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Art-Style Dissonance
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This is what happens when the story or themes behind a cartoon, comic, or such don't match their art style. It can be intentional (a specific way for the author to get their point across) or unintentional, in which case it is often jarring. It is often used to portray a work of fiction within another, so the audience doesn't mistake it for "reality". In such instances, Stylistic Suck may come into play. Alternatively, a Disguised Horror Story and/or Subverted Kids' Show is likely to use a cutesy artstyle to hide the dark and disturbing content. A Super-Trope to Grotesque Cute and Sugar Apocalypse, and a Sub-Trope of Mood Dissonance. It can lead to What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? or What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? if the art style is cartoony or kid-oriented. Compare Crapsaccharine World. Compare Art-Style Clash, where the art doesn't clash with the work's tone or themes, rather the work uses clashing art styles within it to highlight those themes. |
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Adventure Time has a simple and childish cartoon design, with generally idealistic and upbeat characters. However, it is also violent, set After the End, and has adult humor and Black Comedy throughout. | |
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Made in Abyss has characters done in a very Puni Plush art style, in stark contrast to the lush backgrounds and visceral horrors. Despite the cutesy looks of the main characters, don't be fooled for even a second, the manga has very frequent graphic content and Body Horror that's realistic. | |
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Ironically, its successor, Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), had the opposite reaction from viewers. The show's art direction features detailed character designs and background art, but the episodes are far less grounded in reality compared to Spectacular, with Cutaway Gags and Silver Age-styled stories. While the show does (occasionally) lend itself to tackling dark themes, its bread and butter deals with kid-friendly tales with minimal continuity. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica has characters done in the Puni Plush style of Hidamari Sketch (by the same artist, even) to tell a Cosmic Horror Story that is frequently compared to Neon Genesis Evangelion. | |
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Clone High is an animated Teen Drama parody featuring clones of real-life historic figures, rated TV-14 and for good reason given its rampant crude humor and sexual references. This despite the show sporting a geometric art style akin to the kid-friendly Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Laboratory. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): The stories drawn by Jon Gray have this in spades, only the weird thing is, it works really well. Gray's hyper-exaggerated, hyper-expressive cartoony style makes comical moments like Knuckles meeting his baby half-brother all the funnier, but it also lends full emotional weight to more serious moments like Sonic and Sally's breakup argument. | |
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LEGO City Undercover is seemingly just another Lego game. However, it has many references to adult movies and books that children aren't supposed to watch/read (James Bond, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator, GoodFellas etc.). You get points for breaking things, a crime boss gets frozen to death (he is rebuilt, but still), a mook loses both hands, The Hero tortures a mook through brain freezing, and more. It is nicknamed Lego Grand Theft Auto for a reason and probably would have the same ratings if not for the LEGO style. The fact that the hero is a cop doesn't make it much better. | |
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Charlie the Unicorn was established as being here once. Charlie's kidney was stolen at the end of the first film. Anything made by FilmCow really. | |
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Maus: Holocaust memoirs — with the characters portrayed as Funny Animals. "Funny" absolutely not being the operative phrase. Art Spiegelman introduced the story in the underground comic Funny Animals with the mice actually having Mickey ears, so he actually toned down the trope in the decade it took turning it into a graphic novel. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo: The series has a loose, cartoony style that wouldn't (and didn't) look out of place in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with each cast member a Funny Animal. That said, it's a fairly straight Jidaigeki, and there is much Family-Unfriendly Violence, and at times a frankly astonishing body count. | |
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Indiecalypse: The "Calarts" style (used for cartoons such as Gravity Falls and The Amazing World of Gumball) depicted in this game is deliberate because Word of God says that he wanted to create this striking contrast between a cartoony art style versus adult themes, gore, and black humor. | |
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This is one of the criticisms often aimed at the Battalion Wars games: their art style is a little too cute for the combat involved, but not quite cute enough for the characterization of the units and commanders. | |
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Peepoodo & the Super Fuck Friends has a bright, colorful art style similar to most children's shows. However, the title should clue you in on what kind of show it is. | |
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Now and Then, Here and There isn't quite as cutesy as some of the examples on this list, but it's unusually stylized for such serious subject matter. This works in its favor, softening the blow of the most traumatic scenes. | |
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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is probably the darkest game in the entire series, dealing with some fairly deep thematic stuff (like aging, losing one's friends, cheating, etcetra). But it still has the same cuddly, puni plush aesthetic as the other games (albeit with more muted colors than other games). | |
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The short Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour has a rather... inexplicable art style for its three characters — Jimmy looks like a realistic adult man with brightly-colored hair and clothes attached to him, Hugh looks like an amateur modeler designed him, and Judy is just a picture that moves around. None of these fit well with the plot of the short, involving Hugh shooting Judy, then forcing Jimmy to watch TV with him at gunpoint before an aggressive pizza they ordered decapitates him. | |
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The main Live Powerful Pro Baseball games tell slice-of-life Baseball stories with chibi doll-like characters. The Pocket sister-series, however, went on a Darker and Edgier route with nebulous crime conspirations, horror-themed stories and characters dying with depressing epilogue/game over scenes if you played badly. Most notable was the Happiness Island story from Power Pro-kun Pocket 6, where the protagonist is sent as a slave to a not-nazi camp for 100 days to pay off outstanding debts and finds the officers performing human experiments and executing underperformers via firing squad. Every game got an All Ages/CERO A rating in Japan regardless of content. | |
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Cromartie High School has a very sharp-edged, heavily-shaded style that makes it look like a fighting anime in the vein of Fist of the North Star. It's actually a high school sketch comedy, even if they still react to everything as seriously as an action series would. | |
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Nineteen-Ninety-Something is designed to resemble newspaper comics from the 1990s, with its actual art direction being reminisent of comics such as Calvin and Hobbes and Zits. However, NNS is clearly aimed at a more mature audience with its colorful language, fanservice, references to drugs and sex, and rampant usage of pop-culture that no kid would likely understand. | |
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Zigzagged with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While not as consistently cartoony as The Wind Waker, it's still very brightly colored and cheery-looking compared with Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess, even though the setup involves the Kingdom of Hyrule having been destroyed by an Eldritch Abomination incarnation of Ganon and the land still being threatened by him and his minions. However, it's also a bit of a Cozy Catastrophe, as a century later many of the surviving settlements are flourishing and most civilians don't seem to care that an apocalyptic event has occurred beyond wistful longing for the good old days when the Kingdom was still around. The fact that Ganon was sealed away during that century, and is only now starting to break free when Link reawakens, is a major factor. Plus, Ganon himself and the Blight Ganons he uses to control the Divine Beasts have Non Standard Character Designs that do look like the kind of gruesome monstrosities that could cause such carnage. | |
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While cartoons aimed at more adult audiences are not really all that unusual today, when The Simpsons first aired in 1989 it raised many eyebrows. This is because audiences were so used to the Animation Age Ghetto that it seemed bizarre and ironic that Springfield is a bright and vibrant town with an Amazing Technicolor Population consisting mostly of yellow people, with idiotic, apathetic citizens, an incompetent police department, a deplorable, low-rate school, a shady and lecherous mayor, and an evil, possibly satanic Corrupt Corporate Executive. | |
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The cute character designs of Hibiki's Magic hide a series of very bittersweet stories about the price people pay for using magic and its unintentional consequences on those around them. | |
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Kevin & Kell. A cute, quirky world of Funny Animal characters... where fangs are more powerful than ideals and savage instinct triumphs over reason and empathy. By the world's local ethos (it's ok to kill as long as you eat it) ethnic cleansing could just be another name for a BBQ. | |
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Yuki Yuna is a Hero had an adorable art-style that makes it look like any normal Magical Girl anime or Schoolgirl Series. It has a lot of dark elements including a character attempting suicide on-screen. The light novels aren't much better as, unlike in the original anime, characters can die. | |
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The World of Kanako: Although the story of this movie is infested with cynicism, there are still a lot of bright lights and colors, flash cuts and fast-paced editing that give the movie a unique atmosphere, especially during Kanako's appearances and the narrator's Mushroom Samba. | |
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The whole Tales Series is like this: Both Tales of Phantasia and the original Tales of Destiny used adorable chibi sprites and bright and colorful worlds. These games also featured traitors, genocide, racism, eldritch abominations, and abusive parents galore. Tales of Symphonia. The cute-looking visuals contrast the genocide, fantastic racism, Black-and-Grey Morality, and a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds. Tales of Rebirth is one of the more cynical Tales games, focusing almost completely on racism, Parental Abandonment, and genocide, and having a less than happy end. The art style is extremely bright, colorful, and cute. Tales of the Abyss is one of the darkest entries in the Tales Series. The character designs may be a bit less colorful than some of the other games, but the graphics still remain fairly cute, even when they're depicting a child drowning in poison, trapped under his father's corpse. |
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Odin Sphere. The bright and colorful visuals belie the very dark and serious story that effectively explains The End of the World as We Know It and how The Magic Goes Away. | |
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The extremely simplistic and cartoonish character designs from the CGI movie Killer Bean Forever would make any viewer think that it is some kind of silly comedy for kids, but it is actually a serious action film with almost no comedy (except for a couple of Black Comedy moments) and lots of killings, as the title suggests. | |
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Teen Titans Go! is a brightly colored, chibi-style cartoon spinoff that seems like a Lighter and Softer reboot to the 2003 Teen Titans (2003)... So why the TV-PG rating, especially since the original was TV-Y7? Watch a few episodes and you'll quickly notice that, while it is more comedic than the original, it also lacks Never Say "Die", thrives on Black Comedy, and has a lot more risqué content. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans employs an art style consistent with most kid-friendly shonen anime, but with a degree of brutal realism and real-life conflicts. | |
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Some of the worlds in Fire Emblem come across as this. The Game Boy Advance entries are mostly this due to the artstyle being bright and colorful as a result of the SP model not being standardized for most of the runs (not so much in 8). Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem is interesting, despite being one of the Darker and Edgier titles, the SNES original used very colorful, bright and cartoonish graphics. However, the DS remake of the game used a much darker color scheme and less stylized art style. | |
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Cuphead has a fun, colorful art style based off of 1930s era cartoons a la Mickey Mouse or Felix the Cat. That said, the main storyline is a literal deal with the devil and it has already become well-known for its high difficulty curve. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness focuses mainly on Mind Screw or Vulgar Humor comparable to South Park, yet the comics and animations are drawn in an incredibly simplistic stick-figure style. The simplisty lessened over time, but they still kept the cartoony stick-figure designs. | |
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Animal Farm (1954) is animated in a cute style reminiscent of an older Disney cartoon. However, it retains all the violence and political themes of its source material. | |
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Wondermark is a Cut and Paste Comic made from sophisticated Victorian art. The jokes tend to be either very silly observations on modern neurotics or very silly poop jokes. | |
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The anime adaptation of Violinist of Hameln, originally a parody manga, removes all the humor and plays the Dysfunction Junction for its full angst value, but keeps the art style. | |
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Object Terror may look like one of those corny Object Shows you'd commonly find on YouTube. But however, it's actually chock-full to the brim of extreme gore, vulgar profanity, and, even though it's not very common, object sex. You heard it right there. | |
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Yesterday: The artstyle is rather dark and cartoony, in contrast with the game's content. | |
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Phantasy Star II has the darkest narrative in the series while it has the most colorful design and environment. In contrast, Phantasy Star IV's settings are rather barren and darker, but the story is shonen anime-like and characters crack a joke and tease each other frequently. | |
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Dead Cells goes for the opposite tack to a lot of other games, going for a fairly serious (if pixelly) portrayal of a dead kingdom full of zombies and monsters, but having a keen sense of humour and a main character who's a bit of a comic dim bulb who communicates entirely through exaggerated gestures and has a very flippant internal monologue. | |
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Batman: Black and White: The series, being all about artistic experiments, had a few of these. For instance, "Two of a Kind" is a very dark, horrifying Two-Face story written and illustrated by Bruce Timm in the cartoony style he developed for Batman: The Animated Series. Timm did an even nastier story, "Red Romance", for the non-Batman title Flinch; see Destructive Romance for the details. And it's still in the BTAS house style... | |
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes is about a very idealistic little girl, and the art style reflects how she views things. This makes it all the more jarring when her illusions begin to slip, and she starts to see blood and dead bodies. | |
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Yandere Simulator is set in a brightly-colored school populated with the usual assortment of cute technicolor-hair and eyed anime students... who you can kill in gruesome ways to prevent them from taking your Senpai. | |
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Hooves of Death takes this trope and trots away with it. Even when zombies are being cleaved in two and a human child is succumbing to infection before the unicorn Glitter's horrified eyes, the art style never stops being clean, colorful, and cutesy. | |
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Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is a stop-motion series built using LEGO-like blocks. It's also a very adult Dark Comedy themed around gay couples. | |
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Princess Tutu. A Magical Girl show that takes place in a whimsical town of pastel colors, ballet, and fairy tales. Unfortunately for the characters, their fairytale has not been Disneyfied, and they are the cosmic playthings of an Ax-Crazy tragedy-loving writer. | |
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Bird Boy: The Forgotten Children: A Spanish animated movie with an art-style lifted from children's storybooks... It's also a horror movie not at all meant for children. It has a cast mostly consisting of cutesy anthropomorphic animal children, but they live in an isolated island ravaged by a nuclear crisis and want to run away due to feeling disconnected from their society. The titular Bird Boy is drawn in a similarly cute manner, but he also has a horrifying One-Winged Angel form that he has to control by taking drugs which give him terrible nightmares, and at one point he uses the form to gorily tear apart a cannibal tribe that was going to eat his friends. | |
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HeartCatch Pretty Cure! easily has the most stylized and cartoony art style out of any series in the Pretty Cure franchise (courtesy of Yoshihiko Umakoshi, who previously did very similar character designs for Ojamajo Doremi) despite being one of the most serious of series in the franchise. | |
