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H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlothotep gets kawaii anime

10:00 AM on 08.09.2010 | Bob Muir

H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlothotep gets kawaii anime photo

#anime #kawaii!#News #Oh the moe #wut

What comes to mind when you think of Lovecraftian horrors? Hideous tentacled creatures? Dark cults bathed in blood? Unending madness? Terrors that man should not know?

Well, add cute anime girls to that list, because Japan has officially ruined the works of H.P. Lovecraft. According to Anime Vice, the parody light novel series Haiyore! Nyaruko-san is getting an anime adaptation soon. For those unaware of the books, the series revolves around Nyarlothotep, The Crawling Chaos, Him of a Thousand Masks. Normally a shape-shifting servent of the mind-warping Outer Gods that lurk behind our safe view of reality dedicated to spreading madness and chaos throughout humanity, he now takes the form of an adorable little girl who saves a schoolboy from aliens and decides to hang out with him.

What.

Seriously?

Strangely, this actually isn't the first anime based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. 2006 saw a Lovecraft-inspired mecha show called Demonbane. This, though? Cute moe girls are not what comes to mind when I imagine the eldritch horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. The only thing that could possibly salvage this anime is a heavy dose of tentacled beasts - though knowing Japan, they may have other things in mind.

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http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/

This image describes exactly what I think:
http://www.purplepawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Hello_Cthulhu.gif

It could be funny if it's like Dokuro-chan, except instead of a girl hitting a guy with a spiked bat, a girl swallows the soul of a guy leaving him in an abyss of terror and despair.

@ Tuskus
I only did that once, and I was drunk on Moon Wine at the time.
...
I mean, I am definitely not the Crawling Chaos.

This did already get a 9 episode OVA... http://myanimelist.net/anime/7596/Haiyoru!_Nyaru-ani

But awesome. I liked the OVA, so excited for a series.

Saya no Uta was based off of Lovecraft, and that turned out to be one of the best visual novels from Nitroplus.

It better be just like Tuskus said

I've been a little interested in lovecraft since i watched demonbane (not interested enough to play 'Saya no Uta' mind you) so i'm definetley gonna check this out. Sounds awesome.

When I read Lovecraft, all I think about is moe girls, so for me this has been a long time coming...

But seriously, this looks very Full Of Win.

... While I will be willing to give this a chance for a laugh, this comic does spring to mind:
http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/

HNGGGGG MUST GET NOW

@medrax, played saya no uta, i must say its a lovecraftian romance to the tee, one of the best novels i've ever read and the ending is just brilliant, all be it you'll have to plundge through guro its definitly a good download

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