Yami Shibai 4 (Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 4)

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Synonyms: Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Fourth Season, Theater of Darkness 4th Season, Japanese Ghost Stories 4

Japanese: 闇芝居 4期

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 16, 2017 to Mar 27, 2017

Premiered: Winter 2017

Broadcast: Mondays at 02:05 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: ILCA

Source: Original

Genres: Avant Garde, Horror, Supernatural

Duration: 4 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.81¹ (scored by 15,472 users)

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Ranked: #10552²

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Popularity: #4063

Members: 29,926

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Excited children gather around the enigmatic masked Storyteller once more. His unique kamishibai storytelling draws them into tales of fear and dread. These are dark and foreboding stories, which could happen to anyone...

This season has tales of a salaryman who buries a dead cat, only to be haunted soon after; a college student and her cheap new apartment that hides a ghastly secret; boys exploring an abandoned haunted house before coming across a strange fish tank; a man who finds himself on the wrong bus, and in more danger than he thought possible; and a young couple's visit to an amusement park, which suddenly takes a dark turn. All these stories and more await in Yami Shibai 4.

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Prequel:	Yami Shibai 3
Sequel:	Yami Shibai 5

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Hosoya, Nobuyuki

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Hirose, Motoki

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Kumamoto, Hiromu

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Takuto

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"Yume Oi Bito (夢負い人)" by Takuto

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Oct 14, 2020

MoonSpider

Recommended

I first started looking at the Yami Shibai series thanks to a new short series running this year, the Ninja Collection. (It had much the same urban legend/ghost story idea but with the addition of a ninja-exorcist coming to save people at the end of each episode). As I started the main series, there are currently seven seasons of anime shorts and a current run of what looks like live-action adaptations of the shorts too.

I thought the stilted, animatic-like animation for this series couldn't be more fitting, and I can fit in a full season in roughly an hour before bed. I felt I needed ...

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Apr 20, 2017

bro3112

Mixed Feelings

The seasons of Yami Shibai continue to get less interesting except for a few good episodes here and there, but this season is what has made it really drop off as series that I was interested in. I did enjoy all the previous seasons even if none could quite match up to the beauty that was Yami Shibai season 1, but I still liked watching them. For season 4 though, this was not the case.

--STORY--
I felt the stories in this season were unfinished. A lot of them had a good idea but they were just executed poorly and done to their full potential. Episodes such ... as episode 3 and 10 were probably in my opinion some of the better episodes of this season with others just feeling like they still had more to give. I also didn't find myself scared during any of this episodes and just left most confused and trying to research what had happened.

--ART--
Disappointing, the one word I would use to describe the art in this season. As I stated in my reviews of the other seasons of Yami Shibai, the art was beautiful and very creepy at the same time which is what gave Yami Shibai that appeal and atmosphere. This season, they made the decision to change the art style, what reasoning was behind that decision I do not know nor wish to because it was not a good one. A cool thing this season did do though was add aspects of live action. Some of these live action scenes were really creepy and I felt added to my enjoyment of the series, sadly though, these were not enough to make this season worthwile.

--SOUND--
The sound was not to bad considering. I felt as though the characters voices were not heard though as pretty much every episode consisted of two lines from actual characters and the rest being the narrator. This is someting that most people watching didn't agree with. I felt as though the characters need more lines for me to become more connected with them and understand how they actually felt in these situations.

--CHARACTER--
Most of these characters I didn't really feel any sympathy for as they didn't really help themselves. All these situations could have been avoided if the characters weren't so out of it. It was interesting having a different narrator each episode though which has led to some cool theories. That is pretty much the only good thing to come out of this season.

--ENJOYMENT--
As I said, I enjoyed all the previous seasons of Yami Shibai, but I felt whilst watching this season that I wasn't watching it because I wanted to but because the episodes were short and I felt like I should since I had watched the rest. There were maybe 2 episodes that I did get an ever so slight creep factor from but nothing scared me a lot or made me really feel like I was excited for the next story the season was going to bring.

--OVERALL--
Yami Shibai has gone downhill, everyone who has watched each season knows that. From season 1 the episodes started getting less creepy but they were still good and the art alone was enough to keep people interested, but now not only having even less creepy storylines but also changing the art, this has really put Yami Shibai into a hole that if another season is released, it will need to work to get out of.

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Oct 30, 2023

ktulu007

Not Recommended

I've talked about Yami Shibai many times. It's a franchise built around short form horror from ILCA. Thus far, it's been pretty solid. Let's look at the fourth series in the franchise and see if it continues that trend.

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We follow the same pattern as the first three series. The narrator welcomes us to the theatre of darkness and we get a bunch of short, stand alone horror stories. That being said, this is not on the level of prior series. The stories in this one are almost a joke. There are maybe two episodes out of the thirteen in the series that are kind ...

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