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“Masked Storyteller returns with kamishibai horror tales: haunted cat burial, cursed apartment, abandoned house, wrong bus, dark amusement park.”
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 4
闇芝居 4期
5.82
11,646 rank · 32,338 viewers · 10 favorites
Avant Garde
Horror
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Masked Storyteller returns with kamishibai horror tales: haunted cat burial, cursed apartment, abandoned house, wrong bus, dark amusement park.
Excited children gather around the enigmatic masked Storyteller once more. His unique kamishibai storytelling draws them into tales of fear and dread. These are dark and foreboding stories, which could happen to anyone... This season has tales of a salaryman who buries a dead cat, only to be haunted soon after; a college student and her cheap new apartment that hides a ghastly secret; boys exploring an abandoned haunted house before coming across a strange fish tank; a man who finds himself on the wrong bus, and in more danger than he thought possible; and a young couple's visit to an amusement park, which suddenly takes a dark turn. All these stories and more await in Yami Shibai 4.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 16 sampled reviews
4.3
/10
What 16 viewers settled on.
18%
recommend
Score distribution
median 4
mode 3
σ 1.76
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.76 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.69
Running avg · Jan 2017 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “So I think yami shibai deserves more popularity it's very very.... underrated and so I think an anime as good as this should have more fans 3 thing I like •I love the new ending they added •I liked...”
- 8 “I first started looking at the Yami Shibai series thanks to a new short series running this year, the Ninja Collection. (It had much the same urban legend/ghost story idea but with the addition of...”
- 3 “They've added narrations to this, which makes the whole story telling less and less immersive, and while on it, why not let the man from the intro narrate? Most narrators (they used more than one)...”
Verbosity
Short · 44%
Medium · 38%
Long · 19%
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- Format 13 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 52m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 Winter 2017
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-12052 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer