Chainsaw Maid

Anime featuring prominent female characters, or with a female target audience, with dark and/or edgy themes and aesthetics. Anime for your inner edgy middle-schooler

(one entry per franchise)

Anime full of Halloween spirit and spooky vibes.

Requirements for inclusion:
1. Halloween themes/tropes.
2. Western Halloween/horror tropes/characters.
3. Horror and/or action anime that give me a "Halloween" vibe (such as featuring vampires, werewolves, and so on).
4. Halloween inspired aesthetic.
5. Anime that give me "October" vibes.

What's not included:
1. Anime with witches that isn't spooky inspired setting (eg: Majo no Tabitabi).
2. Horror anime that doesn't feel distinctly "Halloween" enough.

Details:
1. Only anime that I have watched myself are included.
2. One entry per series (usually the first season will be listed).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation

Includes clay, gypsum, and plasticine animation.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/30399

No reason other than a little harmless fun.

Welcome to the black hole of anime.
The weirdest, most unsettling, gory, nonsensical stuff I somehow managed to enjoy.

part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37073
part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37102

These stacks are meant for cataloguing every stop-motion animation on Myanimelist. The list is the result of research by the Stop-Motion Animation Appreciation Society:

https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=16200

Stop-motion is a form of animation in which objects are manipulated little by little while each frame is shot separately. Puppet animation is the most common, but before 1935 cutout animation was also very common. Among other types are claymation, pixilation (now removed from the database), object and model animation. In this list also works using sand, charcoal or paint are included, since in the form they've been accepted to MAL, they also include gradual manipulation and shot by shot filming.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47018

Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47021
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47022
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47023
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47026
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47027
Part 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47032
Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47034
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47035
Part 11: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47036
Part 12: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47038
Part 13: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/49186
Part 14: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/51880

Creepy clay and petrifying puppets.

The Stop-Motion Animation Appreciation Society: https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=16200

DigiCon6 ASIA Awards is a competition for short films of Asian origin, established in the year 2000 by TBS.

Most of the winning entries from recent years can be viewed for free on the official website and youtube channel:

https://www.tbs.co.jp/digicon

There is an English version of the website as well, but it doesn't list all the Japanese regional winners. Instead, unlike the Japanese version, it does have winners from other regions:

https://www.tbs.co.jp/digicon/en

This list is by no means comprehensive, as many of the winners don't have a MAL entry yet, presumably because the creators might not be established in the industry.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/51870

Feeling adventurous? Want something quick to watch? This is a list of all the MOSTLY one-off animations I've seen. These range from the very strange, to the extremely pleasant and satisfying.
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Taken from mara's Youtube video.