History WebAnimation / OnTheEdge

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Jiro Kurebayashi was known as "The Red Demon" in his high school delinquent days due to his notorious unrivaled strength and the fact that his hair turned red before beating bullies up.

* CosmicPlaything: Hirofumi Satake is subjected to all sorts of life-threatening situations that only someone as lucky as him could even survive, let alone heal.

* DirtyCoward: Sunaga, the leader of the Yakuza group, doesn't give a crap that Shigeo is abducting two of his men, seemingly seeing them as disposable. He is more convinced to do this when Shigeo himself threatens to kill him along with the rest of his men when Sunaga threatens him.

* EpicFlail: The opening of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' has a murderer who fled to Iran getting his legs crushed by a flail at the hands of an unnamed local Torture Sommelier as Shigeo watches.* EyeScream:

* EyesAlwaysShut: Shigeo's default look, until he resolves to punish criminals.

* TheLancer: Rukawa is Shigeo's loyal assistant in torturing criminals.

* TheBait: One of Shigeo's recurring assistants is a professional hostess named "Emma", who assists him in catching some of Shigeo's more perverted victims by luring them by flirting with and seducing them.

* BigBad: Sunaga is the closest thing the ''Torture'' series has to one, as he is the head of the Yakuza, who make up a good chunk of the crimes committed in the series. Along with that, he is an infamous criminal known to kill others on the street by biting people with his titanium teeth, and is known to have protected at least a few criminals during his career, mirroring how Shigeo helps his clients. Their interaction in ''Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza'' also hints at them having a long time rivalry.

* EpicFlail: The opening of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' has a murderer who fled to Iran getting his legs crushed by a flail at the hands of an unnamed local Torture Sommelier as Shigeo watches.
* EvilCounterpart: Sunaga is an infamous criminal known to kill others on the street by biting people with his titanium teeth, and is known to have protected at least a few criminals during his career, mirroring how Shigeo helps his clients. Their interaction in ''Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza'' also hints at a long-time rivalry between the two.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: ''Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza'' introduces the leader of a Yakuza group named Sunaga. The culprits who beat Eisuke's father were merely two of his henchmen.

* NobleDemon: Much of what Shigeo does is illegal and cold-blooded, and he himself admits it. At the same time, he is genuinely kind and understanding to his clients, and does what he does to help them heal their wounds. Additionally, he always asks his potential victims if they regret what they did to give them the chance to be spared.

* {{Sadist}}: Shigeo quite clearly enjoys the torturing he does to the villains. It even gets to the point where he spices up the various torture techniques he adopted throughout world history.

* SinisterMinister: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET-XWet8PtA Rabbit Torture]]'' stars another Torture Sommelier from the Philippines named JJ. Unlike Shigeo, he acts as the GoodShepherd of his local church whenever he isn't torturing criminals.

* VigilanteMan: Shigeo abducts various criminals that have committed atrocious crimes, and have gotten away with them scot-free. Afterward, he gives them their overdue punishment by killing them by gruesome means.

* WouldHurtAChild: A pair of delinquents in ''Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza'' beat the shit out of a little girl who ask them to move off of playground equipment, which causes Shigeo's client to attempt to confront them.

** [[https://youtu.be/Yokrc1R5Neo Kotetsu Kuga]] is the new boss of the Kyougoku-gumi who tortured anyone who threatened innocents and purge his crime family from the evilest elements.

* RejectedApology: The gang leader from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4LF6QGXCS4 Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]] apologizes for his crime when asked if he had any remorse for what he did. This is rejected, however, when he is asked what his victim was like, and tried to justify not knowing because he killed many other women before, and never got to know them, implying that he doesn't see women as people, and believes them all to be alike.

* RejectedApology: The gang leader from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4LF6QGXCS4 Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]] apologizes for his crime when asked if he had any remorse for what he did. This is rejected, however, when he is asked what his victim was like, and tried to justify not knowing because he killed many other women before, and never got to know them, implying that he doesn't see women as people, and believes them all of them to be alike.

