It’s that time of year again.

Kids runny around in costume and candy at every door, snuggling with your partner while watching the worst of horror movies.

To celebrate the best holiday of the year for Otakus, we are counting down the top 10 best Halloween anime that are perfect to watch on Halloween.

10. Soul Eater

Death gods, angry evil beings, Soul Eater sets up Halloween elements perfectly.

Soul Eater is a great start as it’s not too scary, but shows the viewer what the world would be like with death gods, witches and the like.

Soul Eater follows three weapon meisters and their human weapons. The goal is to make a death scythe, the ultimate weapon, by eating 99 evil human souls as well as 1 witch soul.

Shown in pairs with their weapons, the students enrolled in Death Weapon Meister Academy as they train to become the Ultimate Death god.

 

9. Highschool of the Dead

You can’t have a scary show anymore without zombies or some form of undead creature.

That being said, Highschool of the Dead is another great spooky show that is a little more high on the adrenaline than the fear.

What if you woke up one day, came to school, and suddenly 99% of the student body were zombies looking to eat you?

Unfortunately though, for a group of students and the school nurse, they are trapped on the roof of the school.

Panicked and scared, they must now try to find safety while escaping the horrors of a zombie invasion.

8. Paranoia Agent

As a psychological thriller, Paranoia Agent isn’t so much bloody or adventurous as the other two.

What’s really disturbing, among many things in this show is the harsh animation.

Paranoia Agent is about "lil slugger", a boy who mysteriously travels around on golden skates with a bent golden bat. What does he do with it? He assaults people.

As more and more people are being targeted, two detectives try to step in, at their own peril, to solve the mystery behind lil slugger and get to the bottom of all these attacks.

It’s a great show to give you the chills in preparation for Halloween. Be sure to watch it in the dark.

7. Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek

Kakurenbo rolls in for good reason. To put things bluntly: it’s creepy.

Kakurenbo follows a game in an abandoned city. What kind of game you ask? Well, it’s kinda like… capture the flag meets hide and seek.

It’s called Otokoyo which means manhunt in English. There’s one problem though, the teams are those playing the game in the old, abandoned city itself.

The longer you play the game, the more the city starts to fight back. Can these children survive long enough to win?

6. Tokyo Ghoul

What puts Tokyo Ghoul here is obviously the horror element as well as the blood, violence and fighting.

At times being quite graphic for a show that aired on TV, Tokyo Ghoul is a great show for Halloween.

Kaneki was an ordinary college student, but one day he is attacked by a powerful ghoul, Rize. Somehow killing her and surviving.

The doctors take parts of Rize, since she dies, and puts them into Kaneki. They did not know that she was a Ghoul.

Now when Kaneki wakes up, he can no longer eat normal food. The sight of it makes his stomach curl. What does he crave? Human flesh and Blood.

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5. Higurashi no Naku koro ni

Higurashi may be one of the scariest shows you have ever seen. 

It’s perfect for Halloween because this show has gore, horror, and above all else, it’s psychologically disturbing.

Higurashi starts out with Keiichi Maebara, who had just moved to the small town of Hinamizawa. Life seems to be adjusting well for him in his small school where he gets along well with his classmates.

In fact, so well, they form a club together and play games. One day, the games stop being fun. People start getting hurt. Someone’s coming for Keiichi.

Part of the way through, the story resets and now it’s told from another person’s perspective.

But things are different this time. What’s going on?? What’s happening??

4. Vampire Hunter D

Where would Halloween be without a good Vampire flick?

As a great way to get you hyped up for Halloween, this anime has got the whole post-apocalyptic thing.

10,000 years into the future, society as we know it has collapsed. Monsters now exist freely attacking people.

It’s a throwback to centuries old living and how the people survive. They are ruled over by a merciless vampire count.

When he takes a girl as his own and bites her, she hired the help of a passing traveler named D. Well, D just happens to be the best vampire hunter in all of the world and takes up her task.

3. Jigoku Shoujo

Jigoku Shoujo has the word hell in it.

Full of murder, betrayal, voodoo, curses and definitely some mentally unstable people, Jigoku Shoujo is perfect for Halloween.

Have you ever hated someone to the point where it consumed you? Well, there's a good, and maybe potentially bad, news for you.

If you access a website called Hell correspondence at midnight with a heart full of revenge, you're able to call upon Hell Girl.

What does she do? She will offer to take the person that you hate the most to Hell immediately. This comes at a price, and you’ll have to watch it to see what that price is.

2. Blood+

Blood + is another show that’s perfect for Halloween.

It has monsters. It’s got vampires. There is suspense as well as some of the worst heartbreak that you can imagine.

In Blood+ these creatures called Chiropterans, who can transform their bodies into the form of a human being. They hunt and kill people.

There’s a special Organization called the Red Shield, who protect humans from these monsters as well as hunting them down and exterminate them.

Saya was just an ordinary high school girl until one day, she loses an entire year of her life. It’s just gone in an instant and she can’t remember anything.

Her family is torn away from her in the most heartbreaking manner possible, and now she’s out for revenge.

 

1. Hellsing Ultimate

It’s got vampires, zombies, Nazis, ghouls, fighting, horror, psychotic priests, blood, and everything perfect for Halloween.

Hellsing is the name of a secret British organization that keeps the people safe from vampires and other dark creatures of the night, run by Integra Wingates Hellsing, a normal human being.

So how does she protect everyone? She has a deep, deep dark secret. She has the world’s greatest Vampire Exterminator at hand, Alucard. And he’s a vampire too!

However, the monsters are getting braver, darker, and more violent. An ancient war is brewing and the Hellsing organization is going to need everything they can, maybe even borrowing from hell itself, to fight back…

Creepy, dark, and violent, if there was ever a perfect show to watch for Halloween, it would be this show hands down.

(source: honeyfeed)