Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories also known in Japan as Yami Shibai (闇芝居, Yami Shibai, lit. Dark Play) and Theater of Darkness is an going Japanese anime series. The first season was directed by Tomoya Takashima, with scripts written by Hiromu Kumamoto and produced by ILCA. Each episode was animated to mimic the kamishibai method of story-telling. The series is organized into a collection of shorts with each episode being only a few minutes in length. Each episode features a different tale based on myths and urban legends of Japanese origin.
| Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories | |
 Promotional poster of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories featuring the Storyteller | |
| 闇芝居 (Yami Shibai) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Folklore, horror, supernatural |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tomoya Takashima |
| Produced by | Naoko Kunisada Nobuyuki Hosoya |
| Written by | Hiromu Kumamoto |
| Music by | nico |
| Studio | ILCA |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo, AT-X |
| Original run | July 14, 2013 – present |
| Episodes | 91 |
| Anime television series | |
| Ninja Collection | |
| Directed by | Akira Funada |
| Produced by | Satoshi Umetsu |
| Written by | Hiromu Kumamoto |
| Studio | ILCA |
| Original network | TV Tokyo, animeteleto |
| Original run | July 12 2020 – present |
The first season premiered on TV Tokyo on July 14, 2013, and ran for thirteen episodes until September 29, 2013; it spawned a host of merchandise and a mobile game while also receiving mixed reactions at the end of its broadcast. A second season aired from July 6, 2014, to September 28, 2014, and was directed by both Takashi Shimizu and Noboru Iguchi along with scripts written by Shōichirō Masumoto. The third season aired between January 11, 2016, and April 3, 2016. A fourth season aired between January 16, 2017 and March 26, 2017. A fifth season aired on July 2, 2017 and ended on October 1, 2017. A sixth season aired on July 6, 2018. A seventh season aired on July 7, 2019.
On June 2020, it was announced Yamishibai will receive a spinoff Ninja Collection which will air in July 2020.[1] A live action adaptation later aired.
Season 8 aired on January 10, 2021.
Synopsis
Every week at 5 p.m. an old man in a yellow mask (the kamishibaiya or kamishibai narrator) shows up at a children's playground and tells them ghost stories based on myths and urban legends of Japanese origin. The man tells the stories on the back of his bicycle using a traditional kamishibai (紙芝居, Paper Drama) method and features a new tale each week. In the third season, instead of the old man in a yellow mask and his kamishibai stage, a boy (later revealed to be the kamishibaiya in the form of a child) sits on a playground slide and sings, "Friends on that side, come to this side... Friends on this side, go to that side..." as he draws illustrations of the creatures in the stories. At the end of each episode, the narrator's mask sings the closing song to him, multiplying in number as each episode ends with the final one being worn on the boy's face. As of Season 4, the kamishibaiya returns, telling the stories to children at a playground every 5 p.m., going back to the original format of Seasons 1 and 2 (voice actors are different every episode). In Season 5, the children are not seen playing on the swings. Instead, they gather to the call of the old man in silhouette. In Season 6, the old man tells his stories in a forest instead of a school. A shadow takes the form of the old man then puts on the mask as he introduces the story. In Season 7, the old man tells his stories in a creepy apartment..
Production
The series aimed to mimick the traditional art of kamishibai story-telling.
The first season of the series is produced by ILCA and directed by Tomoya Takashima along with script writing by Hiromu Kumamoto and narrated by Kanji Tsuda.[2] The series is animated in such a way as to mimic a traditional Japanese method of storytelling known as Kamishibai.
The second season was directed by Takashi Shimizu and Noboru Iguchi while Shōichirō Masumoto wrote the script.[3]
Release
The 13-episode first season premiered on July 14, 2013 on TV Tokyo during the station's 26:15 (02:15 JST) time slot, which technically resulted in the episodes airing on the days following the ones scheduled.[4] The series was later aired on AT-X.[5] Crunchyroll also acquired both seasons of the series for online simulcast streaming in select parts of the world with English subtitles.[6][7] On April 4, 2014 All-Entertainment Co., Ltd. released season one in its entirety on a single DVD volume in Japan.[8] The first and second seasons have been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.[9][10] A second season aired from July 6, 2014 to September 28, 2014.[11] A third season aired from January 11, 2016 to April 3, 2016.[12] A fourth season premiered in January 2017.[13] A fifth season premiered in July 2017.[14] A sixth season aired on July 6, 2018. Sentai Filmworks will be re-releasing the series with an English dub which was slated to be released in 2019, but has currently delayed.[15] A seventh season aired on July 7, 2019.
Episodes
Season 1
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 2] | Refs. | |
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| 1 | "The Talisman Woman" "Ofuda Onna" (お札女) | July 14, 2013 | [16] | |
| A young man moves into an apartment building and notices a talisman stuck to the ceiling of his room. He removes it and notices a mysterious woman eerily staring at him from another apartment across the street. Upon returning from work the next day, he finds his apartment door strangely unlocked and another talisman stuck to the ceiling. Upon trying to remove it, the mysterious woman suddenly appears behind him. Afterwards, the woman is arrested for breaking and entering and as the police take her away, she appears to tell the man something, although he doesn't hear what she says. When the man returns to his apartment, he is shocked to find many more talismans stuck to the underside of his dining table, and angrily removes them. He peers up to find his room swarmed with ghosts. As they approach him, the man can only tell himself repeatedly that it's not real. | ||||
| 2 | "Zanbai" "Zanbai" (惨拝) | July 21, 2013 | [16] | |
| A man wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how he got there. He tries to ask a trio of other patients, who ignore him, whispering amongst themselves in a corner. The doctor explains what had happened, and that he would be able to leave the next day. That night, unable to sleep, the three patients seem to stand outside the curtains of the man's hospital bed, frightening him by repeatedly whispering "he cannot leave". The next day, as the man is released, he notices the three patients on the hospital roof, seemingly performing the banzai cheer for him, which he relates to his cab driver. Then he makes note that they seem to be doing the banzai cheer in reverse. The driver notices them in the rear-view mirror and horrifically realizes they are doing a ritual called "Zanbai". He suddenly urges the man to get out of the car, or he would not be able to leave the village alive, at which point the cab is struck by an oncoming truck. | ||||
| 3 | "The Family Rule" "Kakun" (家訓) | July 21, 2013 | [16] | |
| A young boy called Toshiharu and his parents move back to the countryside home of his mother's parents. As Toshiharu waits outside, his grandfather has a meeting with the rest of the family to explain a ritual called "Calm Through Laughter", in which the adults must stay indoors and pretend to laugh and be merry all night long to ward off the evil ghost of Toshiharu's great-great grandfather, who feeds on negative emotions. That night, Toshiharu wakes up to use the bathroom and curiously peers into the room where all of the adults are laughing, wearing masks with hideous painted smiles. Terrified, Toshiharu backs away, and the main door to the garden slides open. The group watches in horror as a figure approaches from the shadows and lunges at them. | ||||
| 4 | "Hair" "Kami" (かみ) | August 4, 2013 | [16] | |
| One night, a lone elementary school teacher was working overtime in the faculty office to finish the school newspaper. When she starts making copies using the photocopier, the school bells eerily start ringing, and the first test page comes out with strange hair-like lines. Upon opening the scanner, she is startled by a girl's face inside the machine, but upon double-checking, sees nothing and chalks it up to fatigue. The photocopier then starts behaving erratically and makes copies with each copy becoming more and more obstructed by hair, forcing the teacher to pull the plug. Upon checking the scanner again, she finds a length of messy black hair being sucked into the paper loading tray and upon looking inside, finds nothing. When she closes the scanner lid, a ghostly pale child appears from behind the copier. | ||||
| 5 | "The Next Floor" "Ikai" (異階) | August 11, 2013 | [16] | |
| A family of three visits a shopping mall to buy their son's birthday present, until the father gets a call from work and must leave. After some heckling from his wife, the man steps into the elevator and wishes to be left alone. Upon noticing the elevator's dour-looking occupants, the elevator attendant stops at an unlisted Floor B4, where everyone but the man gets off on the completely dark floor. The attendant then makes another stop at Floor B13 and the man witnesses a bloodied person hurriedly running towards the elevator which suddenly departs. Frightened, the man demands that the attendant take him back to his original floor, but horrifically finds that it is only a mannequin. Arriving at his original floor, the man steps out into the deserted mall, while the power is being cut. As the elevator leaves, the mannequin, suddenly upright, wishes the man enjoyment of his solitude. | ||||
| 6 | "The Overhead Rack" "Amidana" (網棚) | August 18, 2013 | [16] | |
| A workaholic man is riding the train home after a long workday. Suffering from obvious fatigue and discomfort, he starts growing annoyed at his fellow passengers' chatter. Just then he notices a grotesque flesh-like mass on the overhead rack, which he attributes as a hallucination. Suddenly, the train makes an emergency stop; the conductor announces an accident involving a passenger, at which point the train's power is cut for the safety of the rescue workers. The strange flesh-like mass reappears and starts enveloping the man while two passengers chatter about how that exact area had been the spot of recent deaths. The man starts panicking, then suddenly loses the strength to reject the monstrous creature, who remarks that the man would feel better soon. | ||||
| 7 | "Contradiction" "Mujun" (矛盾) | August 25, 2013 | [16] | |
| A woman called Yuuko is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from her frightened friend, Mayumi. Mayumi explains that she and their other friend, Tooru, visited an abandoned and supposedly haunted hospital on the outskirts of town as part of a test of courage. However Tooru started venturing deeper into the building despite her pleas and eventually broke into a locked room where he began to act strangely. Mayumi then fled in fright and phoned Yuuko, asking to come over, before mumbling the strange phrase, "I can leave?". At that moment, Yuuko is startled by a knock on her door from which Tooru starts, telling the same story as Mayumi with their roles reversed, further adding that it looked as through Mayumi's face had been replaced. As Yuuko opens the door however, Tooru appears with a grotesque face repeating the phrase "I can leave?" | ||||
| 8 | "The Umbrella Goddess" "Kasa Kamisama" (傘神様) | September 1, 2013 | [16] | |
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A boy called Kenji goes to visit his friend Takeru in the countryside. After some catching up, Kenji is left alone in front of the house and notices a woman abnormally holding an open umbrella with her mouth and making a high-pitched squealing noise. Takeru suddenly appears with a plate of watermelon. Kenji looks up, only to find the woman gone. After relating this to Takeru's father, he becomes horrorstruck, murmuring "The Umbrella Goddess". That night, Takeru's father has Kenji sleep in the storage shed with a bowl of salt and warns him not to open the door for anyone until morning. Some time later, Takeru brings Kenji some snacks and apologizes for his father before leaving. Just then, Takeru suddenly reappears, asking Kenji to open the door; the latter refuses and locks it in fear. The Takeru-figure starts rocking the shed, while a high-pitched squeal echoes throughout the shed and the bowl of salt burns. The next morning, Kenji exits the shed with a sigh of relief, and the Umbrella Goddess appears behind him. This story appears to be based on the urban legend Hachishakusama or Eight Feet Tall Woman.[17] | ||||
| 9 | "Cursed" "Tatarare" (祟られ) | September 1, 2013 | [16] | |
| A woman informs her teenaged daughter, Kotone that she had tracked down someone who may be able to help them remove a curse which befell her body as a horrible skin condition. Kotone initially hesitates, due to the past failures of others who sought to help her, but finally agrees. The next day, they visit a Shinto shrine where the priestess deduces that enemies of their ancestors had cursed their family and proceeds to perform a ritual that night, seemingly curing Kotone. The next morning, Kotone prepares to leave for school, and her mother receives a phone call from the priestess' aide. He informs her that the priestess died as the curse was passed on to her, and he relays her final message to Kotone in which she laments her failure to help but expresses her hope that she can live a full life. As the mother receives these words, Kotone is walking with a friend, and it begins to rain. The skin condition erupts on her neck, forming a hand that begins to strangle her. | ||||
| 10 | "The Moon" "Tsuki" (月) | September 8, 2013 | [16] | |
| While spending the night at a lodge, a high school boys' baseball team discuss their current training camp and recall how their teammate, Daisuke, fell into one of the lodge's pit toilets during a little league training camp in first grade, although he fails to recall the event. As Daisuke uses the restroom later that night, he recalls the event while staring at the moon through the window, and remembers a figure stalking him while trapped in the pit. In the present, Daisuke notices a figure staring at him from the pit before suddenly vanishing. Startled, he attributes it to his imagination. While finishing up in the bathroom, the door suddenly creaks open and Daisuke watches in horror in the mirror as a dark creature climbs out of the pit toilet. | ||||
| 11 | "Video" "Bideo" (ビデオ) | September 15, 2013 | [16] | |
| While trying to complete a huge amount of homework, three middle school friends decide to take a break and watch a videotape, which supposedly shows things that the recorder didn't remember shooting. When the video starts playing, the friends notice something resembling a human face next to a gravestone and assume it to be ghost footage. However Takaaki also notices a strange humanoid figure in the background, which his friends fail to see, and upon rewinding the tape, finds that the figure somehow moves to the foreground and stares directly at him. Now thoroughly spooked, Takaaki notices two more humanoid faces reflecting in the screen and turns around to find that his friends have morphed into the strange humanoid creatures who continue to question him about what he had seen. | ||||
| 12 | "Tomonari-kun" "Tomonari-kun" (トモナリクン) | September 22, 2013 | [16] | |
| A high school girl returns to her apartment complex and notices five young boys sitting around a black shadow in the courtyard, which they personify as their friend, "Tomonari-kun." They claim that "Tomonari" invites her to play with them, but she declines and promises to play with "Tomonari" soon. The next day, they invite her again, which she declines due to having to leave for her part-time job. Upon returning home, the girl finds the boys knocking at her door, who claim that "Tomonari" spoke of visiting her and point to a black shadow on her ceiling, claiming it to be "Tomonari". Spooked, the girl shoos the boys away, then watches in fear as the black shadow manifests a head who speaks of her promise, before pulling the girl into itself. Finally the boys look on and seem to be happy for "Tomonari" before sitting around two shadows in the courtyard. | ||||
| 13 | "Tormentor" "Uzuki" (疼憑き) | September 29, 2013 | [16] | |
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A trio of elementary school boys are expectantly observing a house near their neighborhood through binoculars, hoping to see the Tormentor, an entity that allegedly caused one of the boys' grandmother's childhood friend to disappear mysteriously following its appearance. One of the boys, visibly unnerved, makes an excuse and leaves. The remaining two, Shouta and Taichi, spot the occupants of the home stumbling around wearing blindfolds, with an eerie apparition seemingly contorting its limbs, barely visible behind one of the residents. Just as the entity is about to enter Shouta's field of vision, Taichi snatches the binoculars impatiently and goes into shock upon seeing it, then abruptly leaves while 'dancing'. Shouta meekly arrives at Taichi's house the following day to return the binoculars, but is greeted by Taichi's father, who allows Shouta to keep them, explaining that Taichi won't be playing with him anymore and is transferring to a school in Tokyo. Shouta briefly glimpses past Taichi's father to see a group of people cautiously observing and attempting to restrain a writhing Taichi, Taichi's mother weeping desperately nearby, and someone reminding the others to not to make eye contact with Taichi. Upon leaving, Shouta notices a figure he believes to be Taichi watching him from a window. He peers at the window through the binoculars, but no one is there. He suddenly spots Taichi's father, who is aghast, pointing alarmingly at something in his direction. Shouta then shifts the binoculars to the right and witnesses Taichi rushing at him as a Tormentor. The screen fades to black as Shouta looks into Taichi's eyes through the binoculars. This story appears to be based on the Kunekune. | ||||
Season 2
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 3] | Refs. | |
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| 1 | "Taro-chan" (タロちゃん) | July 6, 2014 | TBA | |
| A police officer named Hatanaka is to give a traffic safety presentation in a ventriloquism act with a doll named "Taro-chan" at a public assembly. The act begins smoothly enough until the doll's head jams and a talisman falls out. "Taro-chan" convulses; seeming to gain its own consciousness, it begins graphically detailing a bicycle accident, much to Hatanaka's horror. As Hatanaka desperately struggles to remove his hand from the doll, the crowd believes it to be a part of the act. However Hatanaka manages to throw "Taro-chan" down stage where it manages to say that the accident "hurt". | ||||
| 2 | "Kitchen" "Daidokoro" (台所) | July 13, 2014 | TBA | |
| A university student is invited to her friend's apartment for dinner. As they wait for the pasta to cook, they converse at the dining table. As dusk falls, the student experiences the strange sensation of being watched. She looks closely at the air conditioner; she notices the sound of a man's sigh and an eye suddenly appears, looking at her. The electricity suddenly goes out and the student screams in surprise. Her friend casually mentions that electrical outages occur often and are nothing to worry about. The two then sit down to dinner. After the scare, from the corner of her eye, the student discovers a black mass with two eyes climbing out of the kitchen sink and moving towards them. Frightened, the student refuses to eat, prompting her friend to angrily accuse her of disliking the cooking. The student struggles internally over what to make of the black mass and why her friend cannot see it. As the black mass begins to envelope her friend, still berating her for her reluctance to eat, the student implores for her friend to escape. Unable to convince her, the student witnesses the black mass devouring her friend, and flees. As the student climbs the nearby hill, the black mass is seen expanding out of the apartment building and overshadowing the student. The screen goes to black and the student's scream is heard. The story ends with a pair of eyes popping out of the blackness. | ||||
| 3 | "Inside" "Nakami" (中身) | July 20, 2014 | TBA | |
| A boy comes home holding a Matryoshka, or a Russian nesting doll. His mother inquires about it, and the boy explains that he found it outside. The mother then insists that it's dirty, and proceeds to take it outside to throw it away. That night, the boy's father comes home, and the boy is worried because his mother still hasn't returned from discarding the doll. The father assumes that she's gone to the supermarket, but the boy notices her purse and handbag are untouched. Later that night, the mother finally returns and walks into the hallway holding the doll, speaking monotonously. The boy glances at the doll. Some days later, the boy hears his mother crying downstairs and rushes to her, only to discover her mother sitting next to the doll; she insists monotonously that nothing is wrong. The boy goes back upstairs, and hears his mother laughing. The boy consults with his father, who brushes it off as the mother being fully engrossed in a TV show. One night, the mother goes to bathe, holding the doll. The boy quietly retrieves the doll, then removes the top layer; the next doll has a different emotion painted on its face. He continues removing layers, finding other emotions, until he uncovers an unfinished layer with a ghastly smile drawn in red pen lines. The boy opens the last layer and the screen fades to black, as a loud mix of voices are heard laughing, crying, shouting, and screaming. Upon hearing the cacophony, the father charges into the bathroom to find the mother and son standing side by side with their backs to the door. The boy responds to the father in a monotonous voice, and the doll is back to normal on the table next to them. | ||||
| 4 | "Wall Woman" "Kabe On'na" (壁女) | July 27, 2014 | TBA | |
| A young university student is taking a break from his studies to look out the window. He stares dreamily at a beautiful young woman across the street, as she hangs her laundry on her balcony. When she goes back inside, the student prepares to return to his studies, only to witness a shadow scale the wall of the woman's building in a strange cat-like pose and disappear through her balcony door. A moment later, the woman reappears in the student's view and painfully contorts into the shadow's cat-like pose, and suddenly turns her attention toward the student with a distorted face. He hides to evade her stare, and carefully peers out at the balcony to find that she had disappeared. Soon after, he hears strange scraping noises through his wall and follows them around the apartment to the bathroom. He investigates, finding it empty, but his bedroom window is wide open. He slowly glances around the room, when suddenly, a pale creature with long, gangly, contorted limbs drops from the ceiling and crawls toward him. | ||||
| 5 | "Locker" "Rokkā" (ロッカー) | August 3, 2014 | TBA | |
| A high school student longs to be noticed by a handsome senior baseball player, yet despairs in her inability to tell him how she feels. As she walks home from school one afternoon, she overhears an urban legend about a coin locker in the train station basement; if you place a photo of your beloved into the locker with a doll in it, your wish to be with them will come true. She decides to try it out, picking the locker with the baseball player's jersey number, to find a pale, disheveled, old-fashioned doll, holding a small black box. Assuming this must be the doll, she places a photo of her crush inside and prays that her wish comes true. The next day, she returns to the basement and opens the locker to find that the photo had disappeared. Suddenly, her crush appears, explaining that he wants to try out the locker legend, but is horrified when she mentions the doll. Before he can explain, a dark shadow reaches out of the locker and envelopes him, crushing and contorting his body. The student can only look on in horror as the shadow drags the boy into the locker and slams it shut. | ||||
| 6 | "Nao-chan" (ナオちゃん) | August 10, 2014 | TBA | |
| A family living in a small flat plays with shadow puppets on the ceiling while they prepare for bed. When the lights go out, the boy, Takkun, watches as shadows coalesce on the ceiling. Before happily drifting off to sleep, he mumbles "Nao-chan..." Some time later, the woman asks her husband if he knows anyone named "Nao", since Takkun has been calling this name up at the ceiling at night, but to no avail. Takkun tries to point "Nao-chan" out, but his parents see only an ordinary ceiling, prompting the father to think Takkun just wants to play with shadow puppets. After lights-out, Takkun calls out to Nao-chan again, but this time, a ghostly distorted, sad-looking face appears on the ceiling. The face approaches Takkun's mother... The next morning, she awakens and remembers Nao as being a college friend of her husband's, who died alone shortly after contacting them. The narrator explains that this friend was responsible for Takkun's parents' marriage. A few months later, another baby boy is born with a face that resembles that of the ghostly figure... a baby whom they name Nao-chan. | ||||
| 7 | "Capsule Toy Machine" "Gatcha" (ガチャ) | August 17, 2014 | TBA | |
| A business man walks home one night after a bad day at work, when he notices an old man in a graying suit huddled over a capsule toy machine, with many empty capsules strewn about on the ground. A bit disturbed, he moves on toward home. The next afternoon, after another hard day, the man passes by the capsule machine again and decides to give it a try. When he opens the capsule, he finds a favorite eraser that he lost as a child, and his hair starts turning white and falling out. He marvels at the objects that appear in the capsules; a dog figurine of his childhood pet, a girl figurine of an old crush. Meanwhile, he ages faster and faster, with each turn of the machine's crank. More of his hair falls out, as do his teeth, and his skin wrinkles. He is so deeply engrossed in the capsule machine that he doesn't notice another business man passing by behind him, deeply disturbed by the scene. He collapses as he buys his last capsule. The next day, the passing businessman stops by the machine... | ||||
| 8 | "Farewell Confessional" "Kokubetsu" (告別) | August 24, 2014 | TBA | |
| A man named Ken attends a funeral in his hometown, where he notices the mourners' are unexpectedly jovial. Everyone is ushered inside, where the atmosphere takes on a heavy aura. Just as Ken notices the absence of a priest, the first mourner, an older man, walks through the shoji screen door into the room with the deceased, which is lit only by two candles. The man bows, whispers that he impregnated the deceased's wife during an affair, bows with his finger to his lips, then returns to the mourners' room. A young woman follows suit, mentioning breaking a branch on his plum tree. Noticing Ken's confusion, an aunt (?) explains that this kind of funeral is a "Farewell Confessional", where mourners confess to the corpse something they could not tell the deceased in life, so that their sin can be absolved. She then promptly urges him into the other room. Not having seen his dead uncle (?) in some years, Ken is at a loss for a secret. Finally, he hesitantly confesses to accidentally killing the deceased's dog. Upon doing so, a sudden gust blows the corpse's face shroud upward and extinguishes the candles. After concluding that it was just the wind, Ken prepares to leave the room... until the dead uncle sits up and angrily asks, "IS THAT TRUE?!..." | ||||
| 9 | "Ominie-san" (おみにえさん) | August 31, 2014 | TBA | |
| A young school teacher named Asako moves from Tokyo to teach in the country. One day, at lunchtime, they all excitedly clamor around a dish they call "Ominie-san", a strange purple mass that gives off black fumes. The students wolf it down hungrily with a strange crunching sound, but Asako collects it in a plastic bag and slips it into her purse. Later that afternoon, she sneaks the bag into the basement to dispose of it in the furnace, when it starts squirming! She tosses it into the furnace in a hurry. En route home, she stops at a small restaurant for dinner, where she overhears two men order "Ominie-san", mentioning a need to keep up their strength, and stops dead in her tracks. Nauseated by the sight of them eating it, she hurriedly pays and leaves. The next day, she calls into work sick. Her aunt wakes her up for dinner, which she eats with enthusiasm. Her aunt admonishes her to keep up her strength and says that, because she couldn't eat "it" at school, she mixed "it" with vegetables to make it more palatable, "it" being "Ominie-san". Initially shocked by the deceit, Asako begins salivating at the sight of the pot, and charges at the stove. The episode ends with crunching sounds. | ||||
| 10 | "Bugged" "Mushitsuba" (虫唾) | September 7, 2014 | TBA | |
| One midsummer night, a man complains about his boss in his diary, when he hears a loud mosquito-like buzzing noise. He looks up, but he finds no bugs. A few days later, his workplace complaints intensify in his diary. The buzzing returns, which stops again when he glances up. He lights a mosquito coil and resumes writing. A few days after that, his diary complaints about the rain are interrupted by a pair of moths flittering near the ceiling light. Out of spite, he kills them with spray and sets them on fire in his ashtray, finding it oddly satisfying. About a week (?) later, he writes about everything annoying him lately, including the incessant insect buzzing and his skin itching. He looks in the mirror and finds himself looking extremely disheveled... and that he has maggots crawling out from under his eyelids. He hallucinates about writing in his diary; his "writing" becomes increasingly less cohesive and more violent. Eventually, his room becomes a big mess, and he is dead at his desk; his head appears as though it had exploded. An insect peaks its head out of his open mouth. His last diary entry- a messily-scrawled "Help me..." | ||||
| 11 | "Picking Up" "Hiroi-gyō" (拾い業) | September 14, 2014 | TBA | |
| A college student named Keita Haga is riding the train home when he notices a novel manuscript called "After the Festival" left on an overhead rack. He becomes engrossed in reading it, until he finds himself at an unfamiliar stop. Just as he is about to throw away the manuscript, he finds a flyer in the trash for an amateur literature contest with a grand prize of 3,000,000 yen. The next day, Haga receives a call informing him that the manuscript won the award, and asking to confirm that he'd actually written it. Haga lies and affirms. He arrives at the Awards ceremony, where the host asks one last time to confirm that he had written the novel. As the ceremony begins, Haga notices the audience's blank expressions and lack of attention, likening the scene to a funeral. The moment he walks up on stage, he sees the audience and the host have become bare, deformed skeletons clapping their hands. The curtain opens behind him, revealing a swirling vortex. Horrified, he confesses that he didn't actually write the novel, and the auditorium falls silent. But the host reminds him that he'd already definitively confirmed his authorship. He is then dragged into the vortex by skeletal hands, shouting "I'm sorry!" as the curtain slowly falls. | ||||
| 12 | "Netsuke" (根付) | September 21, 2014 | TBA | |
| A college student named Kaoru is helping to clean her grandmother's shop when she notices a strange box in a cabinet. Her grandmother explains that it contains a pair of netsuke that even her husband never allowed her to touch. She opens the box; the netsuke are of matching faces, and she fashions them into earrings. That afternoon, as she is waiting for a train, she hears a distant voice whisper "Give it back". Finding no one trying to get her attention, she dismisses it as her imagination. As she takes an evening stroll, two shadowy figures in traditional clothing stare at her from across the river. She hears the whisper again, "Give it back". The figures follow her along the river, until a bus arrives and blocks them from view. Kaoru takes the opportunity and ducks into a nearby alleyway. When she looks to see if the coast is clear, the figures are rounding the corner towards her, shouting "GIVE IT BACK!" She flees, but they gain on her fast, stretching out their arms to reach her. She sees a bus comes to a stop ahead of her, and makes a break for it. It is then revealed that the netsuke have been doing the whispering; they now say "Give back my face!" The figures' hands swipe at her shoulder, knocking one of the netsuke off of its earring and shattering it on the ground. She reaches the bus and turns back to see the figures stopped to pick up the fragments. Moments later, at the shop, Kaoru tries to give the remaining netsuke back to her grandmother, who mentions a visitor had come for her earlier. Her grandmother then notices the visitor at the door. Kaoru turns around and sees someone in traditional clothes... with hollow eyes and a shattered face... | ||||
| 13 | "Bringer Drums" "Yadorikiko" (寄鼓) | September 28, 2014 | TBA | |
| A young married couple arrives at the outskirts of their new town in the country, when the wife finds a small red Japanese pellet drum with its handle planted into the ground. When they arrive in town proper, they find two lines of pellet drums with their handles planted into the ground, leading up to their new house. Though the townspeople allegedly don't like city people, they find the town elder waiting to greet them warmly and offer a tour. During the tour, the wife asks about the drums; the elder explains that they are lined up to newcomers' homes as a town tradition, to bring them good luck. The couple is then led to a temple enshrining the town's protector god (perhaps a Jizo statue?), who will allegedly follow the drums to visit the newcomers' home. Later that night, the couple settles in for bed. The wife wakes up when she hears a strange distant noise. She notices the pellet drums playing on their own and hears the sound of babies crying, and tries to wake her husband, to no avail. As the sounds get closer and louder, she tries desperately to wake him. Suddenly, the drums and the crying stop. The husband stirs, and when the wife turns to face him, his skin turns ghastly pale and he wails in a distorted infant cry that echoes through the valley. Lights turn on in town, in the distance, but suddenly turn off as the crying continues and becomes more childlike. | ||||
Season 3
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 4] | Refs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Lend It to Me" "Kashite" (貸して) | January 10, 2016 | TBA | |
| A young man notices a bathhouse he'd never seen before along his walk home from work and decides to take a bath. After getting shampoo, a bucket, and a bar of soap from the elderly check-in woman, he notices he's the only one there, and settles in to bathe. Later, he hears footsteps on the other side of the dividing wall. A woman's voice asks for a bar of soap, which he accommodates by tossing his soap bar over the wall. Later, the woman asks for a bucket since the others are in use. The man tosses his bucket over, but is curious as to how there are no other buckets, since they are the only customers. As the man showers, the woman asks for a razor, but he says he didn't bring one. She then asks for some scissors, which he also doesn't have. The woman starts to mumble to herself about cutting something, much to the man's confusion and growing fear. Then the woman asks out loud if she could have his hair. Now scared, the man tries to hurry through his shower, trying to ignore her demands, which are growing more manic and insane, for random body parts, and her shouts of "Lend it to me!" The man finally is about to flee when a monster with a melted face, long and stringy black hair, and a soap bar in its mouth, carrying a giant pair of scissors, climbs over the wall and calmly says, "Actually, let me just have all of you." The story ends with the man's being dragged over the wall. | ||||
| 2 | "Tunnel" "Tonneru" (トンネル) | January 17, 2016 | TBA | |
| Two men are driving to a hot spring, but are are lost and low on gas on the mountain road. Eventually, they come to a fork in the road, with one path leading to a tunnel that isn't on their map. Eventually, the car runs out of gas, forcing the men to push the car, but the tunnel seems endless. They stop to rest, but the driver notices trails of slime on the road and on the tunnel ceiling. As the men wait for another car to pass by, the passenger notices two smiling kids looking in through the window. However, the kids move strangely and don't speak. Then it's revealed that the kids are merely a pair of heads used to disguise the feet of a giant spider that leaves a trail of slime as it walks. The men then notice one of the windows is barely open and try to close it, but the spider manages to squeeze two of its legs into the gap and into the car... Some time later, a driver is going through the tunnel and stops, thinking he'd hit something. He goes to check but only finds a trail of slime leading towards his vehicle. When he gets back inside, he notices an abandoned car in the middle of the road. Then, he finds two smiling men in the back of his car, only to realize they are the feet of a giant insect. Then, he sees, to his horror, that the tunnel is a nest of giant insects with peoples' heads for body parts. | ||||
