Friday March 15, 2013 at 10:20 am by Adam S.
March 15th (or the Ides of March in Latin) gets its infamous meaning thanks to William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. Where a soothsayer tells Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March". The message was a warning of his death. Which of course came true when Caesar was assassinated by a group of conspirators, including people he trusted.
Ever since then the Ides of March has stood for a warning of doom or even better - REVENGE!
To celebrate such an auspicious day we decided to share just a few of our favorite examples of revenge in anime. We would love to hear what are some of your favorite anime revenge episodes as well.
Shiki #18 - "Eighteenth Death"
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In the 18th episode of the vampire suspense thriller the hunted becomes the hunter.
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Dr. Ozaki leads Chizuru Kirishiki, from the family vampires that have been killing and turning the villagers, to a local festival. Here Ozaki sets a trap for her to be reviled as a shiki to the villagers and to open their eye to what has been happening in the village. It worked.
Hellsing Ultimate VII
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Seras Victoria is as tough as nails. Even when her darkest memories are brought to light.
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When Zorin Blitz goes deep into Seras's mind she brings out the memories Seras never wanted to revisit as an illusion to trap her in. With Seras contained Zorin kills Bernadotte. Seras wakes up to see him die. Seras drinks his blood to reveal her true power. Zorin and her forces were no match for Seras in this form. Zorin dies at the hands of Seras by one of the worst cases of 'road rash' in anime history.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood #19 - "Death of the Undying"
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With Colonel Mustang left for dead Lust turns her eyes to Lieutenant Hawkeye. Not a smart move.
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Hawkeye goes into a rage thinking that Mustang is dead and shoots Lust repeatedly with no luck. Mustang appears revealing he sealed his wounds by burning them shut and cut a transmutation circle into his hand. Mustang repeatedly sets Lust on fire until she can no longer regenerate and crumbles to ash.
Gankutsuou #23 - "Edmond Dantès"
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This series is based on The Count of Monte Cristo - it's all about revenge!
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Not this time, you're just going to have watch the episode 
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I have to agree with Vspates, FMA Brotherhood. With Roy was a really good revenge scene but there are quite a few of them scattered throghtout the series. Edward beating the crap out of the father figure to all the hemonculia at the the end was a sweet revenge/ending along with the flask loosing and never getting the true meaning when he was back at the door...very nice!
I would also like to throw in in Maka Alma fight at the conclusion of Soul Eater as well.
If you think the lust one was bad, the
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scene with envy is faaaaaaaaaar worse, where Roy just completely unleashes absolute hell upon Envy and makes his eyes explode amongst other painfully and obscenely violent things.
The fmabroohood with Roy...ooww my goodness that was hot!! lol!!! He got his vengeance!!!
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