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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Creepy... those guys... what's zanbai? |
| The cheap picture book style animation actually adds to the atmosphere. This episode was really unsettling |
| Great short episode. Actually pretty creepy for an anime. |
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| very creepy indeed :) |
Hybridbloodszak said: The cheap picture book style animation actually adds to the atmosphere. This episode was really unsettling Yeah, I kind of don't mind the animation now, I guess it was just getting used to. I like how creepy this series is. Now I kind of want more stories/episodes or longer episodes, haha. |
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| This is probably the best short series of the season along with Senyuu. 2. |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| Woah! This was good! O_O |
Saburo-kun said: I think the short length and the animation was done intentionally to mimic the style of paper dramas, which I think Yami Shibai is based on. Hybridbloodszak said: The cheap picture book style animation actually adds to the atmosphere. This episode was really unsettling Yeah, I kind of don't mind the animation now, I guess it was just getting used to. I like how creepy this series is. Now I kind of want more stories/episodes or longer episodes, haha. Having never seen a paper drama live, I enjoyed experiencing it here :) |
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| The animation style definitely added to the atmosphere, agreed. Creepy... |
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AiCon said: Can someone explain to me why they cursed him in the first place? I don't get it. Well, it doesn't have much room to explanations, but maybe the path where he fell was somehow forbidden to go and he was cursed for such. Or the whole village was cursed and don't let travelers go away. |
OverkilledRedJul 21, 2013 9:42 PM
| this anime is great.. first horror anime i watched that actually frightened me. Might be the most promising anime this season Does anybody know how many episodes of this anime are going to be released? |
| Best episode till now. Also, ZANBAI ... ZANBAI ... ZANBAI to all of you. |
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Akanezora said: Best episode till now. Also, ZANBAI ... ZANBAI ... ZANBAI to all of you. Zambai to you too. ^_^ |
| Too freaking creepy!! The way they made the villager's shadows move in the end, ahhh! Too spooky!!;;w;; |
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| This episode didn't scare me as much as the first one, but the scene with the three guys in the roof doing the "zanbai" bow was really creepy. |
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| This would have been creepy if I maybe knew the reason they cursed him. It didn't make any sense. |
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IntroverTurtle said: This would have been creepy if I maybe knew the reason they cursed him. It didn't make any sense. Yeah, that was definitely weird. Maybe they just didn't like strangers and cursed all who came to their village (since the taxi driver already knew what the zanbai meant). |
Kayro said: I don't think that's it. Or else the taxi driver would have known from the beginning that he wasn't' from the village therefore would be cursed. And why would the doctor be normal and treat him if that was so.IntroverTurtle said: This would have been creepy if I maybe knew the reason they cursed him. It didn't make any sense. Yeah, that was definitely weird. Maybe they just didn't like strangers and cursed all who came to their village (since the taxi driver already knew what the zanbai meant). |
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| Deliciously scary! |
Fishcaek-Chan said: Too freaking creepy!! The way they made the villager's shadows move in the end, ahhh! Too spooky!!;;w;; I'm not really sure how they do the animation, but the silhouettes of the men doing the cheer looked like the movements of real people. Which added to the whole creepy atmosphere behind it. And once the driver started panicking the goose bumps started to build up. IntroverTurtle said: This would have been creepy if I maybe knew the reason they cursed him. It didn't make any sense. I have to admit I'm curious why as well, but as Stephen King once said, “Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.” Perhaps leaving that edge of mystery is what made it all the more interesting. At least for me. |
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Pedro_ said: AiCon said: Can someone explain to me why they cursed him in the first place? I don't get it. Well, it doesn't have much room to explanations, but maybe the path where he fell was somehow forbidden to go and he was cursed for such. Or the whole village was cursed and don't let travelers go away. Or he was just an unlucky smuck. Ive noticed that in Japanese horror, sometimes even normal, good people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time (whereas in US horror, most of the folks offed are guilty of some sort of transgression or have crossed some moral line). There's not always a direct reason. I think that's part of the reason its so creepy, you never find out the reason why, probably because there really is none. |
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| 惨拝 zanbai in the story the men were bowing their arms down wards as if they were workshiping something. banzai is when you raise your arms up. banzai means ten thousand years which is suppose to mean something like glorious. zanbai in kanji 惨拝 means disaster offering. 惨拝 惨 meaning things like misrable/disaster/bad omen and shit. 拝 is to offer/workship/pray. |
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| Eh... You Guys wanna know the scary part about this episode? In the japanese wikipedia of Yami Shibai. This episode was Titled "惨拝（ざんぱい）" I google translated "（ざんぱい）" and it translated into "Crushing defeat" O.O |
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Furrytales said: Eh... You Guys wanna know the scary part about this episode? In the japanese wikipedia of Yami Shibai. This episode was Titled "惨拝（ざんぱい）" I google translated "（ざんぱい）" and it translated into "Crushing defeat" O.O 惨敗(crushing defeat) and 惨拝(disaster offering) are both pronounced the same but the way the kanji is written makes them a whole different meaning |
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| Still Best and Creepiest episode so far!! |
bajin666anAug 31, 2013 5:49 AM
| Interesting, lets see what's next! |
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| This ep wasn't really good, too much left untold. First ep was scarier and better. |
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| Creepy!! Great horror. |
 "No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself." -- Murakami Haruki |
| creepy shadows! wasn't better that the 1st one but still interesting. although i wish i would knew why they cursed him in the first place... |
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| Intimidating, indeed. The shortness and the fact that not everything is possible to be unveiled, hence we're left with not knowing the root of all of the events is even more scary. |
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IntroverTurtle said: I think that they were ghosts or something, and just didn't want him to leave.This would have been creepy if I maybe knew the reason they cursed him. It didn't make any sense. |
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| creepy |
| That zanbai thing freaked me out...omg, that was so fucking scary. Just how it was animated...so freaky. Wow, that was such a rush. And it's only the afternoon... I will never watch this show at night. Although that "cheer" is going to haunt me in my sleep. Sooo good. |
| I wonder what that dude did to get zanbai'd. Maybe they were just jealous. Creepy anyway. |
| Those characters doing Zanbai at the end are going to haunt my dreams. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Quite an intricate way to tell someone to go get hit by a truck. What a bunch of assholes man. |
| That was creepy! o_O |
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| So are those guys alive or dead? It seemed like the doctor didnt notice them but the taxi driver did? |
| This was really creepy. I don't wanna have neighbours like that in an hospital >: |
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