphic, preparing the larger monsters will frequently involve the cast removing skin, fat, and organs. Otherwise a 4 or 5 for minor bloody injuries and non-graphic corpses. Once Cerebus Syndrome hits, though, human and humanoid characters start experiencing graphic dismemberment, slashed throats, with Falin's first resurrection, where she is reconstructed layer-by-layer starting with her skeleton being a standout example.
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Demon Lord Dante
- Ex-Arm
- First Squad (2009)
- Fist of the North Star (anime and later movies)
- Fist of the Blue Sky (anime)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) note Reaches a light 8 at times due to some incredibly graphic dismemberment (with visible viscera and torn flesh) and far less stylized violence compared to the manga, and The homunculi are (or were) people this time around.
- Future Diary
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End note Usually a 1 to 3 as non-lethal fights are largely bloodless, but deadly fights, especially against demons often result in dismemberment, decapitation, mutilations, and blood spills/stains.
- Gal Cleaning! note Was a 0 until the infamous explicit, multiple chapter rape scene for which the manga is now best known.
- Gangsta.
- Ghost in the Shell (1995) note Bloody exploding head, very bloody but brief result of a high power sniper shot to a body, artificial muscles and flesh very graphically torn up (would be a 9 if they were fully organic).
- Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood (2017)
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988) note For brief sight of the decaying corpse of Seita and Setsuko’s mother - despite the blood-soaked bandages obscuring the worst detail, the sight of significant amounts of charred flesh and maggots festering around the body is just graphic enough to reach this level. Otherwise, a hard 6 for tragic war violence (including less graphic depictions of corpses), a very brutal beating of a teenage boy by an older man and sight of the resulting wounds, and tastefully handled but upsetting depiction of the physical and psychological effects of starvation and malnutrition on children.
- Guyver (manga and Guyver: Out of Control)
- Halo Legends note Precisely the Prototype episode. The other ones sit on the range 4-5.
- Hunter × Hunter (manga and 2011 anime) note Decapitations and dismemberement, brutal head crushing, and some very cruel and slow deaths. Earlier 2011 anime episodes sat at a 5-6 for censorship but eventually climbed back up to the violence level of the original manga.
- ID: Invaded
- InuYasha (the original manga) note Mass death, destruction, torture and Body Horror 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 Demon Slayer villains look like childplay, to the point where a villain has to literally attempt omnicide to truly qualify as a Complete Monster (approximately 3 out of 50+, all being arch-villains with immense resources). It differs from the anime that the Noh Mask actively possesses and kills a person and entire piles of bloodied bodies are laid bare to see, and would be a hard 10 if it were to be drawn with more detail.
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) note Very bloody, repeated shootings. A pretty hard 8.
- Jormungand
- Lone Wolf and Cub
- Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (2012)
- Mezzo Forte note Graphic blood splattering. Though the R-18 version would be higher for the explicitly pornographic gang rape of an android decoy of the protagonist.
- Monster note Despite the fact that the series is rather restrained with showing anything too graphic, Johan's deeds are so unspeakably horrible both within the context and without it that they manage to reach this level despite being implied for the most part, not to mention that many of Johan's victims are defenseless children. The Fingore torture Grimmer is subjected to also brings it up.
- My Hero Academia note For Bakugo's temporary demise in chapter 362, wherein Tomura Shigaraki impales his heart causing it to explode, leaving him with a gory, disgusting gaping hole where his heart used to be, and Dabi graphically burning his body to a crisp, including burning off his limbs in an attempted Murder-Suicide and then suffering a Fate Worse than Death, which is a borderline 9. Otherwise level 6-7 since despite not showing quite as much blood, things like Midoriya's limbs being broken so badly that they turn purple, most of the things Overhaul does, everything involving Himiko Toga, Shoji getting one of his hands cut off, Tomura's horrific past ( culminating with him brutally murdering his abusive father Kotaro by melting into an unrecognizable pile of viscera, which would easily rank a 10 if any of it were shown in full detail), Tomura gruesomely ripping All For One's metaphysical vestige apart in half like a cocoon from the inside out, and more put it on that category.
