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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- A man talking to a creepy stranger in the dark... Well I suppose this series tried even with that creepy shadow thing and scream at the end. Construction workers in this series are just weird. |
Stark700Mar 26, 2017 1:44 PM
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| I hope they don't make any more of this, it stopped being decent after the first season. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| That was the first good episode since s2! Yeah, kill this turkey already. |
| Spooky cave and shadow |
| Boo this season sucked it didn't even do what the previous season did which was give us an origin episode. No more yami shibai ever unless there going to put in some actual effort what a waste of time. This season only 2 good episodes and only 1 of them felt like a season 1 episode. If they do announce another season I won't watch it until it's already over. |
| The only good episode of this season from what I remember because it scared me a bit it was that one where someone found a dead cat and burried it, but a soul of a woman appeared along with the cat at night in the bed of the poor man. This one was ok. |
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| Eh, better than season 3, but that one had a genuinely great last episode. |
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| nice terror story to end this season!!! be careful in the undergroun stundents!!!!! |
| I think this season was better than the last season in terms of stories, in season 3 all the tales were really stupid (because they were made by a kid, but, anyway). I liked the different narrators 'cause it gives a feeling of urban legend being passed throught different people, maybe they should put really different types of voices. The art style bothered me. It was so cool in the last seasons, now it was too cartoon-ish I guess :S But, I do agree that it is time to let it die, pls xD |
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| Soooo.. what was the point in this season now? I don't think we've learned anything or expanded at all on the lore in the show. This episode honestly wasn't that bad when compared to what else this season had to offer but still what a let down. Spook Level: Disappointing spooks. |
| My signature is lame... |
| this episode was basically about me when i come and go, take and leave. |
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| It's not that the stories are crap. It's how these stories are told. No, there's no future for Yami Shibai. But it'll be reborn as different series of this genre... Wonder if it'll be any better. |
| Best episode this season |
| Trying to watch all available anime series so you won't have to anymore, the list of anime I can recommend is still in progress, tho |
| Okay episode however the season was the worst of Yami shibai imo. Everything was terribly done, story telling, the change of art to a more cheesy one which kills the mystique and dark vibe of the scary stories, and overall a clear decrease of good urban legend ideas. |
| Don't go down strange paths or you'l be trapped in it. 6/10 okay to watch but not memorable. |
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| Aw man, I was really disappointed that Kanji Tsuda didn't return for this episode. His voice as The Storyteller in the past three seasons were always my favorite part of the series, and I suspected that this focus on the different storytellers themselves would've concluded with his return. I guess instead since they kinda developed the lore and backstory around his character in the last season, they figured they needed to branch away from him which is a shame. I think he may have been able to make the narration heavy part more tolerable. I don't know, this may have been even worse than season 3. Both seasons themes actively detracted from the series attempts at being creepy and/or scary. In season 3 the focus on monsters meant they had to design monsters and the series aesthetic never allowed any of them to be actually scary. Never once did the monster reveal worked as intended, the best it could hope for was to be a successful punchline. I think some of them did make me chuckle, but most failed to accomplish even that. In this season, the constant theme on the narrator instantly detached me from the story, a great voice can provide a sense of atmosphere but almost nobody here really had an unsettling voice to work with that (one of the thirteen did, don't remember which one but the guy's voice was deep enough to somewhat help) and even so, they were way too overbearing to make things actually feel threatening. Season 3 did more frequently properly built up tension to the stories conclusion than this series did, they never capitalized off that tension granted but I think I prefer a that to just never being able to build up the tension itself. Season 3's final episode, while not fantastic or anything, was at least an interesting way to conclude the series. Season 2 at it's best was slightly not dull. And it's changes to the series format weren't well utilized. I don't think anyone in here was a fan of the narration but the live-action segments were poorly implemented for the most part too. To be fair, that's not to say they never worked, I recall liking them in the first episode and there was some stylistic choices I liked, like giving the girl a generic anime girl face but overall I don't think they helped as much as intended. 2/10. Literally every season has gone down one point for me since the first. If they do a sixth season MAL will have to create a new rating for me to properly rate it. I've said this before, if they do a fifth season Yami Shibai's such a quick watch I'll probably see it anyway but I hope this is it for the franchise. If it's not, I can at least safely say it'll be bad in a different manner if the pattern holds. |