| 3 | "Rat" "Nezumi" (ねずみ) | January 24, 2016 | TBA | |
| A young couple, Kenta and Machiko, moves into an old apartment for cheap, finishing moving the boxes into their new home. They realize they have an unwanted roommate - a rat. While Machiko is scared, Kenta claims that it's no worry and that they'll just have to get used to them. That night as the couple sleeps, a rat bites Machiko on the finger. She hears squeaking coming from the walls, and wonders if they would be able to live with the rats. Some time later, Kenta must leave for two days on a business trip, but not before placing a rat cage trap to calm Machiko down. But as soon as he leaves, Machiko hears squeaking, but she tries to convince herself that Kenta is right, and that she'll get used to them. That night, she hears more squeaking, but tries to ignore it, despite her growing fear. As she sleeps, rats surround her bed... Two days later, Kenta returns and calls out to Machiko letting her know he's back. Machiko replies eerily, "Welcome home." A clawed hand opens the bedroom door and rats scurry out. Kenta watches in horror as a giant rat with a vaguely human face and braided pigtails exits the threshold and says with a giggle and a toothy smile, "You were right, Ken-chan. They really grew on me." | ||||
| 4 | "The Noisy Hospital Room" "Nigiyakana Byoushitsu" (にぎやかな病室) | January 31, 2016 | TBA | |
| At 2:15 AM in a local hospital, a patient walks down a hallway, past a window where a truck outside is carrying blank mannequins. As he walks down the hall, he hears laughter coming from a lit room. When he opens the door, he sees himself reaching out while lying on an operating table, prepped for surgery and surrounded by laughing surgeons. The man then wakes up, and realizes it was just a dream, upon realizing he's back in his hospital room. In fact, it was the same dream he's been having for awhile, despite that he's only there for tests. Upon realizing that he's sweating, he tries to call a nurse to change his clothes, but the button does not work. At the front desk, he only finds a sign saying, "On rounds". Muttering at his bad luck, he sees a nurse with a flashlight walking down a dark hallway. He chases after her, but loses sight of her when he bumps into an older patient. Then he realizes he's in the hallway from his dream and he sees the clock - 2:15 AM. He looks out the window, and sure enough, there is a truck carrying mannequins driving past the window. He runs down the hallway and sees the lit room with laughter emanating from it. He then recalls what a nurse told him, "Don't go near that room. It's this hospital's rule." His suspicion fueled by this, the patient opens the door slightly for a quick peek, but the door opens suddenly, pushing the man onto his back. Inside, he finds nothing. The lights are out, there are no people inside and the operating table is clean. He returns to his room to try to sleep, but hears laughter outside his door and sees a flashlight passing by the door's window. He hides himself under the covers until the noise stops. But when he peeks to make sure they're gone, he finds himself on an operating table surrounded by four monstrous surgeons with huge mouths that make up their entire faces. As they laugh, tools at the ready, the man tells himself it's just a dream before laughing himself. Outside the operating room, the old patient the man ran into hears the noise coming from the other side of the door. The nurse asks if he's lost and escorts him to the bathroom, telling him, "Please don't go near that room. It's this hospital's rule." Outside the hospital, the truck carrying the blank mannequins drives away. | ||||
| 5 | "Museum of Taxidermy" "Hakusei Hakubutsukan" (剥製博物館) | February 7, 2016 | TBA | |
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One rainy evening, a young couple rushes down the street, the woman a little annoyed at the bad weather. Along they way, the man spies a "Museum of Taxidermy" and decides that they should take shelter there. At the front desk, the desk clerk greets them in an almost robotic tone. As the couple explores the museum, the woman is uneasy at how fully engrossed the other guests are with the exhibits and the way stuffed animals look almost alive, but the man brushes it off and even scares her when she stares at a stuffed dog. Annoyed, she leaves the museum and goes back to their hotel. The man follows soon after, but she'd locked him out. The man finds that he has misplaced his key. Believing that he dropped it back at the museum, he rushes back, despite being sure it is closed. To his surprise, it's still open and there are still people inside. He approaches the front desk, and the desk clerk repeats his greeting. Suddenly, his voice slows down, similar to a toy with dying batteries. Frightened, the young man rushes inside and finds a guard, but upon closer inspection, sees that the man is a stuffed corpse, along with all the guests and the desk clerk. As the man backs away in horror, he bumps into the desk clerk, who tips over and repeats the greeting until his batteries run down. The young man screams one last time as multiple pairs of eyes pop out of the darkness... The sounds of animals fill the museum as the shadows of animals surround a new exhibit: the young couple, sewn together and stuffed. | ||||
| 6 | ""That Side" Festival" "Achira no Matsuri" (アチラの祭) | February 14, 2016 | TBA | |
| One night, two girls, Miki and Asako, enjoy themselves at festival stands, playing games and eating candy. Miki wishes they could stay forever, though Asako demures. Asako then comes across a mask stand, and calls out to Miki to have a look, but Miki has disappeared. One of the masks, a white geisha mask, hanging amongst oni masks, suddenly darkens and says in a deep voice, "That side." Asako wonders if she imagined it, but puts it aside. As she looks around, she sees that the people are all gone, and the lights are dimming; a deep, booming voice says in the distance, "Go to that side". Fog rolls in, and laughing ghosts parade in with the sounds of bells, and a monstrous float resembling the white mask with lanterns hanging from it appears, saying with a huge second mouth, "Go to that side." Terrified, Asako flees and runs to the goldfish game stand, asking the attendant if he's seen Miki. To her horror, the man now resembles a goldfish. She runs to the cotton candy seller, only to find him wrapping his entrails around a cotton candy stick. As she flees, Asako runs past distorted people and calls out to Miki, who suddenly appears. Miki takes her hand and they run, but Asako asks where are they going. Miki suddenly stops. Her face turns into the white mask and says in a deep voice, "That side." Asako screams in horror as the sounds of laughter and the distant "Go to that side" echo throughout the dimly lit festival... | ||||
| 7 | "Behind" "Ushiro" (うしろ) | February 21, 2016 | TBA | |
| At the Kuchiya Inn, during a school field trip, all of the students are asleep, except for three boys; one of them, Osamu, wants to sneak into the girls' room. The other two would rather sleep, and are sure the girls are already asleep. Osamu tells his friends he doesn't want to sleep because he's been having a nightmare recently; the other two boys laugh before apologizing and asking about it. Osamu tells them that, in the dream, he's in class and everyone is laughing. The door opens and a feminine figure enters the room, laughing as it walks behind the rows of desks; it's someone everyone knows they can't look at. As Osamu thinks to himself not to look up, a huge hand with red painted nails grabs and twists his head around as it forces him to look up at the figure's face... and that's when the dream ends. The other boys admit that that is scary, but tell him not to let it get to him. Osamu reluctantly agrees. Later, before dawn, one of the boys wakes up to use the bathroom, but is afraid since hearing about that dream. He hears a cracking sound, and turns to see Osamu's whole head twisted around, his eyes bugging out. As he screams in horror, he watches as all the other sleeping boys suffer this same fate. As he watches the boys now writhing in their beds, he wonders if this is what happened in the Osamu's dream. Suddenly, a huge hand with red painted nails grabs his head; he finds that he can't close his eyes or look away, as he is forced to look upward at the face of the laughing figure - a woman with a twisted head, bugged out eyes, and a great, muscular arm - before his own head is twisted. | ||||
| 8 | "The Empress Doll" "O-Hinasama" (お雛様) | February 28, 2016 | TBA | |
| Two teenage couples pull over at an abandoned house for a test of courage. They find it unlocked and go inside with flashlights, and discussed the rumors about the former occupants; some say they vanished, while others say they just skipped town. Entering one of the rooms, the teens come across a Buddhist altar and a set of red carpeted platforms with Hinamatsuri dolls, which supposedly protect their owner from misfortune. No one seems to notice that one of the three court lady dolls appears to be smiling at them. One of the girls, Yumi, points out that the empress doll is missing, likely having been stolen. As the others go to the second floor, Yumi gets an uneasy feeling... In the upper floor bedroom, the kids come across a three-sided mirror and the other girl, Nobuko, is dared to look into the mirrors, but she knows that a ghost is supposed to appear in the reflections. Berating her for her cowardice, her boyfriend, Haruo, opens it so they can all have a look. The door behind them in the reflection opens slowly, but the real door is still closed. At first, Haruo blames his imagination until they see the door in the mirror open all the way; the real door remains closed. In the mirror, a giant Hinamatsuri empress doll stands in the threshold. It enters the room, grabs Yumi's reflection, and exits the room; the real Yumi collapses to her knees in fear. As they flee, the couples take another look in the room with the dolls, and find Yumi's body laying haphazardly on the platforms as if she were thrown at it, her face painted to resemble a Hinamatsuri empress doll. They turn around and find the empress doll behind them; it cackles as its eyes become huge, and its mouth opens to reveal a set of big teeth. | ||||
| 9 | "The Fourth Man" "Yonninme" (4人目) | March 6, 2016 | TBA | |
| At the end of class, two high school students are discussing the urban legend of the Handshake Men with their teacher - a man stands by the roadside at night, asking people to shake his hand; if you refuse him, he will say that you are naughty, and then your body into a meatball. There are four of them, but you should never shake hands with the fourth one, or he'll bite your hand off. A third student, Haruko, silently thinks that the story is stupid. At home, while she's reading, her younger sister, Naomi, comes in and tells her she forgot her notebook at school. The two girls go to the school, and Naomi finds it in her desk. Suddenly, they bump into the janitor, who demands to know why they are there so late. Naomi explains the situation and he lets them go. The two girls walk back home, though Haruko is a little shaken by the janitor suddenly appearing. Along the way, an old man comes stumbling along, grumbling about why two young kids are out so late. Haruko begins to wonder if the Handshake Men story is true. A while later, a man appears and asks for a handshake. Remembering the story, Haruko shakes his hand quickly and takes off running with Naomi. An officer suddenly asks to shake hands with her, which she does, followed by a third man. Suddenly, Haruko realizes Naomi has vanished. Terrified, she wonders if she's run into the fourth man. Suddenly a hand grabs hers... but it's not Naomi, who's is just catching up to her. Instead, it's a man ready to bite her hand off with his giant mouth. | ||||
| 10 | "Merry-go-round" "Merīgōrando" (メリーゴーランド) | March 13, 2016 | TBA | |
| A young couple, Shinichi and Satomi, arrive at a mall carnival (that resembles the one seen in the opening), which they remember from childhood. Before they go on a ride, a clown appears behind them and offers them a balloon, which Satomi accepts. Just then the announcer says that the mall will be closing shortly, much to Satomi's disappointment. The clown offers to let them ride the merry-go-round before leaving, as it is free for the person who buys a balloon. While Satomi is excited, Shinichi declines out of embarrassment and offers to take her picture instead. As Satomi boards, Shinichi notices a boy and girl who are also riding the carousel don't look very happy; in fact, they look bored. As Shinichi looks at his pictures, Satomi asks if he's watching; he says yes, but pays no mind. When she asks again if he's watching, he notices that Satomi looks weak and wobbly, and that the two kids are now smiling wickedly. When Satomi calls out again, Shinichi sees that her face has become deformed, and her eyes have become googly. He hears laughter all around him, and notices that the guests and the performers are coming toward him with evil smiles. When his gaze returns to the carousel, Satomi is gone. He asks the ride maintenance man if he's seen her, to which the man says no. He asks the children, who say the same thing. Suddenly, the carousel starts to move again, and Shinichi notices everyone not on the carousel clapping, slowly at first, then faster until they stop when a hand grabs him. Looking down he sees the hand belongs to a deformed, twitching merry-go-round horse with rolling eyes and a balloon tied to its right hoof; it asks "Shinichi, are you watching?" The story ends with the mall closing, the carnival's music winding down, and the sound of laughter... | ||||
| 11 | "Cuckoo Clock" "Hatodokei" (鳩時計) | March 20, 2016 | TBA | |
| Rumi and her mother visit their grandmother's house where she takes notice to the cuckoo clock hanging on the wall at the exact time the little bird pops out. Rumi asks why the bird doesn't come out of the house; her grandmother explains that it's the bird's job to tell the time, and it won't come out until the appropriate time. Later that night, Rumi's mother notices her daughter's obsession with the clock (even making a tick-tock sound), as every time she hears the bird pop out, she runs into the living room to see it. Rumi's grandmother says it must also make the cuckoo clock happy, as no one has paid attention to it for some time. Five minutes before midnight, while everyone is asleep, Rumi awakens to use the bathroom, but doesn't make it far before she hears the sound of the clock ticking. Almost immediately, she stands in front of the clock and makes the tick-tock sound, and her eyes start spinning around like the hands of a clock. At the stroke of midnight, the cuckoo bird doesn't pop out. Wondering if the bird is asleep, Rumi checks the clock, but it falls from the wall and breaks. Suddenly, the doors open and a fleshy, deformed bird with rolling eyes on one side of its head pops out and makes a distorted cuckoo sound, at which Rumi smiles and laughs... The next morning, Rumi's mother awakens to find she isn't in bed with her. Walking downstairs, she hears her daughter making the tick-tock sound in the living room. When she calls to her, Rumi slowly turns to face her, her eyes now spinning like clock hands. Her mouth turns into a cuckoo clock's door. When the door opens, the scene cuts to the exterior of the house as the sounds of choked cuckoos and Rumi's mother's screams can be heard. | ||||
| 12 | "In the Water" "Mizu no naka" (水の中) | March 27, 2016 | TBA | |
| Late one night, a teenage boy, Tōru, sneaks into a closed swimming pool, thinking about the prefectural tournament next week, and how the coach expects him to perform well. Tōru decides he needs late night practice. The pool looks creepy, but undeterred, he dives into the water, awakening something in the process. As he swims, he is focused on winning the tournament, until he hears splashing nearby. Convinced it is just his imagination, he resumes swimming, unaware that he is being followed by black, hairlike tendrils. Finally, he reaches the end of the pool, and notices black hair on his hands. Looking up, he sees a mass of hair in the center of the pool, belonging to someone, or something. Terrified, Tōru tries to swim away, but is entangled in the hair, and even hears cackling in the water. He exits the pool but when he turns to face the creature, he sees it looming just under the water. He tries to run, but the hair wraps around his throat. He hears a splash and Tōru sees the owner of the hair: a giant fish with a woman's head and glowing yellow eyes. The fish woman laughs as it pulls him under the water. | ||||
| 13 | "— Drawings —" "- E -" (- 絵 -) | April 4, 2016 | TBA | |
| This episode does not begin with the reguar opening, but rather with the boy from the opening sequence sitting on a playground slide drawing, while three other children play hopscotch nearby. A woman who has just moved to this town to work as a teacher comes onto the playground and tries to talk to the boy, but he walks away. While teaching, she notices the same boy is sitting in the back of the class, drawing. After class she invites him to draw her, but he claims that it would be boring. Another teacher approaches her and says that three children were absent from class, and were also missing. The boy claims that they were at the park that morning, but then walks away. The teacher walks home late at night and spots the boy sketching a monster assimilating a man they both see in a phone booth. She decides to follow him over the course of the next few days and observes many different monsters (a giant heron eating a man, a clothing store manager being chased by mannequins), and the boy drawing them while laughing. The next day, she looks at his sketchbook and sees a picture of the three children playing hopscotch being grabbed by a monster, then realizing that it was of the missing children. Suddenly, the boy appears behind her, drawing; he says that he will draw her now, since she's much more interesting than when they first met. All of the monsters from the other episodes surround her, and screams as the boy's face slowly fades into the mask worn by the mysterious kamishibaiya. The kamishibai panel (the ending card for the other seasons) slams and the storyteller says "the end" (oshimai), as usual. The camera pans out and reveals the Season 1 opening scene, and then pans to a group of children watching the story teller with open mouths and blank expressions. The ending card slams again and the camera pans to the children again, this time with faces become more distorted and monstrous, resembling a frog, a prawn and a sea slug. This repeats numerous times with the children's faces becoming more and more hideous, until the boy is standing in front of the kamishibai theater, wearing the original kamishibaiya's mask. The ending card from season 1 and 2 comes up again, and this time, the boy says the words "The End..." | ||||