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On the opposite side of the spectrum, one Sunday strip of Calvin and Hobbes had Calvin and Susie Playing Doctor — in the art style of a "serious" strip like Rex Morgan, M.D. to showcase just how weird Calvin is. | |
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Purrfect Apawcalypse has an extremely cutesy art style for its adorable cat and dog characters. It's also filled with graphic (if cartoonishly depicted) violence as some of these adorable characters happen to be Cute and Psycho killers who you will almost certainly die a gory death to a lot in each game. | |
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There's also Rocko's Modern Life, which has a very cartoony artstyle that lacks straight or parallel lines. The show itself, however, had demographically inappropriate humour by the boatload (possibly even more than The Ren & Stimpy Show, one of its contemporaries) and a fair amount of Black Comedy compared to most kids' shows out at the time. | |
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Purple Pussy is a super cutesy drawn webcomic for girls... featuring an unending supply of Cluster F Bombs and Toilet Humor that will burn your eyes out. | |
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The caricatures of the two hosts of Fat, French and Fabulous have a distinct, cutesy animesque art style that belies the dark, disturbing comedy of the podcast itself. | |
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In This Corner of the World's characters are drawn in a cute and somewhat cartoony art style. While this isn't so bad at the beginning of the story when it's more of a historical Slice of Life, it gradually becomes this trope as the story's tone becomes more serious. | |
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The original version of The Binding of Isaac mimics Thick-Line Animation, and has a protagonist who looks very baby-like despite apparently being at least kindergarten-age. Edmund McMillen has said this was a deliberate design decision—the grotesqueness of what Isaac goes through would not be bearable if drawn realistically. And even with the art-style used, some of the bosses are still flat-out disgusting and horrifying, such as Blighted Ovum, The Wretched, or Super Lust. | |
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Making Fiends has a very simple, childish design but it's about an Enfant Terrible who lives in a bleak and depressing town where everyone is afraid of her and the monsters she makes. It's rather dark for a kids series, though the original web shorts are a bit ambiguous on whether it was even meant to be one. | |
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The world of Eversion starts out bright and cheerful, but becomes gradually less so as you evert to higher levels, and it's not long before the game reveals its true colors. | |
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Kamen Rider Build doesn't have a dissonance between design and story because of the design being bright and cheery (it isn't most of the time, anyway), but because of how it questions identity, use of violence and governmental corruption. Not to speak about Dehumanization and the war that breaks out early in the story. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Video game fighting mechanics, cartoonish effects and the hot pink colored design of the main hero can easily detract from the fact that Ex-Aid is a medical drama that takes ethics of care, value of life and What Measure Is a Non-Human? extremely seriously. | |
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The Guy Upstairs: Like Hanza’s previous series, this story has some very cute artwork and character designs, all while being a thriller with plenty of blood. | |
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Valkyria Chronicles. Anime characters colored in a beautiful faux-watercolor style, on top of a story about the horrors of war where Anyone Can Die (yes, even your squad members.) | |
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Child of Light takes place in a gorgeous Fairy Tale land with a host of literally colorful characters. It also opens with a child being murdered, ends with a town being destroyed, and has a whole lot of unpleasantness in between. | |
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Although aimed at young children in Japan, the OVA and anime adaptations of Tama & Friends delved into dark territory. There were episodes focused on themes such as bullying, death, and even war. | |
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Squirrel and Hedgehog, a North Korean children's cartoon. Cute Funny Animals alternate between frolicking in the idyllic paradise of Furry North Korea and waging war on American Wolves, Japanese Weasels, and South Korean Mice. Even without characters getting shot and killed on-screen, the blatant militarization of Furry North Korea is pretty disturbing. | |
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The Order of the Stick has a cartoony, stick-figure art style that befit the joke-a-week Excuse Plot that the early strips had. However, it soon began to develop an actual story, and once it began undergoing Cerebus Syndrome, things got dark fast. | |
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Both Tales of Phantasia and the original Tales of Destiny used adorable chibi sprites and bright and colorful worlds. These games also featured traitors, genocide, racism, eldritch abominations, and abusive parents galore. | |
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Another animated adaptation of a children's book by Takashi Yanase is The Gentle Lion/The Kindly Lion (Yasashii Lion) from 1970 by Mushi Productions. It involves a female dog named Muku-Muku adopting an orphaned lion cub named Buru-Buru◊. While the story starts out cute and a bit somber, it quickly enters darker territory and ends with said dog and lion getting killed by an army. | |
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Undertale goes the Earthbound route of goofy, childish graphics (to the point that one of the very first characters you see upon starting the game is a talking flower) juxtaposed with dark themes such as horrific scientific experiments, suicide, killing children, going insane after living life trapped in a body incapable of love and stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, and potentially genocide and the destruction of all of existence. It says a lot that the same game allows the player to outright commit genocide, and that doing so permanently changes your game, even if you start a new save file and play a different route; the game itself refuses to forgive you for your actions. | |
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The Epic Battle Fantasy series has a bright, colorful, cutesy animesque art style. It also has plenty of Black Comedy, sex jokes, mild swearing, Nazi-like imagery, Satanic-like imagery, and in the fifth game there's bird-flipping and a poo attack (from the Bears, thankfully not from the party members). By the fifth game, it became possible to remove the raunchier elements and play a more all-ages version. | |
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Yume Nikki: The Pink Sea has pastel colors, balloons, gentle BGM... how could this area - of all the other areas in the game - be so scary? | |
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Cave Story: It appears at first to be a simple Platform Game filled with endearingly cute creatures - including a race of friendly and hospitable rabbit people - but is actually a story about war and genocide, topped with horrific evils that rival the tone and style of H. P. Lovecraft. The in-game graphics just make it even more jarring. A scientific expedition to a floating island went totally awry when the doctor that came with them turned out to be a sociopathic monster of a man with delusions of godhood. He only came along to steal the Demon Crown: a magical artifact with seemingly infinite dark power that he knows was used years before in an act of casual genocide. He gets it, instantly becoming a threat to literally every living thing in the world. |
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Alias: The flashbacks to Jessica Jones' past when she got her powers and her life as the superhero "Jewel" are drawn in the style of Amazing Fantasy #15 (the debut issue of Spider-Man) and 90s superhero comics. However, the scenes are also filled to the brim with profanity since this is an adults-only Marvel MAX series. | |
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My Harem Heaven is Yandere Hell lives this trope. If you were to check it out yourself, you wouldn't know offhand that a brightly-colored and upbeat novel like this will turn into a horror mystery novel, featuring some gruesome death scenes. | |
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xkcd is surprisingly smart for its limited art style. | |
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Day Break Illusion comes pretty close to being a horror series. The art style is reminiscent of Disgaea. | |
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The first Alone in the Dark is a serious Lovecraft inspired survival horror game, but the graphics are quite colorful and cartoony. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day could best be described as the video game equivalent to South Park. Death, sex, drunkeness, scatalogical humor, swearing... not a kids game. But Rare made it with the same adorable art style that characterized their family friendly fare like Banjo-Kazooie (which itself has some occasional dark humor and jokes, more so its sequel). This is because Twelve Tales: Conker 64 was originally going to be a family-friendly game, not too dissimilar from Conker's Pocket Tales for Game Boy Color, but then Rare caught on that it would've been too similar to their own Banjo Kazooie, so they turned it into the more adult final version, while keeping the art style intact. | |