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) note Far, far Bloodier and Gorier than the film. Regularly showing dismemberments and Ludicrous Gibs. Surprisingly, Viz Media gives the manga a Teen rating rather than a Teen Plus rating. Borderline 9. Could be a 10 if the gore was more detailed and explicit. Hayao Miyazaki's single most violent work.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV Series) note Frequent, profuse blood sprays during the EVA fights, with sometimes enough to cover the city. Eldritch Abomination creatures are often mutilated in gory fashion, with An EVA possessed by an Angel having its face crushed into pieces, which would be a borderline 9 if not for its brevity. The most graphic scene is arguably when Ritsuko graphically dissolves all of the Rei clones; which would be at least a 9 if not for heavy shadows and the clones not being at all sentient. Prior to Cerebus Syndrome it was around a 5.
- Now and Then, Here and There note Some of the most disturbing war violence you can think of without gore, largely because it involves children. Shu is brutally beaten and tortured offscreen and we see his flogged back; innocent girls Sara and Lala-Ru are sexually assaulted offscreen culminating in Sara brutally caving in a would-be rapist's skull; Graphic, fiery battlefield scenery, bloody wounds spattering, Child Soldiers engaging in all manner of sadistic violence and murder, helpless villagers mowed down with gunfire, etc. It's a Crapsack World where indeed, War Is Hell.
- Overlord (2012) (the anime adaptation) note Lots and lots of blood spilled by Ainz and his cohorts, with people frequently being murdered in gruesome and somewhat detailed ways (most visible during Ainz's murder of Clementine). Thankfully, the more brutal murders are often viewed in POV, get a Gory Discretion Shot or happened offscreen.
- Penguin Memories (1985) note Yes, you read that correctly. Brutal, albeit mostly bloodless, war violence in the beginning, and the torture and death of a defenseless bird in the climax.
- Perfect Blue (1997) note Brutal and bloody stabbings, including eyes; as well as a long and disturbing simulated-in-universe rape scene.
- Princess Mononoke (1997) note Dismemberment with blood spurting. Otherwise a hard 7 for relatively tamer dismemberments, a giant boar demon's face melting (borderline 8), a character being shot with a blood spray, leaving him bleeding a lot afterwards, a wounded boar god vomitting blood and a deer-like god's head being blown off. Easily Studio Ghibli's most violent film and a rare example of a PG-13 movie at this level.
- Re:CREATORS
- Rebuild of Evangelion
- Record of Ragnarok note Bloody dismemberment of Gods and fabled historical figures alike, Anyone Can Die in full effect. Not too fully detailed and not much particularly gruesome wounds, but still a hard 8.
- Reign: The Conqueror
- Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) note Borderline 9. Tons of blood from shootings, impalements, barely obscured head crushings. Graphic dismembered corpses strewn about. Lickers are stomped, smashed, and torn in half with tons of blood. Tyrant is reduced to nothing but gnarled legs and a spine from an airstrike.
- Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) note Just enough blood splattering from shootings and neck bitings to reach here. A light 8.
- Revenger
- Sword of the Stranger note Fairly bloody stabbings, dismemberment and a brief slicing in half of a mook. Borderline 9.
- Sunday Without God
- Tekken: The Motion Picture (1998)
- Texhnolyze
- Tokyo Crazy Paradise
- Trinity Blood
- Valvrave the Liberator
- Vinland Saga (second half)
- Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song note Due to the extremely bloody massacre of park visitors in the opening episode.
- Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina note Due to episode 9.
- Wicked City (1987) note For the infamous scenes where a tentacle monster orally rapes a topless woman and an alien is shown to have a Vagina Dentata. Other level 7 violence throughout, including a less detailed gang rape and bloody shootings, stabbings, and less graphic body horror.
- Uzumaki note Some of the most horrific spiral-themed body horror imaginable.
- X/1999 (the 1996 OVA)
Level 9
- Adolf note Numerous gory headshots, carts containing sick jews are set on fire with their screams being heard. Adolf Kaufmann brutally rapes Eliza by manipulating and luring her in a realistic fashion, and Miss Ogi and Adolf Kamil are brutally tortured by Kaufmann and Akabane, with Miss Ogi having cigarette butts put out on her breasts. There are also depictions of severely burnt Japanese civilians.
