You're watching someone's actual nightmare. The violence isn't there to look cool, it's there to make you feel the weight of what's being taken away. Agent Blue doesn't build dread through jump scares or familiar horror beats. It builds it by letting you watch a person get destroyed, piece by piece, in ways that feel sickeningly real. The show knows the difference between horror that disturbs you in the theater and horror that stays in your chest for days after. This is the second kind. It's only three episodes because that's all it needs.
Agent Blue is a 2024 horror ONA.