* RejectedApology: The gang leader from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4LF6QGXCS4 Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]] apologizes for his crime when asked if he had any remorse for what he did. This is rejected, however, when he is asked what his victim was like, and tried to justify not knowing because he killed many other women before, and never got to know them.

* BlackMarket: The ''Dream Hunter'' episode ''[[https://youtu.be/dy2mBE_KAu0 Panda BBQ]]'' has Joji's friend Wan Maren take him to the black market to taste panda sashimi. While he gets distressed at first, he marvels at the taste upon eating it.

* BloodFromEveryOrifice: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5Jz2iVSNM Maruburg Disease]]'' (sic) has Hirofumi suffer the symptoms of the titular Marburg Disease after [[ItMakesSenseInContext a bat peed on his mouth]].

** Professor Yoshida from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-MGrZxWxHg The Burning Pot]]'' is a disheveled, rotund teacher who manipulates a student into having sex with him and sent thugs to rape the friend and film it all. And according to Shigeo's white-haired informant, it's not the first time he does this kind of things.

* ForeignQueasine: "Dream Hunter" Joji Kito travels around the world to taste various delicacies he finds, no matter if he's grossed out or contracts diseases from eating said foods.

** The episode ''[[https://youtu.be/q4LF6QGXCS4 Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]]'' has the titular Yakuza being fed to hungry dogs by Shigeo and Rukawa for raping and killing the client's daughter. This torture started in Mexican cartels, and the ending narration states that other countries used dogs as a method of torture as well.

** The episode ''[[https://youtu.be/q4LF6QGXCS4 Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]]'' features the titular Kagawa, a Yakuza who made a living through human trafficking whose preferred weapon is a [[DeviousDaggers dagger]]. He raped and killed the client's daughter Satsuki for trying to escape him.

** The episode ''[[https://youtu.be/Yokrc1R5Neo Boiling Oil Bath Torture]]'' stars "Nighstick Sagara", a Yakuza who carries a nightstick as a WeaponOfChoice.

** The episode ''[[https://youtu.be/q4LF6QGXCS4 Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]]'' features the titular Kagawa, a Yakuza who made a living through human trafficking whose WeaponOfChoice is a dagger. He raped and killed the client's daughter Satsuki for trying to escape him.

* BreakTheCutie: The daughter of Shigeo's client in ''Feeding to Vultures'' has one of her fingers chopped off, and is raped repeatedly. Thankfully she survives and reuinites with her family in the episode, a rarity in the series, but not without some pretty nasty emotional scars.

* CarryABigStick: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yokrc1R5Neo Boiling Oil Bath Torture]]'' stars "Nighstick Sagara", a Yakuza who carries a nightstick as a WeaponOfChoice.

** The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atsYpSlyWD0 Feeding to Army Ants]]'' has Shigeo covering a criminal's body in honey and release army ants on him, which proceed to feast on the bastard until he dies. This torture started in South America, especially in the Amazon rainforest.

* HotBlade: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24vrkfSTLnA Death by a Thousand Cuts]]'' features a gang boss who raped and tortured a high-school girl with his two buddies for 40 days, referencing the real-life case of Junko Furuta. Shigeo tortures the leader with a burning hot knife, even after turning off the burning hot steel pillar he tied the scumbag to.

* IfICantHaveYou: Yoichi Kashima from the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' raped and murdered his English language teacher for turning him down. He didn't get arrested because his father was the Attorney General.

** In the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8srrB0eSEU Kurebayashi meets Satake]]'', Hirofumi gets attacked by a musclebound, underwear-clad man brandishing a knife. Things get more unfortunate when a second knife-wielding killer shows up.

* SinisterMinister: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET-XWet8PtA Rabbit Torture]]'' stars another Torture Sommelier from the Philippines named JJ. Unlike Shigeo, he acts as the GoodShepherd of his local church whenever he isn't torturing criminals.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yokrc1R5Neo Kotetsu Kuga]] is the new boss of the Kyougoku-gumi who tortured anyone who threatened innocents and purge his crime family from the evilest elements.

