The Bloody Mess Meter

A little something a few staff members came up with to help them better gauge for you what you may or may not be interested in.  Examples are included in parenthesis. Other aspects such as psychological and gore vs blood factors are also considered when choosing at what level to put examples.  The meter is aimed at an imaginary “average joe/jane” line, so around 5/10 is about as much as the average person could handle before they started cringing.   The meter is obviously subjective.  For us, what might be an 9 for the average person would only be a 6-7 for us.  What might be a 5 for us, you might consider a 3, and so forth.  It’s merely a tool, here for you if you need it.  You may or may not agree with our example choices or the meter in general but, this is what we use and we will revise it if we feel it needs to be.

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Manga/Anime

• 1-2: a nosebleed, fistfights (i.e. Alice 19th)
• 3-4: a little slicing and dicing, but nothing horrendously graphic (i.e. Soul Eater)
• 5: if someone gets cut open, they only bleed as much as a normal person would (i.e. Naruto)
• 6-8: progressively more and more splattertastic and/or over the top (i.e. Black Butler, Full Metal Alchemist)
• 9-10: if you hate blood, you’re gonna puke (i.e. Battle Royale)

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Movies

• 1-2: any generic action flick violence (i.e. G.I. Joe)
• 3-4: a little slicing and dicing, but nothing horrendously graphic (i.e. The Omen)
• 5: if someone gets cut open, they only bleed as much as a normal person would (i.e. Poltergeist)
• 6-8: progressively more and more splattertastic and/or over the top (i.e. Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare On Elm Street)
• 9-10: if you hate blood, you’re gonna puke (i.e. Oldboy, Hellraiser)

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Videogames

• 1-2: any generic videogame violence (i.e. Final Fantasy)
• 3-4: a little slicing and dicing, nothing horrendously graphic, may or may not even seem necessary (i.e. The Last Remnant)
• 5-6: if someone gets cut open, they only bleed as much as a normal person would (i.e. Bioshock, Persona 3 & 4)
• 7-8: progressively more and more splattertastic and/or over the top; may or may not involve fear that’s a little less disturbing a little more “HOLYSHI–! *jumps*” (i.e. Left 4 Dead, Devil May Cry)
• 9-10: if you hate blood, you’re gonna puke; may or may not be more immersed in environmental gore than outright splatterfest (i.e. Silent Hill, Mad World)