Season 4
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 5] | Refs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Tongue" "Shita" (舌) | January 16, 2017 | TBA | |
| A salaryman walking home from work runs into two children who are sad that a dead cat is lying in the middle of the street. Not wanting it to be run over, he scoops the cat up and buries it next to a tree. Two girls walk by, muttering that something could follow you home if you take pity on it. The boys and the man say a prayer for the cat, and they go on their ways. That night, while the man watches TV, he hears what sounds like a cat meowing. This reminds him of what the girls said, but he shrugs it off and decides to go to bed early. He is just about to tuck in for the night when he hears the meow again, this time from the other room. The meows get closer and closer until it's right next to his bed. The cat licks him, but he feels something off... When his eyes become accustomed to the dark, he realizes the meows sound too human. In fact, it wasn't the cat meowing at all, but a pale-skinned, dark-haired woman with green eyes holding the corpse of the dead cat. "I'm so glad I got to see you," she says. "So, why did you find the cat, but not me?" | ||||
| 2 | "Fish Tank" "Suisō" (水槽) | January 16, 2017 | TBA | |
| Three middle school students are walking home from school, talking about an old abandoned Western-style mansion rumored to be haunted. They try to enter through a window, finding it locked. Just before they break a window with a rock, they find one of the second floor windows is open. One of the boys, Shigeru, climbs up into the window. Inside the dark house, the only presence is the sound of gurgling water. When he pulls on the tattered curtain to let light in, he finds the source of the sound: a massive fish tank left dirty and neglected with plants and murky water still inside. He thinks he heard something bubbling in the tank, but can't see anything in the filthy, murky water. But when he presses his face up against the glass, something bumps against the tank. Ignoring the foul odor, he looks down from the top of the tank and peers into the water so close he could see his reflection. A pair of slimy, purple hands pop out of the water and pull him into the tank. One of Shigeru's friends comes in looking for him, only to find the fish tank. Then he hears something bang against the tank from the inside... | ||||
| 3 | "Sewing Shears" "Mishin" (ミシン) | January 16, 2017 | TBA | |
| A college student moves to a new apartment (the same one from episode 1); the rent is cheap, and she is willing to ignore its minor problems. She glances down and notices that part of the floor is colored differently from the rest of the floor. She realizes it's actually a loose floor board, and lifts it up to find a rusty pair of scissors stabbed through a paper talisman, with a lock of dark hair attached to it. She tosses them into the waste bin, having had enough problems for the evening. That night, she awakes to a strange moaning sound coming from under the errant floor board. Slowly, she removes the board and gasps in horror at the sight of the top half of a head with long black hair staring back at her; she then wakes up from a dream. As she heads for the bathroom, a quick glance into the waste bin reveals that the scissors, the talisman, and the lock of hair are gone. Then she hears the moaning from her dream coming from under the floor board. She removes it to find nothing. The phone rings, and she answers it, relieved that it's her friend. She doesn't notice the figure of a man missing the top half of his head standing behind her... | ||||
| 4 | "Red High Heel" "Reddohaihīru" (レッドハイヒール) | January 16, 2017 | TBA | |
| A salaryman is running home from work, having stayed overtime. By the time he reaches the station, the last train has already left. He regrets not hailing a taxi earlier, but since the taxi line at the station is long, he decides to hail one on the street. After many occupied taxis pass him, he manages to catch a vacant one after walking down a dark, deserted road. He takes his seat, tells the driver where to go, and relaxes. Suddenly, he sees something next to his foot: a red high-heeled slipper. He asks the driver if a previous passenger lost her shoe, and if he could throw it out, but the driver doesn't even turn around. The salaryman is confused at first, but is startled when the driver repeats what he asked in an impatient, angry tone. The driver looks more unnerved and starts shaking. Then both men hear the sound of someone running, coming closer and closer. The salaryman looks out the window and sees a blonde-haired woman in a red dress running next to the taxi at an impossible speed. The driver looks even more scared and pleads with him to throw the shoe out. When his eyes adjusted to the dark, the salaryman realizes the shoe is not red, but white and covered in blood. With a scream, he throws the shoe out the window and the woman stops running. At first he's relieved, but then the driver runs over a blonde-haired woman in a red dress, killing her instantly. | ||||
| 5 | "Night Bus" "Yakō basu" (夜行バス) | January 29, 2017 | TBA | |
| Four friends are on the night bus when one of them suddenly gets a stomachache and asks the driver to stop at the next service area. Ignoring his friends' mocking, he heads for the restroom. After relieving himself, he walks to the parking lot, but finds many buses like his own and can't figure out which one is his. He boards what looks like his bus and gets on, only to notice the passengers' downward gloomy expressions. He takes his seat, feeling slightly uncomfortable by the atmosphere in the bus. He suddenly gets a text message from one of his friends from a row behind him, Yūichi, wondering what was wrong. When he asks what he was talking about, the reply tells him to stop messing around. Then he gets a phone call from his other friend, Saeko, sitting across the aisle from him, but she's not holding her phone. He answers, and hears her voice on the phone asking where he was. The girl sitting across the aisle turns her head and looks at him with the same gloomy expression as everyone else. The man becomes afraid as he hears more of his friends' voices on the phone, yet the people on the bus are not talking to him. His fear grows even more when he realizes everyone on the bus is now staring at him... | ||||
| 6 | "Guess Who?" "Dare da" (誰だ) | February 5, 2017 | TBA | |
| A teenage boy and girl sit on a bench at the train station. The girl was fond of the boy, and one day she asked him out to the amusement park. They had a great time, and as evening came, they waited for the train, the girl thanks the boy for taking her. She asks him if he's going out with anyone, but a train passes by, drowning her out. The boy goes to get a drink, leaving the girl feeling awkward. It's then that she notices a pale-skinned, dark-haired girl dressed in black sitting on a bench on the opposite platform. She can't make out the pale girl's expression but she's sure she's looking right at her. Suddenly, she gets up from the bench and walks toward the track. A train passes by, and the pale girl vanishes... The teenager is confused and scans the area, looking for her. Suddenly, a pair of hands covers her eyes and the boy's voice says, "Guess who?". She finally gathers up the nerve to ask him out, but the hands press into her face, hurting her. He asks again, "Guess who?" She tells him she knows it's him, but then a question pops into her mind - "Who is senpai?" She tries to remember that he's the star basketball player at school, and that he took her to the amusement park. But now it seems he's been erased from her memory. Another train passes by, and she sees through the gaps between the fingers, in the reflection of the train's windows, that the pale girl is the one covering her eyes. At that point she can't remember the boy's face, voice, or his warmth. The teenager is then revealed to be covering her own eyes, her body and face transformed into that of the pale-skinned, dark-haired girl's. She asks herself in a voice that's not hers, "Who am I?" and vanishes as people walk by her, and the announcer tells people to stay behind the yellow line as the train is arriving. | ||||
| 7 | "Footsteps" "Kutsuoto" (靴音) | February 12, 2017 | TBA | |
| A man goes to a department store with his wife, Mayumi, during a closeout sale during one of his rare days off of work. It's pretty clear he does not like going shopping with his wife, as he already knows exactly what she wants. He soon receives an email from one of his coworkers, Nagase, who invites him for a drink. Wanting to get away from his wife, he excuses himself to use the bathroom. In the darkened room, he sits in one of the stalls and asks Nagase when he should come, as he is going to be here awhile. Then he sees what looks like a mark on his shirt. He realizes it's ink, and in the dim light of his cell phone, he sees writing all over the walls of the stall that appear so fresh, he could easily wipe it off. He is startled by a text from Mayumi asking which floor the bathroom is on. Just then, the man hears someone enter the bathroom and begin to pace. Then he hears another set of footsteps begin pacing. He becomes even more afraid as he hears more people entering and pacing around the bathroom, and the sound grows louder until the whole room starts to shake violently, as if he was in the middle of an earthquake. Just then, Mayumi calls him, and the footsteps stop instantly. The writing on the walls begin to stretch, and the man sees four pairs of feet under the gap of the stall's door. He shakes in fear as the door opens revealing three men and a woman with pale skin, black eyes and dark hair staring back at him... | ||||
| 8 | "Cassette Tape" "Kasettotēpu" (カセットテープ) | February 19, 2017 | TBA | |
| A man visits his childhood home for the first time in many years after hearing his old friend, Tanabe Kouichi, is getting married. He returns to the room where he spent most of his boyhood, happy to see it's still the same as he left it. He finds a cassette tape in his desk labeled, "What Happened Today". Always a fan of scary things and wondering if it still works, the man puts the tape in a player and presses play. He hears his young voice and he remembers that as a child, he would record his daily life on cassette tapes. On the first entry, February 12, he talks about playing baseball and winning, despite Onedera, a rival player, being an excellent pitcher. On February 23, he talks about Tanabe's birthday party at his house and receiving gifts from all his friends and admits he's a tad jealous. The man finds it coincidental hearing his boyhood self talk about Tanabe. On June 7, his boyhood self talks about being able to do anything in his dreams, including trampling over people, being invincible and crushing buildings. On August 8, he talks about his mother walking a lot and wanting to talk to her, but deciding not to. Suddenly, the voice on the tape sounds older; the man assumes he made this during middle school. On October 15, the voice talks about loudly yelling in class four times, but no one was there to scold him. On January 9, the voice claims to have heard something rattling in a box and that he's happy. On February 16, the voice says he felt something, like fingers wiggling, but didn't tell anyone. On April 11, the voice says he said good morning to an old man at a jagged park, only for him to say, "No it's not." The man gets confused hearing that; he doesn't recall doing or even saying that. He can't understand what his younger self is saying anymore, and the stories are starting to become more and more nonsensical and surreal. On February 23, the voice talks about how Tanabe and Tanabe were birthday plastic modeling at Tanabe's house. On June 7th, the voice says it thought it would stay the same if it stayed a long time, but when it looks closely lately it can see cracks and wondered why it was shaking. Maybe that's it. The man suddenly hears his own present-day voice. On April 7, the voice says it's a great day at work and how he can be happy about anything. But don't laugh, you'll make it shake. Then the man becomes horrified when he hears his own voice talk about Tanabe's wedding tomorrow, and start rambling about beating Tanabe with a stick, just like what he did to the old man in the jagged park, and then the tape stops. Not wanting to hear any more, the man takes off the headphones. That's when he realizes they aren't even plugged into the cassette player. The wedding the next day was as exciting as can be... | ||||
| 9 | "Grinding Teeth" "Kensaku ha" (研削歯) | February 26, 2017 | TBA | |
| An office worker, Miwako, is on a trip with her co-worker. The two women don't know much of the tourist spots but they find that enjoyable by itself. They soon come across a spot where the locals don't go: a cave with four Jizo statues with red cloths tied around their necks, one of which has a red string tied around one of its teeth. That night, when the two women settle into their hotel room, Miwako complains of a toothache, a result of her grinding her teeth. Painkillers don't work, so she instead calls for a dentist and finds one dentist's office still open. Miwako finds the dentist's office shady, but the pain leaves her no choice. She's set in the chair, and the elderly dentist takes a look in her mouth; her expression grows dark. The dentist quietly instructs her assistants, "Don't let her get away" and "It can't be helped" before returning with a pair of pliers, telling Miwako the tooth must be pulled out. Miwako isn't comfortable with the idea of having her tooth pulled out by these old-world dentists and tries to leave, but is held down by the assistants. She manages to get away before the dentist can pull out the molar. She doesn't even hear the dentist warn her about the tooth. Back in the hotel, she checks her tooth in the mirror, only for it to pop out on its own; it appears to have an anguished face. Then she remembers the dentist's warning: "If you leave like this, they'll come for you!" Miwako looks back at the molar, only to find it gone, leaving a trail of blood as though it got up and walked off on its own. She follows the trail to the bedroom her friend is sleeping in, and hears a grinding sound. And the closer she gets to her friend, the louder the grinding seems to get... | ||||
| 10 | "Calling Crane" "Yobitsuru" (招び鶴) | March 5, 2017 | TBA | |
| Three middle school friends, Honoka, Yukari, and Miku, get together to play a game that is popular at school. Calling Crane allows one to talk to the dead; tie a red string to a razor blade, put it in a cup of water and leave it there overnight, along with a paper crane with a dead person's name written on it 49 times. A person then takes the tied razor out of the cup, and swallows the paper crane; the summoned ghost would then supposedly talk through that person. Rumor has it, a student from a neighboring school botched the ritual and was left a deranged invalid. Yukari doesn't believe in this game, but gets an uneasy feeling about the situation... Rather than give in to fear, she laughs and suggests they call Nayakama-sensei, a young homeroom teacher who worked at their school. He was a fan of scary stories and was also the one who told the three girls about the Calling Crane game. He disappeared three months ago, and only a tied razor blade was found on his desk. Wanting to see if their old teacher had died, Yukari writes his name on the paper crane and through a game of rock-paper-scissors, Honoka ends up being the one to swallow it. The paper crane gets stuck in her throat, which her friends think is her fooling around, oblivious to her actual choking. It's only when her coughs become more violent do Yukari and Miku try to help. Suddenly, Honoka finally heaves the paper crane out of her throat. Yukari and Miku realize that Nayakama-sensei's name is no longer on it, but Honoka's. As they try to figure out what's going on, Honoka stands up and says in a man's voice, "So, what shall we talk about?" | ||||
| 11 | "White Line" "Hakusen" (白線) | March 12, 2017 | TBA | |
| A teacher stays after school, grading her students' tests when she suddenly notices a child playing in the schoolyard. The boy, garbed in a worn out, unfamiliar school uniform, is drawing something with a chalk line marker used to make diamonds on baseball fields. She goes outside to tell him off, but he's already gone. Strangely, the chalk line is leading into the school. She follows the line through the first floor hall and up the stairs, listening to the line marker's wheels scraping on the floor. Then she follows the line up to the third floor, and finally to a door that leads to the roof. She opens the door, but the boy wasn't there and the line seems to have gone over the banister. She looks over and sees a mark of white chalk, almost as if the boy tossed a bag of chalk dust off the roof and onto the pavement... She turns around, and sees the white line now turning black followed by the footsteps of people. The door opens and five black chalk outlines come walking out, and she realizes too late that the white line was meant to lure her to the roof, just like it had with its past victims. The last thing she sees as the black finally reaches her is the boy looking out the door and the last thing she hears is the sound of five thuds, with a sixth following suit. | ||||
| 12 | "Snow Hut" "Sunō hatto" (スノー・ハット) | March 19, 2017 | TBA | |
| A young boy, Masayuki's, parents takes him to his grandparents' house during the winter break. He would always enjoy playing in the snow with his older cousin whenever they get the chance. As the sun started to set, the two of them decide to build a snow hut, one big enough to just barely fit both of them. They suddenly both feel hungry, so Masayuki's cousin offers to bring back the brazier and grill some mochi. While waiting, Masayuki looks out the hole and finds a snow hut almost identical to his own. He walks over to it, wondering how it got there and notices it has no entrance, but it seems to be glowing on the inside, like there is a light inside it. He calls out, asking if anyone is inside and knocks on the side, gets a knock back... Wanting to see who it was, Masayuki pokes a hole in the wall and takes a peek inside, finding nothing except for a single flickering candle; the inner walls have been entirely scratched, like someone had tried to claw their way out. When Masayuki calls out again, he jumps back in horror at the sight of an eye looking back at him through the hole and hears a boy's voice say, "It's your turn next." Masayuki's cousin finds him unconscious and in front of a collapsed snow hut. Masayuki comes to and finds himself on a futon in his grandparents' house. He hears his cousin talking to his family in the next room, saying how Masayuki kept saying there was someone inside and that he broke the snow hut, despite his cousin's protest. Masayuki gets the feeling that something terrible happened. Suddenly, the family opens the door, acting happy for some strange reason. The front door is open, revealing an open snow hut and the family is telling him to go in. Masayuki is filled with dread. Suddenly, the voice from the snow hut says, "You think so too?" When he turns his head, he sees a silhouette the size of a child poking their eye through the screen wall and saying, "Go on. It's your turn." | ||||