* '''''Punishment:''''' It follows the hardships of Jiro Kurebayashi, a former delinquent with a strong sense of justice. His superhuman strength and violent resolve when beating evildoers to a pulp earned him the name of "Red Demon".
* '''''Unfortunate Life:''''' It centers around the misadventures of Hirofumi Satake, a man with the ability to survive rare, incurable diseases and poisons, as well as general life-threatening situations.
* '''''Dream Hunter:''''' This segment follows a man named Joji Kito travelling around the world to taste various delicacies, no matter if he is grossed out and/or falls ill from eating them.

* EpicFlail: The opening of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' has a murderer who fled to Iran getting his legs crushed by an unnamed local Torture Sommelier as Shigeo watches.

* CopHater: In ''The most ancient torture known to man'', Shigeo's client is so fed-up with the police being unable to find his daughter's killer, he outright despises them, and goes to Shigeo for assistence instead. Adding onto this is how they told him how even if they find the person who kidnapped her, he'll only be in jail for 15 years.

* DirtyCoward: Sunaga, the leader of the Yakuza group, doesn't give a crap that Shigeo is abducting two of his men, seemingly seeing them as disposible. He is more convinced to do this when Shigeo himself threatens to kill him along with the rest of his men, when Sunaga threatens him.

* WouldHurtAChild: A pair of delinquents in ''Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza'' beat the shit out of a little girl who ask them to move off of playground equipment, which causes Shigeo's client to attempt to confront them.

** The episode ''[[https://youtu.be/5ejOIfq1HSI The Boats]]'' features Scaphism, a Persian method of execution involving placing the victim in a enclosed boat coated with milk and honey and leave them in a body of water, where insects and maggots eat them alive. Shigeo uses this to punish a marriage fraudster.

* EpicFlail: The opening of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' has a murderer who fled from Iran getting his legs crushed by an unnamed local Torture Sommelier as Shigeo watches.

* GlasgowGrin: In the episode ''The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart'', Sofia slashed the mouths of both Kashima and his father the Attorney General in a single slash. When she interrogates Kashima for his crime, he could somehow still talk.

** In the episode ''The Heretic's Fork'', Shigeo tears out one of the rapist's testicles with [[spoiler:a pair of alligator pliers]]. When the scumbag sworn that he won't rape anymore, Shigeo hands Rukawa the [[spoiler:pliers]] to tear the remaining one.

* GuttedLikeAFish: In ''The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart'', after Kashima stated [[IfICantHaveYou his reason]] to kill Sara Taylor, she finishes him off by slashing his stomach.
* HateSink: InUniverse in the episode ''Garrote's Chair''. As a finishing blow to his torture towards the owner of a porn website, Shigeo gives the people viewing his torture the option to vote whether he should be alive or not. In the end, it turned out that he had already gained a pretty bad reputation following his attempted blackmail of Miyako.

* EntitledToHaveYou: Yoichi Kashima from the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' raped and murdered his English language teacher for turning him down. He didn't get arrested because his father was the Attorney General.

* DropTheHammer: In ''The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart'', Sofia brought a war hammer on the Attorney General to break his bones after slashing Kashima's guts out.

* EntitledToHaveYou: The criminal of the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' raped and murdered his English language teacher for turning him down. He didn't get arrested because his father was the Attorney General.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1ZsVlPHDI Torture Sommelier goes head to head with a Yakuza]]'' has Shigeo force feeding two of Sunaga's henchmen a ladel of molten lead. This goes as good for them as it sounds.

* KarmicDeath: Shigeo's tortures often suit his victims' punishment. For example, in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN-AEMNsNsI episode]], the CorruptCorporateExecutive forced a woman into bottling ''an entire tequila'' and she died from alcohol poisoning. For his punishment, Shigeo forces a liquid, mixed with water, car battery fluids, and even tequila, down in the CEO's throat until he drowns.

