Top 10 Grotesque Anime Monsters
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Top 10 Grotesque Anime Monsters
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but jeez! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we are counting down our picks for the Top 10 Grotesque Anime Monsters.
For this list, we’ll be looking at the creatures in anime that are downright horrifying to behold, that ooze hideousness from every pour, and will very likely ruin your lunch.
As majestic and magical as Miyazaki’s worlds tend to be, the O.G certainly knows how to splash on the occasional piece of nightmare fuel. Case and point, when Ashitaka found himself defending his village from the wrath of a deity in the shape of boar, who just happened to have fallen to the corruption of the forest. Portrayed through a miasma of dark, wriggling parasites that coat the beast’s body, it’s a haunting sight to behold, made all the worse when you see just how fast it can run!
Shying away from the fire and brimstone and amping up the disfigured flesh, this pack of pale, otherworldly beings are a million times worse than any monster that could be lurking under a child’s bed. With their great intellect only matched by their instable appetites for human flesh, these crafty critters have managed to secure themselves a near endless supply of food by having their humanoid servants raise orphans until they’re ripe and juicy. The only thing more unsettling than their conveyor belt of orphan corpses are those damn demon eyeballs of theirs.
It’s the Stand that just keeps on giving. Even after its user ends up full of holes, this flesh-hungry monster relentlessly pursues Giorno and the gang like a bat out of hell, instantly reacting to movement and expanding into a torrent of acidic mass that can melt a person into bloody chunks. In close proximity, this is thing is your worst nightmare. If not for Trish’s timely intervention, it would have chowed down on the whole lot of them. Scary to think that its still wandering out there somewhere in the ocean.
Do you hate moths? Well, prepare yourself because they don’t come bigger or worse than this fluffy floozy. Yet another demon in dire need of being introduced to Hyakkimaru’s arm blades, what makes this devious hellspawn so much more repulsive than the rest is due to the kiddies she leaves behind. As the villagers’ lure outsiders to their death, Mama Moth lets her hatchlings run wild feast on them. Considering they look like giant maggots and she lays a colossal batch at a time…yeah, no tears were shed when she got her wings torn.
It takes something pretty tremendous in order to bust open a planet, but these terrors from the depths of space are big and ugly enough to make it happen, evident from when they forced all of humanity into the vacuum of space. Whether they’re contending with mecha or possessing humans as hosts, this giant constructs of alien flesh are very hard to kill, unless of course you’ve practised your harpooning skills and can spear them right through the placenta. Even in death, these things are just nasty to behold.
Poor guy. Probably thought he was going to rule the world with his incredible telekinetic abilities and his bitchin’ cape. Alas, so much mental force turned out to be pretty bad for his body, as after exerting too much power, Tetsuo’s body began to bloat until he was nothing more than a giant blob, all-consuming and uncontrollable, crushing everything that gets caught inside its hideous flesh flaps. That’s the price you pay when you get your hands-on absolute power and you’ve got the mind of a vengeful adolescent.
These green pests are no strangers to fantasy anime, but by far their most hideous incarnation came via this rather controversial outing. Not only are they ugly as sin, but they only live for two things – killing adventures and defiling women. Considering we see the results of their appetites in explicit detail, it’s all to easy to be sickened by these things, and then rejoice when Goblin Slayer brings a club down on their head. The little ones by themselves are bad enough, but just wait until you meet the Goblin Champion and Goblin King. Who knew that repulsive had so many shades.
Turns out that not only can Gintoki and the gang pull of hard-hitting drama, outrageous comedy and blistering action, but they’re not bad at horror either. After all, only a sick mind could conjure up something as ungodly as the Pandemonium. These things aren’t only horrendous to look at and act as food for demons, but can also change they face and gender as a defence mechanism, going from something that looks likes it was squeezed out by Berserk to a beautiful blonde. Still not sure you should have kissed it Shinpachi…
They were on screen for less than a minute, but holy crap was it a memorable one. A loyal member of the Tomb of Nazarick, this nauseating creation loves nothing more than dishing out its special brand of torture, which just happens to involve thrusting spikey instruments into places they aren’t supposed to go of its victims, and likely several other equally inhuman tactics too violent to show onscreen. You know you’re in bad company when you’d rather deal with the giant cockroach and his army of carnivorous offspring than one second as Neuronist’s plaything.
Tanjiro has cleaved his way through quite a few demons in his time, but in terms of sheer vileness, nothing surpasses this amalgamation of arms. Large in size and sadistic in nature, the Morphed Demon lives to brutally rip apart the students of Urokodaki out of vengeance, growing more powerful and more hideous with each carcass he devours. You’re pretty much a goner if Mr. Grabby Hands gets a hold of you, unless of course you’re an adept at Water Breathing and can slash through that rotten coconut he calls a head.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but jeez! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we are counting down our picks for the Top 10 Grotesque Anime Monsters.
For this list, we’ll be looking at the creatures in anime that are downright horrifying to behold, that ooze hideousness from every pour, and will very likely ruin your lunch.
#10: Boar God
“Princess Mononoke” (1997)As majestic and magical as Miyazaki’s worlds tend to be, the O.G certainly knows how to splash on the occasional piece of nightmare fuel. Case and point, when Ashitaka found himself defending his village from the wrath of a deity in the shape of boar, who just happened to have fallen to the corruption of the forest. Portrayed through a miasma of dark, wriggling parasites that coat the beast’s body, it’s a haunting sight to behold, made all the worse when you see just how fast it can run!
#9: The Demons
“The Promised Neverland” (2019)Shying away from the fire and brimstone and amping up the disfigured flesh, this pack of pale, otherworldly beings are a million times worse than any monster that could be lurking under a child’s bed. With their great intellect only matched by their instable appetites for human flesh, these crafty critters have managed to secure themselves a near endless supply of food by having their humanoid servants raise orphans until they’re ripe and juicy. The only thing more unsettling than their conveyor belt of orphan corpses are those damn demon eyeballs of theirs.
#8: Notorious B.I.G
“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind” (2018-19)It’s the Stand that just keeps on giving. Even after its user ends up full of holes, this flesh-hungry monster relentlessly pursues Giorno and the gang like a bat out of hell, instantly reacting to movement and expanding into a torrent of acidic mass that can melt a person into bloody chunks. In close proximity, this is thing is your worst nightmare. If not for Trish’s timely intervention, it would have chowed down on the whole lot of them. Scary to think that its still wandering out there somewhere in the ocean.
#7: Maimai-onba
“Dororo” (2019)Do you hate moths? Well, prepare yourself because they don’t come bigger or worse than this fluffy floozy. Yet another demon in dire need of being introduced to Hyakkimaru’s arm blades, what makes this devious hellspawn so much more repulsive than the rest is due to the kiddies she leaves behind. As the villagers’ lure outsiders to their death, Mama Moth lets her hatchlings run wild feast on them. Considering they look like giant maggots and she lays a colossal batch at a time…yeah, no tears were shed when she got her wings torn.
#6: Gauna
“Knights of Sidonia” (2014-15)It takes something pretty tremendous in order to bust open a planet, but these terrors from the depths of space are big and ugly enough to make it happen, evident from when they forced all of humanity into the vacuum of space. Whether they’re contending with mecha or possessing humans as hosts, this giant constructs of alien flesh are very hard to kill, unless of course you’ve practised your harpooning skills and can spear them right through the placenta. Even in death, these things are just nasty to behold.
#5: Tetsuo
“Akira” (1988)Poor guy. Probably thought he was going to rule the world with his incredible telekinetic abilities and his bitchin’ cape. Alas, so much mental force turned out to be pretty bad for his body, as after exerting too much power, Tetsuo’s body began to bloat until he was nothing more than a giant blob, all-consuming and uncontrollable, crushing everything that gets caught inside its hideous flesh flaps. That’s the price you pay when you get your hands-on absolute power and you’ve got the mind of a vengeful adolescent.
#4: Goblins
“Goblin Slayer” (2018)These green pests are no strangers to fantasy anime, but by far their most hideous incarnation came via this rather controversial outing. Not only are they ugly as sin, but they only live for two things – killing adventures and defiling women. Considering we see the results of their appetites in explicit detail, it’s all to easy to be sickened by these things, and then rejoice when Goblin Slayer brings a club down on their head. The little ones by themselves are bad enough, but just wait until you meet the Goblin Champion and Goblin King. Who knew that repulsive had so many shades.
#3: Pandemonium
“Gintama” (2006-18)Turns out that not only can Gintoki and the gang pull of hard-hitting drama, outrageous comedy and blistering action, but they’re not bad at horror either. After all, only a sick mind could conjure up something as ungodly as the Pandemonium. These things aren’t only horrendous to look at and act as food for demons, but can also change they face and gender as a defence mechanism, going from something that looks likes it was squeezed out by Berserk to a beautiful blonde. Still not sure you should have kissed it Shinpachi…
#2: Neuronist Painkill
“Overlord” (2015-18)They were on screen for less than a minute, but holy crap was it a memorable one. A loyal member of the Tomb of Nazarick, this nauseating creation loves nothing more than dishing out its special brand of torture, which just happens to involve thrusting spikey instruments into places they aren’t supposed to go of its victims, and likely several other equally inhuman tactics too violent to show onscreen. You know you’re in bad company when you’d rather deal with the giant cockroach and his army of carnivorous offspring than one second as Neuronist’s plaything.
#1: Morphed Demon
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” (2019)Tanjiro has cleaved his way through quite a few demons in his time, but in terms of sheer vileness, nothing surpasses this amalgamation of arms. Large in size and sadistic in nature, the Morphed Demon lives to brutally rip apart the students of Urokodaki out of vengeance, growing more powerful and more hideous with each carcass he devours. You’re pretty much a goner if Mr. Grabby Hands gets a hold of you, unless of course you’re an adept at Water Breathing and can slash through that rotten coconut he calls a head.
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