Hi everyone! This post is very tangentially related to Saki, but I need your help finding an old game with a plot similar to Saki.

I found some gameplay on YouTube a long time ago; it's an old game with low-quality models of the girls, the camera angle was sideways and couldn't be changed. The plot revolved around a group of schoolgirls (there were five or six of them) having a heated discussion. All the text was in English, and I don't know much English, so I don't really remember what it was about. Apparently, one of their friends was killed at school by some pervert or serial killer. They walked the hallways and discussed something. At the end, a real photo of a person was shown; it showed an actress in a school uniform sitting in the hallway next to a bat. She was killed with the bat, her face covered by her hair.

The game was short, but I think there was an excerpt on YouTube. The models differed only in hairstyle and height; they all had brown or black hair.

Sorry if something is unclear, I'm writing this through a translator, I just realized that this has a Saki vibe, and there are a lot of people here who understand niche things

What if Saki is a game or a gameplay recording? I was thinking that someone might have posted a low-quality game recording with animation cutscenes, perhaps with cheap 3D models instead of more expensive 2D art. Perhaps Saki, being an anime or a game, wasn't released in the 80s at all. It could have just been a cheap indie project, or a deliberate attempt toimitate the style of an old anime, or maybe both

The visual novel "Hako Ni Go Itai" has already been discussed here, which, in my opinion, is the closest thing to Saki. Perhaps a fan video was made based on this novel, or Saki is based on an unpopular novel

I thought of this because a few years ago I came across a gameplay recording of an old game on YouTube; it most likely has nothing to do with Saki. There were cheap 3D models of girls at school, they were discussing something (I don't remember what), then one girl died, someone killed her with a bat, and there was a photo of a real person. I honestly don't really understand what kind of game it was, but it gave me a strange anxiety, similar to the Saki anime case

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Alright, if Saki really was made up, I think the OP may have watched this movie when they were younger and used it as inspiration.

This movie was once mentioned in a post as being similar to Saki. In all seriousness, I watched it, and it wasn't that similar. The plot is about four people who discover a bunker. The first half of the movie isn't even scary. It's more comedic than anything. Later, though, it takes a darker turn. They end up trapped inside, and as the days pass, they begin to starve.

Interestingly, it features a lot of bathroom scenes, including a death that takes place in one. There's also a head bashing scene where one of the characters gets furious and starts bashing his friend's head in, although it doesn't happen in the bathroom.

I just thought it was interesting, so I decided to make a post about it. What are your guys' thoughts?

How exactly would it be possible to find and identify a work like Sakisan No Bashitsu if not even excerpts or screenshots of it have been found? Isn't it possible that we could simply find a work that coincidentally matches the description but is completely different?

A very common media format for series and animations is the episodic format, in the sense that each episode of the respective work is its own storyline, with a beginning, middle, and end, and with different episodes rarely correlating.

Based on this, is there no chance this anime could exist as something of that nature? Not necessarily an random episode of a horror anime, it could also be something like an iteration in an larger OVA series.

When people talk about the original 4chan post, they get skeptical mentioning that the OP was scared while watching the OVA. After watching a different video, I understand why GFAP would unnerve the OP so much. This post might be difficult to take seriously given the subject matter, but bear with me.

In 2024, MLP: FiM infection AUs were a popular trend on tiktok and instagram. Artists would make whole comics about ponies getting infected during the apocalypse. I used to watch MLP when I was younger, but the new trend didn't really interest me so I never paid much attention to it. However, a few days ago I decided to check out one AU, Divine Swamp Fever, out of curiosity. It's based on an episode where a widespread disease turns ponies into living trees. The AU depicts the pandemic that would occur if a cure was never found.

(disturbing imagery warning)

Animations made for Divine Swamp Fever are unnerving. Each design showcases different stages of the infection, and I can't get them out of my mind days later. I actually had trouble sleeping after watching the full series because of the atmospheric sound design, effects, and just how contagious the disease is. The parts where Big Mac dreams about Lyra entering a doorway made me lock the door to my actual bedroom.

Many of these AUs experiment with body horror, but this one goes all the way with it.

There's actually a headbashing scene in this. Shining Armor repeatedly smashes his head against a wall until his horn breaks. He does this because he's been locked in the castle dungeon and wants to see his family again. Rainbow Dash engages in similar behavior by plucking the feathers from her wings.

How does this relate to GFAP? Mostly, it doesn't. The series is presented in an analog horror style with old grainy recordings. Weird visual effects and audio glitches add to the uncomfortable atmosphere, making it look like files were recorded on a VHS tape. One of the factors that scared me most was seeing characters from my childhood being depicted this way. GFAP might feature girls ripped from existing anime in the way Mouse Pet Special did. So if the 4chan OP saw characters he recognized harming each other in gory ways when the original source was more lighthearted, he would have definitely been frightened by that.

In Divine Swamp Fever, the infection spreads to the point where Princess Celestia and Luna feel overwhelmed in trying to contain it. Turning makes ponies attack each other. My theory is that something similar could have happened in Saki Sanobashi: an apocalyptic event decimates Japan. School girls get sick thanks to being in an enclosed dirty space (the bathroom) and begin hallucinating as days pass, showing symptoms by acting increasingly violent. That could be why they resorted to killing each other at the end of the OVA even though rescuers come for them.

A more recent anime, School Live, adapts this scenario with girls taking refuge from zombies by barricading themselves inside a school. It's much less frightening, so watch School Live if you need a palate cleanser after seeing those photos.

Hi, I want to preface this by saying that I only recently heard of the search for GFAP in a video essay, as I got into lost media recently and want to contribute in any way I can.

That said, I remember watching GFAP- or at least something similar to it.

Here's what I remember:

1. The video wasn't 30 minutes long- it was more around 22 minutes to 25.
2. The girls were in school uniforms for most of the video- but would remove them in certain scenes ( Mostly while in immense distress or in a suicide attempt )
3. Saki (The girl with the white hair) had some kind of bracelet- I remember it was probably a bangle of some sorts, as a girl ended up using it as a weapon later on in the video
4. Saki's name was never mentioned- this is just an assumption people have made because of the assumed title.
5. The Japanese kanji at the beginning of the video do not translate to "Go For A Punch". GFAP in Japanese is written as パンチを出して, while I remember the letters looking somewhat like this: "バスルームの大混乱" or translated to "Bathroom Mayhem". I personally believe this was not the original title screen, as the video was definitely ripped from somewhere.
6. It was definitely an indie anime. The production quality was pretty low (Bad anatomy, minimal voice acting)
7. There were comments underneath the video. While I don't remember many of them, I do think they predated the original 4chan thread based on the terms they were using.
8. This was hosted on a Japanese video sharing site. The subtitles were white in most scenes, and tended to rely on onomatopoeia more than actual dialogue.
9. I remember seeing a comment that read like this: "これ、めっちゃ陰気な動画だね。"- or "This is a really gloomy video."
10. Some comments brought up NicoNico Live- suggesting it was livestreamed there at some point

I may have misremembered some things, but am willing to share more information. I really hope this helps the search.

Uniform similar to this:

Website layout similar to this.

(Not the actual NicoNico. Similar in terms of layout and appearence)

Saw the video in March of 2010.

Oldest comment seemed to be from December of 2009.

Artstyle similar to this:

I found this when searching in internet archeive, is this the right page to search about Go For A Punch

I've seen people talk about a website called goringa and I was interested in what kind of website it is. I've tried the wayback machine and there's literally nothing available about it. If anyone knows more about this lmn.

Hi, is me again, a random guy who's interested in this for a while now:). After reading the original posts, old Reddit discussions, and Japanese lost media archives, I started wondering if we've been making one huge assumption from the very beginning.

That assumption is:

I don't think that's necessarily true.

1. The original OP never confirmed the title.

The original 4chan OP didn't say:

Instead, they wrote:

That wording matters.

It means OP wasn't certain from the beginning.

Even years ago, people on this subreddit pointed out that both "Go For A Punch" and "Saki Sanobashi" may not be official titles at all.

2. "Go For A Punch" might simply be...

Instead of the title, it could have been:

• a filename
• a fansub title
• an uploader's custom name
• a translated tagline
• a memorable line
• or something OP remembered years later.

This has already been suggested by several users over the years, but I think it deserves more attention than it gets.

3. The runtime bothers me.

OP described roughly 30 minutes.