| 13 | "Underground Walkway" "Chika tsūro" (地下通路) | March 26, 2017 | TBA | |
| One rainy night, a college student heads home after leaving a drinking party, but realizes he had forgotten something back at the bar. He decides to retrieve it tomorrow, and uses an underground walkway to the subway to get back home. The young man hadn't taken this route before, and starts to wonder if it lead home. He ignores his bad feelings, and goes down the dark path anyway. The curving path seems to go on and on, and just when he decides to turn around, he runs into a worker. The worker doesn't acknowledge his presence; he just keeps looking down and repeating, "It's only dark at first." The worker points to the left, revealing a path that is even narrower and darker than the one the student was on. Feeling unnerved by the man's words and the path he's directing him to, he slips past him and continues going straight. However, he comes across a gate, indicating the way is closed, leaving him no choice but to turn back. He walks down the tunnel, only to find that it seems to go on and on; he can't even find the path the worker had pointed him to. Absentmindedly, he looks down, and sees what looks like footprints and when he looks to his right, he sees, where the tunnel should have been, there is now a filled in wall with the imprint of a human on it. The shape seems to be moving and struggling in agony. Suddenly, it moves off the wall and starts chasing the student, repeating, "It's only dark at first." The man is so terrified, he calls out for help. | ||||
Season 5
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 6] | Refs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Wrong Number" "Machigatta bangō" (間違った番号) | July 2, 2017 | TBA | |
| A woman married to Masuda, an elite salaryman, complains about him never being at home to spend time with her and his son, Hirofumi. The phone rings and when she answers it, a woman she hadn't heard before says she'll not be there for a while. Confused, Mrs. Masuda asks who she is trying to contact, but the woman hangs up. Later in the day, Hirofumi falls asleep while playing, and the phone rings again. Mrs. Masuda picks up the phone and the woman on the other side asks if she could watch her child for another hour. Mrs. Masuda tells her she has the wrong number, but the woman on the other line hangs up immediately. Frustrated, she slams the phone down on the receiver, only for it to ring immediately. It's her husband this time. He tells her he'll be late and suggests to eat dinner with Hirofumi. At dinner, Mrs. Masuda tells Hirofumi not to make a mess, making him cry. The phone rings and the same woman from before tells her she's finally able to leave. Frustrated, Mrs. Masuda tells her she has the wrong number again. But then the woman says something that scares her, "But Hirofumi is crying, is he?" and hangs up. Mrs. Masuda suddenly recalls Hirofumi drawing a picture of a woman with the word, "Mom" written on it. Mrs. Masuda suddenly thinks that it must have been THAT woman back then... Suddenly, the doorbell rings and a shuffling noise can be heard on the other side. The woman's voice says she's there to pick up Hirofumi. The door opens and a woman with pale skin, black hair and dark eyes enters the room. Mrs. Masuda grabs a knife just as Hirofumi calls out, "Mama?" | ||||
| 2 | "Give It To Me" "Chōdai" (ちょうだい) | July 9, 2017 | TBA | |
| An office worker is on her way home and walks by the playground when she stops when she hears a girl on the swing set call out to her. She asks if there's anything wrong and where her parents are. The girl says she's fine and that her mother is on her way, then she notices the butterfly brooch on the office worker's shirt and asks her to give it to her. The woman concedes and lets her have it as a reward for waiting patiently for her mother. The woman then goes on her way, remembering how when she was the girl's age, she would ask for things the older kids wanted as well. She says it's something kids would do, wanting to be a grown-up. The next evening, the woman walks by the playground and the same girl from before calls out to her. Concerned, the woman asks where her mother is. But she ignores her and demands her lipstick. The woman applies some lipstick on her who says she looks pretty. The woman goes on her way, though she shows some concern about the child being out this late. The next night, the woman is with her boyfriend, and the girl appears at the parking lot where their car is. Now she demands her boyfriend. In her car, the woman voices her fears: the girl wears the same clothes every day and she is also wearing the same lipstick from yesterday, which is now smeared. Suddenly, she sees the girl's reflection in the rearview mirror and to her horror, the girl's arms stretch out and grab her boyfriend. Then her head and neck stretch over to the woman, and she reaches out to her and says in a monotonous voice: "Hey, miss. Give this to me too. Come on, give it to me..." | ||||
| 3 | "The Crow Children" "Karasu no ko" (カラスの子) | July 16, 2017 | TBA | |
| A girl named Sae and her mother are going to see her grandmother who lives in the countryside for the first time. As they walk through a field of sunflowers, they walk past a group of boys who say the Crow Lady's coming to take them away. Confused, Sae and her mother come across an old woman wearing a veil. When Sae greets her, the old woman greets back in a slow voice, then walks by without another word and into a house covered in branches. Soon, the two reach grandma's house. While the daughter plays in the yard, the mother talks to her grandmother, recounting old memories. Sae suddenly looks up upon hearing the sound of a crow cawing... When Sae's mother and grandmother look in the yard, they find her gone. Sae's mother looks for her, and that's when she hears her cries coming from the house covered in branches, only now a murder of crows are perched on the roof. In the yard, Sae is greeted by the old woman from before, who heard her crying, the result of her climbing a tree, only to fall. Sae's mother suddenly arrives and apologizes for her daughter trespassing. On their way home, Sae's mother asks her why she was in the old woman's yard to which her daughter replies, "Because they looked like they were having fun." Sae's mother gets an uneasy feeling when she then says, "I wanted to join them." In the girl's eyes, there are no crows, but human children perched on the house, the tree and the fence. As Sae waves to them goodbye, her mother drags her off. The old woman warns her as the murder of crows flies away, "Don't you let go of her hand, now. Children wander off before you know it." | ||||
| 4 | "Copycat" "Manekko" (まねっこ) | July 23, 2017 | TBA | |
| A college girl, Haru, had just completed her entrance ceremony when she meets a fellow student and her childhood friend, Yukari. She tells Haru that she enrolled in the same school she did and made it off the waiting list. Haru says that she didn't know, but Yukari tells her she wanted it to be a surprise and they'll be together again. Haru remembers how the two of them were always together since they were little and they did the same things together, but in reality, Yukari was just copying everything she did. Haru notices this even more during one afternoon at a diner when Yukari asks if she could wear the same watch as her, be in the same classes she takes and be a part of the same club she is in. Finally, Haru has had enough and blatantly tells her to stop copying her. Yukari starts crying, but Haru, feeling sympathetic tells her that it's not good for her future if she's just copying her all the time. Yukari tells her she already has a dream, to be a teacher just like Haru. Yukari suddenly says with a frightening smile, "Are you surprised? So it's fine to keep doing everything together, right? We both have the same dream!" Haru becomes disturbed by this and says that they'll still do things together. Pleased, Yukari leaves the diner, but she starts walking the crosswalk on a red light and is run over by a car. Haru smiles sadly as she vanishes and she says to herself, "The reason Yukari made it off the waiting list for the college...was because...I left...this world." Yukari copied everything Haru did, even her death... | ||||
| 5 | "Shadows of Women" "Onna no kage" (女のカゲ) | July 30, 2017 | TBA | |
| A woman waits for her husband to come home. When he arrives, she asks if he has been drinking again, to which he says only with people at work. As her husband prepares to take a shower, the woman smells the faint scent of another woman's perfume on his suit. As she picks up the husband's clothes, the woman finds more signs that he is cheating: she finds a lipstick mark on the collar of his shirt and a broken acrylic nail. She puts his clothes in the washer, only to find his cell phone ringing. She takes a look at it and finds multiple messages from someone named Rie-san, the most recent one saying, "I'll always be at your side..." At first, she's angry, but anger turns to fear when the shadow of another woman looms over her. Quickly, she turns around, but finds no one. When the husband comes out of the showers, the wife demands to know who Rie-san is, to which the husband replies he doesn't know. When the wife tells him about the emails on his phone, he says they're just spam. When the wife tells him he's cheating, she stops when she hears a woman's voice whisper, "Only you..." She watches in horror as a shadow looms behind the oblivious man and multiple arms wrap around him. The wife looks at the reflection of her husband in the mirror and can hear multiple voices declaring their love for him and wrapped around him are shadowy monsters with feminine features and red eyes. The reflection says he'll never leave her side...and then looks directly at her and says, "But if you're so worried...why don't you stay at my side too?" Almost instantly, the woman's eyes turn red and her skin turns black and she says in a monotonous voice, "Always...at your side..." | ||||
| 6 | "Giveback-sama" "Okaeshi-sama" (オカエシサマ) | August 8, 2017 | TBA | |
| A girl, Yuka, was dumped by her boyfriend, Tomo-kun. At school, she watches him with his new girlfriend and her best friend, Rieko. She swears she would never forgive Rieko for stealing him. At the library, Yuka finds something that piques her interest: a book called "Relationship Spells: The Handbook!" She reads a passage about a ghost called Giveback-sama. According to the book, "If you dial 9999 in a phone booth at 11:59 PM, a woman named Giveback-sama will answer. If you ask her, 'Give back (insert lover's name here)-kun back to me,' she will return him to you the next day. However, you must call her again at the same time the next day to thank her or something terrible will happen..." At first Yuka dismisses it as nonsense, but when she comes home later that day, she decides to give it a try. She rushes to a phone booth and at exactly 11:59 PM, dials 9999. At first nothing happens, but when she hears the money being dispensed from the change slot, she asks into the phone for Tomo-kun and takes off running, forgetting to hang up the phone. The next day at school, Yuka notices white flowers on Rieko's desk, the sign that she has died. And sure enough, one of her friends confirms that she died in a traffic accident. She remembers the ritual she did, but she tries to brush it off, calling it a coincidence. Suddenly, Tomo-kun enters the classroom, his face full of grief as he obviously blames himself for not walking her home. Yuka tells him it was not his fault. That night, Yuka remembers the final warning of the Giveback-sama ritual and rushes to the phone booth with seconds to spare, only to find someone already using it. To her horror, it's Rieko. Rieko disappears as the clock strikes 12. The story ends with the sound of blood splattering and a scene of the phone swaying in the booth, its interior covered in blood. | ||||
| 7 | "Hide-and-Seek" "Kakurenbo" (隠連母) | August 13, 2017 | TBA | |
| A boy, Takeshi, and his family are driving to his grandmother's house during summer break. His father explains that the extended family will also be there. As the family drives on, they pass an old, dilapidated house, much to Takeshi's curiosity. He is sure he sees a boy in a red and white shirt looking out the top floor's window... At his grandmother's house, Takeshi asks her who lives in that old house, but she explains it's a wreck. When he talks about the boy, she suddenly becomes serious and tells him to never go near that house for the crone lives there. Two of his cousins, Miho-chan and Yukari-chan, invite him to play outside. Takeshi does so, and asks about the old house and tells them he wants to explore it. When they get to the house, the children decide to play hide and seek. Yukari is the one who's "it" and proceeds to count while Miho and Takeshi take off to hide. Takeshi goes to hide in the house and he looks out the window, chuckling on how easy he can see Yukari from where he is. When he goes to hide in a closet, he jumps back in surprise, finding a straw doll wearing a red and white shirt; the same shirt the boy at the window was wearing. Suddenly, he hears a deep voice call out, "Are you ready?". He hears heavy footsteps coming up the stairs, and the voice coming closer. Panicking, he hides in the closet. Suddenly, the right panel opens and the voice says, "Found you." Covering his mouth to hide his breathing, he watches as a giant hand reaches for the straw doll and slams the door. Takeshi sighs in relief, but then the left panel opens and he can only scream in horror as a giant eye peers right at him and he hears "Found you!". Takeshi's family bid each other goodbye, seemingly completely ignorant of Takeshi's fate. As his parents drive away, his mother wonders if she is getting old since she keeps thinking she has forgotten something important. Meanwhile, Grandma looks down in sadness; the only person who realizes what happened to Takeshi. The story ends with a scene of the old house with a new straw doll looking out the window; this one wearing Takeshi's clothes and voices singing throughout the house, "Are you ready? Not yet! Are you ready? Ready-". | ||||
| 8 | "The Neighbors" "Otonari-san" (お隣さん) | August 27, 2017 | TBA | |
| A woman named Kana moved to a new apartment and invited her friends over for pizza. She explains that the place just opened up and the rent was lower than expected. Her friend, Eriko, drunkenly says it's probably one of those "too good to be true" moments. Suddenly, they hear something like scratching coming from next door. Deciding it's probably best for them to leave, Kana walks her friends out. However, she freezes when she sees fingers and an eye peeking out of the neighbors' door's mail slot only to instantly shut. Suddenly, her friend calls out, breaking Kana's thoughts. As she walks to the car, Kana looks back toward the neighbor's door, wondering who that was. As she walks back to her apartment, the neighbors' door opens a bit, revealing a light from inside. Wondering if she should introduce herself, but deciding it's probably not the best time, she continues walking. Suddenly, the light goes out, leaving nothing but darkness. She hears the scratching sound from earlier and calls out who is there and what do they want. The moonlight shines on the apartment and Kana can see women clawing against the apartment room's walls and floors, making wheezing sounds and pleading to be let out. Suddenly, she hears the scratching come from above. And when she looks up, she seems a pair of feet dangle in front of her before their owner, a dark-haired, pale-skinned girl with orange eyes drops from the ceiling. "Looks like we have another new friend," she says. The story ends with Kana joining the clawing neighbors and the hanging girl, and the voice of a real estate agent answering a call for a new tenant asking to live in the new room that just opened up... | ||||
| 9 | "If You Want to See Ghosts" "Yūrei o miru ni wa" (幽霊を見るには) | September 3, 2017 | TBA | |
| Mai, a college student who loves to gossip is sitting on the bench with her friend, Miki. Miki tells her she has seen a ghost, to which Mai is amazed. She asks if she believes in ghosts, and Mai expresses her doubts. Miki then decides to show her by telling her to look into her eyes. Confused, Mai looks into Miki's eyes, and is startled to see, in the reflection, the white outline of a person behind her. When Mai turns around, nothing is there. Miki tells her she has been able to see ghosts ever since someone showed her which means Mai can now see them probably. She asks Mai not to tell anyone since her friend told her about it, but she hasn't heard from her since. She suddenly starts to become worried, but tells a questioning Mai not to worry, and yet... Mai suddenly realizes her seminar is starting, prompting her to leave. When Miki begs her not to leave, Mai tells her she'll see her tomorrow. When Mai arrives, she suddenly can now see the spectral outlines of people around the students. When her friends ask if something's up, Mai tells her her secret and gives them the warning to not tell anyone. Suddenly Mai sees the outlines are changing color from white to red and they advance toward her. Terrified, she runs out of the school with more and more ghosts giving chase. She runs to Miki's house for help, but instead finds her unconscious with her eyes missing. She then realizes what Miki told her and now she'd just doomed her friends to suffer the same fate if they tell anyone as well. The last thing she sees is a pair of red ghostly hands reaching for her eyes, along with hearing multiple voices sharing the secret and asking not to tell anyone else. | ||||
| 10 | "Flower Reading" "Hana uranai" (花占い) | September 10, 2017 | TBA | |
