The Legendary 80s Anime That Probably Doesn't Exist
Most people have a fascination with the unknown and the taboo, and in 2015, a 4chan user posted about a mysterious OVA in which nine girls, one of which, was named Saki, were trapped in a bathroom with no exit. Over time, they come to realize that the only way out is through suicide. Gruesome deaths, screams, and traumatizing scenery accompany the 30-minute video until it suddenly stops.
Other users began adding to it and claiming that they watched the video themselves. Some recalled the girls talking about their lives before their deaths, others said that they fought first. Three years after the fact, another user on Twitter described the OVA, but with it having three girls instead. Regardless, all agreed that there was a scene in which one girl helps the other drown herself, and the name of it was somewhere along the lines of, Saki Sanobashi.
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Some theorize that the work could be reminiscent of Shoujo Tsubaki by Suehiro Maruo, an eroguro manga from the 1980s that would, later on, be adapted into an OVA series. Additionally, it's said that most of the footage from the OVA is either banned or destroyed due to its disturbing nature. If that's the case, then it's not too far off to say Saki Sanobashi might have a similar predicament.
There were also comparisons to Dragon Head, another manga from the 1990s with similar existentialist and gorey themes — however, there was no distinct scene with nine different girls in a bathroom. There's also the theory that the OVA might have been loosely based on the manga, instead, though Dragon Head was released after Saki Sanobashi.
But it wasn't just the English-speaking side of the internet that knew of this legend. Online users from Spanish,
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