Yami Shibai 5th Season Episode 8 Discussion

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Aug 27, 2017 1:08 PM

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Welp, this episode seemed normal at first until what the women discovered.

What a bunch of creepy neighbors.

Aug 27, 2017 2:04 PM

Ulquiorra

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Wow, I wonder how many more will fit in that room.

Aug 27, 2017 2:35 PM

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and that's why I stay away from all my neighbors don't care who you are you might have a closet full of monsters or worse.

Aug 27, 2017 3:39 PM

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Lmao now this episode wasn't as bad.

Aug 28, 2017 3:09 AM

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"a new friend" xD lol

Aug 28, 2017 4:20 AM

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1>5>2>3>4 good thing this season is shaping up to be really good

Aug 28, 2017 1:27 PM

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EGOIST said:
1>5>2>3>4 good thing this season is shaping up to be really good

Yeah, I agree. This season is a pleasant surprise after 2, 3, 4 and Sekai no Yami Zukan.

The ending of this episode was stretched a bit too long, but the middle was creepy as hell.

Aug 28, 2017 2:26 PM

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After the complete bust that was episode 4 (1 and 2 weren't that great, either) this season has been pretty good! This one definitely had the "urban myth" feel down, too

Aug 29, 2017 4:40 PM

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Holy. ...omfg. Ignoring my neighbors now

Aug 30, 2017 9:52 AM

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It was a damn good episode. I'll post the whole thing's theory here and then, if you decide to skip to S5 you can see it below these.

*******Old Season 4 theory:*******

I finished Season 4 as well and I have a theory for that too which connects to my previous theory. I'll put the previous here so if you only want to see the S4, skip ahead.

*******Previous Season 3:*******

"Finished 3 seasons, that was a hell of an ending and I have a theory

The storytelling is said to be an anthology series, but I think it's not the case at all. It's sort of like a mask for the show if you will.

No doubt the horror and the individual stories are great, but in my opinion this has a main storyline to it, sprinkled throughout 3 seasons in a very subtle but brilliant way. You only notice it if you pay attention and add together a few things (well not really hard since this is a short series).

Our main character is the boy we meet in S3 finale. He is the Yamishibai guy in the golden demon mask, he's the Thirteenth one (I don't know if 13 is a symbolic number in Japan as well or not). The boy form is just a disguise, if you watch the S2 outros the guy reveals how he really looks (Or, if the boy is his true form then he just uses the demon face to further freak people out).

If you played Alan Wake, you had these "artists" who could materialize whatever they wrote (for example songs became true, or in case of the main character, what he wrote as a story came true) and bring these materialized things through sort of a portal in form of a lake.

Same goes for our main character here. Many people who watch it think "oh, so he draws those demons and they appear" but it's actually more than that.

If you watch the episode "That Side" (actually a really strange, unusual but insightful episode even for Yamishibai) it's established that demons come from "That Side" and want people to go from "This Side" to "That Side". Remember the theme song for S3? Friends from that side (All those demons, Hair, the water lady etc. living in "That Side") come over to this side (the humans world, not sure if Japan only or the whole world "This Side", to take over, kill, eat, wreak havoc or just create chaos), Friends from this side (us humans) go over to that side (the demons world, to be turned into demons like the Rat lady, suffer, or just be eaten).

Turns out, our main character who's an "artist", is the key in achieving that. He has the ability to create a pathway, like a portal for these demons to come through. His motivations aren't clear but I think he does it out of pure amusement. He's bored and clearly enjoys chaos and people suffering. Doesn't want to draw normal, beautiful things like the teacher because he thinks it's boring. Instead he creates the demons. He also enjoys to terrify, or even transform other kids with the help of his stories so he starts this Yamishibai storytelling everywhere where are kids.

The 12 other masks (as seen in S2 outro, they talk) go up to him one by one and whisper to him. Every episode in S3 there are crazier demons which are the suggestions of each mask. In the finale there isn't a 13th mask but it's revealed that the boy is the Thirteenth, the Yamishibai guy.

