Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
2013
7.5
40.4K
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Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
2013
7.5
40.4K
TV-MA
views
saved
Season 15
Episode 6
airing or aired
Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.
Countries:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Content Rating:
TV-MA
Runtime:
4min
Status:
Returning Series
First air date:
2013-07-15
You can get the gist of the show by it's title: Yami Shibai - Japanese Ghost Stories. The episodes are no longer than four minutes and always self contained. Most of them come down to your typical J-horror setup/sequences. Like many short shows the budget for these is small. The way they handle it here is employing a picture-story style with little animation which works for me.
Horror seems to be one of the hardest things to do in animation or at least I don't really know of something scary in the field (that is not going the cruel/gore route à la Corpse Party). Some of the episodes are fun to watch for the creepy vibe but there are also weak ones among them. I'd say if you like J-horror and got some minutes to spare you will enjoy it.
(The two ED's so far have been great btw., I really like the dark/distorted vocaloid songs.)