Bloody Anime

I've dabbled in the "horror" anime a little. Not much, mind you, but a little.

My very first one was Blood+ but it wasn't that bad in the long run. I enjoyed the story a lot and found it to be a very interesting twist to the whole Vampire thing. I've been actively avoiding Blood C, I've heard people say it was terrible and I'd like to avoid spoiling an anime that's nearly perfect in my mind.

The next one was Elfen Lied. Let me tell you, I was not prepared for that. It was well above the level of blood and gore that Blood+ exposed me to. But, at least in my opinion, the gore always seemed to make sense for the sake of the story. It's been a long time since I've watched it all the way through so I might be mis-remembering,

Since then I've watched a number of different anime, all with varying levels of blood and gore. Not all of them could be classified as "horror" but some of the scenes might be described as "horrifying."

I couldn't name them all even if I tried.

The most recent "bloody" anime I watched was Psycho Pass. Which I completely enjoyed. I keep hearing that there's more to it than what I was able to watch on Netflix. I'll have to do some more research to find out if that's true or not. But anyway, as with Elfen Lied and Blood+, I always felt like the gore and the blood made sense for the story that was being told.

So I've been sitting here waffling back and forth on this decision that I'm sure is going to affect me.

I'm considering watching Parasyte - the maxim- because it sounds really interesting and the plot is actually kind of intriguing to me. But every time I see the trailer for it, I kind of wince a little and peek at the screen through squinted eyes because I'm not sure I want to see it or not.

However, the manga has supposedly won several awards and is being made into a pair of live action movies. Apparently the first one earned something like 800 million yen in it's first two weeks, that's roughly 6.6 million US dollars.

So obviously it's good. Obviously people like it. I just don't know if I'm too much of a weenie to handle it or not.

Thoughts?