Completed
“Third season of kamishibai-style horror shorts: a boy sketches nightmares, telling eerie tales of curses, secrets, and silent museums.”
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 3
闇芝居 3期
6.34
8,718 rank · 40,679 viewers · 48 favorites
Avant Garde
Horror
Supernatural
Watch on
Crunchyroll
Would You Love or Hate This?
AI-powered analysis tailored to your taste
Based on your preference for character-driven stories with layered emotional arcs, this title's exploration of identity and belonging would deeply resonate. The pacing mirrors series you've rated highly, and its thematic depth aligns with your appreciation for nuanced storytelling...
However, the slow initial episodes might test your patience given your history of dropping shows that don't hook you early. The art style shift in the middle arc could also be a concern...
Personalized to you
Honest pros & cons
Based on your library
Synopsis
Third season of kamishibai-style horror shorts: a boy sketches nightmares, telling eerie tales of curses, secrets, and silent museums.
A young boy silently sketches out the forms of the horrors that dwell in his mind. During this adventure into the occult and mysterious, he tells tales that involve dreams of a person with a muscular arm that you must not look at, a hospital with a room that holds a grim secret, and a visit to an eerily silent taxidermy museum. These tales and more are compiled in Yami Shibai 3. Presented in an art style similar to kamishibai storytelling, this horror series stays true to the gruesome and creepy trend that is prominent in Yami Shibai and Yami Shibai 2nd Season.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
6.1
/10
What 11 viewers settled on.
60%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 6
σ 1.44
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.44 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.2 pts
Recommenders 7.7 · others 3.5
Yes
No
Score over time
↑ 0.09
Running avg · Mar 2016 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “In my opinion, by far the best of all seasons. While the first focused mostly on ghosts and the second on disappointing the viewers, the third season focuses on the horror of inescapable...”
- 8 “Horror is pretty rare in anime, which is a shame especially for fans like me who love the thrill of a genuinely scary story. Not many shows or movies actually deliver that spine-tingling feeling,...”
- 7 “Rate a 7 English Subtitled Plot Introductory was a nice change of pace. First and second involved the same cast but only the scenery had changed. Here i am sure you can put two and two together to...”
Verbosity
Short · 9%
Medium · 82%
Long · 9%
Watch Order & Related
Explore the Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 3 universe
Cast
See all →Trailers & videos
See all →Gallery
See all →If you stay for this, you'll stay for these
See all →The community pairs this with
See all →Made by
See all credits →Production slate
- Format 13 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 52m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2016 – Apr 2016 Winter 2016
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-10831 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer