Never seen something that wasn’t even that bad also disturb me that much.

It wasn’t banned because of “violence,” it was banned because it’s real-life depictions of the gentoxic effects of nuclear radiation, the entire movie is about Japan during World War II.

Apparently people in Japan hated this movie so much that they destroyed half of its original copies and that’s why it’s so obscure now. There’s your fun fact for the day.

It’s triggering how realistic and brutal this anime is. It feels like raw trauma and it hits hard.

Fun fact: Korekiyo from Danganronpa's design was partly inspired by the person who made this movie (Suehiro Maruo)'s artwork.

I mean... If it's banned in JAPAN then it is probably too much

The gore wasn't disturbing. It was the rape, pedophilia, violence etc. The dogs... The dogs... The end was so sad. Ahhh

"I know these kind of things happen in real life....I just don't want to see it" this is exactly why these types of film are made. Without them the rest of the world would be perfectly content to just look away. The only time anyone cares about this is when they think "what if that were me?"

2:05 hearing her screams back to back in this editing is honestly heartbreaking... reminded me how bad this film really was

*I am very uncomfortable with the energy we’ve created in the studio today*

Fun fact: the directors team actually quit on him because the movie was so disturbing to them. So he literally worked on the movie by himself it took him 5 years and cost him 1 million.

This is the definition of “I’m very uncomfortable with the energy we created in the studio”.

This movie was so hated that parts of the original version were stolen and destroyed because of how vile they were. Any version that can be found now is lacking the scenes that were destroyed. I can't imagine how awful those scenes were when the parts of the movie that did stay intact are extremely disturbing.

Fun fact: one man animated the whole thing because nobody else would fund it

apparently the guy who wrote it made it all by himself bc no one else wanted to work on it,,,

Okay... Hearing children scream in agony makes my stomach turn. Always has since my childhood, because it reminds me of my own scream when I was younger. The acting is amazing. The fact that I felt an overwhelming sense of dread hearing that scream just goes to show. That is what it sounds like in hell.

I had to deal with a lot of this, so I couldn't even past 2:30 into your video. The screams triggered me horribly and brought back memories of my own SA. It's honestly sickening how stuff like this happens in real life.

aki: theres a live action movie of i- *BURN IT*

"Why did we make a live action of this?" *Excuse me what the fuck?*

I am horrified by the simple cuts of audio. I can only ever have a surface level of understanding towards those who decide to watch or made this piece. As I have been abused not sexual abuse but abused nonetheless. I already understand the harshness of life and how evil humans can be. I never want to immerse myself in a story that hinges on this so realistically, to the point that it gets banned.

the way she screams.. and cries.. it makes my heart hurt :(

The scream in the very beginning of this video was from the ending of this film. It saw Midori, a bit blurry, standing in the distance all alone and everything is quiet. Until she lets out that horrifying scream. It just shows how broken the little girl was. How a human can be so irrepairably broken. It was pure terror.

The girl begging for someone to help her and the men laughing just made feel sick. I could never watch this myself.

I’m too terrified to watch this, thank you so much Aki-

Welp, I broke down and watched it. Goddamn depressed and grotesque. Edit: to elaborate it is clearly art. It's the starkest retelling of the horrors some people go through as they are exploited, manipulated, abused, and dragged through abject misery. The art is very good and the performances are fully commitment and well done. I appreciated it for what it is I don't know if I can say I enjoyed the experience.

Just hearing the sounds made me disturbed , I was on the couch . My dad was just staring at me while I look disturbed as frick....

It took 5 years for Hiroshi Harada to single-handily compose, draw, and animate Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki, which required over 5000 sheets to complete.

This seems like an anime so scarring and depressing that not even adults can bear watching it. So for all the 9-11-year-olds thinking they have a "mature mind 👍😌" and can handle it, please don't watch it, because if you really think you can handle heavy stuff like this, you aren't as mature as you think. It's not cool, it doesn't make you more mature, it's just a bad idea. Best to save yourself the trouble in case it isn't what you expect it to be.

I've had bullies laugh at me manically when I cried, just hearing the audio is enough to retraumatize me... idk if I could bear to see it myself...