- Afro Samurai note Gratuitously bloody and brutal slicing, dicing, decapitation, evisceration, repeated dismemberment, impaling and other carnage. The only thing preventing this from hitting 10 is the lack of any explicit internal gore.
- AKIRA (1988) (The anime film adaptation) note A man is shredded by a barrage of heavy gunfire. Tetsuo imagines his guts spilling out. Some characters gorily gibbed. Extreme body horror that borders on 10 if not for how surreal it is. Said body horror also bloodily crushes a little girl. Otherwise, it's a level 8 with quick scenes of graphic violence.
- Akudama Drive note The broadcast version is an 8.
- Alice in Borderland note Plenty of gore to go around in the Borderland's "games", including civilians blasted into pulp by a 20 millimeter cannon, an arm ripped off by strikes from a metal door, a teenage girl's leg getting ripped apart with exposed bone visible, as well as brief sexual assault
- All You Need Is Kill
- Angel Cop
- The Animatrix (2003) note Precisely The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2 episodes. Otherwise, Level 6-7.
- Another note Due to the teacher's suicide with a knife in episode 7. Level 8 otherwise.
- Baccano!
- Bakemonogatarinote Violence is relatively infrequent, but when it happens it tends to be really bloody and gory. The fact it's most often inflicted on a character with a powerful Healing Factor drops the hardness, though. The Kizumonogatari movies border on 10, particularly for the scene where Kiss-Shot is shown feasting on Guillotinecutter's mangled severed head with his mutilated corpse clearly visible in the background.
- Baki the Grappler note Extreme, detailed injuries that verge on Body Horror, such as guys getting their entire faces peeled off, horribly twisted and broken limbs, crushed skulls, broken jaws, insane amounts of blood, and other messed up scenes such as on-screen rapes. That said, the way people in this manga shrug off these horrific injuries makes it nearly impossible to take seriously, and as a result rarely crosses into the kind of disturbing splatterfests one expects from works at level 10.
- Bastard!! (1988) note The 2022 anime bumps this up to a borderline 10 due to the Art Evolution.
- Blade of the Immortal note Manga and live action film. Due to scenes of mutilation and torture in certain arcs. A level 8 otherwise.
- Chaosic Rune
- Cross Ange note Contains bifurcation of a 12 year old with lots of blood, characters get eaten by Dragons, contains Attempted Rape scenes, the final episode has Embryo getting bisected, Jill gets her skin melt off by a hot laser beam causing a lot of blood.
- Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School note Easily one of the most violent installments in the franchise. Future Arc features the NG Code poisoning victims having half of their bodies turn into a purple mess of bulging veins and their left eye leaking blood and Ruruka’s mutilated corpse in Episode 9, and the violence in this arc is amped up by the distinctive use of red blood. The Despair arc features the unspeakably vile actions of Junko Enoshima, most infamously arranging the Student Council Killing Game where the entire student council bloody murders each other in Episode 7, ordering a victim she brainwashed to slowly saw off his own head in Episode 9 and executes Chiaki in Episode 10. The fact that it keeps the franchise's trademark pink blood here doesn't help matters because of how insanely horrible Junko is as a villain regardless of in and out of context.
- Deadman Wonderland
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba note Averages a 7, but it lands here instead due to having some highly gruesome scenes such as demons having their limbs and heads cut off with torrential blood spray, humans being brutally cut into pieces, Muzan Kibutsuji injecting a woman with so much of his infectious blood that her cells are overwhelmed and she graphically melts into an unrecognizable pile of viscera and in a later episode, him graphically killing his helpless subordinates in highly bloody and creative fashions such that the entire floor is coated in blood and gore. The deaths of Tanjiro's family in episode 1 is a borderline 10 due to their young age and how brutal their deaths were.
- Devilman (first two OVAs)
- Digimon Ghost Game note The earlier Digimon incidents might not even be worth a 3. But as the series goes further, it can go all the way to this level on a case-by-case basis. There's all sorts of grotesque Body Horror and Forced Transformations that wouldn't look too out of place in Made In Abyss and at least two explicit on-screen murders of a human by a Digimon. Digimon deaths or fatal wounds are depicted with significantly more gross detail, but Bloodless Carnage or Gory Discretion Shot is still used for human deaths.
- Doomed Megalopolis
- Dororo (2019)
- Fate/Zero note Everything involving Caster, along with scenes such as Kayneth's magic circuits destroying themselves in response to Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet, puts the anime squarely at this level.
- Fourteen note Body Horror and mutilation. Frankly too bizarre to make sense of much of the events, which keeps it near a low 9.
- Franken Fran
- From the New World
- The Garden of Sinners
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) note For the very gory, butchered body at a crime scene that's is very briefly seen. Otherwise a hard 7 for bloody decapitations and gunshot wounds. Rare for a PG-13 movie.
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex note Contains two scenes of graphic head explosions akin to the anime movie, as well as an episode centered around a serial killer skinning victims alive (one of whom is a young girl), albiet they're not very detailed. Otherwise usually hovers around the 7-8 range for some bloody shootings.
- Goblin Slayer note Extremely horrific acts committed by ugly and Always Chaotic Evil Goblins against adventurers rendered in your typically cutesy anime style. Rape, torture and bloody deaths are all over the place, with equally brutal and gory deaths dished by the Goblin Slayer and his friends against said Goblins, all depicted in no holds barred, full-blown Berserk-style detail at times. A very hard 9 overall, with the smooth artstyle of the non-goblins probably making it a bit harder, but the fantastical setting prevents it from being a 10.
- Golden Kamuy
- Highschool of the Dead
- Inuyashiki note The scene in episode 2 where Hiro brutally and bloodily murders an entire family, including a small child who drowns being crushed by his father's corpse and a teenage girl, is a borderline 10 but the lack of explicit gore just barely keeps it down here.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure note Lots and lots of very creative and grisly Fist of the North Star-style mutilations alongside highly detailed Body Horror, gory imagery and scenes of explicit and brutal animal cruelty and torture among violent human deaths. However, the relative lack of extreme gore, the blasé attitude towards most of the really sadistic deaths, and Hirohiko Araki’s fondness for not having his heroes stay dead for long (or his villains for that matter) keep it out of the 10 range. Nevertheless, it’s a hard 9, especially for a shonen series.
- Jujutsu Kaisen note For the horrific gory mass civilian massacres during the Shibuya Incident Arc Otherwise a hard 8 with plentiful blood and mutilation being a common sight. Mahito's Idle Transfiguration causes particularly gruesome Body Horror.
- Karakuri Circus
- Kingdom
- Kite (1998) (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.
- Lily C.A.T. (1987) note Goes here due to the graphic death sequences, up to and including the horrifically gory death of a cat.
- Mad Bull 34
- Made in Abyss note Initially a 6 until episode 10, where Riko is gruesomely stabbed through the arm with a poisonous appendage, bleeds out of all of her orifices and nearly has her swollen arm amputated as Reg tries to stop the poison. From that point onwards, Body Horror, children being horrifically brutalized or killed and extremely realistic painful reactions are common. Although not graphic enough for a 10, it's nevertheless a hard 9 for these reasons.
- Magical Girl Site
- Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (anime)
- MW note While not especially gory, it goes well beyond a level 7 due to Michio's creative methods of murder. For just one example, he injects a woman with a poison that causes death on orgasm just before she climaxes and then stuffs cigarrettes into the mouth of her father until he falls down a sheer cliff face. And plenty of his victims are children, as well.
- One-Punch Man (manga) note A lot of gory violence that, despite being stylized and over-the-top, is still brutal enough to get up here. Most of this involves Saitama taking out several opponents in a single punch, resulting in them being messily reduced to various gory messes with lots of blood flying everywhere.
- Parasyte
- Psycho-Pass
- Redo of Healer note Makes up for the limited amount of gore and blood with unhinged and gratuitous usage of rape, Cold-Blooded Torture and slavery — even the protagonist is a Serial Rapist who enslaves the girls he captures. In one scene, said protagonist lures out a villain to be tortured, raped and cannibalized by several thugs. The resulting corpse is not that detailed, but the sheer brutality of this act is so incredible that it doesn't help.