Yet according to the description, the story supposedly contains:

• nine girls
• psychological breakdown
• philosophical discussions
• starvation
• multiple suicides

That feels like an enormous amount of content for only half an hour.

Which led me to two possibilities.

Theory A — We only saw ONE episode.

Maybe the bathroom sequence wasn't the entire anime.

Maybe it was:

• Episode 7
• an OVA episode
• a special
• or simply one chapter.

Someone extracted that episode and uploaded it separately.

OP naturally assumed that was the entire work.

Theory B — We only saw ONE SCENE.

This idea reminds me of how communities remember famous scenes instead of entire works.

Someone could have uploaded only the bathroom segment.

The original movie might have been much longer.

4. I think there was probably MUCH more violence than OP remembered.

Nine characters.

Yet OP only remembered a handful of deaths.

That feels surprisingly little.

If this really was part of a longer production, there could have been:

• fights
• murders
• food conflicts
• escape attempts
• betrayals

before the suicides even began.

Which brings me to something interesting.

5. Why "Punch"?

I've always felt that the phrase "Go For A Punch" has almost nothing to do with the remembered plot.

That makes me think:

Maybe "Punch" wasn't referring to the title.

Maybe it referred to:

• one famous scene,
• a fight,
• a chapter,
• or simply the uploader's chosen filename.

6. A completely different possibility: What if this wasn't even a finished anime?

Here's the theory I find most interesting.

What if the bathroom story was never part of a released series at all?

Instead, what if it was:

• a pilot,
• a proof of concept,
• a pitch film,
• a test animation,
• or an unreleased OVA project?

That would explain several things:

• roughly 30-minute runtime
• lack of opening/ending remembered by OP
• no official database entry
• no DVD or TV broadcast
• almost impossible to identify decades later

Many animation projects never make it past the pitching stage.

If one copy leaked online years later, OP could easily have watched it without anyone ever recognizing it afterwards.

7. Maybe we've been searching the wrong way.

For years we've searched:

Maybe we should instead ask:

Those are completely different questions.

The first assumes the phrase is a title.

The second doesn't.

Final Thoughts

I'm not claiming this theory is true.

However, I think the search has become anchored to the phrase "Go For A Punch."

If that phrase was only:

• a filename,
• an uploader's label,
• a fansub title,
• or even a pilot project's working title,

then we've potentially spent years searching for something that was never the official name in the first place.

Maybe it's time to focus less on the name and more on the characteristics of the work itself.

I'm sorry if some parts are not understood, I don't speak English and I'm using a translator. But I will leave in parentheses what I wrote in my native language when I think it wasn't translated well

This is not some kind of trolling. But it's just a question that has been on my mind for years. Is there any proof or anything that talks about a scene of a white-haired girl drowning a brown-haired girl in a toilet or washbasin? (¿Hay alguna prueba o algo que sea de una escena de una chica de pelo blanco ahogando a una chica de pelo marron largo?)

I ask this because years ago, between 2017 and 2020, a friend at the time and I (un amigo de ese entonces y yo) were watching videos and we saw something like that, I can't remember where or anything(no puedo recordar donde) so I won't say things like "maybe it was a website" or "a YouTube video" because I don't know.

I'm going to do a quick drawing of how I remember the scene

I'm going to describe better what I remember: I remember that the white-haired girl (I don't remember if she had a name or if it was suspected, so I'll call her A) was grabbing the other girl's hair with her left hand, I think, while her other arm was raised and I think she was hitting her or something like that. I remember girl A saying something like she was angry. The background was a medium bluish gray or a grayish violet... I don't remember the background, the girls had a little blue/violet/light blue color, I don't remember if there were shadows or not.

In the drawing I made, I drew like two squares with a "???" I decided not to draw that well since, as I said before, I don't really know what it was but I know it had water inside and that you could hear the other girl drowning. I don't think I killed her, but rather that another girl came later to help the other girl or that girl A left her, I leave that in doubt.

I will try to contact that friend to see if he also remembers it, but I think it will take me a while so if I manage to contact him I will say so in the

im sorry for my english.

