The history behind torturous Japanese reality shows is astonishing, to say the least. They have given Asia a reputation for televised cruelty and influenced everyone from The Simpsons episode Thirty Minutes over Tokyo and Netflixs most streamed show to date, Squid Game, to ABCs series I Survived a Japanese Game Show and its international formats. Far from the weird game shows like Candy Or Not Candy, in which contestants must bite into random household objects to reveal whether it is chocolate or not, some messed up TV shows demonstrate the dark side of Japanese media entertainment. The Truman Show-esque reality TV show Susunu! Denpa Shonen is arguably the most horrific example.