Damn if that's not masterful storytelling, nothing is. Or am I seeing too much into it? Go ahead and prove me wrong if I did

TL;DR: Yamishibai guy from the intro, or the young boy from S3 finale is actually the main character in this series which is not actually an anthology. Creates a path for different demons to come to our world which are in every episode, because he enjoys the chaos and the demons want it. He uses these as stories to freak children out"

*******Season 4*******

Thirteen episodes, for the thirteen masks. Reason behind the different voices now is that it's told by the previously mentioned twelve masks who talked to the kid in S3 outros. These stories only vaguely connect but I believe the White line is some crude way to bring over people from "That Side". Perhaps the White line kid is an artist as well. And I think the fish tank could've been a little pathway to "That Side", hence the foul smell and all that, just like The Night Floor elevator from S1 was a path leading into a certain part of "That Side".

These stories were only meant to inspire the kid to do crazier stuff every episode in S3, that's why there are usually no conclusion or reason to the stories.

I was actually expecting the thirteenth episode to be told by the thirteenth mask AKA the kid, the original voice, and was actually worried that it's gonna be a random voice and the story won't add up, but it did. Just as I expected, the kid returned for the finale.

That story connection saved the whole season for me. I was only disappointed that the outro this time didn't show us any story details.

I really hope for a fifth season perhaps to tie this all up. They should actually hire me for story ideas since I made an actual story out of Yamishibai.

*******Season 5*******

I don't have anything sure for it yet, but the episodes were pretty good just like the first season. The outro is interesting this time, since it shows the actual episodes before them airing, their locations. The phone booth, traffic light or the playground for example.

If you noticed in the outro, the kid, the 13th,the original voice's mask is all wrinkly now. In the intro, now there seem to be a lot more people, and only monsters, and the kid looks older. In the outro, the thorny things surrounding the mask are all over the place, and they are all over the episodes' locations.

I think all these is to show that a lot of time has passed, and the 13th mask's influence is much bigger on the world/Japan now as he got older. There are more monsters now from That Side and they seem to be the more experienced/different ones.

I think that the finale might reveal something about the whole picture, I don't know where all this is headed since it's still an "anthology".

I'm looking forward to the rest of episodes though. There might be a 6th season if it stays like this

Sep 3, 2017 10:37 PM

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Ah, I'm glad the creepy and jump scare was good on this episode. The past 7 seemed weak.

Sep 25, 2017 12:26 PM

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really creepy! My order of preference is 1>2>5>3>4.

Oct 21, 2017 3:43 AM

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The characters looked like the ones that appear in billboards and advertisements in Japan xD

That's one get rich scheme that keeps on giving~ The ending left us... er, her hanging~

Nov 16, 2017 6:46 AM

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Oh snap that ending :o

Jan 4, 2018 6:06 PM

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So like, the real estate agency is in on it then? Because they obviously don't care that people are disappearing? And even if they aren't in on it, they should be checking up on their tenants? Like, hey, Akiko vanished and didn't pay rent for this month. Did she tell you anything? Oh wait, you're some weird entity. Let's not mess with this apartment.
Or they know and they just want to keep on profiting off of people.
I dunno.

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Jan 20, 2019 2:23 AM

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this season isn't too bad so far, I really liked this episode. Creepy af, and had a nice jump scare in it

Jun 29, 2019 2:46 AM

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Swiggy said:
So like, the real estate agency is in on it then? Because they obviously don't care that people are disappearing? And even if they aren't in on it, they should be checking up on their tenants? Like, hey, Akiko vanished and didn't pay rent for this month. Did she tell you anything? Oh wait, you're some weird entity. Let's not mess with this apartment.
Or they know and they just want to keep on profiting off of people.
I dunno.

I thought exactly the same. Don't they ever contact the owner of the haunted flat at least to find out why she doesn't pay the rent?? Weird.

Nov 9, 2021 12:40 PM

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They collect the security deposit and the first 3 months advance payment. It's pretty lucrative if your tenants just suddenly "leave" less than a month after moving in.

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Dec 27, 2021 12:24 PM

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Creepy neighbors...

Apr 21, 2022 5:46 PM

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If you don't put that much though into it, this was a decent episode, that monster was very creepy looking.

Jun 18, 2022 8:53 AM

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That was cliche but scary.

So that hanging woman traps people and makes them their 'friend'

I wonder if her friends searched for her

Also, how did the property agents get the key? It must have been with her when she got trapped next door

Sep 22, 2022 10:30 AM

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Order of preference: 1>3>5>2>4

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Apr 28, 6:08 PM

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I wonder if those were damned souls in the ending.

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