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“Mysterious masked Storyteller terrifies young girls with twisted horror tales of ghostly legends and chilling encounters.”
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 5
闇芝居 5期
6.33
8,774 rank · 29,131 viewers · 11 favorites
Avant Garde
Horror
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Mysterious masked Storyteller terrifies young girls with twisted horror tales of ghostly legends and chilling encounters.
The mysterious masked Storyteller returns to tell more twisted tales of horror. Continuing his particular style of kamishibai inspired storytelling, he now finds that his audience is an eerie crowd of young girls, who eagerly await his devilish stories. He recounts ghostly legends involving girls of all ages: a housewife who receives a barrage of chilling phone calls; a strange girl whose flower readings are always right; a mother and daughter's ominous meeting with the "crow lady"; and a young girl whose demands from others grow more and more outrageous with each request. Witness once again the Storyteller's haunting and gripping tales, which are sure to leave one with more than just chills...
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
6.4
/10
What 5 viewers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.20
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.20 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 4.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.60
Running avg · Sep 2017 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Horror is pretty rare in anime, which is a shame especially for people like me who love the thrill of a genuinely scary story. Not many shows or movies actually deliver that spine tingling feeling,...”
- 7 “Story: Basically 13 short little stories based on Japanese urban legends or myths. In my opinion season 5 is just short of being as good as season 1. The difference is so small that I still rate...”
- 7 “The Yami Shibai series took horror back to its roots. A simple scary story late in the evening about what goes bump in the night used be considered the height of horror. Now however, the bulk of...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 60%
Long · 40%
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- Format 13 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 52m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2017 – Oct 2017 Summer 2017
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-12832 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer