Yami Shibai 8

Once again, the mysterious storyteller draws in the ears of any willing to listen to his macabre tales of madness—ones that could happen to anyone, no matter who they might be.

The ghastly stories delve into the cases of teenagers testing their courage at an abandoned home; children navigating nefarious family traditions; malicious apparitions haunting the lives of innocent people; individuals helplessly watching their loved ones slowly go insane; a woman growing increasingly concerned when her husband's behavior changes after eating something odd; and an evil snowman or two. These chilling tales promise to leave no soul unstirred in the most disturbing way yet.

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Storyteller Main

Tsuda, Kanji Japanese

Umetsu, Satoshi Producer

Funada, Akira Producer

Kumamoto, Hiromu Script

Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Script

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Apr 3, 2021

PennyDreadful

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (12/13 eps)

If you've seen any of the previous Yami Shibai seasons, you know what's in store for you: short, compact horror stories. Unfortunately, this season has been quite disappointing. There was so much potential to show the audience something scary, but they opted to leave it to our imaginations. Sure, it works for some stories, but not all of them! I don't know if this is down to budget, lazy writing/animation, or perhaps it's being aired during a time slot when children can see it, but compared with the earlier seasons, this is too tame for my taste. I remember seeing several creepy and ghastly depictions, ... especially in the first and second seasons. With that said, there were still 2 or 3 stories that were pretty solid. If this is your first time viewing Yami Shibai, you can give it a go, but don't expect a lot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 16, 2023

Anhahin

Not Recommended

If you thought season 3 was the worst, you might want to think again. Y'know it tells you so much when one would rather watch the shitshow of a season 3 to whatever-the-fuck this was. I'm beyond pissed as I'm writing this. Basically this abomination in a nutshell:
Narration was off through the whole season. It's like the narrator saw how godawful this season was from miles ago and didn't want to narrate it. The narration is extremely random one line narration.


Some examples from actual episodes: "a story of a family" "a story of a office worker" "a story of a college student" that's it. ... That's all the narration was. What?


And now onto the "story": Guy is paranoid turns out everything was in his head. Guy is schizophrenic turns out he imagined the whole thing. Kid is anxious and demons are in his head. A office worker is tired to the point of death and searches for escape And the voice in her mind leads her to the escape. Guy cheats. His family leaves. Leading him to fall in depression. I could go on and on but you get the idea.


Seems like they wanted to focus on the psychological theme but ended up forgetting there is no "horror" element to any of this. These are some serious mental health issues.


I'm pretty sure one voice actor was damn near ready to giving up on the last episode. The voice actors were too fed up with this.


Enough of this. I'm ending this here: this season is just a highschool girl trying to be quirky and deep but end up looking like a joke. That's this season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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Apr 7, 2021

doctorminsuks

Not Recommended

Oh where, oh where do I begin with Yami Shibai season 8. I've been following this anime since I found it during season 6 and I've binged through it quite a few times and I'm just so disappointed.

The first 3 seasons are astounding, truly something that made me shiver and look over my shoulder and now.... Season 8 is the weak, heat tinted wind that blows through the garden on an extremely hot day and merely taunts you with the expectation of coolness whilst slowly cooking you faster.

I didn't expect too much from this season — since season 4, Yami Shibai has been slowly declining ... in quality on its horror, as to be expected from something that only allows four and a half minutes to actively terrify you. I expect a few bad episodes here and there, you can't provide ten out of ten levels of horror with every stab in the dark that you take, but season eight leaves the viewer horrified upon realising the episodes have ended with barely any context to what the episodes were about at all.

Yami Shibai had a good run of not revealing anything to the viewer whilst still scaring us via the art of hiding, making us realize things are much scarier in the dark — now, I merely turn the light on and can't figure out what was making that weird shadow, scratching my head in confusion as I stare around my room, lost, annoyed and confused. I lost count of how many episodes I spent praying to any deity there was an explanation in the comments of what had actually happened.

It's time to start letting Yami Shibai go; the eighth season is purely about quantity not quality, and the only way this show can now be saved is if the horror greats themselves wrote the episodes. It's painful to see what Yami Shibai has become, after it's long reign of terror, but now the horror lies in its screenwriting, unable to tell a story coherently enough for viewers to know what's occurring. Let the series rest, revive it in a few years perhaps when there's better ideas floating around, but for now, the show needs to rest on the back burner before further seasons tank even worse than what season eight did.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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