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Sep 28, 2014 10:54 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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When you hear that weird noise and everything goes silent suddenly, you know some shit is wrong.

That baby cry is creepy as hell.
Sep 28, 2014 12:03 PM
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The couple was just unlucky to have moved to such an unusual village.
As the village head said, those "bringer drums" were guides to the new folks moving in with a prayer that they'll bring good things their way.

I guess they didn't bring anything good with them at all, and so paid the price.

Edit: Re-watched and re-evaluated. This season lacked decent stories and the ominous atmosphere S1 had. The narrator's greeting is still the best thing about Yami Shibai though.
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Sep 28, 2014 12:07 PM
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Eh, it wasn't scary imo (and I'm really a scaredy cat, the first season made me jump a lot)

I feel like the anime lost its touch. It was weird rather than scary, some episodes had potential, but looking at it now- I can't really name one that's left an impression on me.
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Sep 28, 2014 12:23 PM
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Weirdest.Shit.Ever.

A solid 5 for this series. A huge letdown.
Sep 28, 2014 1:29 PM
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I think even cliché Jump scares would have been better for this season.
Overall a big letdown compared with the first season 4/10.


Sep 28, 2014 1:44 PM
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pretty MEH compared to first season which was pretty good. 5/10
Sep 28, 2014 2:02 PM
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A good build up with an extremely weak, disappointing ending. Half of the Yami Shibai stories suffer from the lack of details. not the other way round. Throwing creepy/weird stuff together and not explaining things doesn't make things scary, it's just confusing.

BlackenedGirl said:
I can't really name one that's left an impression on me.

The one that I can think of the top of my head that I liked was the one with the elevator and the dad who gets eternally trapped inside the empty mall. That one was scary and made sense: he wasn't paying enough attention to his family and had the misfortune of having a ghost/demon/entity hear his "wish." That one was a good example of just explaining enough that things made sense for why and what was happening. But I agree that most of them weren't memorable, but at least had a few that were good. 2nd season is just forgettable all around.
Sep 28, 2014 2:07 PM
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Weirdest.Shit.Ever.

A solid 5 for this series. A huge letdown.


BeatOfRebirth96 said:
I think even cliché Jump scares would have been better for this season.
Overall a big letdown compared with the first season 4/10.


Kerozinn said:
pretty MEH compared to first season which was pretty good. 5/10


I could quote everyone, really. A huge let down...
Sep 28, 2014 2:28 PM
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A good build up with an extremely weak, disappointing ending. Half of the Yami Shibai stories suffer from the lack of details. not the other way round. Throwing creepy/weird stuff together and not explaining things doesn't make things scary, it's just confusing.

BlackenedGirl said:
I can't really name one that's left an impression on me.

The one that I can think of the top of my head that I liked was the one with the elevator and the dad who gets eternally trapped inside the empty mall. That one was scary and made sense: he wasn't paying enough attention to his family and had the misfortune of having a ghost/demon/entity hear his "wish." That one was a good example of just explaining enough that things made sense for why and what was happening. But I agree that most of them weren't memorable, but at least had a few that were good. 2nd season is just forgettable all around.


The first season made good use of the unexplainable stories - they left some place for imagination, so it was pretty neat. This season, however, was just as you say, confusing, since the stories weren't that scary- they were plainly weird.
I'm not sure why you bring up a story from the first season, tho (most of the stories there were hella creepy, but yes, the elevator is the second best for me, after the zanbai one). It only serves as example to how this season fails in making the episodes memorable.
Sep 28, 2014 2:37 PM

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The moral of this season... Apparently don't move to the countryside. Dammit I"m moving to the countryside in a couple months... Oh well
Sep 28, 2014 2:44 PM
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Pretty much feeling like everyone else.

Most of the episodes were more on the nasty side instead of scary side with minimal substance.
Four and a half minutes but still kind of a chore to watch.
Sep 28, 2014 3:57 PM

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Nothing special. A nice watch, overall.
Sep 28, 2014 4:14 PM

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This season didn't really reach the heights of last season...
I still remember Zanbai and that guy who was stuck in the department store elevator...they haunt my sleep often!

Haha, I totally related with the wife this episode though. I'm always the last one to fall asleep, which can get scary at times.