*who tf in the right mind would make a live action out of this*

im just wondering if the person who ANIMATED it is okay like...the people took the time to DRAW, COLOR, ANIMATE this

looks similar to Freaks (1932) in some ways. it plays on a universal allegory of life as a carnival/circus (it gets more complicated symbolism wise for sure), and it is meant to tap into some subconscious constructs so deep it is definitely very upsetting I think. I'd say it is an exercise of morals in a way, definitely a different kind of experience far away from it being in an entertainment sphere, for sure a hard exercise, but as a representation of...art I suppose it is interesting. Not all anime are fun...I still have traumatic memories from watching Grave of the Fireflies , but I guess this is what makes anime as an art medium special :)

haven't even watched it, but the screams, and the voice acting terrified me. the credits song scared me the most.

the fact that one single man spent years making this is more disturbing to me than anything else

honestly would rather end my year shitty than start it off like that

I'm scared mom...

you don't know how much cat videos I had to watch to cure myself

the fact that I immediately knew what anime she was talking about...

I think what really makes Shoujo Tsubaki awful is the fact that it doesn’t really focus on the gory horror and the more psychological side. Gore, blood is something that can appear but will eventually pass on in your mind, you forget about it. But the rape, the abuse, the pedophilia, it stays there, because its sad and Midori’s life COULD actually be a little girl’s current life, you’d be surprised how little some women have rights. To sum it up, this story is more sad and heart-wrenching than scary to me because all o fus deep down wanted a happy ending for Midori, but she never gets it.

the fact the creator single handedly created this whole ass movie with all the savings he accumulated for over five years, hand drew the movie which is like 5000 separate sheets and got his work destroyed.

6:27, it is interesting how people describe things they say they hate, to be able to describe it.

Let’s just appreciate that aki had the guts to even do this

You might not also know this but the guy with bandages (i forgot his name lol) there where some people in tiktok, simped for him. Yall heard me. SIMPED.

Not sure how much you looked into this film - it was animated by one man, cell by cell over 5 years. He also held the private screenings with a circus theme at the time of it's small premiers. Impeccable animation but his goal was not to shock and disgust people but like you say; to inform and open Japan's eyes to the travesties that some young people go through - a subject very close to home for the creator himself.

It's not disturbing because of the animation or anything, it's mostly because these ACTUALLY happen in real life to so many people😢

The movie : LETS PUT THIS LITTLE GIRL THROUGH MISERY AND CALL IT A MOVIE Edit: omg so many likes and for one I'm not trying to offend anyone

The fact that it's banned in Japan makes me feel that it's probably something to not watch, people watching it out of curiosity and talking about how they regret watching it made me convinced not to watch it even more .

I think one red flag for anime is the fact that no studio was willing to invest on it

It’s so strange how the whole thing is depressing and disturbing and then the credits have a lovely song and it’s just... what the hell? Edit: thanks for blowing this up

it's depressing how similar events to this are probably happening somewhere in the world right now

I came here thinking Go For A Punch (aka Saki Sanobashi) had finally been found Maybe this was it and everyone grossly misremembered it?

remember: people sat down and thought this was a good idea. people sat down and physically animated this.

JUST THE SOUNDS are enough on their own, I don't need to watch it to be disturbed!

Fun fact: there isn't just a live action movie there also was a musical of it...

That final cry always sent chills down my spine. To find that she was completely broken by that point... it almost felt like it would've been better if she completely gets amnesia.

its been about a year since ive watched this and this video was in my recommended and i still cant get this anime out of my mind. i had nightmares for so long, its so disturbing and sad :(

Spoiler Warning: For those of you who doesn't understand the ending, the girl tragically committed suicide by hanging, as implied by the dialogue before the credits. Although the plot line are disturbing, it truly depicts the harshness of life.

Joey: I'm Back uh aki are you Okay? Aki: I'm disturbed

Anything happening with the eyes traumatizes me

Her screams and cries for help always get me…

the sounds, THE SOUNDS. just the sounds made me almost click off this video.

*the way she cries I don't know why it's just so disturbing...*

I’m so sorry you watched all of that i haven’t watched it but i just know it’s terrifying 😭

I "liked" this movie about as much as anyone can like an overly depressing film with no happy endings. That girl was given a raw deal. The ending really broke me- she was at least, maybe going to have a peaceful life where she'd be cared for, but instead, random bad luck leaves her all alone and abandoned. THAT was her reward after all her suffering.

The movie: * Horrible, disturbing, discussing, absolutely not ok * The credits song: ✨🤩✨

So uh I ended up watching this movie awhile back, and from curiosity I decided to do some research on it and found that Shoujo Tsubaki according to google translate (I know it’s not the most reliable but this time it actually makes sense) means ‘Girl Camellia’ (I think it’s supposed to be Camellia Girl).This movie was actually based off of a story called The Camellia Girl. It’s basically a story about a poor girl who sells camellia flowers to make money but later on ends up performing by being tricked, forced, or sold. I also read somewhere that the Camellia Girl in the story is only supposed to suffer and struggle which makes sense regarding all that’s happened to her. Sorry this was really long I just wanted to give a little bit of insight to the story.

