Different from the theme of "friendship, hard work, and success" in the mainstream of Japanese anime today, in the 1970s and 1990s, many dark animations were born in Japan. These animations often express people's inferiority: greed, selfishness, revenge, indifference, hypocrisy, etc., such as the more famous "When the Cicadas Cry" and "Afterlife".
This type of animation generally expresses the thinking of human nature by exposing the ugliness of human nature, and also explores historical issues, social issues and family issues. Objectively speaking, it is not suitable for small children to watch. There are certain requirements for the viewer's life experience, knowledge reserve, etc., so it is a relatively unpopular animation.
Today I recommend several such animations, which are not suitable for children.
Land of the Winds (Theatrical Edition) 1992
In the theatrical version of the anime "Wind Continent", the protagonists are still Diye, Beuys, and La Kexi, a trio of two men and one woman, and the far right of the poster is a beautiful man.
The three of them crossed the desert to a bustling city of Ajkechstra, which was cursed. Four hundred years ago, Atkke Shistra was free from war, agriculture and trade were flourishing, and people lived in fine clothes and singing and dancing. People here want happiness to continue into the world after death, so they create an ideal city of golden splendor, and after death, they are made into mummies wearing gorgeous clothes and masks.
To protect the place, they placed a curse. For some reason, it is now an empty city, with no living people left, and there are mummies wearing masks everywhere. The robbers covet the treasure here, and the three try to stop the robbers, but something terrible happens!
"This is fate, and everyone, in the end, is going to return to the land." Closing lines
Meaningful......
This is a relatively well-known work, and it is also a work that will never end. The 1997 anime is based on the manga of the same name by Kentaro Miura.
Telling the world of the future, blood, greed, killing is rampant, and corpses are strewn across the field, like a shura field. The fate of the young Gus is tragic, and he only believes in the weapons in his hands in the chaotic world, until he meets Griffith, who leads the powerful mercenary group "Eagle Regiment", and his fate begins to change.
It's a man-to-man story, and women are insignificant in this anime. In order to reach the top of the world, they will do whatever it takes, even to give their souls
devil......
Betrayal, killing, men's love and hatred, vividly displayed...
Memories of The Wind, 1990
Adapted from Hideyuki Kikuchi's novel of the same name, Memories of Passing Away with the Wind, written by Hideyuki Kikuchi in collaboration with Yoshiaki Kawajiri, directed by Kazuo Yamazaki.
Originally an ordinary world, because of the arrival of a gust of wind, everyone lost their memory, forgot everything, and even remembered their own names and instincts. Over time, things became uncontrollable, and people began to kill each other. Thousands of years of civilization faded with a gust of wind...
This animation is a conjecture and creation of a civilization that disappeared in human history. The male protagonist, Ado, has degenerated into a baby and begins to learn with the help of a boy who has not lost his memory, and he wants to find out the secret behind the gust of wind...
The Spirit of Whimsy: Zina's Melancholy, 1992
Adapted from the manga of the same name by Kenji Tsuruta, Hideaki Anno greatly appreciated it. But the heroine of the anime, named Zina (the most angry place to watch the anime), runs a Chinese restaurant, and her boyfriend is a scientist who follows Dr. Blankridge in scientific research. The doctor one day made a "space reflection telescope" that can project the effects of the moon on the earth, making an exactly the same space, so that we can see everything on the moon on the earth, and the brain hole is very large...