The stories this time around were more weird than actually scary. It wasn't bad, per se, but I can't rate it as highly.
6/10
Sep 28, 2014 5:01 PM

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I didn't really get this one... oh well.
Sep 28, 2014 5:29 PM
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I found season one to be more creepy, but the storytelling for this season was better.
Sep 28, 2014 6:39 PM

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The last few episodes were dissapointing.
Not as good as season 1.
Freaking loved the ED though.
Sep 28, 2014 7:12 PM

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This season of Yami Shibai had a lot of potential for jump scares in obvious places but... nuttin.

Pretty average compared to S1.
Tho this episode was pretty decent lolll
His face haha
5/10 overall.
Sep 28, 2014 7:35 PM
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Season 1 was much much better. This one is easily forgettable. Decent watch overall. 4/10
Sep 28, 2014 7:41 PM

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Season 1 was better, a lot of these just felt meh.
Sep 29, 2014 12:11 AM

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Wow that's it -_- I agree with you all season 1 is much better.
Sep 29, 2014 8:50 AM

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The baby cries was spooky.

I liked some particular episodes this season :D
Sep 29, 2014 9:23 AM

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Did it end here? It didn't feel like an ending... unless they intend to make a third season, then they should have used the last episode to show the story teller's face. Besides, it wasn't really scary, just weird.
Sep 29, 2014 5:05 PM

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What a silly baby scream.
5/10
Sep 29, 2014 5:29 PM
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So is this the end of the series? There will be no episode that connects everything? I don't know why a lot of shows become worse near the end: Yami Shibai, Death Note, Naruto, Gantz, YYH. Perhaps it's because that the authors suddenly realize that they don't have anything interesting or important to tell about the show anymore and the quality becomes worse.

So it's time to say goodbye to such a promising series... I wish it was 1000% better and had as much episodes as Detective Conan and had OVA's, specials and movies every year. But, I think it's just a dream...
Sep 29, 2014 5:40 PM

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this was maybe the worst episode yet. there was no atmosphere, no build up, not even a big scare. the 1st yami shibai season was much better than this (which isnt hard to accomlish). sadly, 4/10 overall.
Sep 29, 2014 5:46 PM

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This series can be summed up in one word.

Disappointing.

4/10
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6/10 for this season

this episode and the previous were pretty scary
Sep 29, 2014 8:11 PM
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Disappointing season.
Sep 29, 2014 10:23 PM

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The episode was ok, I was waiting for something to happen, nothing did. This entire season has been this way, the only good thing about it is the ED XD

Overall score: 4.5/10

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Sep 30, 2014 10:37 AM

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Aaaaaaand... this was officially a bad season.

Most of it was so predictable that was the problem along with pointless "trolling" stories. 9 was good tough.
Open to chat about any storytelling related subject as long as it's clever and respectful.
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Sep 30, 2014 3:24 PM

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That was just so terrible. Ugh, very disappointing with the anime thus far. 4 out of 10
Sep 30, 2014 3:38 PM

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BlackenedGirl said:
Yakuri said:
A good build up with an extremely weak, disappointing ending. Half of the Yami Shibai stories suffer from the lack of details. not the other way round. Throwing creepy/weird stuff together and not explaining things doesn't make things scary, it's just confusing.


The one that I can think of the top of my head that I liked was the one with the elevator and the dad who gets eternally trapped inside the empty mall. That one was scary and made sense: he wasn't paying enough attention to his family and had the misfortune of having a ghost/demon/entity hear his "wish." That one was a good example of just explaining enough that things made sense for why and what was happening. But I agree that most of them weren't memorable, but at least had a few that were good. 2nd season is just forgettable all around.


The first season made good use of the unexplainable stories - they left some place for imagination, so it was pretty neat. This season, however, was just as you say, confusing, since the stories weren't that scary- they were plainly weird.
I'm not sure why you bring up a story from the first season, tho (most of the stories there were hella creepy, but yes, the elevator is the second best for me, after the zanbai one). It only serves as example to how this season fails in making the episodes memorable.


Confusing for sure. This season seemed to feature stories with lessons to learn, and maybe even allowed room for us viewers to draw our own conclusions, which may strike a conversation in forums. That's fine and all, but then the ones that should've been scary weren't.