2:42 when Aki wanted to just cry and never watch that again!

after seeing it i was traumatized and couldn't sleep the girl's scream was so disturbing it kept on echoing in my mind

I'm not gonna watch it. I'm not gonna watch it. ....well, we know I'm gonna watch it.

I watched this and it wasn't "scary" in the way everyone was saying it was, i think to most it was just intensely disturbing? There wasnt any sense of fear it was just a constant feeling of grossness and shame that kept hitting scene after scene. There was no light at the end of the tunnel, and you knew it would simply get worse when you went into it. I feel like the largest part of the film itself that gets left out when people talk about it is the fact that as someone who is watching we know that this child wont ever forget or be able to leave these things in the past. As a watcher and as someone who is only reacting to a story, we are seeing the beginning and the aftermath of a heinous lifetime but we can pause at any time to feel better. We can turn off the movie and go do something else but this story will continue to play out. The real horror here is that these events do play out in some place and time at some point in this world. She will forever live in a shitty world and have memories of the constant battle she has been through her entire life, she wont grow up and she wont grow out of this trauma. She will carry it until her death even if she tries her hardest to forget it. I think the real "fear" is that someone wont grow to overcome these things and these horrible actions towards her were her reality but our fictional. The ongoing trauma and pain meant to hurt her forever does it's own job as the monsters in this film say so often. They force her to suffer because they can, and because they want to, I think that's the real horror in stories with things like this in them in general. People can be monsters simply because they can and many monsters in this world dont have a reason to harm people, they simply choose to do so because that's what they want.

I'm crying from the voice acting alone. I'm never going to watch it but MY GOD- it sounds absolutely painful 😭😭

"Tiktok, idk why you're just bringing this up now" Me : KZfaq alghorithm, idk why you're just bringin this up now

"it's banned in Japan" * realises aki is in Japan * 👁️👄👁️

I don’t think it was “scary” it was just very disturbing

I feel like the distorted tone and the quietness made it even more disturbing

Jesus Christ. This is disturbing. The va, animation, the story, and everything. It’s scary this happens irl. The screams my god. I can’t deal with that sorta shit.

"I know that people are messed up. I just don't want to see it." - Akidearest, 2020 True. Me too girl, me too...

It actually wasn't so bad. It was just sad. Its like you can't wake up from that particular nightmare no matter what you do because that is reality.

This is one of the most dusgusting, surreal and depressing things I have ever seen. Absolutely loved it.

The ending is literally the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. I feel so so terrible for Midori..

THE FACT THAT SOMEONE DECIDED TO MAKE A LIVE ACTION OF THIS OHMY

Even the animation looks cursed and I feel traumatized just by seeing this video

My friends watched this on a discord voice call bc it was banned in Canada where one of my friend lives, they immediately regretted it

" take that with a grain of salt " me : *literally eating salt*

why is no one talking about the fact they literally made a live action

Theory: in the end I believe Midori might had committed suicide due to one of the lyrics saying “The girl’s head swung”

2:42 aki disturbest’s face really was the face people make when they thought that graduating highschool and when they do they’re gonna be like: wtf was that

I watched it, but it has warnings and it covered my whole screen when there is something disturbing..

"most banned", didn't know there were levels to a ban.

Honestly... It was just sad. Really, really sad. It wasn't scary for me in terms of gore etc., but the amount of trauma she recived is just sickening

Midori’s cry at the end just breaks my heart into a million pieces.

It's family-friendly for me, I'll show him to my sons when I have some

Should’ve said “go watch it” because then I wouldn’t

You know it’s banned when a ANIME is banned in JAPAN. JAPAN FOR GOD SAKES THE PLACE WHERE ANIME IS MADE

Oh mannnnn I watched this ages ago 😬 it’s um…. Definitely one of those anime’s that haunts you and you need at least a day to digest. I definitely agree it’s the story that makes it depressing

I started reading the manga- the beginning before this. I stopped after seeing her kill those poor puppies. And well, she said at the beginning that she’s 12. I didn’t buy the manga btw. I read it online

I've watched the anime with a friend and we both got disturbed. It made me terrified knowing people have gone thru this and were manipulated back then. This film shows how filthy humans could be. The dog scene made me disturbed as well when the magician goes mad, I felt bad for Midori.

this anime really just made me say "ok, maybe boku no pico isn't that bad."

Oh I remember this one, watched it some years ago. I don’t really consider it disturbing (well, not like super disturbing) but I kinda forgot about it because of how abstract it was. But hey, I heard it was made by 1 dude with a limited amount of paper (frames) so kudos to him

The pain in aki's eyes when she heard midori crying...