Yami Shibai


Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
Japanese: 闇芝居
English: Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
German: Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Spanish: Yamishibai: Historias japonesas de Fantasmas
French: Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 15, 2013 to Sep 30, 2013
Premiered: Summer 2013
Broadcast: Unknown
Producers: TV Tokyo
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks
Studios: ILCA
Source: Original
Genres: Avant GardeAvant Garde, HorrorHorror, SupernaturalSupernatural
Duration: 4 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.001 (scored by 4917349,173 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #43222
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2016
Members: 112,170
Favorites: 335

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Synopsis

The mysterious, yellow-masked Storyteller is a man whose true name and origin are both unknown. He appears at dusk where children gather and recites sinister tales based on Japanese urban legends, to which his young audience eerily intakes. However, the Storyteller is no ordinary teller of tales. He incorporates a kamishibai, a traditional paper-scrolling device, to add visuals to his already demented narration.

A series of short horror stories, Yami Shibai begins with a bachelor who, after moving into a new apartment, immediately starts sensing a malevolent glare being pressed into him. A single talisman rests on his ceiling, but he has no way of knowing it is one of the few safeguards that separate him from a bottomless pit of suffering. Each story is more terrifying, more appalling, and more sickening than the last as the Storyteller's audience find themselves being sucked into the vicious world of his words.

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Hosoya, Nobuyuki
Producer
Takashima, Tomoya
Episode Director
Aoki, Tact
Episode Director
Nakamura, Manabu
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Ending Theme

"Kaikai Emaki (怪々絵巻)" by AVtechNO! and Teniwoha (performed using Hatsune Miku)

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Reviews

Jan 12, 2021
Story:

Basically 13 short little stories based on Japanese urban legends or myths. All of them were interesting and in my opinion, done well. Every story is at the very least, creepy (some were downright scary), and it had me hooked from the first episode.

Animation:

At first this was a sticking point to me. The animation was extremely basic, but after a few episodes it grew on me and actually it fits very well with the asthetic of the show. The animation is based off of the Japanese paper theatre story tellers. It is done well for what it is trying to do.

Sound:

The sound is done very ...
Aug 22, 2023
Mixed Feelings
English.
I find it somewhat impressive that a series can tell us a horror story in just 4 minutes per chapter, the duration of the season is not more than an hour long but it is still quite entertaining as such, of course being a series anthology there will be better episodes than others but I liked most of them, they were quite acceptable since their short duration limits them from showing much on the screen, in truth this although simple were quite good episodes showing us a terror which impacts you or leaves you thinking It is not the best anthological horror series you will ...
Sep 16, 2024
I'm not mad, just disappointed. The stories that they had to play with here had so much potential and were genuinely interesting. I stuck around only because I hadn't heard of them before and wanted to hear how they turned out. How they treated these stories felt kind of lazy in comparison to what they could have pulled off.

The art is stagnant, devoid of energy and gives off more of a storybook vibe, which they're probably going for on purpose. Regardless, the style they chose keeps their ghosts and monsters from jumping out at ...

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