This is in the same vein as Ghost Stories, but it doesn’t have a comedy dub. The actual ghost stories are kept intact for the most part, and they can be quite creepy sometimes, but the dub adds a beloved dose of levity. As they didn’t have a proper translation, they just sort of said “fuck it” and did a comedy dub. In order for Ghost Stories to be both horror and comedy, you must watch the dubbed version. It is perhaps less on the horror side unless you consider gore to be horror. This series, too, is laughs, but also so horribly gruesome.

There are a lot of violent tsunderes in anime, and it is always played for laughs. Luckily, there are very few episodes that are in the “so bad its funny” sort of vein, so there’s that.

Some of them are downright terrifying, and others adds a little more levity. In a similar vein to the Junji Ito Collection, Yamishibai is a short episode series where each episode is a short horror story.

It’s a mix bad of black comedy, horror, and “so bad its funny.” Yamishibai Some of his horror series do find the hilarious in horrific circumstances, but other go for the straight terror and end up fumbling into hilarity. Junji Ito is a master of horror manga, but this animated collection can be a little hit and miss with how they are adapted. The girl teeters between cute and creepy, the whole series has a certain eeriness to it, and it has ecchi comedy that you, quite frankly might not know you even wanted. While a romance between a human and a girl that dies and becomes a zombie doesn’t have to be macabre, Sankarea thankfully goes that route. Danganronpa, for the most part, doesn’t try to be comedic, but it definitely has some levity to it despite the circumstance. However, the characters are all so over the top in their personalities and the punishment games are, well, black comedy at its finest. It is a murder mystery initially about kids stuck locked in a school to play a killing game. Dorohedoro is a series that is carried by amazing characters, and even the serious antagonist of the series is comedic in his own ways. Furthermore, horrific things like opening ones chest to sign a contract with another is treated as a completely normal occurrence and not shocking to the characters at all. It can go from comic relief to pure gore in literal seconds. This series is the perfect amalgamation of horror and comedy.

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