- Resident Evil: Heavenly Island
- Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (2021) note Gorily eaten body. Head obliterated from shotgun suicide. Tyrant gorily melted. Other level 8 shootings and mutilations.
- Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire
- Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) note Humans graphically diced up by razorwire. Civilians graphically blasted by chainguns. Head torn off by dog. Countless level 8 shootings and other carnage.
- Re:Zero note The truly gruesome is obscured by Gory Discretion Shots, but there are more than enough messy, agonizing deaths to qualify for this level.
- School Days
- SiN: The Movie (2000)
- Shiki
- Sword Art Online: Alicization arc note Much, much Bloodier and Gorier than the previous arcs, including an absolutely unhinged rape scene where Raios and Humbert rape Ronye and Tiese and was bloody murdered by Kirito.
- Tokkô
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Tomienote Grisly level 8 violence committed against humans. The inhuman Villain Protagonist is graphically mutilated in various fashions that could easily be a 10, but she can't truly be killed and just regenerates a few hours later, and despite her tragic backstory, she completely deserves everything that happens to her.
- Trigun (manga)
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust sits on the level 7.
- Vinland Saga (first half)
- When They Cry
- X1999 (manga)
Level 10
- A Certain Magical Index note For the scene where someone gets his entire skin ripped off graphically by magic (to put into perspective, if Predator gets a 10 for this reason, this applies too). Otherwise an 8.
- AKIRA note Grisly, graphic cyberpunk violence that absolutely pulls no punches in depicting the worst of humanity in a bleak, grotesque post-apocalyptic hellscape. This inlcludes people dying left and right in brutal ways, unruly and savage teenagers who run vicious bōsōzoku gangs that engage in bestial and barbaric acts, realistic police brutality, inhumane scientific experiments, some gory overkill, lots of blood and, most notoriously, Tetsuo's transformation, which features absolutely horrific body horror that's much more gruesome than that of the anime film adaptation and is shown in prolonged, extremely disturbing and utterly nauseating detail.
- Apocalypse Zero note Repeated over-the-top brutal and gory mutilations, with many people getting gruesomely executed via getting smashed, skinned, torn apart, squeezed until all their internal organs burst out of their mouth, and more. Despite the violence's largely exaggerated nature, it's still graphic, messy and detailed enough to reach this level.
- Attack on Titan note For Faye's and Ymir Fritz's half-eaten corpses as well as the inhuman mass death and chaos of The Rumbling, with thousands of innocents being crushed underneath the feet of titans as their bodies are torn into dozens of pieces, and Ramzi being slowly crushed to death until his head splits open in half, exposing the brain (the anime adaptation tones down these moments making it a hard 9). Otherwise a hard 8 for frequent mutilation with plenty of considerable blood, some gore and off-screen rape, with the most gruesome moments being either brief or kept off-screen. Nevertheless, this surprisingly somehow ran in a Shonen magazine after the proliferation of Moral Guardian viewpoints.
- Baoh note Every brutal, gory mutilation imaginable.
- Barefoot Gen note For the very graphic depictions of innocent civilians, including children and animals, being burned up by the atomic bomb's explosion, and the corpses and very severely-injured survivors in the aftermath. The "ant-walking alligator people", anyone? Like a disturbing amount of items on this list, this was originally published in Weekly Shōnen Jump.
- Basilisk
- Berserk (the original manga) note Extremely intense and visceral sequences of ultraviolence and gore, with all sorts of depravity and inhumanity being up for grabs. This includes excessive gore, fiery battlefield scenery with lots of casualties, gory splash panels of horrific apocalyptic imagery, plenty of psychosexual body horror, disturbing creature designs and sadistic, brutal torture. Cannibalism, blood orgies and explicitly pornographic rape scenes are commonplace. The worst of these is the inhuman mass death and chaos of 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, Casca being spitefully raped by Griffith as Guts is Forced to Watch with his very eyes (one of which gets gouged out). Needless to say, all of this is played seriously for all its horror and the manga's extraordinarily detailed art-style doesn't help it. Definitely NOT for the faint of heart.