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Edna & Harvey: The Breakout shows the protagonist Edna and her surroundings in a cartoon-y style that initially seems to reflect well her whackiness and how everything seems a bit nonsensical and just for giggles. It fits less the more the story is about how deep Edna's psychological issues actually go and what a dark past lies behind her. | |
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Sonichu. This incredibly disturbing webcomic has art that looks like it was drawn by an elementary-schooler. | |
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Persepolis: The series and its 2007 Animated Adaptation by extension, is drawn in a simplistic and stylized manner akin to newspaper comics such as Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes. However, the actual comic itself deals with mature subjects such as war, religion, oppression, sexism, racism, and prostitution. | |
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Everything is Fine's pastel colors and cute character designs clash immensely with the creepy atmosphere of the comic. Apart from some Wham Shot moments, everything is always deceptively bright and chipper. | |
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Yggdra Union does this intentionally. Kiyuduki Satoko's Puni Plush art style helps to conceal the dark nature of the game until the player gets whacked in the face with it. | |
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The Umbrella Academy: The series uses the bright, clean style of Gabriel Ba, while the plot is a mix of dramatic confrontations, violence, and absurdist humor. | |
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When promotional artwork for the Karneval anime came out, it received a lot of flack by those unfamiliar with the original manga for being another "Bishōnen" or "fujoshi" series. In actuality, it's a rather dark Bio Punk Josei manga set in a Crapsaccharine World and just happens to have a predominately male cast and colorful artwork. The first chapter alone includes the near-rape of a child by a monster woman who then goes on to gruesomely devour a bunch of thieves who break into her mansion. | |
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Bokura no Hentai looks like a series aimed at young girls, but the content itself is a rather dark Seinen based around a Dysfunction Junction trio of middle schoolers. | |
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Downplayed with The Powerpuff Girls (1998). The show has the same cartoony art style and TV rating as Dexter's Laboratory (which most of the show's major staff members previously worked on), but it has a lot of Family-Unfriendly Violence (complete with minor blood spurts). This was moreso in earlier seasons, while later seasons and the 2016 series tend to downplay the violence in favor of comedy. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE has a children's cartoon art style with the tone of the story remaining dark and mature. | |
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Ranking of Kings' art style looks like something you'd find in a children's picture book, with everything from the characters to the backgrounds being minimalistic and colorful. It's also about the only thing childish in this story, which includes brutal fights, political wars, and horrific backstories, among other things. | |
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Despite the cartoony art style, Story Booth has several very dark stories that deal with controversial real-world issues like bullying, mass shootings, body image problems, underage drug abuse, pedophilia, and much, much more. Justified as each story comes from an actual person. | |
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Transistor tells a bleak story of death and devastation, set in a Scenery Porn-laden city and accompanied by soothing music. | |
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The animated documentary My Depression has a cute, cartoony style all while talking about crippling depression. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show uses the angular graphic styles of cartoons of The '50s and The '60s, evoking memories of longtime kid favorites such as Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Flintstones. However, it features some of the most graphic violence imaginable outside late-night TV (for instance, skin being ripped off and disemboweling), as well as some horrifying and grotesque facial expressions, tonnes of dirty innuendo, and enough Toilet Humor to clog the New York sewers. Like The Simpsons above, it was all the more shocking when it premiered back in 1991... on a kid's network no less. | |
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Archer is much more lewd, shrewd, and crude than its sleek '60s look would have you believe. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker introduced a cartoony and very brightly colored art style very different from the Ocarina of Time era's more realistic art. However, its storyline has many dark undertones: A Great Flood that reduced the world to a handful of islands that were once mountaintops, and the final battle culminates in Ganon being stabbed in the forehead. There are also various dark elements like the destruction of Greatfish Isle and the subsequent curse of the Great Sea, and the presence of dangerous creatures like Seahats and Big Octo. Zigzagged with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While not as consistently cartoony as The Wind Waker, it's still very brightly colored and cheery-looking compared with Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess, even though the setup involves the Kingdom of Hyrule having been destroyed by an Eldritch Abomination incarnation of Ganon and the land still being threatened by him and his minions. However, it's also a bit of a Cozy Catastrophe, as a century later many of the surviving settlements are flourishing and most civilians don't seem to care that an apocalyptic event has occurred beyond wistful longing for the good old days when the Kingdom was still around. The fact that Ganon was sealed away during that century, and is only now starting to break free when Link reawakens, is a major factor. Plus, Ganon himself and the Blight Ganons he uses to control the Divine Beasts have Non Standard Character Designs that do look like the kind of gruesome monstrosities that could cause such carnage. |
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Devilman: With the original manga's cartoonish art style, you wouldn't think it would be full of graphic and disturbing imagery. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky has a bright, anime-style aesthetic with chibi sprites that look like your favorite PlayStation JRPG. The protagonist is a Genki Girl with her grumpy adopted brother helping people and making friends. Its themes match said art style at first...sure, the first game has a backstory of war and the heroine once recounts how her mother died protecting her under a pile of rubble as they were bombarded with shells, but it's only briefly described, much less shown. Then the ending completely changes everything you were led to believe with the threat of darker things to follow. Come its two sequels, it delves into very dark territory for an RPG, such as betrayal, manipulating friends for the greater good, government conspiracy, brainwashing children through repressed trauma, the merciless slaughter of a community as a political scapegoat, survivor guilt, psychological dependence on addiction and the collapse of a civilization, and the hardships of two child soldiers. The worst offender is the reveal that one of the aforementioned children was driven to murderous insanity when her parents sold her into prostitution at the age of 5 to cover their debts. | |
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Phantasy Star Online is a bit downplayed compared to the above titles. However, it still retains a fairly cartoony anime artstyle, and the hub areas can be quite colorful. However, it becomes clear early on that this world is not friendly at all, being full of horrifying, hostile creatures and a Sealed Evil in a Can responsible for all the destruction and death. Many early quests have light-hearted moments, but soon, it becomes overwhelmingly tragic, with quests frequently having unhappy endings. | |
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Steven Universe is a very bright, colorful cartoon series with simplistic character designs, gentle pastel backgrounds, and is mostly a very idealistic show from a young boy's perspective. But it doesn't take long for the series to start delving into the nastier sides of its well-meaning characters, and include suggestive dancing, frank discussions of consent, trust issues, multiple instances of impalement (albeit bloodless), the difficulties of relationships between its characters, psychological complexity, abuse, parental neglect, several clear parallels to racism and a backstory with war, genocide, and ambiguous morality. The movie and the follow-up series Steven Universe: Future use a slightly more refined version of that art style and contain much of the same, with Future in particular focusing heavily on trauma and how the protagonist deals with it. | |
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The characters of Spud's Adventure are adorable anthropomorphic vegetables with cute chibi sprites, but the story is surprisingly serious, especially when Arnie and Devi die. | |