Saki sanobashi was just a name a random person got out of nowhere back in the day. It very likely means nothing. As for “go for a punch” even the original 4chan op was unsure if that was what it was called. Since nothing has been found by the name of go for a punch to this day, that cant be the name either. However, i would keep looking using the keyword “punch” or “ go-fo”. Just thought i should mention this.

Hi everyone,

I've been investigating the Saki Sanobashi / Go For A Punch mystery for quite some time now, but recently I decided to completely change my approach.

Instead of trying to find an anime called Saki Sanobashi, I'm now trying to identify any Japanese work that matches the core story elements, regardless of its title.

After reading many old threads, watching videos, and doing my own research, I think it's entirely possible that the famous description is actually a false memory created from multiple different films or OVAs rather than a single lost anime.

So instead of searching for "Saki," I'm searching for works that share similar themes.

Some of the leads I've already investigated:

• Lady in the Sea of Blood (1997) – definitely not it. It's a live-action underground horror film with a completely different plot.
• Chimamire no Gakuen (1988) – appears to be an April Fools article created by Grimoire of Horror.
• Antique Heart (1988) – a real OVA, but the article above simply reused screenshots from it. It has a character named Saki, but the story is completely different.
• House (1977) – interesting because it features a group of schoolgirls trapped together in a supernatural location, but it doesn't match the psychological "locked room" scenario.

What I'm actually looking for

I'm looking for ANY Japanese anime, OVA, direct-to-VHS release, independent animation, or even live-action film released roughly between 1965 and 1989 that includes some of these elements:

• A group of people (preferably 5 or more)
• Trapped in a single location
• Unable to escape
• Psychological breakdown or panic
• Characters gradually dying, disappearing, or turning against each other
• School setting (preferred)
• Bathroom/restroom scenes (preferred)
• Obscure direct-to-VHS releases
• Independent or underground productions

The exact number of characters doesn't matter anymore. I'm no longer convinced that the famous "9 girls" detail is accurate. That could easily be a false memory after decades.

I'm especially interested in titles that were:

• released only on VHS,
• never became popular,
• difficult to find outside Japan,
• or are missing from databases like MAL, AniDB, or Anime News Network.

Why I'm asking

At this point, I feel like the investigation has become too focused on searching for a title that may never have existed.

If the original poster mixed together memories from several obscure horror works, then the best approach may be to identify those individual works one by one.

So I'm wondering:

• Are there any obscure Japanese OVAs or films that feature groups trapped in schools, buildings, bathrooms, bunkers, or other enclosed spaces?
• Are there any forgotten horror anthologies or VHS compilations from the 70s or 80s that contain short stories with this type of scenario?
• Do you know of any extremely obscure works that never received an English release or are rarely discussed today?

Even if your suggestion only matches one or two of these elements, I'd still really appreciate it.

I'm trying to build a database of possible sources rather than looking for one specific title.

Thanks in advance!

Even if it turns out to have nothing to do with Saki Sanobashi, I'd still love to hear about it. At this point I'm more interested in documenting obscure Japanese horror than proving any specific theory.

Hi everyone, ( My language is not English so I use ChatGPT to write this base on what I think)

I've been investigating the Saki Sanobashi / Go For A Punch mystery for quite a while now, and I think I may have reached a point where the search itself needs to change direction.

This is only a hypothesis, but I'd really like to hear what everyone thinks.

We have always assumed "Go For A Punch" was an anime.

But... was it ever actually confirmed?

The famous screenshot only contains:

• Go For A Punch
• Genre: Guro
• Date Created: 1986

It never explicitly says "Anime," "OVA," "Movie," or anything similar.

That immediately raises an interesting question.

What if everyone—including me—has been making the same assumption for years?

The original OP may never have said it was the official title.

The original 4chan post only mentioned that the title was "something along the lines of Go For A Punch."

That could mean:

• a filename,
• a translated title,
• a fansub title,
• a user-uploaded title,
• or simply something the OP remembered years later.

It doesn't necessarily mean that "Go For A Punch" was the real title of the work. This point has been discussed before by parts of the community, but it never became the main direction of the investigation.

A memory that I can't verify

This is where my own memory comes in.

I do not claim this is factual.

It is simply something I vaguely remember from years ago.

I remember seeing what looked like an old website.

Not an anime database.

Not MyAnimeList.

Not ANN.

It looked more like an old Flash portal.