If I had to choose one; then WALL WOMAN was the most suspenseful and had me holding my breath. Last season, CONTRADICTION was the one story that scared me the most.

I rated this episode as I Hated It!
I give this 2nd Season of Yamishibai a straight 5.
Sep 30, 2014 8:33 PM

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BlackenedGirl said:
I'm not sure why you bring up a story from the first season, tho

...What? I just explained it, and you did too, what do you mean? Yami Shibai is all about, like you said, unexplainable stories. They rarely bother to give us details, which like I said, is actually a detriment, not a good thing. This happens in the first season too, but the reason why the elevator and the zanbai ones work is because they DO give some explanation or have a good setting and build up. Both seasons have the same premise, season one is better because they actually put some effort in setting up for the scare or explaining what's going on in most episodes, and it's perfectly valid to use an episode of season 1 to explain why season 2 is inferior.
Oct 1, 2014 1:38 AM
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The first season made me a little scared to be alone in the house.
The Wall Woman episode of this season did so as well, but everything else in this season just-- I forgot what even happened in all the episodes.

I felt safe with season two because I knew nothing would happen.
Nothing really happened that would have me peeking around walls in this last episode either.

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Oct 5, 2014 9:34 PM

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Yeah, just like everyone said, the first season was a lot better. Anyway, it was kind of scary sometimes, and I really like this kind of art and storytelling so 7/10.
Oct 7, 2014 12:18 AM

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5/10, a huge step down from the previous season in terms of frights and stories.

A lot of hits and miss, mostly miss...
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Oct 11, 2014 9:36 PM

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5/10, most episodes are confusing or gross, and the scary ones lack the creepiness of last season's.
Oct 25, 2014 7:29 AM
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Not a bad final, but nothing too special. Season 1 was WAY better than this season.

Maybe a season 3 could redeem this series.
Oct 29, 2014 12:25 AM

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This episode was kinda creepy. But why was he possessed?


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Nov 21, 2014 2:51 PM

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4/10.

HuaXue said:
Season 1 was much much better.

ReaperCreeper said:
Season 1 was better, a lot of these just felt meh.

LastChapter said:
I found season one to be more creepy, but the storytelling for this season was better.

I guess I should watch the first season. Since Yami Shibai is episodic, I didn't watch the first season beforehand.
Feb 18, 2015 3:46 PM

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Weird for sure, in general quite interesting last episode! All in all this season sure was spookah in a way as well but in general it was just funny to watch!
Feb 25, 2015 12:05 PM

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mfw somebody wakes me from my sleep.

S1 was better.

Sep 9, 2015 1:59 PM
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In most rural and agricultural places "good things" means fertility. This one would probably be the same, just because its scary doesnt mean its evil. overall decent season, could have been better but then again it could have been much worse.
Oct 12, 2015 3:53 AM

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I am probably the weird one here, but this episode actually gave me the biggest scare out of all 26 episodes. I was expecting the thing to come from the window, but never considered the possibility of it being inside her husband. It should have been obvious yet...

6/10. Same as S1.
Nov 7, 2015 4:02 AM
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funny little show. Had some interesting stories, but horror'wise it was funny, had few good chuckles.
Dec 24, 2015 12:46 PM

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this episode was horrible, it almost had a creepy feeling but then they ruin it with that laughable pay off

This whole season sucked save for the capsule episode.

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Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me

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7/10 I appreciate the stories.

The chief guy doesn't like city folks, so let a ghost possess/make everyone into babies again.
Hence the "think of it as your birth place".
Feb 14, 2016 5:35 PM
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This season felt pathetic really. I laughed more than I got scared. Hopefully the third season is better.

2/5
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7/10 I appreciate the stories.

The chief guy doesn't like city folks, so let a ghost possess/make everyone into babies again.
Hence the "think of it as your birth place".


Oh good, I wasn't the only one who got that interpretation.
May 22, 2016 5:54 PM

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this is the first episode of tihs series that left me saying "What?!" by the end since it felt like it was such an abrupt end with like, no relation to the buildup or stuff -w-'

last episode- huge disappointment .w.
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