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Saki Sanobashi
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Saki Sanobashi, often paired with the subtitle Go For A Punch, is a fictional OVA from the late 1980s or early 1990s. According to rumor, the OVA is 30 minutes long and features anywhere from three to nine high school girls trapped in a bathroom with no doors or windows, who eventually all commit suicide in a gruesome manner.The anime was first spoken of in a 4chan post◊ from 2015, from a thread asking users about the most disturbing things they've seen on the deep web, and has since been covered by the likes of Whang on YouTube. A subreddit dedicated to researching and attempting to find the lost anime was made in 2019, but as the content is no longer taken seriously by its members, another has been made for serious discussion only. A person claiming to be the original 4chan poster later visited the subreddit claiming that they fabricated the story about Saki Sanobashi in a matter of minutes as a joke, but the lack of any definitive means of verifying that they were indeed the original poster means that the OVA's existence is still very much up in the air depending on who you ask. If it is fake, it'd certainly beat out Ichiban no Tempura or Keit-Ai as the most memorable fake anime not related to Dragon Ball Z.There's been an effort to turn the urban legend into a web-novel series. The first part can be read on Wattpad, here. There's also an RPG adaptation. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: In most versions of the story, no explanation is given as to why the girls are stuck in the bathroom, and the girls often are described as discussing whether they'll ever escape or not. | |
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Screaming Woman | |
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Screaming Woman: A particularly blood-curling scream from one of the girls, resembling an excerpt from "Dies Irae", apparently stuck in the original poster's memory. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: All of the girls commit suicide. Some versions of the legend end with a post-credits scene featuring another girl waking up in the bathroom. | |
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Book Ends: One version of the story has a post-credits scene featuring another girl waking up in the bathroom after the others have killed themselves. | |
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Adaptational Modesty | |
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Adaptational Modesty: The girls are stated to be naked in the original 4Chan post, but most fake screenshots and fan art depict them fully clothed. | |
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You Wake Up in a Room | |
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You Wake Up in a Room: The Ova supposedly begins with the cast of girls waking up in a bathroom with no idea how they got there. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: The girls, from several days of starvation and maddening isolation. | |
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Bungled Suicide | |
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Bungled Suicide: One girl attempts to drown herself in the sink, only to ask for another to help her. In some versions of the story, the other girl succeeds; in others, she can't bring herself to kill her either. | |
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Slashed Throat | |
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Slashed Throat: Another one of the methods of suicide the girls apparently use is ripping their throats open with their own fingers. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: The girls first spend some time philosophising about their predicament. According to the 4chan poster the anime "wins the time record for character development" as it was successful in making him empathise with them. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The webnovel version of the story ends on a very cryptic note. | |
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Hime Cut | |
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Hime Cut: The girl who attempts to drown herself allegedly sports this hairstyle, along with brightly-colored hair. | |
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Head Desk | |
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Head Desk: The violent version of this is one of the ways the girls commit suicide, smashing their heads against the walls until they bleed out. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
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Contemplate Our Navels: Allegedly, the bulk of the dialogue consists of the girls waxing philosophical about their situation from both an immediate and a metaphysical perspective. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: The English Go For A Punch subtitle. The Reddit poster claiming to be the 4chan OP claims that this was an Invoked Trope, being picked specifically to reference the amount of 80s anime with nonsensical or irrelevant English titles. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: The girls eventually conclude that killing themselves is preferable to wasting away from starvation in the bathroom. | |
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Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere | |
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Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: The bathroom itself, which has no exits and no obvious means of escape. | |
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Reality Has No Soundtrack | |
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Reality Has No Soundtrack: The OVA apparently has little to no "horror music" to accompany the girls' gruesome deaths, adding to the creepiness of the atmosphere. Some versions say some atmospheric music or ambiance plays throughout, or some sort of Buddhist mantra before the main title card appears. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: The girls suffer this after realizing they'll never escape the bathroom. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: May or may not be in the guro genre, depending on how much the girls' gruesome deaths is a main focus of the OVA. The original 4chan post implied that their deaths were animated with disturbing levels of realism, for what it's worth. Another theory is that it's a guro compilation that the poster saw once and later conflated to be a single continuous storyline. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: The original 4chan poster alleges that the girls were drawn in an art style directly comparable to that of Hayao Miyazaki, particularly noting their "far apart" eyes. | |
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True Art Is Angsty | |
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True Art Is Angsty: Assuming that the OVA is indeed nonexistent and is a fabrication of the original 4chan poster, this would be an In-Universe example given its overwhelmingly dark, cynical tone and heavily philosophical dialogue. | |
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