Lenka Li
Introduction:
Mystery and horror anime always about solve a case, ghost, and bloodshed. It can base on the police office, gangdom, and superpower. It always with a lot of detective, in this kind of anime, the main character always is a very smart guy, and he will lead all characters in that anime to solve the case. Or, it can be any kind of hobgoblin, demons and ghost,which the article had said “Anime whose focus is to scare the audience.”.Because the anime type is gruesome, the painting style is not that well as Shojo manga and some of the opus have a weird style which is very rare. For many detective anime are always come from a novel, in this kind of manga, author will give out lots of detail explanation, visual cues, and expression, but the risk is, the mental activity can’t be express as well as novel. “The Kindaichi Case Files” can be the magnum opus in this field, because this manga came out, this kind of manga became famous. The left side picture is “The Kindaichi Case Files”, it can be represent the old painting style, and the right is the modern style.
The right side of the anime is called Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell. The story involved super power, it talk about a supernatural system that allows people to revenge other people by asking help to Ai Enma, the Hell Girl, sent him to Hell, then after that person dead he will have to go to hell too. This is an anime about request case, as the article said "This is not necessarily solving a crime, but can be a realization after a quest.".This anime express the emotion of revenge, injustice, and hated. People can log in Ai’s website system at 12 o’clock in the morning and type down the person’s name for asking help, after the system success send it to Ai in the hell, she will come to him, the rule for her help is she will bring the person who request person wants to revenge to hell, but after request person dead his soul will go to hell too. She has three of other companions, one turn to be a carriage with fire bring Ai to the secular life; one can open a invisible eye to get information; the last one is a woman only have skeleton, but she can make other see her as a normal person, sometime she will make her skeleton visible to curse their target. Those three companions for Ai all can turn to be a scarecrow with a line, when request person make a decision to contract with them, he will take off that line, then Ai will bring that target to hell.