| A man is caught in a rain shower on his way from work. He watches a young couple walk down the street, grumbling about how he used to be like them. He wonders when it will stop raining when he sees a girl in a tie-dye shirt doing the "loves me, loves me not" game of plucking flower petals and repeating, "It'll stop, it won't stop." When she plucks the last petal, she concludes that the rain will not stop, and she declares that her fortunes are always correct. The man asks what she is doing out there, but the girl responds that she hopes his wife will be there to pick him up. She then asks if she could read another fortune for him as pulls out another flower. The man tells her she should go home if her parents do not know where she is. She ignores his concern and starts plucking the petals off, saying, "I'll go home, I won't go home." The last petal is plucked, and she tells him she will not go home. She asks for another reading, but the man cannot think of any on the spot. Upon seeing his wedding ring, she says she will just determine if his wife will come or not. She plucks the petals, saying, "She'll come, she won't come." The man finds the whole thing ridiculous but decides to play along just for fun. The last petal is plucked as the girl says "She'll come." The man tells her that will not be possible; however, the girl points behind the man, and to his astonishment he sees a woman in a white dress holding an umbrella. The girl asks what should she read next, but the man tells her she has done enough and thanks her. The girl watches as the couple leaves and says, "Oh, I see. You're dead, you're not dead..." When the last petal comes up with, "You're dead," the girl says, "Goodbye, mister. You won't need anymore fortunes." | ||||
| 11 | "I'm the Only One" "Hitori de ī" (ひとりでいい) | September 17, 2017 | TBA | |
| In the office bathroom, a young woman named Mari inspects her long, beautiful hair in the mirror while her friends praise her. One notes Mari won a magazine contest for the prettiest hair. When asked if she has done anything special with her hair, Mari denies it; however, when asked when she cut it, Mari is confused. She denies that she has had it cut. In her apartment, as she combs her hair before her mirror, Mari muses about purchasing expensive treatment for her hair. Talking to herself, she concludes that even if her friends did that same things she did, they could never have her beautiful hair. She then goes on to say that she only hangs out with them because others still only look at her. She concludes by stating, "I'm the only one who has to be beautiful." Nevertheless, she remains curious as to why her friends asked if she had her hair cut... The next day in the bathroom, Mari's friends find her applying lipstick. They begin to act strange and ask if she is trying a new look since she cut her hair even shorter. Angry, she denies she cut her hair and demands that they tell her if anything is wrong. That night at her apartment, Mari brushes her hair angrily wondering why her friends claimed she cut her hair. She throws away her brush in disgust, concludes they are merely jealous, and repeats: "I'm the only one who needs to be the prettiest!" Suddenly, her reflection smiles wickedly back at her. Her reflection says that she is not her anymore. Mari, before the mirror, is revealed to have messily cut her hair short. As Mari protests over her hair, her reflection continues that she does not need Mari anymore. The mirror cracks as her reflection emerges with a pair of scissors. Mari continues to scream about her hair as her reflection declares that Mari must die since only her reflection "needs to be the prettiest." As Mari begs her reflection to give back her hair, the story ends with the sound of scissors snipping. | ||||
| 12 | "The Last Bus" "Saishū basu" (最後バス) | September 24, 2017 | TBA | |
| An office worker boards the last bus of the day. She bemoans how nothing's gone right in her life recently. Nothing is going right with her boyfriend, she is about to take the fall for her boss's mistake at work despite it being the fault of a younger girl (though she decides to pretend she didn't know). She falls asleep and when she wakes up, everyone is gone except for one younger woman in a blue dress with a red pattern on it who seems to be narrating a story to herself. The other woman narrates of an office woman who's had a bad run and is worried for her future and when she falls asleep, she finds herself all alone. Feeling something is not right, the office worker's eyes shift to the side to find her best friend from middle school... The woman continues the story and says how the office worker's friend was the target of much bullying that worsened over time and nobody bothered to help her, not even her best friend. It grew to the point that the girl committed suicide. It's not what she wanted, but the office worker didn't want to be bullied as well, so she pretended to ignore her. When the bus arrived at her station, the woman got up and started to walk out when suddenly her best friend appeared behind her and asked, "Can you see me?". When the woman turned around, her best friend said, "If you can see me, then help me." When the other woman finishes her story, the office worker becomes uncomfortable. Suddenly, the woman walks up to her and says, "What do you think happened to the woman?" Suddenly, the office worker finally realizes who she's talking to as the younger woman (revealed to be wearing a blue kimono with red spider lilies on it) tells her that being ignored by everyone is hell, that all her actions will come back to her and that she'll share her pain. Outside the bus, the office worker crawls on her stomach in pain, begging for someone to notice her and help her. The other woman laughs as the two of them fade away, never seen by anyone. | ||||
| 13 | "Seductress" "Yūwaku" (誘惑) | October 1, 2017 | TBA | |
| Instead of the usual opening, the story begins with a detective following the case of the disappearance of young men in a local area. The trail leads to the Mantis Bar where eyewitnesses say they made contact with a particular woman. A woman, whom the man she's with claims to be an actress, tells his date she wants him. While a young man drinks his beverage in slight jealousy, the detective from earlier watches the pair outside. Soon, the woman comes back and finds the young man still at his seat. She explains she got stood up, and the young man says he knew since he overheard the two, but then fumbles his words. The woman calls him cute and says she wants him. The two of them walk out of the bar while the detective follows them. From behind a corner, the detective watches as the couple confess their feelings for each other. Suddenly, the woman's arms fall off, and the woman's body tears away, revealing a giant praying mantis underneath the human disguise. The detective watches in horror as the mantis devours the man. Suddenly, the mantis turns around and giggles at him as he screams while a yellow smiling mask falls... All of a sudden, the detective wakes up and finds himself sitting on a park bench at late afternoon. As the kamishibaiya walks by with his bike and kamishibai theater in tow, the opening theme of seasons 1, 2 and 4 begins to play and the detective wonders what that case was really about. "The truth of the case is lost in darkness," he says. Suddenly, the kamishibaiya turns around and the story ends, revealing the title of the story and the kamishbaiya ending the story as he always does, "Oshimai." | ||||
Season 6
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 7] | Refs. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Thunderous Visitor" "Kaminari Kyaku (Raikyaku)" (雷客（らいきゃく）) | July 6, 2018 | TBA | |
| Ryousuke, a young man who has had a childhood fear of thunder recalls how his mother once told him when he was five, that she will protect him from thunder. Five months later, she moved out, so now he lives with his father. Suddenly, he experiences a blackout in his apartment. Suddenly, the phone rings, startling him. Wondering who could be calling him at this time of night, he answers it. It's his mother. Angry, Ryousuke demands why she's calling him now after all these years, to which she responds, "It's because you remembered me." to his confusion. She explains how he remembered how he once clung to her during a thunderstorm when he was little. He asks how she knows that, when suddenly, during a flash of lightning, he sees the silhouette of a person outside his balcony window. His mother tells him to let her in, making him wonder if that's her. She tells him to let her in, and wants to surprise his father. She starts knocking on the glass, demanding him to let her in. Ryousuke demands why she left him and his father. But when he pulls back the curtains, he sees not his mother, but his father. He lets his father in, who explains he forgot the key. His father says he was the one knocking on the window but thought Ryousuke didn't hear him. That's when the two men realize there's someone else in the room: Ryousuke's mother, much to his father's shock, who demands to know who let her in. Ryousuke explains she called and wanted to be let in. In a trembling voice, Ryousuke's father says that's not possible. Ryousuke demands his father to tell him what he did to his mother. That's when Ryousuke sees it: the rope marks around his mother's neck. "See?" she says. "Your dad...was surprised, wasn't he?" The story ends with a clap of thunder. | ||||
| 2 | "Tomonashi Cave" "Tomonashidou" (友無洞) | July 13, 2018 | TBA | |
| A group of high school students are taking part of a tour in the Tomonashi Cave. The tour guide says that it's believed that the wind blowing in the cave can sound like a young girl's cry. Four of the girls, Tomoko, Ayaka, Kyoukou and Akane; feeling bored, decide to go into a roped off area of the cave. While looking around, Kyoukou pushes Tomoko to the ground and calls her a loser while Ayaka laughs. Suddenly, a sound can be heard. The two bullies force another girl, Akane, to investigate. Akane doesn't want to leave her friend behind, but the bullies force her on. Now alone, Tomoko wonders why her friend left her. Suddenly, the three girls scream for help. Then, there is silence... Tomoko suddenly hears someone whispering, calling out for help. At first, she thinks it's Akane and asks her what's happened. Still in the shadows, Akane explains Kyoukou and Ayaka were so scary, she couldn't fight them and asks for forgiveness. Tomoko says it's okay and that they're still friends. Feeling braver now, she goes deeper into the cave, armed with her flashlight. But as she looks around, she finds claw marks all over the walls and floors of the cave. Then she finds Akane huddled in a corner, looking absolutely horrified. Tomoko reaches out for her when all of a sudden, ghostly hands grab her. Tomoko calls out for her and grabs onto a wall in an attempt to hold on. Suddenly, Akane's face distorts with hate and starts drooling, her eyes gain a milky film, her voice becomes deeper and her head twists around to face Tomoko as she says in a rage, "Who are you calling a friend? You must be joking! Why should I get myself killed for a moron like you? Just die like Kyoukou and Ayaka!" Horrified by this strange hatred coming from her friend, Tomoko watches Akane dance around as she laughs maniacally and chants, "Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! I'm going to live! Only me!" Then the hands drag her deeper into the cave, the only sign of her being there are her claw marks. The story ends with the wind blowing in the cave, only this time, it sounds like an exhale. | ||||
| 3 | "The Wind's Warning" "Kaze no keikoku" (風の警告) | July 20, 2018 | TBA | |
| A salaryman, Hide, has just returned home to his apartment when he feels the wind blow. He enters his room and finds the balcony door wide open. Mumbling on how he forgot to close it, he takes a bath. Suddenly, he hears the wind blow again. He leaves the tub and finds the balcony door open again. He shuts it, wondering how that happened. Suddenly, the phone rings. He answers it; it is his aunt. While talking, he looks around the apartment for any intruders. He asks her what is up and that he saw her at the funeral for Asami, who died a month ago. His aunt told him that she is just worried and that she hopes he is not doing anything rash. He tells her he is fine, and he hangs up but not before she tries to tell him about something else. Suddenly, he hears the balcony door open again. He tries to close it again, but this time, it will not budge. All at once, a fierce wind rips through the door, sending him flying onto his back and scattering his possessions about; one of them is a picture of Asami which breaks upon impact. The phone rings again and he answers it, thinking it is his aunt again. Instead, all he hears is static and a voice telling him, "Die." He asks if it is Asami, but the voice just repeats the word, "Die." Hide breaks down, and confesses that it was because he was too lazy to go look for Tarou that she died in the car accident. He asks if she wants him to die as well. However, the voice on the phone becomes clearer. Instead of telling him to die, it is telling him, "Don't...don't close...don't close it..." A piece of paper blows onto his lap. It reads, "Promise! If Tarou-chan isn't here, leave the door open a bit!" Tarou, his and Asami's cat walks in. Hide starts laughing, realizing that was the reason the door was open. Tarou, looks up at him, purrs and meows. | ||||
| 4 | "Swamp Offering" "Suwanpuofā" (スワンプオファー) | July 27, 2018 | TBA | |
| A couple who has just recently married moves to a village in the countryside where the husband once lived as a child. On the way to the village, the husband explains about a "swamp offering", a custom the villagers have held for generations. A person tosses their most valuable possession into the swamp so that when disaster strikes, the object will act as a scapegoat. The husband explains as a kid, he and his friends didn't want to toss their toys into the swamp, so they would throw junk in it instead. The kids were told if they were lying, the Muddy would come and take them into the swamp. The couple stays at the husband's family's house, where the mother tells the wife that she must obey the rules. The wife immediately becomes the target of harsh criticism from the husband's mother, who reprimands her for wearing the wedding ring while washing the dishes. She takes the ring, an heirloom of the wife's mother. At dinner, it is revealed that the village still does the swamp offering custom. On the way to the swamp, the husband apologizes to his wife for getting her dragged into this and tells her to throw in whatever; she brought the pen she once had at school. They arrive at three trees tied together with Shimenawa rope and are told by the village elder to toss the items into the swamp. They do so, and watch the items sink. Suddenly, the wife notices the husband's mother toss one more item into the swamp: her wedding ring. The mother explains that it doesn't have to be your own most prized possession to be tossed into the swamp so long as it's a most prized possession or the Muddy will come and take the thing you really prized the most. In tears, the wife runs away. Back at home, the husband tells her that his mother will apologize. The wife then says it's no need, since it was her fault. She made the decision to be his wife, so she just needs to treasure her more like she said... The next morning, the husband goes to wake up his mother, only to find a trail of mud leading to her room. While the husband looks for her, the wife, with a smile on her face and her wedding ring back on her bloodstained hand mumbles, "Mother, where could you have gone? You are my most precious mother. I wanted you to teach me so many things... Did you get angry and leave because I'm a terrible wife? I'm sorry...my most precious mother..." The story ends with the trail of mud leading back to the swamp, which bubbles, and the mother's words, "...or the Muddy will come and take the thing you really treasure most..." | ||||
| 5 | "The Dripping" "Dorippu" (ドリップ) | August 3, 2018 | TBA | |
| A man is on his way home from work. At the Yms-mart, he stops to read a newspaper before deciding it's getting late. However, the moment he steps outside, it begins to rain. He spots an umbrella and wonders if it belonged to a creepy man he just met at the Yms-mart. Figuring what the creepy man doesn't know won't hurt him, the worker takes the umbrella and walks away. However, the creepy man saw him and starts laughing... As the worker walks home, he notices scratch marks on the umbrella's handle and he suddenly hears something behind him. He turns around but finds nothing. Suddenly, he hears the sound again. A breathing sound. He looks and sees, in the reflection of a shop's front window, a woman under the umbrella right behind him. The woman reaches for the handle and the man runs away, dropping the umbrella, but the woman gives chase. When the man loses her, he makes it back home and dries himself off. As he watches TV, he suddenly hears a dripping sound coming outside the door. He takes a look outside and finds nothing, but the dripping gets closer...closer...closer... He opens the door, but finds nothing but a puddle and the umbrella he left behind. That's when he realizes the scratches on the handle actually form kanji for the word, "Drip". Growing impatient with whoever is playing games with him, he tosses the umbrella in the garbage. When he gets back inside and watches TV again, he hears a dripping sound again, only to be relieved when it turns out to be the shower faucet. Then he hears a dripping sound again, and grows frustrated with his apartment. Then a drop of water lands on his leg and a breathing sound starts behind him. He slowly looks up to see the woman from earlier looking down at him with water dripping down her hair. Some time later, another patron at the Yms-mart finds himself in the rain as well and he finds the same umbrella and walks home with it. The worker, gone insane just like the creepy guy from before, mutters to himself as he watches the other man leave, "Go away...Don't come over here...I'm gonna...rain...stop..." | ||||
| 6 | "Cherry Blossom" "Sakura" (咲暗) | August 10, 2018 | TBA | |
| The title is a pun on "sakura (桜)" or "cherry blossom." 咲く is saku or "blossom" and 暗 is kura or "darkness." A man has been hospitalized after getting in a car accident that broke his right arm and right leg. Outside his hospital room, he hears children say that perhaps he might be a new friend to play with. Thinking it's people from the next room over, he knocks on the wall. One of the children asks if he's okay, upon hearing the knock, to which he says yes even though his limbs hurt. He does feel a little better though, having someone to talk to. He asks if they've been here a while, to which they reply they've been here for a long time. They ask if they can be his friends to which he says yes. The next morning, the man asks a nurse about the kids the next room over, though she looks at him confused. Suddenly, the man finds a cherry blossom petal in his bed. The nurse confirms that there is a cherry tree in the courtyard. That night, the man talks to the children in the room over, and asks about the cherry tree in the court yard. Suddenly, there's a third voice, a woman. She says that she knows he talks to the kids and asks if he could come over. The man says he would, but because of his broken leg, it's too difficult. So the woman suggests that he should come any way. The kids sound a bit unsure as it could be painful, but the woman insists that they do. In fact, she sounds a bit frantic... Curious about what she's talking about, the man is about to leave only to be stopped by the nurse. The next morning, he hears a loud sawing sound coming from outside. Just then, the nurse appears to offer him a crutch, and he takes it and rushes to the next room only to find nothing. No hospital beds, no kids, no women. Just a room with a single window. When he goes out to the courtyard, he finds that the cherry tree had been cut down. Then he learns that that specific tree was where people came to hang themselves. A thought of horror hits him: if he had gone into that room, he might have become another hanging victim. As the man turns to leave, he doesn't notice a ghostly aura taking the form of the tree with hanging ghostly bodies appearing. All the ghosts lament about how much it hurts and say that he will not get away. | ||||
