History WebAnimation / OnTheEdge

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Each of the ''Torture'' episodes has one new main villain for Shigeo to go after.

** The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XplGelo6MvI The ruthless Yakuza Togashi shoots his victims' legs and smashes them with hammers]]'' stars the titular "Hammer" Togashi, who is one of Kotoge's bosses whose preferred murder method is smashing his victims to death with his hammer after shooting or stabbing their limbs.

* BatterUp[=/=]DropTheHammer: Shigeo hits some of his victims with a bat or a sledgehammer before torturing them proper.
** 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.

* '''''Torture:''''' Self-proclaimed "Torture Sommelier" Shigeo Ijuin tortures criminals in gruesome ways to avenge said criminals' victims. Later on, these episodes focused on Kabuto Kotoge, a young Yakuza who tortured whoever messed with his clan or set business in his clan's territory.

* '''''Torture:''''' Self-proclaimed "Torture Sommelier" Shigeo Ijuin tortures criminals in gruesome ways to avenge said criminals' victims. Later on, these episodes focused on Kabuto Kotoge, a young Yakuza who tortured whoever messed with his clan or stepped into its territory without the clan's permission.

* '''''Torture:''''' Self-proclaimed "Torture Sommelier" Shigeo Ijuin tortures criminals in gruesome ways to avenge said criminals' victims.

* TragicStillbirth: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb4DtBl0XA Immoral Doctor]]'', Kotaro and Miki's baby was delivered stillborn. The doctor told them beforehand that their upcoming baby had brain hernia and it was very possible it wouldn't survive childbirth.

* ForciblyFormedPhysique: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip48ZeBllPM The Duke of Exeter's Daughter]]'' has a criminal tortured in the titular device for killing women by strangling them.

* SinisterScythe: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEAGIGqF04 You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl...]]'' features Sakamoto, a Yakuza leader whose preferred weapon is a sickle.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The main antagonist of ''Thinly slicing skin with a wood shaver'', [[spoiler:Inukai poses as a friendly pet shop owner, and a long-time friend of Kagote's boss'. In actuality, he is a greedy man that poisons the pets his customers buy for the sake of keeping his company afloat by buying more pets from there. He also kills anyone who discovers the truth behind his business.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The main antagonist of ''Thinly slicing skin with a wood shaver'', [[spoiler:Inukai poses as a friendly pet shop owner, and a long-time friend of Kagote's boss'. In actuality, he is a greedy man that poisons the pets his customers buy for the sake of keeping his company afloat. He also kills anyone who discovers the truth behind his business.]]

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnY49H3nOM Thinly slicing skin with a wood shaver]]'' has a cruel pet shop owner named Inukai purposefully poisoning pets people buy from his store to make profits. Anyone who discovers the truth behind his practices are also poisoned.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JGAuluePQ4 Puppy Killers]]'', the pet store Jiro applied to work for is revealed to be a ''puppy mill''. The boss and owner of said puppy mill was a callous, authoritarian bastard who responds violently to criticism, until Jiro gives him a well-deserved beating for it. [[spoiler:The death of a very sickly chihuahua he cared for was the last straw for him.]]

* SinisterScythe: The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEAGIGqF04 You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl...]]'' features Sakamoto, whose preferred weapon is sickles.

** [[https://youtu.be/q4LF6QGXCS4 Kagawa]] is the leader of the Jingi Gang, who made a living through human trafficking and killed a young woman named Satsuki for running away.

** The episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXhhzlrQU4 Skewing Fingers - The most painful torture in the world]]'' has Kitaoka torture a guy by sticking bamboo skewers under his fingernails.

* {{Fingore}}: In the episode ''[[https://youtu.be/qI1yJ-fnXPk Feeding to Vultures]]'', the client receives a mail, containing a finger from her daughter, sent by her kidnapper and threatens to kill her if the client didn't give him money.

** In the episode ''Fast shooting duel'', Shigeo tortured scummy TV host Shintaro Murasame with a breast ripper, enlarged and modified to rip a victim's ''belly''. Five hours later, the scumbag falls off and dies, his guts spilling all over the floor.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24vrkfSTLnA Death by a Thousand Cuts]]'' references the real-life case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta Junko Furuta]]. However, the criminals ''do'' get arrested in this story while the head rapist is tortured by Shigeo for ''43 days''.

* GuttedLikeAFish: In ''The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart'', after Kashima stated [[IfICantHaveYou his reason]] to kill Sara Taylor, Sofia finishes him off by slashing his stomach.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7kO4C1ocGQ Garrote's Chair]]'': Miyako took her own life after being constantly blackmailed and raped by the owner of a porn site that hosted a video of her and her ex, which led to her fiancé Kentaro to seek revenge against the sleazy pig. Unfortunately, said pig hired a delinquent to kill Kentaro, leading to his situation on the beginning.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=924-G_ii70E Wicker Man]]'': A man on a subway train is accussed of groping a woman. This was a scheme set up by a delinquent in order to gain money by leeching off of said woman, who would obtain the money from his targets after suing them. Even though the man tried to prove his innocence, the police did not believe him, he admitted to the crime that he hadn't committed, and it became so overbearing that the man decided to end his own life.