“Masked storyteller returns with more Japanese horror tales in kamishibai style, featuring cursed objects and terrifying legends.”
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai 2
闇芝居 2期
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Synopsis
Masked storyteller returns with more Japanese horror tales in kamishibai style, featuring cursed objects and terrifying legends.
For the second time, the masked storyteller returns to tell children tales and legends of horror and woe, such as the tale of a ventriloquist's dummy, a locker that grants wishes, a capsule toy machine that returns lost possessions, and a strange food called Ominie-san. Building on the foundation that was laid by the first, Yami Shibai 2 is a collection of Japanese scary stories of the unknown and the occult that are truly terrifying, narrated in a style of art that mimics kamishibai storytelling.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 10 sampled reviews
What 10 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.28 · some divergence
4.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.0
↑ 0.50
Running avg · Aug 2016 → Aug 2025
- 8 “Yamishibai actually delivers real fear through unsettling atmosphere, hard-hitting jump scares, and creepy music that pulls you deeper into each short story, backed by top-notch voice acting where...”
- 7 “The art remained visually interesting and quite beautiful, effectively adding to the creep factor, and some episodes still managed to deliver genuine scares. However, the stories lacked the...”
- 5 “While the writing quality has improved enough to make even weaker episodes interesting rather than boring, and certain installments like episode 7 deliver genuinely effective horror, season two...”
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- Format 13 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 52m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2014 – Sep 2014 Summer 2014
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-8672 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor