3rd Season of 'Yami Shibai' Announced for January 2016

by Snow
Nov 2, 2015 11:53 AM | 42 Comments

The official site of the Yami Shibai anime has announced that the short series will receive a third season. The anime is scheduled to air in January 2016 on TV Tokyo. In addition to the anime announcement, the site also announced staff members, as well as returning cast members Ryouta Murai and Risa Aizawa. The third season will focus on urban legends and compromise of at least 100 new characters. More information, including episode count, will be announced at a later date.

Director: Takashi Taniguchi, Tomohisa Ishikawa
Script: Hiromu Kumamoto, Satoko Kishi
Planning: Norio Yamakawa, Takuya Iwasaki
Producer: Nobuyuki Hosoya, Motoki Hirose, Kenji Sakurai
Studio: ILCA

The series previously received two anime seasons, with the first season airing between July 15, 2013 and September 30, 2013. The second season premiered on July 7, 2014 and ended on September 29, 2014. Each season consisted of 13 four-minute episodes.

Source: Official site

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Please don't be bad like the second season. I'm surprised this is even getting another season.

Dec 6, 2015 7:43 PM by Protaku

Good, Yami Shibai is a very interesting series. I wish there were more horror animes, both Kowabi and Kagewani this season aren't good. But, 100 characters remind me of Hyaku Monogatari, will it have a episode about?.

Dec 6, 2015 7:40 PM by WandersonC

GaryL said:

Kazuboredlife said:
i should start watching season 2 hmm

Don't, it's horrible

it's good

Dec 6, 2015 4:48 PM by Mayuka

Kazuboredlife said:
i should start watching season 2 hmm

Don't, it's horrible

Dec 6, 2015 4:47 PM by GaryL

YEES Finally! I can't wait

Dec 6, 2015 11:56 AM by Cnon

I hope. its better than season 2. I watched 1 and 2 back to back and 2 is definitely tamer than the first.

Nov 11, 2015 3:03 PM by death_chocobo

Now I only need to watch the other two seasons...

Nov 6, 2015 12:04 AM by BatoKusanagi

Great, I'll definitely watch. Hope it's as good as the first season. Second season was a big disappointment for me..

Nov 4, 2015 6:43 PM by korewaItai

Ohhh!! This is amazing!!! I never finished up the second season because I didn't have much time to watch it, and if I did, it would always be at night and that's 2spooky4me. But I'll catch up for sure! Loved Yami Shibai!

Nov 4, 2015 6:28 PM by FueledbyKass

....3spoopy5me

Nov 4, 2015 7:21 AM by Yuki_Ookami

The first season of Yami Shibai was one of the few horror anime that really creeped me out. I didn't find the second as scary but still alright. I'm pretty excited for this, hopefully it'll be more like the first.

Nov 3, 2015 6:22 AM by AlephDaud

Part of me hoped for some way return of YamiShibai1 and Kagewani ep director(since Yamishibai S1 was the strongest part of it), but alas still great news.

Nov 3, 2015 4:31 AM by Ahenshihael

Hey, going for urban legends will do good for the series, if they truly introduce 100 characters then we'll have quite the feast. :)

Nov 3, 2015 3:54 AM by MorzGT

I really enjoyed the first season, so I'm not upset about this.

Nov 3, 2015 1:17 AM by alpha_shadow

bigivelfhq said:
This season you have 2 horror anime: Kagewani and Kowabon, so we aren't that bad.

Also Toei Animation somewhere in he future will adapt a 15 episodes horror story: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-27/thr-eiji-ohtsuka-writes-book-toei-produces-anime-as-tie-ins-to-western-movie-temple/.90973

Yep yep, even though I haven't try Kagewani yet, I am looking forward to watching it.

Thanks for the information, I didn't know that another horror series is coming up soon. I wonder how Toei will animate this, is it gonna be like Mononoke, or is it gonna be like Kuuchuu Buranko.. or something else. I can't wait to see how they will handle it.

But still, horror anime is not very common, we don't often get one, and when we do, it will take a while until the next one comes. It is just not a very popular genre.

Speaking of horror series, even though it's more supernatural than horror it'd be great to have Ghost Hunt season 2. That is one of the very few horror series that genuinely terrorized me. I still remember that scene where Mai was dragged underground and was about to get decapitated alive.. just shameless advertising trying to appeal to horror fans here ;P

Nov 2, 2015 11:15 PM by ToG25thBaam

Please be better than the second season.

Nov 2, 2015 11:04 PM by HuaXue

Splashcloud said:

Snow said:
The third season will focus on urban legends and compromise of at least 100 new characters.

100?

How many did the previous seasons have?

Less... LOL
I guess this season will be more than just 13 episodes.

Nov 2, 2015 9:51 PM by Mayuka

Season 1 had me jumping at some moments. Season 2 had the creepy atmosphere as season 1, but it wasn't scary nor did it make me jump. Still a good short though

Nov 2, 2015 8:43 PM by Roloko

I'll give it another chance. I mean, season one was great, it was just season two that made me shrug.

Nov 2, 2015 8:23 PM by Swiggy

I can't wait! Yami Shibai was one of those horror anime's that actually creeped me out.lol

Nov 2, 2015 7:00 PM by momosemomo

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