Up until the final episode, I hated most of the episodes because the stories were shallow, the monsters looked goofy and the characters had a total of 0 personality. The reason I picked up Yamishibai was because it had a mature way of dealing with horror. The scares weren't purely based on shock value or visuals, but worries and fears that are innately human. That's why I've found even the bad episodes of season one and two enjoyable; if the horror wasn't there the stories and concepts were at least worth thinking about.
I've mentioned in my reviews of the earlier seasons that what Yamishibai does well is psychological horror and that monsters and such don't go very well with the shows simplistic style. You'd think that by the third season, producers etc would have realized what the shows strengths and weaknesses are but nooooooo. For some reason they decided that body horror and monsters should be the primary focus of the third season and let me tell you, it sucks. I think animated horror in general should stay away from using visuals as the medium for their scares. I just don't find it scary. Since the art in Yamishibai 3 is a lot more colorful and childlike, the visual "horror" isn't just nonscary, it's flat out goofy. I _tried_ to be scared but most episodes made me giggle...
Then comes episode 13, the finale. I won't spoil it but in my opinion what the ending reveals, mitigates the seasons flaws by giving a valid and interesting reason for them to be there. Now, is it worth sitting through 54 minutes of trash? Not really. Fortunately you don't have to! If you watch one ore two other episodes the final one will make perfect sense and then you can move on and forget this season even happened. Except for episode 13 I would suggest episode two and episode nine. Spiders are my weak spot so I could barley watch episode two and number nine has the same feel as the stories in the first and second season!