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Tales of Symphonia. The cute-looking visuals contrast the genocide, fantastic racism, Black-and-Grey Morality, and a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds. | |
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Devil Survivor and its sequel, Devil Survivor 2. The cutesy, chibi-style sprites? Prepare to watch as they get incinerated, beaten to death frozen, or more! In fact, in the first few minutes of the second game, you get to see a bloody train crash, WITH the main trio alongside the other corpses. | |
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From the Depths mixes cartoonish, simplistic voxel-based graphics with advanced ballistic calculations, fluid drag characteristics, naval fleet tactics, and detection equipment to make one of the most complex Design-It-Yourself Equipment engineering games, only being surpassed by the ultra-hardcore space combat simulator Children of a Dead Earth. | |
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The cast of Aggretsuko is full of Ridiculously Cute Critters drawn in a simple, cute art style, as expected from a company known for its kawaii products. However, unlike most of Sanrio's properties, the series is primarily aimed at adult women; as such, it explores a modern office lady's frustrations, like sexism, workplace abuse, and societal expectations. The main character's primary method of stress management is venting her rage in Metal Scream while making Berserk-esque rage faces that would give Guts a run for his money, Blank White Eyes and Volumetric Mouth included. And she isn't above getting wasted on alcohol either. | |
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Kamen Rider: is mostly geared towards children and usually looks the part, too. Don't be fooled, it often crosses into What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? and the goofier the graphics are, the darker the story may be to balance things out. Kamen Rider OOO: Animal themed, bright colored Idiot Hero fighting monsters that feed on human desire should be enough of a family friendly set up, right? Yeah, it would be if (presumed) Idiot Hero was not traumatized by civil war, which he indirectly caused while trying to help local people. And that's just a single backstory. Kamen Rider Gaim: You would be forgiven for thinking it's a happy, family-friendly show judging by the fruit-themed design and the protagonists being dancing teams. The Cosmic Horror Story part comes up only later anyway. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Video game fighting mechanics, cartoonish effects and the hot pink colored design of the main hero can easily detract from the fact that Ex-Aid is a medical drama that takes ethics of care, value of life and What Measure Is a Non-Human? extremely seriously. Kamen Rider Build doesn't have a dissonance between design and story because of the design being bright and cheery (it isn't most of the time, anyway), but because of how it questions identity, use of violence and governmental corruption. Not to speak about Dehumanization and the war that breaks out early in the story. |
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Some of the Super Mario Bros. games fall into this. All of the Mario games utilize bright colors and cutesy character designs, but Nightmare Fuel abounds in this series and whenever there's anything more than an Excuse Plot, it tends to be pretty dark or scary. Especially Super Paper Mario, which has one of the brightest art styles of the series, but one of the darkest stories of any Nintendo franchise. | |
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Kaiten Mutenmaru: The cutesy art style of the series belies at least one backstory featuring social inequality, Star-Crossed Lovers, civil war, and the Death of a Child. | |
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Commander Kitty has bold colors, rounded character designs with goofy facial expressions, and is indeed in theory a comedy. This not only belies the occasional outright creepiness and Body Horror, but the sheer amount of Existential Horror to boot. Half the galaxy have been kidnapped and replaced with robotic doubles who don't know they're any different from the original but can be deactivated at any given time, and that's just for starters. | |
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Invincible: The series has the typical look of a colorful superhero comic book, but make no mistake, it's a Decon-Recon Switch story filled with tons of Gorn. | |
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Axe Cop uses a slightly-exaggerated but fairly realistic style à la most mainstream comic books. But since the plots are written by a six-year-old, the actual content of the comic is completely insane. | |
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A Father/Son Story is a tragic, Breaking Bad-esque series of shorts...made in GoAnimate. | |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE has a children's cartoon art style with the tone of the story remaining dark and mature. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans employs an art style consistent with most kid-friendly shonen anime, but with a degree of brutal realism and real-life conflicts. |
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The music videos for Ed, Edd, n Eddy: 20 Years Later EP feature the cute, cartoony art-style of Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy combined with dark visuals and lyrics. | |
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Ghost Trick's art style fits its quirky humor, but is about you being a ghost wondering why he died and saving people who might know from dying. It has people being shot, crushed, executed, and even dying from a terrifying and even realistic heart attack. Yet the art style is colorful and cartoony with almost no black and gray. | |
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Hunter: The Reckoning: Played according to the rules it's gothic Call of Cthulhu- a bunch of scared people fighting a threat they don't understand who are going to get very quickly and bloodily slaughtered without a lot of cunning, firepower, caution and careful planning. Played according to the artwork it's gothic Rambo- a kickass action story about manly heroes gunning down hordes of Mooks. | |
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Kamen Rider OOO: Animal themed, bright colored Idiot Hero fighting monsters that feed on human desire should be enough of a family friendly set up, right? Yeah, it would be if (presumed) Idiot Hero was not traumatized by civil war, which he indirectly caused while trying to help local people. And that's just a single backstory. | |
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Crayon Shin-chan. This family-aimed anime is drawn in a very crude, "crayon" style reminiscent of children's drawings. However, in the original language and the two English dubs, the series is written to be raunchy in its humor and references, despite airing on various kids' timeslots and channels internationally. | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man is drawn in Sean Galloway's simplistic, yet stylized art direction. As a result, the young-skewing show is often cited to be one of the most fluidly animated interpretations of the webslinger to date. Yet, despite receiving additional praises for its surprisingly dark high school and family themes and combination of past Spider-Man mythos into a tightly-knitted storyline, viewers felt the show's content would have been better reflected with a more serious-looking aesthetic. | |
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Transhuman Space is widely considered by fans to have suffered in its early days because the artist then responsible for all the illustrations apparently perceived more Body Horror in the high-biotech setting than the writers quite intended. On top of that, none of the images actually illustrate anything in the text. It's like they are from an entirely different book. | |
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Bokurano looks like a normal shonen mecha series but it's far, far darker than normal and is a seinen. | |
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I Don't Want This Kind of Hero has bright colors, clean art, and while it's generally humorous, it touches on topics like slavery, human trafficking, obsession, and more. | |
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Spider-Man: The Spectacular Spider-Man is drawn in Sean Galloway's simplistic, yet stylized art direction. As a result, the young-skewing show is often cited to be one of the most fluidly animated interpretations of the webslinger to date. Yet, despite receiving additional praises for its surprisingly dark high school and family themes and combination of past Spider-Man mythos into a tightly-knitted storyline, viewers felt the show's content would have been better reflected with a more serious-looking aesthetic. Ironically, its successor, Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), had the opposite reaction from viewers. The show's art direction features detailed character designs and background art, but the episodes are far less grounded in reality compared to Spectacular, with Cutaway Gags and Silver Age-styled stories. While the show does (occasionally) lend itself to tackling dark themes, its bread and butter deals with kid-friendly tales with minimal continuity. |
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Forever Home uses Kaduki and RTP style sprites that are in many other RPG Maker games, which look fairly saccharine, but it still doesn't shy away from showing dead bodies, mangled corpses, pools of blood, and suicide. | |
