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Shigofumi
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Wonder Egg Priority
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Both shows use contemporary dark fantasy, supernatural powers and horror to look into a number of delicate themes from the perspective of young teenage girls. Themes include child abuse, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, suicide, forbidden relations and other taboo subject matters. Both share a similar narrative structure and atmosphere. In the respective first halves, in an episodic monster-of-the-week style the unnatural death of a deceased side character is handled by a protagonist using her supernatural ability to communicate with the dead and bring redemption. Then the focus shifts to the traumatic backstory of the protagonists themselves in more detail. Both shows only slowly unravel the
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Of the deceased. Shigofumi and WEP both feature deceased individuals highly impacting people, namely students, creating this very unsettling world for those who are currently living in response to those close to them who died.
Shigofumi does this with the dead's messages in the form of letters. WEP does this with the dead being the main cause students are fighting against some evil monsters. The two may not be entered interlocked but I can say for sure that they do know how to make things quite gloomy and depressing.
Both are good anime for those psychological lovers.
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