Shiki

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Synonyms: Corpse Demon
Japanese: 屍鬼
English: Shiki
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Type: TV
Episodes: 22
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 9, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010
Premiered: Summer 2010
Broadcast: Fridays at 01:15 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Daume
Source: Manga
Genres: HorrorHorror, MysteryMystery, SupernaturalSupernatural, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: GoreGore, PsychologicalPsychological, VampireVampire
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 22 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.721 (scored by 266489266,489 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #12462
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #369
Members: 619,675
Favorites: 8,605

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Synopsis

Life is idyllic and unassuming in the small town of Sotoba, a simple place where everyone knows everyone. However, tragedy strikes when Megumi Shimizu, a young girl with high aspirations, unexpectedly passes away from an unnamed illness. Over the torrid summer months, as more unexplained deaths crop up around the village, the town's doctor—Toshio Ozaki—begins to suspect that something more sinister than a mere disease is at play.

Toshio teams up with Natsuno Yuuki, an apathetic and aloof teenager, and siblings Kaori and Akira Tanaka, two of Megumi's friends, to unravel the dark mystery behind the deaths in Sotoba. With their combined efforts, the investigation leads them toward an eerie secret pertaining to the new family in the Kanemasa mansion.

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Early screening on the 27th of June with the regular airing starting on July 9th.

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1: " "Kuchizuke" (くちづけ)" by Buck-Tick (eps 1-11)
2: "Calendula Requiem" by kanon x kanon (eps 12-22)
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Ending Theme

1: "Walk no Yakusoku (walkの約束)" by nangi (eps 1-11)
2: "Gekka Reijin (月下麗人)" by Buck-Tick (eps 12-22)




Reviews

Jan 5, 2025
Wow what a wild ride this ended up being. Never thought it would hit me as hard as it ended up doing after the first couple of episodes. Just didnt feel it at first. Didnt care much for the characters. The art. Plot didnt seem all that interesting. To many annoying tropes. But then the show, characters and the plot just got more and more serious and especially brutal in its execution and reveals. And at the end just found myself feeling sympathy and questioning right and wrong for the different sides whilst also getting a completely different feel for the characters. It gets very ...
Jul 18, 2024
Mixed Feelings
At first, I was quite interested. It's the first time I have ever watched an horror anime.

However, as a lot of reviewers wrote, the story is way too slow. Shiki could have easily have been a 12 episode anime. More than half of the anime is just people dying, we don't get any action or people actually trying to figure out what's happening, which is a huge waste of time.

The characters are written poorly, their motives aren't clear and they don't really have clear traits or personality. Their designs were cool though, the outfits definitely suited the characters and were quite original.

Overall, this ...
Jan 23, 2025
Shiki is one of the rare horror anime to stand out at all, falling under a "revisionist/social commentary" kind of banner; it has a decently creepy atmosphere, imagery, and an adequate plot, though the gravity-defying rainbow hair and bizarre hip-hop-like music makes this an eccentric title. The writing can be fairly condescending with its depiction of ruralites and villagers: there's a cosmopolitan smugness expressed throughout, with the pink-haired girl, who only cares about cute boys in the city and being an idol, being the best representation of the contempt for the countryside. There's not much presented here that would make anyone yearn for a life ...

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