- Berserk: The Golden Age Arc note All the violence of the 1997 anime adaptation now shown in its uncensored gory glory.
- Blade of the Immortal (the 2019 anime adaptation)
- Blood-C note Countless innocents grotesquely butchered and brutalized by monsters (the most notorious example being the bunny massacre in the last episode).
- Cannon Busters note Episodes 2 and 3 have completely skinned corpses that look incredibly detailed.
- Chainsaw Man note Extreme brutal gorn and body horror.
- Corpse Party: Tortured Souls OVA note Every hideous mutilation imaginable, and all of it involving children.
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners note Significantly Bloodier and Gorier than the source material, with countless exploding and crushed heads, bisections, grisly surgeries, more dakka, and ludicrous gibs galore with torrents of blood and, while it's mostly heavily stylized and/or with little explicit gore (save for the headshots), they're still brutal enough to reach this level. Additionally, there are some deaths that have much more gruesome detail and higher level of overkill, such as the peeing cyberpsycho, Tanaka, Faraday, and Becky's deaths, two doctors, and a flashback to Norris' massacre.
- DEAD Tube note All sorts of heavily-detailed, Berserk-esque gore filled, blood-drenched mutilations, Cold-Blooded Torture and barely-titillating rape scenes. Needless to say they are all done in the most detailed, graphic way possible. Unlike Berserk however, the protagonists themselves also flat-out play on par with the "villains".
- Devilman (manga and Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman OVA) note Every hideous mutilation known to man (including sexualized ones) shown in brutal detail.
- DEVILMAN crybaby note Excessive, brutal, hyper-gory carnage that surpasses the gruesome violence of its source material, complete with many humans and demons shown getting grotesquely dispatched in just about every horrifying way imaginable. The most notable instances of this include the Sabbath party massacre in the very first episode (which is flashbacked to on many occasions), the relay-race massacre in episode 6, Noel's death in episode 8, Silene being butchered and raped in episode 5 (which is horrific enough despite the lack of red blood), and Miki's death in episode 9. Despite the surreal art-style and cartoonish gore, it still reaches this level with ease due to the acts being explicit and perverse enough, not to mention the sheer brutality and cruelty of the violence depicted.
- Dorohedoro note Gratuitous amounts of gore, with a huge nember of victims being constantly subjected to all sorts of incredibly nasty mutilations. This includes them getting Eaten Alive, graphically dismembered, disemboweled, torn in half, reduced to a bloody paste, and much more. While it's all done in a darkly comedic manner, it's still gory enough to reach this level.
- Elfen Lied note Humans and animals, be they hostile or innocent, torn apart and obliterated in the bloodiest, sloppiest way possible.
- Eden: It's an Endless World! note Every inhumane act imaginable.
- The End of Evangelion (1997) note For both the EVA Unit-02 being gruesomely ripped to shreds in the most inhumanly brutal way possible, killing the pilot Asuka inside, and the equally grotesque death of the Giant Naked Rei creature (who contains the soul of, you guessed it, Rei), with the EVA Unit-01 bursting out of its eyeball and literal oceans of blood and its head falling off with its spinal cord and viscera clearly visible. While both Rei and Asuka are revealed to be Not Quite Dead, the scenes are still brutal enough to reach this level.
- Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel note The extraordinarily dark subject matter surrounding sexual violence places it here. Even past that, scenes such as True Assassin bursting out of the false Assassin's chest, revealing internal organs, Shirou being outright Gutted Like a Fish by Berserker with a clear view of his intestines flying out behind him, and the extraordinarily bloody fistfight between Shirou and Kirei in the third movie are enough to qualify it for this level.
- Fate/Zero note Manga only, due to the increased level of gore throughout and the increased detail applied to Sakura's rape by Zouken.
- Fist of the North Star (manga, 1986 movie, and New Fist of the North Star OVA) note A complete gorefest in every sense of the word, with many people (both innocent and evil) are commonly shown with their heads graphically exploded in brutal detail and on occasion, sometimes even bursting into massive showers of gore. Aside from that, there are the ocassional graphic mutilations inflicted on characters as well as plenty of body horror.