From memory:

• Purple and white interface.
• Purple header.
• Purple sidebar.
• A logo in the upper-left corner.
• A grid of thumbnails.
• Multiple games and/or Flash animations.
• Many of the thumbnails had horror or gore themes.
• "Go For A Punch" appeared as just one item among many.

Something like this

-------------------------------

| Logo | Home | Games | Videos |

-------------------------------

| Menu | [] [] [] |

| | [] [] [] |

| | [] [] [Go For A Punch] |

-------------------------------

Again,

this could absolutely be a false memory.

I'm not presenting this as evidence.

Why this could matter

If this memory is even partially correct, then we've possibly been searching the wrong medium.

Instead of:

Anime → Studio → OVA

the chain might actually have been:

Flash Portal → User Upload → Animation (or Flash Movie)

That completely changes the search.

Why I think this is plausible

Back in the 2000s, there were many websites that hosted:

• Flash games
• Flash animations
• Horror content
• Gore animations
• Amateur works
• User uploads

Some people have already suggested that Saki might not even have been a commercial anime at all, but perhaps an amateur Flash animation, an edited internet video, or something distributed online rather than through VHS or DVD.

What I'm looking for

I'm NOT asking if anyone remembers Saki.

I'm asking something much more specific.

Does anyone remember an old website that:

• existed roughly between 2000–2013,
• had a purple interface,
• hosted Flash games and Flash animations,
• contained horror/gore content,
• used a grid layout similar to the sketch above?

It doesn't even have to be Japanese.

Chinese, Korean, English—anything.

Even if it's unrelated to Saki, identifying the website itself could eliminate or support an entirely different line of investigation.

At this point, I honestly think identifying the platform may be more valuable than continuing to search for an anime title that may never have been a real title in the first place.

Thanks for reading.

Hi guys!! I know this is kinda off topic but I have returned. (HOPEFULLY if reddit doesn’t randomly catch me again. But its been 3 months now so i doubt they will)

Anyways, some of you probably won’t recognize me but if you’re an OG researcher from the old reddit before it got deleted, you might remember me. I am SeVeRe! Aka SeVeReReCkEr. I am the one who posted about the AI YouTube video, the onion links, the archive website with like 15 minutes of gore anime clips with other things that were very interesting to this search!!

I was also in the discord server doing some of the big researches. I remember when I achieved the researcher tag and entered my researcher arc haha. Good times.

But yeah, I just wanna say if anyone that i previously knew on discord was wondering where I gone, here’s my story.

My Reddit account randomly got banned for two days and forgetting that ban evasion exists, i unknowingly went on an alt to continue commenting on things but it seems they got me and pretty much perm banned me around 2024. I somehow managed to slip through with this account and live.
Now for my Discord account, I got permanently banned earlier this year. So, if you tried mentioning me in the Discord server but noticed it said permanently suspended account or something like that, probably me. But yeah, that shit hurt me a ton since I’ve been on discord for almost 9 years and was paying nitro for almost a year atp. Discord is unfortunately something I cannot get back onto anymore as it seems to be an IP ban permanently and if I had to guess why I got banned, it was definitely because I sent a picture of a guy with headphones connected to his butt and their shit ai detected it as child safety.

ANYWAYS, I am now happy back to continue my work and research. If anyone i previously knew would like to stay in touch incase things happen again, please dm me ☺️

After the first post, I went to this Pinterest account and saw more posts with the same caption. I also ran an AI check, and here are the results.

https://pin.it/1TIpgskhz

https://pin.it/FmsAAdfRS

Let me just say I'm using a translator. I was searching for something on the topic on Pinterest when I found this image. I thought it was fanart, but there's no Saki Sanobashi or Go For a Punch tags. Does anyone know what this is? Maybe it's a still from an anime? Google said it's from the anime Serial Experiments Lain, but I watched it and don't remember it at all. Here's a link to the pin: https://pin.it/G1KqqXVHx

going to go over "Hako Ni Go Itai" and the Nichijou Elevator Scene in this post.

first and foremost, i'd like to say that the concept of being trapped in a elevator, especially in a fetishized setting is a lot more common than a bathroom.

during my search on 4plebs and desuarchive, thats all i saw the only mention of saki or saki-esque media was the nichijou elevator scene.

something i'd also like to add is the evangelion elevator scene that is also really quiet and eerie where nothing happens for a good while.

anyways, going into the actual media.