| 7 | "Frog Eggs" "Kaeru no tamago" (カエルの卵) | August 17, 2018 | TBA | |
| Takuya, a shy boy from Tokyo, has moved with his parents in the countryside. His parents note how happier he is now, much better than when he was in Tokyo. His parents explain to his grandfather that he couldn't stand all the eyes staring at him, so they moved a place with fewer people. While walking down a trail, Takuya spots a pile of frog eggs in a stream. Suddenly, three boys sneak up behind him and ask what he's doing. Then they see the frog eggs and become fascinated with them until Takuya mutters that he found them first. The boys look at him, much to his discomfort, and to his growing discomfort, he realizes other people are staring at him as well, wondering what's going on. It becomes too much for him and he runs back home. That night, his parents explain to Grandpa that their son hasn't come out of his room since then. Grandpa decides to take him fishing to help take it off his mind. While he sleeps, Takuya has a nightmare of all the paintings' eyes staring at him. At one o' clock, he wakes up and rushes out of the house to look at the frog eggs in the stream again. He decides to take them so the three boys won't find them again. However, he sees the eggs as eyes, and when one of them moves, he freaks out... The next morning, Takuya's parents finding him staring at a fish tank. They explain that his grandfather would like to take him fishing after breakfast, if that's all right with him. Takuya says that he doesn't mind, much to their relief. As they leave, Takuya stares at the frog eggs moving in the fish tank saying he's not afraid anymore, that other people's eyes don't bother him anymore. "They can look at me all they want. I can take it." The story ends with Takuya's empty eye sockets bleeding. | ||||
| 8 | "Sea Fortunes" "Umi no unmei" (海の運命) | August 24, 2018 | TBA | |
| A crowd gathers at the docks where a soaked, frightened woman named Chisato has wrapped a blanket around her. The people wonders if something bad happened to her. Her husband, Taiichi touches her, but she shouts at him to keep away. The village elder asks her to remember what happened. Chisato remembers walking down the beach with Taiichi one foggy day. Taiichi decides that he should get home. Chisato agrees and they go on their separate ways, promising each other not to get lost. Chisato tells him not to worry, she's good luck. Soon, Chisato finds a shrine on a pile of rocks and a box for drawing fortunes. She shakes the box until a fortune stick pops out. At that moment, Chisato complains of a pain in her ears and sees a black fog coming towards her. Terrified, she runs away. Later, Chisato is running down the docks with her suitcase, with her boyfriend chasing after her. She explains that she is going to be sacrificed. Taiichi is confused, so Chisato explains that people who pray for good fishing and draw a fortune are to be sacrificed: men, women, children, even babies. She says, the voices told her that. Suddenly, she finds herself on a boat in the middle of the ocean surrounded by shadowy boatmen. A spectral baby suddenly appears next to her and she asks why her. The baby's face takes on a demonic appearance as it answers in a deep voice, "There is no other sacrifice." She's suddenly swept away by a large wave. Back in the present, the crowd figures out she must have drawn a fortune, but people have stopped doing sacrifices ages ago. The village elder apologizes to Chisato and Taiichi for letting her get caught up in all this. Chisato calls herself bad luck and tries to walk away, only to trip and fall into the arms of a fisherman. Suddenly, the blanket falls off, revealing a strange red tattoo on her right arm. With an insane smile on her face, Chisato tells him, "Mister, you drew a good fortune." A black fog rolls in... | ||||
| 9 | "Mud Games" "Maddogēmu" (マッドゲーム) | August 31, 2018 | TBA | |
| One rainy day, a woman is driving to pick up her daughter, Michiko from daycare. When she picks her daughter up and they drive back home, the mother apologizes for being late, but Michiko says she was playing in the sandbox, which explains why her hands are dirty. Her mother says she should have washed her hands. Michiko says she's sorry. Feeling bad, her mother promises to play in the sandbox with her next time. She asks her what she was making in the sandbox. Michiko says she was making her family. She says it's made her sad. Her mother asks why to which she responds that she died. She says how she was coming to pick her up, but there was a crash, and a splat... And she stood and watched as her mother died and eventually she herself died due to staying out in the rain for so long. Suddenly, to her mother's horror, Michiko turns into sand and falls apart. That's when Michiko's mother realizes something. She never made it to the daycare at all. She died in a car crash on the way there. As she turns to sand, she says sorry to Michiko, wherever she is now... At the park a son and mother are walking by the sandbox when the boy sees something move in it. His mother says that it was just two sand piles someone made being dissolved by the rain. The sand piles used to be shaped like a mother and child, and there is a tire next to them. | ||||
| 10 | "Tree of Innocence" "Inosensu no ki" (イノセンスの木) | September 7, 2018 | TBA | |
| A pair of young twin brothers, Satoshi and Takashi are in the forest, exploring. They argue over whether they should go home or not. They finally decide to climb one tree before heading home. The tree the brother in the red shirt, Takashi, picks is old and very tall. First one to the top of the tree wins. The brother in green, Satoshi, takes the lead and eventually makes it to the top. He notices how high up he is... Suddenly, he hears a sound and looks down to find Takashi clinging on a branch, too afraid to get down and he thinks the branch is about to break. Satoshi climbs over toward him only to stop when he hears his mother call out to get down now. Satoshi says he has to reach his brother, but then his mother shouts, "Have you forgotten what happened to Takashi?!" She says if she loses him too, she'll have no idea what to do with herself. Satoshi becomes confused. He looks to where he saw Takashi, only to find nothing. Then he remembers what happened a week ago: Satoshi told Takashi to reach for a bird's nest only to have Takashi to fall to his death. He asks what he was just playing with just now. Suddenly, in front of him is a laughing, black-eyed version of Takashi that only he can see. Satoshi backs away from the ghost, only to fall from the branch. Amazingly, he did not die like his brother. He embraces his mother, and the two of them walk home. However, as he walks away with his mother, Takashi in Satoshi's body drops a dead baby bird and says with a wicked smile, "See ya, Satoshi." Alone in the tree top, Satoshi begs Takashi to give him back his body as his eyes turn black. | ||||
| 11 | "Frozen Memories" "Reitō memorīzu" (冷凍メモリーズ) | September 14, 2018 | TBA | |
| A hiker gets caught in a severe blizzard while climbing a mountain trail so he takes shelter in a shack only to realize he's not alone. A shivering old man is huddled in a corner of the shack. As the hiker rests, he recalls how his son Takeru had to go to the hospital, but made a promise to him to climb the mountain with him when he gets out. His wife, Shinobou, worries about waiting for them, but the hiker calms her down by telling her that this won't be the first time he's left her alone while he hikes. Suddenly, he hears a sound and he asks the old man what it was. The old man shushes him, telling him, "It's coming again..." He grabs the hiker by the shoulder and demands that no matter what happens, do not open the door until the blizzard passes. A while later, the hiker awakens to hear that the ringing has stopped. Suddenly, he hears Takeru outside the shack. The hiker is about to open the door when the old man stops him. The voice on the other side of the door asks if he's sad because Takeru died, leaving him and his wife sad and alone. The hiker tosses the old man aside, but the old man still begs him not to open the door. He's the last survivor of his hiking group. Whatever is on the other side of the door took all the others. The hiker finally remembers what happened to Takeru: he died from complications of the surgery. When the blizzard finally passes, the hiker calls his wife to tell her he's coming back. When he goes outside, all he can find is a pile of snow suspiciously shaped like a child... | ||||
| 12 | "Waterfall Drop" "Taki no doroppu" (滝のドロップ) | September 21, 2018 | TBA | |
| A group of four friends (two boys, two girls) takes a trip through the forest only to find themselves lost. However, they soon find what they were searching for: a huge waterfall. One of the boys explains that there are rumors that it is haunted due to the number of people who committed suicide by jumping off it. One of the girls, Yurika, gets an uncomfortable feeling that something or someone is watching them. They then decide to play rock-paper-scissors. Whoever loses has to climb the top of the fall. Yurika loses and has to climb the top. Her girl friend promises to take her picture at the bottom when she reaches the top. As she walks to the top of the falls, it starts to get dark and she starts hearing something. It only turns out to be a danger sign breaking off the branch it was on. Relieved, Yurika carries on. When she reaches the top she looks down to see her friends waving at her. Suddenly, she sees three children dropping rocks off the waterfall... She tries to tell them it's not safe but instead, they just stare at her with creepy looks then walk away. Yurika looks down to find her friends still waving. She gets an email from them telling her to run. Suddenly, black shadows start climbing up the waterfall and crawl toward her... The three children laugh and point as they say, "Aw, they got to the top. Now there'll be another one." | ||||
| 13 | "Echoes" "Yamabiko" (山彦) | September 28, 2018 | TBA | |
| A pair of college girls have climbed to the top of the mountain. Out of boredom, one of them, Eriko shouts loud to hear her own echoes. Her friend chides her for being so immature, to which she replies she hadn't climbed a mountain since grade school. Her friend tells her no one gets excited about echoes anymore, to which Eriko replies that they're the only ones here so they should have some fun. Fog begins to roll in and her friend says they should probably leave but Eriko doesn't want to go yet, echoing her words. Her friend tells her to stop and it's time to go. Suddenly, both girls hear a man's voice call out and echo. Eriko replies back, but her friend tells her to stop; she doesn't know what kind of person he might be. When the voice echoes "Where are you?", the two girls decide not to reply. As the fog starts to get thicker, the voice then says, "I'm coming to you!" Frightened, Eriko's friend decides it's time to go now, only to realize Eriko's lost in the fog. The voice tells her it's almost there... Suddenly, another voice echoes, "Run away!" Eriko's friend suddenly sees the shapes of people in the fog and more voices telling her to either run or don't listen. Suddenly, she hears Eriko's voice. She looks around frantically, and stops when the shapes disappear. She realizes she's close to the edge and wonders if something bad happened to Eriko. Suddenly, a hand grabs her shoulder and she screams. But her fear turns to relief when she realizes it's only Eriko. With the fog now clearing, the two girls decide to head back down. As the two girls walk down the mountain trail, Eriko's friend explains how scary the whole situation was: the fog, the echoes, the shapes. And how that one voice said it was coming to us. She wonders where it was coming from. Suddenly, fog rolls in again and suddenly Eriko's not with her anymore and an echoing voice right next to her says, "I'm here." | ||||
Season 7
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 8] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Delivery" "Haitatsu" (配達) | July 7, 2019 | |
| A young man agrees to housesit for one of his friends, Hasegawa. Yesterday, he got a message from Hasegawa that a package is to arrive and asks if he could sign it for him. When the package doesn't arrive, the man assumes Hasegawa got the date wrong only to hear the doorbell at 9:15 PM. The deliveryman gives him the package and the man signs for it. The man lets Hasegawa know he got the package, only for him to reply that he's expecting another package and asks if he could stay for one more day. The next night, at 9:15 PM again, the deliveryman arrives with the second package. The man gets a creepy vibe from him. Despite it being wet from the rain, he places the second package next to the first and gives Hasegawa a call, but he doesn't answer. Just then, he sees the deliveryman looking up at him from the street. That's when he hears it: the sound of a phone vibrating coming from the second package. Hasegawa then answers the phone and the man asks when he is coming home. "What are you talking about," Hasegawa asks. "I just did." Suddenly, the boxes start to leak blood and the deliveryman returns saying he has the rest of the packages... | |||
| 2 | "The Sleepless Child" "Nemurenu ko"眠れぬ子 | July 14, 2019 | |
| A woman named Sawako is expecting her husband to come home, but her husband says over the phone he won't be back for some time now. She listens to a news report about a child named Kodama Kiyoharu being abducted from a park. The woman's son, Takeru, says he's been to that park. She tells him it's time for bed, although she looks at the report with unease... Later that night, Sawako is awakened by the sound of something breaking. It turns out to be Takeru, who wanted a glass of milk, but he dropped the cup. As she picks up the broken glass, he tells her he had a nightmare. She asks if he wants to sleep with her, but he tells her he's too old for that. Still, she invites him if he has another nightmare. At 2:04 AM, Sawako has a nightmare where she's buried alive. She wakes up with a start to find Takeru sleeping next to her. She calls her husband, who tells her he'll be back soon. Just then, a door opens and handprints and footprints appear all over the floor and walls of the corridor. She confesses, to her horror, that the child she ran over is in the house. Her husband's voice is replaced by the sound of a boy laughing. She cries that it wasn't her fault, but her husband's who said they should bury him in the mountains. She begs him for forgiveness, but the boy's voice says he will not. Suddenly, Takeru comes out of his bedroom and asks what's wrong; the handprints and footprints disappear. Takeru asks why she's covered in dirt all of a sudden. Sawako suddenly realizes that the child in her bed is not her son... | |||
| 3 | "The Reception Room" "Resepushonrūmu"レセプションルーム | July 21, 2019 | |
| There is an elderly couple who lived together for a long time in a house. The husband is very sick with a nasty cough. One day, a skilled doll maker gives them a doll, calling it cute. The couple decides to put it in the reception room for all to see. The woman, Youko, states that she wanted a daughter and that this was her dream com true. She decides to name the doll Mikoto, which means beautiful life. She says that it seemed natural, looking at her lifelike eyes. Later, the wife gives Mikoto a red dress that she wanted their daughter to have... The husband notes that she's not looking so well and asks if she's taking care of herself. The husband gets a nasty cough, so he goes to bed. Alone with the doll, Youko says she's happy to be with her. Later on, she gives Mikoto the bracelet belonging to her grandmother. Her husband says it's not healthy to obsess with this doll. Youko's husband eventually dies, leaving her all alone with Mikoto. She says she doesn't have much time left herself and she has one wish, to hear her "daughter" say "Mother" just once. And just like that, she dies. The doll's fingers begin twitching and its eyes start moving. Suddenly, Mikoto comes to life and walks over to Youko's body. She says, "Mother. Thank you." | |||
| 4 | "Paintings" "Kaiga"絵画 | July 28, 2019 | |
| A man goes to an art exhibit, although he says he only went because it's free and he really isn't into that sort of thing. He goes to the "A New World" art exhibit, only to find it surprisingly empty, except for the receptionist: a woman in a dark coat and black fedora. He looks at the paintings, which he finds to be quite scary. Even more bizarre, all the artists who made them are "unknown". He's about to take a photo of one of the pictures until the receptionist tells him photography is not allowed. When he's sure she's not looking, however, he takes a photo of the paintings anyway. He suddenly gets the feeling that he's being watched... He uploads the photos on his social media website and starts to get likes from his friends. He suddenly realizes something odd: the paintings are gone from their frames. Suddenly, the receptionist whispers that she warned him and that it's his fault for not listening. He realizes to his horror that she has no face at all, just a blank sheet of skin. He suddenly finds himself in a dark room and surrounded by a forest of reaching hands. He runs for what he thinks is a way out only to be grabbed by the hands. Later, a new patron comes to the art exhibit where a new painting has been added. The man takes a photo of it. | |||
| 5 | "Notice of Termination of Service" "Sābisu shūryōnōshirase"サービス終了のお知らせ | August 4, 2019 | |