- Gantz note Protracted, brutally gory deaths to humans and aliens (so brutal even their deaths hit this level).
- Genocyber note Specifically for episodes 1 and 2; with infamous scenes involving toddlers getting completely annihilated by helicopter chainguns and a hospital's patients and staff getting mutilated in horrific ways. The rest are a very hard 9.
- Golgo 13
- The Professional note Normally, the movie would sit at about a 6 or 7 with fairly typical action movie stuff. What mostly pushes it this high is the character Snake who commits many graphic acts over the course of the film. In particular, his absolutely brutal and realistic murder of a group of special commandos who howl in agony as he severs limbs and rips out eyes as well as his extended and mostly onscreen rape of a woman locked in a room. Other highlights of this film include Gold and Silver's nightmarish backstory and deaths, Snake's gruesome murder of Golgo's contacts and a man who suffers the double whammy of jumping to his death before getting shot through the forehead. That last one even includes a lovely x-ray cam that shows the bullet penetrating the skull and the guy's upper torso splattering into mush as he hits the pavement.
- Queen Bee note It normally doesn't go above an 8 at the highest. What pushes it here is the character Lt. Benning who leads a raid on Queen Bee's home village. Several noncombatants and innocent civilians are shown being gunned down while soldiers are shown being murdered in several graphic ways, such as being impaled on spikes or getting stabbed through the eye. Not even children are spared in the massacre and are killed alongside the adults. There is also a very brief but descriptive conversation about Benning murdering and eating a pregnant woman and returning to base with a helicopter of human heads. Lastly, there is a (just offscreen) rape of a little girl and a strong implication that a woman who gets shot was pregnant, which means a baby was killed as well.
- Guy: Double Target note Extremely grotesque Body Horror, beheadings, dismemberments and Raina and Cara graphically gagged and subsequently raped by an inmate in episode 1.
- Hellsing (manga and Ultimate OVA) note Innocents and belligerents; human and Humanoid Abomination alike shredded, blasted, consumed and more in ultra gory fashion. Explicit sexual violence including necrophilia and child rape.
- I Am a Hero note Humans sloppily devoured by zombies and zombies blasted to pulp, etc.
- Ichi the Killer note Every form of butchery depicted.
- Joshi Kouhei note Various shots of intestines spilling out from gunfire, sword strikes and a truck crash, a shot of an assault doll with it's face ripped off, and an extended and extremely explicit gang rape sequence that transforms into bizarre sexual Body Horror midway through.
- Junji Ito note The fantastical framing would normally take it down a level, and he often skews much lower, but it's still so grotesque it can't be ranked anywhere but here at its peak.
- Lychee Light Club note All sorts of ultra-violence imaginable with extremely detailed streams of blood and people's entrails literally spilling out. A hardly-tiltilating rape-murder scene is present on the first chapter.
- Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (manga)
- Magical Girl Apocalypse
- Mai-chan's Daily Life note An ero-guro (erotic gore) hentai. Brain Bleach required.
- MD Geist note Bodies crushed and obliterated into gory pulp.
- Mnemosyne note Grotesque sexual torture, characters torn limb by limb.
- Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show note Young girl repeatedly abused, raped, and tormented. Puppies gorily pulverized. The infamous sequence of an audience getting grotesquely mutilated in the most bizarre ways.
- Ninja Scroll (1993)
- Pupa
- Shigurui note Gruesome mutilations shown up close, in slow motion, in grotesque detail, internal and external throughout.
- Shintaro Kago note Goes about as far you can take Level 10, with standouts including self-disembowlment to alleviate constipation, slow torture via skin removal, sex during open abdominal surgery, dead fetuses displayed as artwork and oral rape of a woman crushed by a hydraulic press. Much of it is played as absurdist humor, but the content still goes so far that it easily makes it into this level.
- Speed Grapher
- Vagabond
- Violence Jack note Incredibly gory and grotesque slaughter of innocents including children, horrific murder/rape, genital mutilation, etc.