* KarmicMisfire: Sometimes, there's cases where the criminals not only avoid punishment, but use their power and/or connections to have an innocent suffer it in their place. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id5aPi4Tk_I The Pear of Anguish]]'' is an example of this, featuring [[spoiler:a corrupted Minister of Justice framing a mentally-disabled man for the rapes and murders committed by his son, leading to said man's execution.]]

** The Romanian criminal father-son duo from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4w8WmFphcg Ijyuin meets a decendent from Transylvania]]'' tell Shigeo and Darius that the girl the former has raped enjoyed it, leading to obvious results. When the two criminals start begging Shigeo for forgiveness while impaled on a heating tin pile, he throws the rationalization back at them before heating the pile all the way, melting the tin, and causing them a slow, painful death.

** The episode ''[[https://youtu.be/qI1yJ-fnXPk Feeding to Vultures]]'' involves Shigeo shoving a criminal, who kidnapped and raped a model, inside a maggot-filled donkey carcass, and leaving him alone inside a cage full of vultures. This torture started in ancient Greece, and was used against heretics.

* TheInformant: Shigeo has two: a pale white-haired guy wearing black clothing and a hostess in a blue cocktail dress. The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2hzmxPWIxw&t=376s Crucifixion]]'' introduces a third one, a middle aged man in Skid Row who assisted Shigeo in his search for criminal Mark Ikegami.

* KubrickStare: Shigeo's clients display this kind of stare when they show their need to vengeance.
* LackOfEmpathy: Pretty much all of Shigeo's victims show no regret or remorse for the atrocious crimes they've commited or how they affected the lives of others. Shigeo claims that this makes his job much easier, likely because he doesn't need to feel as bad for killing them in cold blood.

* LoonyFan: The episode ''The Tire Necklace'' features one who stalked, raped and impregnated a famous athlete named Kyoko Oizumi for marrying someone other than him.
* LosingIsWorseThanDeath: Invoked in the episode ''Crucifixion''. Before he is finished off, Mark Ikegami gloats about how he still wins in the end, because the video he used to blackmail Yuri will be permanently online. However, Shigeo, aware of the video, hired a professional hacker who successfully took down every copy of the video. It isn't until it is announced to him that he ultimately lost where he screams in agony before getting the last stake jammed through his head.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Each of the torture episodes have one new main villain for Shigeo to go after.

* SnuffFilm: In the episode ''Garrote's Chair'', Shigeo livestreams his torture of the porn site owner on the latter's own website, and makes the InUniverse viewers vote whether he should die or survive. Since the sleazy pig already had a bad reputation for raping and driving Miyako to suicide and killing her fiance Kentaro to avoid punishment, the public voted for his death.

** ''[[https://youtu.be/24vrkfSTLnA Death by a Thousand Cuts]]'': The gang leader who kept a high-school girl in capitivity for 40 days [[spoiler:is reduced to a skeleton after 43 days of being administered the titular punishment. By the last day, Shigeo was so focused on torturing the bastard he even ''talked to the skeleton'']].

* SurpriseCarCrash: ''he most ancient torture known to man'' has a high-school teacher kidnapping one of his students in his car. When she tried to flee, she got hit by a truck.

* VigilanteMan: Shigeo abducts various criminals that have committed atrocious crimes, and have gotten away with them scott-free. Afterwards, he gives them their overdue punishment by killing them by gruesome means.

* In the first episode, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ejOIfq1HSI The Boats]]'', Shigeo punishes a marriage scammer via scaphism and force-feeds him the honey and milk mixture needed for the punishment [[PottyFailure to work]].

* PottyFailure: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ejOIfq1HSI The Boats]]'' has Shigeo inflict this on a marriage scammer whose latest victim requested his services, by way of scaphism. [[spoiler:After seventeen long days of soiling and wetting himself from the mixture of honey and milk along with being eaten alive by maggots, the scumbag finally dies.]]