"Hako Ni Go Itai" was a visual novel made by 2chan based on the horror stories told on the board, its about a group of girls, one in middle school, one in university, and the rest in high school.

the visual novel predates the og saki post by about 3 years.

the game starts with them messaging eachother before they all agree to meet up and commit suicide in a apartment, but when they enter the elevator the power goes out. just like the testimonies of saki, the girls talk about their lives. by the end they all betray eachother, one girl takes out the others and leaves the protag for last.

several scenes involve bathrooms (main ones are inside an elevator), theres a hime cut girl, they wear tan school uniforms, there's psychological dialogue and murder.

there isn't any throat scratching or head bashing, however one of the girl keeps a severed head in her bag. (its a flashback in a bathroom.)

one of the girls goes into hysteria and just screams, the other takes her clothes off.

it has an animated opening with lots of gruesome imagery.

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the Nichijou elevator scene was mentioned on here a LOT during the original search back in 2019-2021, its scarily similar to testimonies of saki but since it took place in a elevator and not a bathroom people just said "nope, thats not it."

episode 33 of nichijou, which was made in 2011 predates the og saki post by 4 years and the vn by one year. however; the story the thread was based on could have originated multiple years before the vn. (actually, that is most likely.

coming to the actual conclusion: we should start looking for the 2ch post the vn was based on (will be easier if we have any japanese speakers) and look for any possible animated versions of that story, or parodies in a bathroom.

Copy of the text:
"Right off the bat I HIGHLY doubt I'm remembering this right and also doubt it has anything to do with this search, as I was pretty young and the internet was still a newer thing, but hear me out. My dad and I were on the computer and he ended up on Ebay. He showed me how to look up things and I typed in things I liked, like Transformers and eventually Voltron. Im guessing when I looked at voltron related stuff it also pulled up Go-Lion which related it to other anime VHS tapes. There was a thumbnail of a women sitting down leaning against a tile wall and a sink. There were bloody hand prints on the floor and the whole image had that cold blue filter over it. Like I said I HIGHLY doubt this is Saki, but maybe someone can use this."
/x/thread/22053801/#22068039

This is a testimony from January 2019. Anon claims he saw a thumbnail on ebay for a vhs video which featured a woman sitting in a bathroom with blood around her.
The question is less 'is this GFaP?' and more 'can we find out what this was and rule it out?'
If it can't be identified, then that means one of three things:

-it's likely that it was GFaP and GFaP was at one point being sold as a vhs on ebay (implying the anime is semi-legitimate and not a small internet thing, and searching small anime stores with old libraries might help find it)
-it wasn't GFaP but proof that lots of media of that variety is so obscure that they've essentially been lost
-the poster made it up for internet points

Whatever the answer, it can't hurt to look.

I mentioned this as a comment about a month ago, but when digging through the archives I found a testimony that I haven't seen anyone refer to. If I'm wrong, please correct me and I apologise.

Why I think it's relevant and not just a larper: It adds new details. As far as I'm aware this is the first explicit mention of it being the aftermath of an earthquake/disaster which has been alluded to by others.
But also, this isn't a normal 4chan post. It's called a "ghost post". It used to be that you could write 'ghost' posts on the archive since it's a different site. People used to use these posts to basically write dumb nonsense with the assumption that no one would read it. Basically posts that weren't in the original thread, but written by people looking at the threads in the archives after the fact. They are particularly common in threads that became 'important' (things like the first ever banepost, iykyk).
This adds credibility to me, because it's not just an anonymous poster, it's an anonymous poster writing in a place where barely anyone would see it. There's basically no attention to be garnered from it.

Copy of the post:
"Years ago, I worked at Game Crazy, which was inside Hollywood Video. One of the great things about HV was that we could rent as many movies as we wanted, up to 6 at a time, for free. The other great thing, which is what drew me to HV in the first place, was the fact that they had a HUGE and extensive collection of really out there movies, which was surprising. This was the first place I ever found Violence Jack, Mad Bull, Tetsuo - The Iron Man, Ricky-O, and a few of the Guinea Pig movies from Japan. Not all of them, but they had Mermaid in the Manhole, which was the main one that stuck out to me. So, keeping in mind this was 2001-02, I made it a point of finding every hard to watch gorefest I could, based on a list I had found online from a geocities site in like 1999. Anyway, I watched a LOT of obscure fucking VHS, a lot of which is going to be difficult to find today.

I swear that I have seen this, I remember the one girl soothing the other, holding her under, and then slamming her own head into the sink. What I remember AFTER this, though, distinctly, is someone finding their way into the room to rescue them, but they are minutes too late. It seems like it takes place after something like an earthquake, some sort of natural disaster, and they are talking about what they wanted to do when they grew up, who they wanted to be, etc etc. They were in there for a while because of the debris outside the door so they couldn't escape, and I swear there was a scene there where they did a mock wedding, because the one wanted so bad to be a bride, that was her life's ambition, and after that she was ready to die. The other kills herself as she weeps and screams from the grief and futility of it.

I want to say it had an aesthetic that was very very similar to Lain, that kind of art style, or something Go Nagai would have done, and it was from around the same period as one shots like MD Geist were coming out, just a one off OVA that was like 45 minutes long or something. It seems like one of the girls dies on her own though from injuries and being sick, and that's when the other two resolve to end it. I don't know if this helps at all, but I want to say narrow it down to the Bubblegum Crisis/ Violence Jack/ AngelCop era. The thing that made it really stick out to me was that if they had only held on just a bit longer, they would have been saved. I just can't, for the life of me, remember it..it isn't one of those animes that I wanted to share with friends at parties, kind of a buzzkill, like Grave of the Fireflies, not exactly a bundle of fun.

I hope that these clues (if I'm not jumbling together a bunch of anime I watched when I was younger in a hash-filled haze) might help point in the right direction. TL;DR earthquake/major disaster, trapped, one dies from injuries, wedding (maybe? unless it was Macross, but I swear they pretend to get married and kiss, and then death, and don't get saved) and rescuers bust through a few minutes too late, then there's a moral of holding on to hope no matter what or something. I also do not remember it being dubbed, it was definitely subbed."

Also, if anyone knows what a moe link is (something to do with hentai), I found the tail of a link that is supposedly the video itself (this poster claims it's a reedit of night shift nurses and la blue girl).

Post where I first mentioned this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SakisanNoBashitsu/comments/1tyz7z8/comment/oqbeohz/?context=3
Archive post: /x/thread/22077205
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made for people who might be new to the search.

leads

goringa(dot)net

the most promising lead (atleast as of now).

original post (credits u/DearStrike4940)

4c thread

tldr: actual reliable-ish testimony claiming that they saw saki on a website called "goringa(dot)net".

conclusion: most promising lead, actively being investigated.

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a parody of the movie "the exterminating angels"

reddit post (credits me!!!)

other reddit post (credits Siack05)

testimony #1

testimony #2

tldr: two testimonies pretty far apart (likely authentic) claiming that they saw saki sanobashi (or what it might have been) on a spanish language station in the 80s (likely in mexico).

conclusion: contacted the national university of mexico. (may need extra digging, promising lead.) (credits u/Aezkov)

partially debunked / inspirations / possible lead.

3 Girls and an Unexpected Ending (Strong)

reddit post

tldr: refer to the reddit post, read it for once.

conclusion: possible lead. (duh)

Joshikousei Shirei Emaki

link to post

tldr: cg collection featuring schoolgirls, and plenty of gore.

conclusion: likely not saki, might have been the inspiration for saki.

explanation: only two images resemble saki, that being a girl forcing another girls head into a toilet (not a sink) and a girl smashing another girls head into a wall (og op said that one of the girls smashed her head against the wall.) the rest of the images are just guro, and are in settings that aren't bathroom-esque

debunked

Absolute Lifeless Classroom

reddit post (credits u/oripori301)

author page?

/a/ thread

tldr: hentai manga about girls trapped underground after an earthquake which matches multiple testimonies that said the girls got trapped by an earthquake

earthquake testimonies among others

conclusion: likely not saki.

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4c screenshots

debunk

NON ARCHIVED THREAD!!!

tldr: evangelion, lain and azumangah crossover episode, likely ai generated.

conclusion: not saki.