The 18 Most Horrifying Anime Curses

Daigo Kagemitsu wanted wealth and power. He traded his newborn son's limbs to demons for gain. Hyakkimaru was born missing all vital limbs and body parts. He had no legs, arms, eyes, nose, ears, or skin. His greedy father traded everything for his land to prosper. A kind doctor raised Hyakkimaru and gave him prostheses. Hyakkimaru used the prostheses well. This creates a tragic curse made worse by his father's actions.

Griffith betrays the Band of the Hawk. He tries to sacrifice them for godlike power. Griffith leaves the survivors, Guts and Casca, with something called aBrand of Sacrifice.

This brand attracts demonic forces. People with the brand cannot stay in one spot long. Demons overrun the area. They face endless fights with all kinds of demons. They never find peace. Worse, the brand causes severe pain and bleeding when demons or evil spirits appear.

Meliodas and Elizabeth have different curses. Both act as barriers stopping them from being together. The Demon King punishes Meliodas with an immortality curse. Each time Meliodas dies, he loses some emotion upon reviving. Elizabeth suffers a curse: she is fated to die in front of Meliodas in every life she reincarnates. Thus, Meliodas lives forever, watching the love of his life die before him. He has already seen Elizabeth die 107 times.

AnotherA horror series features a long-held grudge against Class 3-3 at Yomiyama North Middle School. In 1972, a student named Misaki Yomiyama died in a house fire. Instead of mourning him properly, his peers pretended he was still there. This action triggered the Class 3-3 curse.

From then on, a dead person tied to the class becomes a new class member, indistinguishable from the living. Since the dead person should not be on Earth, a series of deaths starts. This cycle repeats every year.

The class fights the curse, succeeding somewhat, by ignoring one member for a year. By pretending they do not exist, they create a balance the curse does not need to fix.

Mitty turns into a Narehate in a scene that gives nightmares. Bondrewd's cruel experiment uses Mitty and Nanachi; Mitty then suffers the Curse of the 6th layer. Her body painfully changes into a blob, and she loses her mind and speech. This change is so awful Mitty begs Nanachi to kill her. Though being a Narehate gives her life, she constantly feels mental and physical pain. Nanachi ends her suffering, killing her with Reg's hand cannon.

There are three curses in the Ancient Magus' BrideThey are all different degrees of horrible.

The first two curses hit Chise Hatori, a Sleigh Beggy. Trained well, Sleigh Beggies pull and control much magic, but this magic weakens their bodies, making them fragile and sick. Chise adds a third curse when she tries to save a baby dragon from captivity, and it attacks her out of fear. The dragon's curse will kill her; removing it needs killing the dragon or passing it to someone else, which Chise refuses.

The last curse belongs to Joseph, a 2000-year-old being cursed with immortality after fusing with Cartaphilus, another cursed man. He cannot die, but his body decays, causing him great pain. To either die or stop his flesh from rotting, Joseph performs gruesome experiments on others.

The main villain ofInuyasha, Naraku curses Miroku's grandfather with a wind tunnelMiroku holds the wind tunnel in his hand. The wind tunnel is a strong weapon, but it also puts extreme danger on the user.

The void acts like a tiny black hole, easily sucking in and shredding enemies. But the user risks being sucked in too—that is what happened to Miroku's father.

The curse passes to the oldest male child in each generation of Miroku's family. This explains why he pushes hard for children. He wants to continue the family mission to defeat Naraku and wants to break the curse for good. Killing Naraku is the only way to break it permanently.

In the world ofFairy Tail, Curses act like magic, but they use negative human emotions as fuel. They aim to cause harm.Memento Mori is one of the universe's most chilling curse examples.

The curse first sends a purple mist that paralyzes the target. Then, they vanish completely from existence. This means they are not alive, but they are not dead either. They just aren't. Thinking about the consequences of that is frightening.

When Nago attacks Ashitaka's village, the rampaging boar god, he asks the deity to spare his people. Nago, whose home was destroyed by human growth, shows no interest in Ashitaka's pleas and keeps attacking.

Ashitaka kills Nago to defend his home. This action triggers a deadly curse. A black mark appears on Ashitaka's arm, spreading across his body and will kill him if not treated.

The Witch of the Waste angers 19-year-old Sophie Hatter. She gets cursed and ages to 90 years old in one night. This quick aging gives Sophie no life experience wisdom. It does bring many health problems.

Sophie wants to return to her real age. She leaves home seeking a cure for her curse. People argue what breaks the curse. Some suggest falling in love with Howl causes it; others think it stems from her new ability to find life's purpose and joy.

Before the curse, Sophie was a stiff, practical girl. She acted like she was 90. Becoming a 90-year-old woman gives her perspective.

The Sohma family curse seems fun until you examine its effects. Many generations ago, the family was cursed to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac.The Sohma family curse involves transforming into the Chinese zodiac animals.The curse activates when members embrace those of the opposite sex. These roles pass down through genetics.

The Sohmas get temporary animal powers. These powers offer little help in daily life. To avoid discovery, they must avoid intimate relationships with the opposite sex. They cannot stay near them in crowds; physical contact causes transformation just like hugs do.

The curse also triggers when the Sohmas are physically tired or sick. This forces a life of secrecy and isolation, causing many to develop serious emotional and interpersonal problems.

The family god, Akito Sohma, does not transform. However, the curse makes him extremely ill. It also causes him to abuse his family members, who feel they must accept it due to their isolation.

Himawari Kunogi is kind and wants the best for everyone. Yet, she brings bad luck. This seems to come from an inborn curse, though the exact cause remains unknown.

The bad luck affects people around Himawari, not her. Neighbors suffer arson because she picked up a ball near their home. Watanuki gets hurt and witnesses many deaths because he stays near her. Knowing she brings misfortune, she struggles to form relationships and isolates herself.

Oyashiro-sama's CurseThis term is widely used inHigurashi no Naku Koro niThis describes a series of murders in the Hinamizawa village. Villagers believe the deaths stem from the anger of the goddess Oyashiro-sama, who ordered villagers never to leave and to limit outsiders. When these rules broke, people died.

Other causes explain the deaths beyond divine punishment. Hinamizawa Syndrome, a strange mental illness causing violent acts, remains a possibility. Scientists might also be behind the murders, killing people who refuse to cooperate with their study.

Allen Walker's curse offers some benefits. His left eye lets him see the human souls inside.Akuma are demonic beings created by mixing one or more mortal souls. Most people see them as monsters, which helps exorcists destroy them.These beings are intentionally made by combining mortal souls. People usually view them as monsters. This suits an exorcist who hunts them.

Allen Walker is an exorcist. His cursed eye forces him to see his enemies' humanity. This lets him see the situation clearly and make the right choices. Still, the knowledge hurts.

This is not the only, or most shocking, case of an anime child turning into a chimera.Zelgadis Greywords is in 'The 18 Most Horrifying Anime Curses'.grandfather's curse on him remains very messed up.

Zelgadis's grandfather Rezo turned him into a being: "one part rock golem, one part blow demon, and one part human." He claimed this would boost Zelgadis's magic.

This new form gives him more physical strength. His community rejects him as a result. Worse, he learns the curse wasn't for his good. His grandfather used him for experiments. Zelgadis seeks a way through Slayers to fix this.Slayers. Zelgadis seeks a way to change his body back to normal.

The.Jusenkyo springs force people to transform in 'Ranma 1/2'.The Jusenkyo springs take the essence of the first person or animal that falls in. Anyone who falls in later transforms like that first subject. Transformation happens when cold water splashes the person; hot water reverses it.

For most cases, theRanma 1/2. Ranma 1/2 treats this curse like a joke. However, seeing characters turn into people who died in the same spring where they nearly drowned is macabre.

Arshes Nei, a dark elf and magician, faces a severe sorcerer's curse calledArshes Nei is accused of turning into a toad in 'Bastard!!'.The curse forces the recipient to obey the caster's orders. Resistance causes their fingernails to change color—starting blue, ending in blood red as a final warning.

After the last color shift, the victim becomes a toad. Arshes Nei escapes the curse only because Dark Schneider rips out her own heart and covers her in his blood at the last second.

Kaiman is in a lizard head in 'Dorohedoro'.DorohedoroThe Hole is a dangerous area. Magic Users abuse their powers to hunt humans. Kaiman, a human with amnesia, seeks the Magic User who cursed him with a lizard head. The curse causes no physical pain, but people avoid living with a lizard head. Kaiman's curse lets him bite off the heads of evil Magic Users. This helps Kaiman once he finds the caster of the curse.