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Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja has distinctive character designs from Jhonen Vasquez, who is well-known for specializing in Black Comedy. The show itself is a fairly conventional action-comedy series. | |
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Pokémon, especially with titles such as Pokémon Platinum, Pokémon Black and White, and Pokémon Sun and Moon. With the cutesy look and the bright colors who would expect such a series to be so darn right horrific and depressing? The Mystery Dungeon spinoffs are especially bad, as they center around the incredibly cute Pokémon in an apparently idealistic land but are in a league of their own. | |
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Mother 3. For the first 15 minutes, it's averted, but after that it takes a swan dive into the depths. Compared to the art style, the story gets so dark, you would need the light of a thousand suns to be able to see three feet ahead. Though, admittedly, there are comic relief sections, it's still one hell of a contrast. | |
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Avenging Spirit has a colorful theme and an adorable ghost protagonist and cartoonish enemies, but the story is pretty dark to begin with, as the hero of the game is resurrected as a ghost by his girlfriend's father after being killed by evil syndicate organization members who kidnap his girlfriend. | |
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Moral Orel is definitely this. Despite having a claymation style similar to that of Davey and Goliath, with the titular Nice Guy heading the show, the story also has him live in a Dysfunction Junction of a town, in which his abusive father is the mayor. The show itself contains lots of mature humor, which includes Orel injecting his semen into other women so that he can masturbate without disobeying God. The third season takes this trope to another level, with the show exploring topics such as trauma, abortion, and the cycle of abuse. | |
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Kaiba's art style and character designs look like something Osamu Tezuka or Dr. Seuss would draw. The actual subject matter of the anime is darker and more mature than its colorful and cartoony style would suggest. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker introduced a cartoony and very brightly colored art style very different from the Ocarina of Time era's more realistic art. However, its storyline has many dark undertones: A Great Flood that reduced the world to a handful of islands that were once mountaintops, and the final battle culminates in Ganon being stabbed in the forehead. There are also various dark elements like the destruction of Greatfish Isle and the subsequent curse of the Great Sea, and the presence of dangerous creatures like Seahats and Big Octo. | |
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Kagerou starts out this way, with extremely bright colors and cartoonish art contrasted against the dark plot and tendency towards gore. Eventually, though, the art evolves into a more realistic but still brightly colored style. | |
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Jack (David Hopkins) is a very dark, serious and gory comic set in the Bloody Bowels of Hell, and yet the characters are cartoon animals with squishy and exaggerated designs that look like they came right out of Tiny Toon Adventures. Unsurprisingly, many readers find it hard to take seriously. | |
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Code Geass: The art style is very Shoujo-ish with lean, tall and handsome big-eyed male characters (well, most of them), whose designs were made by Clamp themselves, which would probably make you think that this is a Shoujo series if you only look at the promotional posters.◊ However, the story itself is very dark Shounen, with battles between masterminds that will make Light and L proud. | |
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Kerbal Space Program is a game about cartoonish Little Green Men who try to launch themselves into space atop rockets. While there's nothing actively trying to kill you in the game, it more than makes up for it by being unexpectedly faithful to actual physics. If you don't know what you're doing or are expecting the game's flight model to be as cartoonish as the art style, your rockets will crash. | |
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Chrono Cross. Brightly-colored, often hand-painted visuals, and come on, Chrono Trigger was so fun! Cue Darker and Edgier Mind Screw storyline featuring copious Nice Job Breaking It, Hero and Fantastic Racism, which also retcons the ending of CT into something a lot darker. | |
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The Touhou Project fangame Koumajou Densetsu features a very dark artstyle, but the story and characters are every bit as nutty as the main series. | |
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Pretty Blood has a bright, colorful, cutesy and animesque artstyle, but it's mixed with bloody, dark and disturbing themes. | |
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Harvest Moon 64 has simplistic, childish character models and cutesy anime character portraits. But the game deals with alcoholism, implied abuse, stagnating marriages, Parental Abandonment, and death among other things. | |
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The setting in Naughty Bear. Even before the main character goes on his killing spree, the whole place is populated by tremendous Jerkasses. | |
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Dolan comics are poorly drawn comics with horrible spelling that look like they were made by a three-year-old. But don't let that fool you; they're actually blackly comedic comics about an Ax-Crazy Donald Duck. | |
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Niels has the same cutesy style as Scandinavia and the World by the same author, despite having much darker subject matter. The author's third comic is in a different style, so this is clearly a deliberate choice | |
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Skadi is filled to the brim with Black Comedy and disturbing content that's not in any way appropriate for children (or anybody with a weak stomach for that matter). However, the comic's art direction definitely looks like it would be for children, given how expressive, cutesy, and overall cartoony the designs are. | |
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Bastion looks like a Sugar Apocalypse at first, but it eventually becomes clear that the world (or at least the main character's nation) was pretty messed up even before the Calamity. | |
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Hen Zemi is illustrated in the Puni Plush style, with a cast of big-eyed, soft-faced characters. It's about an average college girl taking a course in abnormal sexuality with a class so jaded they think nothing of giving practical demonstrations of the study material. | |
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Liar Liar is a very cute looking, Puni Plush style visual novel with lots of bright colors. It's also a gory game about a middle school girl trying to kill her boyfriend. | |
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You'd be forgiven if you thought Eight Crazy Nights was a kids' movie just by looking at its Disneyesque/Brad Bird/Don Bluth art-style, especially since most of the animation team had just come off working on The Iron Giant. | |
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When the Wind Blows: The series is a grim depiction of the futile efforts of an old British couple in the countryside trying to live through a nuclear holocaust, as illustrated by the guy that gave us the children's classic The Snowman. | |
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The series is colorful, cartoony, and filled with beautifully subtle details. The battle screens suggest you're fighting during a psychadelic trip-out, and the characters almost look like they're from a stylized Peanuts comic. And, implicitly and thematically speaking, it's probably the darkest Nintendo has ever gotten. | |
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Hulk: The film is notorious for its use of Idiosyncratic Wipes and split-screen meant to emulate the feel of a comic book, a style that clashes with its somber and serious tone. | |
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Corpse Party: Book of Shadows has a surprisingly cutesy art style for a game about people being murdered in gruesome ways. | |
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Spider-Man: The Spectacular Spider-Man #86 was published during Assistant Editor's Month, so the gimmick of that issue was that Bob DeNatale threw out Al Milgrom's artwork in favor of that of Fred Hembeck, whose style is far from realistic. The issue's storyline was that the Fly realised he was losing his humanity and sought revenge upon J. Jonah Jameson and Spider-Man, and the humor is limited to Spidey's usual wisecracks (apart from the humor stemming from Hembeck's art, like the Fly having Xs for eyes when Spider-Man punches him). After the Fly is defeated, Danny Fingeroth (the actual editor of the comic) returns and puts an end to the cartoonish artwork. You can see images from this issue here. | |
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Learning with Manga! FGO is a cute chibi gag series with all the brightness and cheeriness such a spin-off would imply, right? It is, if you consider constant complaints about the game, raunchy dialogue, a sociopath Master that cares more about rolling the gacha than taking care of her servants, and so much infighting it actually causes an inter-service Grail War "cheery". | |
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Tales of Rebirth is one of the more cynical Tales games, focusing almost completely on racism, Parental Abandonment, and genocide, and having a less than happy end. The art style is extremely bright, colorful, and cute. | |
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Danny Phantom, to a degree. It sometimes wants to be taken seriously as an action cartoon, but its stylized design, reminiscent of the less-than-serious Fairly OddParents note Both shows have the same character designer, can make this difficult for non-phans. | |
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Hazbin Hotel looks like something straight outta Warner Bros. with its bouncy animation and cutesy designs with a hint of Disney. However, the show's satanic themes and setting, black comedy, sexually suggestive content, coarse language, and nightmarish imagery proves it's not exactly kid-friendly material. The same applies to the show's sister series Helluva Boss, which is drawn in an identical art direction. | |
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Transformers: Animated has a bright, colorful art style not unlike the ones found in Saturday morning cartoons, which is at complete odds with some of the heavier themes that the show is not afraid to discuss and the onscreen violences it displays. Not to mention it gets dark pretty quickly near the middle of the first season alone. | |
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Gosick has a cute moe-esque style reminiscent of Rozen Maiden and a cheerily-colored opening, but is a murder mystery through and through. | |
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KanColle juxtaposed bright colors, cute girls, and lighthearted fun with an almost jarring dark plot about war with monstrous life forms, senseless deaths of innocents, and the corruption that creates their enemies. In fact, it was so jarring that the series suffered in sales because of the dissonance. | |
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Unsounded has gorgeous, vibrant art... for a crapsack world filled with casual Fantastic Racism and rampant nationalism. It's all the more horrific for how accepted it is. | |
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Sausage Party looks like something one would expect out of either Pixar or Dreamworks Animation, but it's in no way appropriate for children given the film's dark humor, rampant profanity, sex jokes, and religious themes. | |
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Cult of the Lamb is a game filled with adorable little chibi-fied animals that wouldn't look out of place in Animal Crossing...worshipping a demonic entity and trying to take over the world. | |
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Team Fortress 2 is a class-based first person shooter where a group of mercenaries (most of whom probably have varying degrees of mental instability) are continually fighting a frankly pointless fight over a worthless piece of land thanks to rather ruthless (and somewhat evil) contractors. The artistic style? It looks like a cartoon. This is complete with ridiculous animations (a building/upgrading Sentry, for starters) and Ludicrous Gibs. This was because during development, Valve was having trouble producing something that would give players a Willing Suspension of Disbelief, so they decided to make it look like a universe where ridiculous things are supposed to happen in it, such as how certain abilities (such as rocket jumping) are possible, or why some seemingly arbitrary rules are in place (like, for some reason, you can't jump over a 3 foot high fence that leads out to a sprawling field), hence the reason why they chose a more "stylized" art direction: so that you won't ask yourself these questions in the first place. This also helps it fit in with Valve's dark, irreverent, and somewhat... silly sense of humor. This sums it all up nicely. | |
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Minecraft looks like a harmless children's toy at first glance, until you play Survival mode. Constant threat of starvation as well as brutal undead creatures and otherwordly monsters out for your blood that are far more threatening than their blocky, cartoonish designs could ever suggest are what awaits in this bright and colorful Lego Land. Needless to say, if Minecraft is a playground, it's an evil playground that shows no mercy and wants you dead. This trope goes double for certain mods, since those mods generally keep to the same cute, blocky art-style as vanilla Minecraft while sometimes having much darker content. A few notable examples include Witchery, which allows the player to perform Blood Magic and Hollywood Satanism among other things, and Miskatonic Mysteries, which is centered around bringing the mind-shattering alien gods of the Cthulhu Mythos to Minecraft. |
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Romantically Apocalyptic. Its art is frighteningly realistic and grim. The actual comic? A hilarious Black Comedy. | |
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Gunslinger Girl draws the girls in a cute, innocent style when they're child assassins. The original anime has an distinct muted art style that fits the noir tone of the series but Teatrino plays it even more straight than the manga. The girls are even more Moe, even the Handlers are adorable, and everything has a bright pastel style.. While still revolving around middle school aged girls torturing and killing people. | |
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Camp Camp looks like a show from Disney XD with its colorful art direction and fairly cutesy designs... but the rampant swearing, raunchy jokes that many times Crosses the Line Twice, and general Black Comedy makes the show feel closer to South Park than Gravity Falls. | |
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Barefoot Gen looks like a Saturday morning cartoon in the vein of Astro Boy. It ran in the pages of Shonen Jump, the bastion of idealism, for Pete's sake. It isn't. It's about the Hiroshima bombing, its immediate aftermath and all the things Gen is put through when trying to survive in a scenario where everyone else is suffering at least as badly as he is, if not worse, and most of the people who're slightly better off refuse to give him more than nominal aid. | |
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Happy Sugar Life has a seemingly cute title and a pastel art style that looks like it came straight out of a Manga Time Kirara series, but it's actually a psychological horror about kidnapping, abuse, and all the nasty complications a loveless life can leave on a person. | |
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Kamen Rider Gaim: You would be forgiven for thinking it's a happy, family-friendly show judging by the fruit-themed design and the protagonists being dancing teams. The Cosmic Horror Story part comes up only later anyway. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club!'s cute character designs and the upbeat soundtrack juxtaposes with its morbid scenes and the genre it falls under: psychological horror. You are greeted with a warning upon game startup: "This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed". | |
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Night in the Woods is rendered in a flat, paper cutout style, of the sort used in school decorations and children's books, with Funny Animal characters inspired by the works of Richard Scarry. It delves into depression, mental illness in general, sociopolitical issues, and an Eldritch Abomination that may or may not be real. | |
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Dolls Fall: Super-Deformed, cutesy character designs (when they've got their clothes on, at least); sexualized, psychological, gory horror story. | |
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Father of the Pride was an All-CGI Cartoon using DreamWorks Animation's usual artstyle, and it starred a family of white lions. It was also a TV-14 Animated Shock Comedy that contained jokes like "mounting time" or stuffing poker winnings into a zebra rug's rectum. | |
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Power Rangers RPM shares the goofy graphics like bright colors or cartoonish zord design of its source material, Engine Sentai Goonger. Unfortunately, its setting is a cross between Terminator and Mad Max and it starts with a Robot War wiping out most of humanity. | |
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The Unfunnies: A Hanna-Barbera-esque comic series with extremely dark subject matter. Eventually, the corruption of this once idyllic world is explained, but the shock of seeing Funny Animals involved in child pornography, murders, and drug abuse is hard to forget. | |
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After the art style got a more cartoony overhaul in Pokémon: The Series, the darker episodes and themes can come off as this. Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon had two episodes about death and an arc exploring Lillie's PTSD. | |
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Mother: The series is colorful, cartoony, and filled with beautifully subtle details. The battle screens suggest you're fighting during a psychadelic trip-out, and the characters almost look like they're from a stylized Peanuts comic. And, implicitly and thematically speaking, it's probably the darkest Nintendo has ever gotten. Mother 3. For the first 15 minutes, it's averted, but after that it takes a swan dive into the depths. Compared to the art style, the story gets so dark, you would need the light of a thousand suns to be able to see three feet ahead. Though, admittedly, there are comic relief sections, it's still one hell of a contrast. |
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A slight version with Kaiji. Looking at the exaggerated artwork and overdramatic facial expressions one could easily assume that this series is partly comedy. In reality there is almost no comedy to be found in Kaiji, and those high-stakes gambles that Kaiji is making mangled faces over are played completely seriously, making for one of the tensest and suspenseful manga of all time. | |
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Hometown Story has a Generic Cuteness art style but the story can be pretty dark. A character dies, for example. | |
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South Park is notorious for its vulgar, black-humored style, coupled with crude, primary-colored cutout animation. | |
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Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure at first glance looks like a happy series with a cute character design of Koishi going on daily adventures. Except that it isn't. And it gets far, FAR worse. | |
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Happy Tree Friends inflicts horrific deaths on cute anthropomorphic woodland critters. | |
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Invincible (2021) has a bright, colorful art style akin to the early seasons of Young Justice (2010), but just like its source material, it's incredibly violent and visceral. | |
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The Dragon Quest series starts off pretty campy and cutesy, but overall takes itself seriously. This is what makes certain games like Dragon Quest V and Dragon Quest VII so unusual, because they're quite depressing and dark (respectively) given their cutesy Akira Toriyama art-style. | |
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Invoked and Defied by Homestar Runner, whose creators deliberately wanted to make sure their poppy, surreal all-ages cartoon didn't turn into another adult series with a deceptively silly art style. | |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is uniquely drawn in a toony, thick-lined art direction heavily inspired by The Powerpuff Girls. However, while Powerpuff Girls is a kid-friendly show, Panty & Stocking is an Animated Shock Comedy akin to either South Park or Drawn Together. | |
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Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is a dark supernatural fantasy about a team of heroes who are reincarnated throughout history to battle an ancient evil, yet the character designs are cartoonish and pay homage to the rubber-hosed style of Fleischer Studios. | |
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Dust: An Elysian Tail is a tragic story with a genocidal army trying to exterminate an entire race of people. It's also rendered in a very colorful and cartoonish style with a cast of Funny Animals, where even older male characters (including the Big Bad) have huge Disney eyes. | |
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Harvest Moon: Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is probably the darkest game in the entire series, dealing with some fairly deep thematic stuff (like aging, losing one's friends, cheating, etcetra). But it still has the same cuddly, puni plush aesthetic as the other games (albeit with more muted colors than other games). Harvest Moon 64 has simplistic, childish character models and cutesy anime character portraits. But the game deals with alcoholism, implied abuse, stagnating marriages, Parental Abandonment, and death among other things. |
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Ace Attorney: Almost every character has colorful, theatrical designs and colorful, theatrical personalities. The games are loaded with cute assistant girls and quirky, lighthearted humor. They're also biting satires of the Japanese legal system that revolve around solving cold-blooded murders. | |
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The animated short Sprite Fright has a cute art style (especially Ellie and the titular sprites) done in Blender (3D animation is more attached to the Animation Age Ghetto than traditional animation is). The short itself is a Horror Comedy Slasher Film with swearing and death. | |
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Alma is a seemingly cute, innocent short by a former Pixar animator...that ends with the main character becoming trapped inside the body of a doll, alongside numerous other children who have met the same fate. | |
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School-Live! has the normal Moe art style of an early 2010s Schoolgirl Series, but it actually takes place in a Zombie Apocalypse. This is intentional, as the art style is meant to fool the audience into thinking it's a typical schoolgirl series until the First-Episode Twist kicks in. | |
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Long Live the Queen is about an adorable pink-haired magical girl princess... in a world filled with Eldritch Abominations, Villainous Incest and more assassination plots than you can count. The death images take it further, featuring cute Super-Deformed Elodies being shot, stabbed, strangled, poisoned, blown up... It tends to be marketed with warnings that this is really, really not meant for kids. | |
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Tales of the Abyss is one of the darkest entries in the Tales Series. The character designs may be a bit less colorful than some of the other games, but the graphics still remain fairly cute, even when they're depicting a child drowning in poison, trapped under his father's corpse. | |
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Archie vs. Predator: The series has the cute, friendly Archie Comics style we all know with gorn and horror. | |
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Gretel and Hansel features very cutesy, childish drawings undergoing horrible twisted Fairy Tale torments. | |
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Nana's Everyday Life has very cutesy, somewhat chibi-like art. It is also based on Elfen Lied, starts out as a Black Comedy, then gets worse. | |
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Drawn Together has a fairly simplistic art style. However, it is a very dark adult comedy, filled to the brim with content that's not entirely for the faint of heart. | |
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At Chirei has the same cutesy Puni Plush style the author uses in their light-hearted Shipping and Slice of Life doujins, and tells a story of a broken family where one member is struggling with mental illness and another is beginning their inevitable journey From Nobody to Nightmare. | |
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Sock Series is cutesy, stylized, and absolutely chock full of human misery and Body Horror. | |
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Justified in the Creepypasta The Little Pink Backpack. Read it for yourself to see the disturbing content. | |
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The Professor Layton series, which has a cute and quirky art style... and yet often features topics such as revenge, government coverups, tragic pasts, implied murder, and the loss of loved ones. In one of their games for the iOS, Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, it isn't even implied murder anymore. All their cases deal with homicides (among other things) but it still remains its cheery, bright art style though at least it has a 12+ age rating. | |
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Abomi Nation has a very pastel and cartoony art style, with virtually all Abomis being some form of cute, even Furcifume. The plot covers extremely dark themes of death, loss, and war. | |
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Terraria takes much the same philosophy as Minecraft and gives it the backdrop of a cutesy cartoon style. Want to build that nice, big 8-storey house filled with expensive furniture and decorations and gold bricks? Well, then be prepared to face those zombies and skeletons and Demonic Spiders that made Minecraft a living hell, only this time with Eldritch Abominations thrown into the mix. | |
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WildStar has Nexus, the bright, colourful, vibrant, and lush planet of wonders and extremely dangerous predators, plants, and predator plants. Not counting the locals who would love nothing more than to kill and/or eat you, you also have the Exiles and the Dominion who are waging an all-out war on each other, plus the numerous criminal cartels and third parties rushing to the planet to get a piece of the "homeworld of the Galaxy's most advanced civilization" pie. There's also what killed the said most advanced civilization, who are still lurking around... | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is about three colorful Sesame Street style puppets experiencing Sanity Slippage, Body Horror and Mind Rape as a variety of saccharine teachers indoctrinate them. | |
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Osomatsu-san: While the original manga is a Shonen and the characters in -San are still drawn as wacky and cartoonish as it gets, the anime airs late at night in Japan and most episodes have enough sex/nudity jokes that wouldn't let it pass as a kid's show. | |
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''Nina's Magic Chest: Despite its bright colors and cute art style, it is a horror/thriller comic. | |
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