| A salaryman is traveling on business when he passes by three different funerals. He wonders what happened but thinks nothing more of it. At the hotel he stays at, he asks the clerk if they're any good restaurants around, though the clerk tells him they close at nine PM. Since it's already 9:15, the salaryman decides to go to his room: Room 404. As he settles down into his room, he notices an odd notice at the bottom of the program guide, "Notice of Termination of Service". After taking a shower, he decides to watch TV, but only static comes on and when he tries to turn it off, he finds that he can't. Then, he sees images of the people to be buried at the funerals he passed by. He thinks he hears something, so he turns up the volume, and he hears a voice saying, "The time has come to say goodbye." Suddenly, the door rattles and the phone starts ringing. He answers the latter, but there's no one there. The door continues to rattle and the voice on the TV continues to repeat itself. The man becomes afraid and pleads for it all to stop. And just like that, the sounds stop. He hears housekeeping and swings open the door, demanding what is wrong with this hotel. But instead of housekeeping, he sees several silhouettes of people and he hears the TV come back on. Then he sees his own picture in the TV and the voice says, "Goodbye." | |||
| 6 | "The Veranda" "Beranda"ベランダ | August 11, 2019 | |
| An office worker returns home to her apartment complex after work. She mentions how lucky she is to have found a boyfriend like Daichi after getting hired. Suddenly, she hears a scraping sound coming from the veranda and becomes scared. Quickly, she grabs a knife and pulls back the curtain, but she finds nothing. Six days later, Daichi gets a call from his girlfriend while watching the news of a recent murder at an apartment complex. She tells him she's scared and the sounds keep happening every day. He tells her it's probably nothing since there's no one there every time she checks the veranda. Suddenly, she hears the sound again and begs Daichi to come right now. He arrives and is hugged by his frightened girlfriend. Convinced everything is fine, he goes to check the veranda when he hears the scraping sound. He tells her it's just the wind, but she says she knows what it is. He suddenly recalls the murder he heard on the news and realizes that the killer hasn't been caught yet. Cautiously, he opens the curtain, but sees nothing. When he goes outside, he sees nothing still. That's when his girlfriend says, "She's been watching this whole time." He looks out the veranda again and to his horror, he sees a ghostly woman with green skin, black hair, yellow eyes and long fingernails scratching on the glass. Quickly he closes the curtains. Suddenly, his girlfriend starts laughing, but he quickly snaps her out of it. She tells him that it feels like that thing outside is possessing her or something and that she doesn't want to be alone anymore. "And when you're scared," she says in a scratchy voice. "It's better to be with someone, right?" Daichi watches in horror as she begins scratching the floor with long fingernails... | |||
| 7 | "Public Phone" "Kōshūdenwa"公衆電話 | August 18, 2019 | |
| A door-to-door insurance saleswoman named Chie gets a call from her sister Momoe using a public phone. Momoe pleads for her help, saying she needs help at the Wakakusa Complex where a public phone is. Chie tries to explain that she's busy, but her sister says that there's no time. Suddenly, she screams that if she doesn't hurry, he will show up. And then the phone hangs up abruptly. Chie finds the public phone Momoe was talking about but finds no one. Just when she's about to leave, she sees a huge pile of broken cellphones on the floor of the phone booth. Suddenly the phone rings. She answers it and hears a deep breathing before she hears Momoe's voice. She cries and says she didn't want this to happen. Chie looks behind her, swearing she just heard something. Then Momoe says that "he's" coming. Suddenly, the door slams close, trapping her inside. And to make matters worse, a man with grey skin and red eyes starts banging on the glass. The saleswoman tries to use her cellphone, but it breaks. Momoe calmly tells her to use the phone card on top of the phone to call for help, but warns her to hang up before it reaches zero and if it reaches zero, the man will come inside. The sells woman calls her husband Shouhei, begs him to come help her and gives him the location of the phone booth. Chie hangs up immediately, but the phone still reaches zero anyway. Suddenly, she hears her sister's voice right behind her, saying, "Sorry, Onee-chan. I lied. The moment you got here..." And then it turns into a deep voice that says, "...it was all over for you." The creature behind her lunges at her with a huge mouth... Later, Shouei finds the phone booth and the cycle begins again. | |||
| 8 | "Cough" "Seki"咳 | August 25, 2019 | |
| A young man, Takayuki has to put up with his sick elderly neighbor's complaints about the loud noises. The trouble is, the walls are so thin, he can hear just about anything at even the lowest volume. Takayuki tries to explain he's not doing anything wrong, but the old man tells him that he's related to the landlord and that if he makes anymore noise, he will have him kicked out. Later, Takayuki invites his girlfriend to watch a movie with him, and he warns her not to make too much noise. She thinks he's just exaggerating, but is proven wrong when the old man shouts at her to be quiet. When they hear him coughing, they decide to just leave and watch a movie at her house. But then the coughing gets worse, the girlfriend tells Takayuki to call an ambulance. He agrees, but then stops, realizing that if the old man dies, he won't have to worry about being kicked out of the apartment. So, he puts down the phone and turns up the television's volume up to maximum despite his girlfriend's protests. Finally, the coughing stops... Suddenly, the lights go out and the coughing returns, only it's growing louder and the walls begin to shake. The couple looks behind them to see the ghost of the old man who shouts, "YOUR TV IS TOO DAMN LOUD!" | |||
| 9 | "The Woman in the Elevator" "Erebētā no on'na"エレベーターの女 | September 1, 2019 | |
| In a certain apartment building, a woman goes to use the elevator where she runs into a young man carrying a garbage bag. The elevator then opens for a mother and her son to be let in. The woman mentally complains about the son's constant whining for candy, then complains even more when they get off the elevator, realizing that they weren't even going to leave the building. Suddenly, the elevator stops and breaks on the fifth floor. The young man tells her not to worry and points out the button to call for help and the camera that watches them. The man puts down the bag and presses the button. The repairman checks the camera and says he sees them: one man and two women. They both get confused at that. The woman asks if he's looking at the right elevator and the repairman says yes; the second woman is right behind them... Suddenly, the repairman is cut off and the elevator's lights go out. The woman hears a sound behind her and realizes it's coming from the garbage bag. The second woman slowly claws her way out of the bag and the man tells the first woman to ignore her. Suddenly, the lights come back on and the woman disappears. As the elevator starts up again, the woman wonders why the woman in the garbage bag was crying. When they finally reach the bottom, the landlord asks if they're all right. The man says yes and that he's in a hurry. As he carries the garbage bag outside, that's when the woman realizes something: today is not garbage day. | |||
| 10 | "Manga Cafe" "Manga kafe"マンガカフェ | September 8, 2019 | |
| A Manga Cafe employee found an object which he assumed to be a pachinko ball during his cleaning duties and kept it in his pocket.A short while later,a young lady came in,enquiring about her lost earring only to leave after the employee replied that no one has seen it.He asked his employer,Umeda-san about the lost earring and he answered that he had not seen it after checking his book and told his employee to not bother so much with such strange visitors.The employee saw the same lady walking past some time later.Curious by the lady’s behaviour,he told his employer,Umeda-san about her visit.However,when the employee started to describe the lady’s attire,Umeda-san fell into silence.It took further questioning before he finally told a story about a lady who used to visit booth 80 regularly.When asked if it was the same lady,Umeda-san replied that it couldn’t be and the employee was then stunned by his explanation (which was cut off by the next scene.)The employee,still terrified by Umeda-san’s story,was going down the corridor when he soon realised that the place seemed to be bigger than usual and that he could not find the reception counter.He ran down the passage in a panic before coming to a dead end.He looked up and saw that he was outside booth 80.He saw a pair of high heels at the door and before he knew it,he was trapped in the booth.He then heard a lady’s voice asking about the lost earring and he pulled out a long strand of hair.The lady repeatedly requested the return of her earring,to which the employee fearfully denied and demanded that she stopped her disturbances. It turned out that she knew the employee had kept her earring in his pocket and when he finally took it out,she said that it was hers. The lady then went on,saying that she had worked hard to make ‘preparations’ to buy those expensive earrings while creeping down from the ceiling.When the employee gave in,saying that he would return it.The lady stated that she searched so long for her precious earring that she sold her eyes while revealing her empty sockets.At this point, the rest of Umeda-san’s story told of how the lady had died in an accident and for some strange reason,her eyes were missing.The lady then said that the employee’s eyes were lovely before closing in to his face... | |||
| 11 | "Little Sister's Room" "Ritorushisutāzurūmu"リトルシスターズルーム | September 15, 2019 | |
| An older brother goes into his younger sister's room, looking for one of his manga magazines. He finds it under the bed, so he has to crawl under it to get it. Unfortunately, he gets stuck. Before he has a chance to free himself, he hears his sister, Miho return with her friend, Risa so he remains hidden. He hears them talk and gossip when suddenly, one of the posters hanging on the wall falls off. Miho says that strange things have been happening in her room as of late, but believes it's merely her brother spying on her. Risa tells her that might not be the case. She confesses that she has a sort of sixth sense and that she can feel something wrong in the room... The brother suddenly drops the manga and the girls shriek. Just when Miho is about to look under the bed, Risa tells her not to. There's something in the room, creaking. She runs out and Miho chases after her. The brother is about to crawl out from under the bed when something grabs him. He looks and sees a woman with a pale face and black hair grabbing his ankles. She says, "I'll suppose he'll do..." before dragging him back under the bed. | |||
| 12 | "Fitting Room" "Shichakushitsu"試着室 | September 22, 2019 | |
| 13 | "Refrigerator" "Reizōko"冷蔵庫 | September 29, 2019 | |
| This story is told through the point of view of a refrigerator. When it was first bought by a family of five, it was happy, and it loved having its drawers and shelves filled with food. But times changed. As the family grows older, troubles start. There's not enough money to buy food, the kids cannot afford to go to college and the refrigerator is sad seeing that it is being filled with less and fewer contents. And the contents that are filled in it are turning out to be rotten. Soon, no one opened the refrigerator's doors anymore and it started to become lonely. Then one day, the family returns, wearing strange smiles on their faces and chanting, "It's the only way." as they stuff strange meat in the refrigerator. Meat that is familiar for some odd reason. At this point, the refrigerator notices that the father is no longer there. Another thing it notices is something even more peculiar: throughout the years it has known him, the youngest son never seems to grow old. | |||
Season 8
| No. | Official English title[nb 1] Original Japanese title |
Original air date[nb 9] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dropped Handkerchief" "Doroppuhankachi"ドロップハンカチ | January 10, 2021 | |
| A group of teenagers arrive at an abandoned house to test their courage. One of them, a girl named Shizuka, starts to have second thoughts, but her boyfriend eggs her on. As they explore the house, they say that they heard the rumor that the previous family who lived at the house just disappeared one day. People have been wanting to get the house demolished, but anyone involved with it vanishes without a trace. The teens go upstairs to the youngest child's bedroom, which is said to be the worst spot. Suddenly, Shizuka gets a bad feeling when she sees the family's portrait with the faces of the family crossed out. As they enter the child's room, the teens decide to have a small party with just the four of them. Suddenly, a book drops to the floor. In it is a diary entry that says "We played the handkerchief game." Shizuka notices a handkerchief she hadn't seen before lying on the ground behind a boy named Takaaki. Suddenly, the candle go out. Shinji uses his phone light and that's when they realize Takaaki has disappeared. Shizuka notices the handkerchief is behind her friend, Kyouko. Shinji's phone light goes out all of a sudden and when he gets it back on, they both realize Kyouko is gone as well. Shinji thinks they're just playing a stupid prank, but Shizuka gets scared when she notices the handkerchief is behind her now. Terrified, she tosses it at Shinji, who disappears when the light goes out again. Alone, Shizuka cries in fear as the phone's battery dies. Just then, a child's voice speaks, "Now you're it." At that moment, the handkerchief turns from pink to red... | |||
| 2 | "Death Day" "Shi no hi"死の日 | January 17, 2021 | |
| The Kunitake family has a tradition where they travel to their deceased mother's home on the anniversary of her death and spend the day there. Hiroki's wife Sachiko just married into the family, so this is the first time participating in the tradition. When Hiroki's brother Shigenobu shows up late, the rest of the family notes how he is the last to arrive as usual, though it's not really his fault since he lives so far away. Sachiko and her sister-in-law Emi discuss the family in the kitchen while they prepare food. Sachiko says that she would have like to meet the mother since she sounded like a nice woman. Emi says that she might get her wish if she says that. That night, while she washes the dishes, Sachiko wonders what Emi meant when suddenly the lights go out. Hiroki appears and tells her it's time. At the dinner table, the family hears dogs outside barking loudly, something that happens every anniversary. Sachiko asks what is going on to which Hiroki replies their mother is coming home. Her spirit comes home on the anniversary of her death which is why they have this tradition. The family hears footsteps outside the door and Hiroki says it's her. Sachiko smells a perfume which Emi says belonged to their mother. Suddenly, the door opens and closes and an empty chair pulls up as if someone invisible took their seat. Sachiko is terrified, however. She reveals she can see spirits and she screams that the spirit in the chair is not their mother at all. The dogs outside bark again and the chair suddenly shakes violently as if reacting in anger. This shocks the rest of the family, as they ask who was it they've been letting in the last ten years. | |||
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Notes and references
- Notes
- All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.
- As season 1 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:15 (02:15 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 2 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:35 (02:35 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 3 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:35 (02:35 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 4 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:35 (02:35 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 5 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:35 (02:35 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 6 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:35 (02:35 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 7 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:15 (02:15 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- As season 8 premiered primarily in TV Tokyo's Sunday 26:15 (02:15 JST) time slot, the episodes technically aired the days following the ones listed.
- References
- https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-06-19/yamishibai-japanese-ghost-stories-anime-gets-ninja-collection-spinoff-in-july/.160835
- 闇芝居｜スタッフ・キャスト (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- "Grudge & Zaborgar Directors Make 2nd Yamishibai Anime Season". Anime News Network. February 4, 2014. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
- "Yami Shibai Horror TV Anime Shorts to Premiere in July". Anime News Network. July 4, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
- "闇芝居 番組 AT-X ワンランク上のアニメ専門チャンネル" (in Japanese). AT-X. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
- "Crunchyroll Adds "SILVER SPOON", "The World God Only Knows: Goddesses" and "WATAMOTE" Anime to Streaming Lineup". Crunchyroll. July 6, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
- "Crunchyroll to Stream "Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2" and "BARAKAMON" Anime". Crunchyroll. July 4, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
- "闇芝居｜DVD" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- "Sentai Filmworks Adds Yamishibai Horror Anime". Anime News Network. December 18, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- "Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Season 2". Sentai Filmworks. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- 都市伝説アニメ「闇芝居」 テレビ東京で4月より再始動 新エピソードに清水崇、井口昇、増本庄一郎ら (in Japanese). animeanime.jp. March 3, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
- "3rd yamishibai horror anime season 2nd ad streamed". Anime News Network. December 21, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- "Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Anime Gets 4th Season in January". Anime News Network. December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- "Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Anime Gets 5th Season in July". Anime News Network. June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- "Sentai Filmworks ACEN 2019 Industry Panel Recap". Sentai Filmworks. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- 闇芝居｜新着情報 (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- http://www.scaryforkids.com/eight-feet-tall/
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
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