| Damn what a disappointment this season was. It was even worse than the second season which offered little to nothing in terms of horror or story development. First season was all about the horror and the third gave us plot and the second was a little of both, but this season gave nothing. I montaged this hoping for something unique to happen this last episode but we got nothing besides the same boring, plotless episodes. I'm surprised this show is making enough money to even justify a fourth season since the third season would have been a good spot to end it at. The only real highlight of this season was their flexibility with different art styles I thought it was a nice change of pace. And the girls were pretty cute omfuodsufjiofmdsfdkfdfsl. 2/10 |
   I envy your delusion; I wish I could live in it  |
| Well definitely not as appeasing as the previous seasons but it was bearable. It's nice to hear different narrators but I still still prefer the old creepy one. The show certainly needs improvement with the whole scare situation as it feels toned down. |
| Booooooooooooooooooooo Get the bricks! So far it's not looking good for Sekai no Yami Zukan, which is pretty much season 5 of this. I haven't started yet but I'm not looking forward to it. |
| Can't wait for season 5! |
| Average ending of this rather average fourth season, the previous season was a lot more intenser! Either way a nice addition though. |
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| Well... That ending was a little mediocre. Having read Uzumaki already, it's just like one of Junji's works :P They should've had an ending like the last season but at least the original Narrator spoke for the last episode. |
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| Sigh yet another disappointing season of Yami Shibai.. there were a few decently creepy episodes in this season, however the aesthetic doesn't keep up anymore.. the live action scenes were terrible, except for the one in the dental clinic, the ED was too cutesy, the art doesn't match anymore.. worst of all was the story.. it's just some random terribly unlucky encounter that got those victims in trouble, there's no set-up, no reasoning, they just fucked up lucked out. |
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| season 5... please.. |
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| awful storytelling, not scary, not creepy, not interesting, horrible visuals(absolutely atrocious actually) especially real life faces. Narration was really bad, sound is bad. I couldnt find any reasons for this anime to be higher than a 1, and its the worst anime i've seen as well. |
| Episode was bad. Made no sense, as always. --- After finishing this episode, I had to think about what I actually thought about this season. It was such a weird, erratic season that couldn't decide how it wanted to write it's stories. There were decent episodes, barely any GOOD episodes, and far too many boring episodes. At first I thought this was similar to season 2. But... I realized... THIS SEASON WAS EVEN WORSE THE SEASON 2. At LEAST season 2 had ENDINGS. Same could be said of season 3 (still think 3 was the worst one though). This season? They made the decision to leave the episodes off on CLIFFHANGERS. They don't have ENDINGS. It leaves MORE questions than answers! Yes, I know, "fear comes from the unknown", but this does NOT apply here. We are dangled an ending and scare in our faces, and then the episode just... ends. No conclusion. No knowledge of what happened to the victim. Like... WHAT?!?!?!? I'll do a more in depth review... But those are my thoughts on this season. 4/10 Garbage season once again. |
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| The ghost old man did warn him that "it only gets dark at first"! Poor guy to be stuck like that in the underground station- Or was it even a station from the start? My favorites were the bus incident, the cassette that was so bizarre, the husband who went shopping with the wife and the girl who went out with her basketball senpai ace. The others weren't bad though. Overall it was certainly better than season 3, but they should've excluded the narration on the full episodes. Did they have to narrate the entire series? Those live inserts were funny though and were not scary. 7/10, I enjoyed it. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Some interesting stories again in this season. I hope they cut back on the narration in the future. It was killing the atmosphere in some of the episodes. |
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| Well, it was an okay finale, but nothing amazing, though. Yet another weak season. That narrator partially ruined this. He also made me to pause the video all the time because I simply didn't have time to read the subs because he talked at the same time with the characters, which was very annoying. The stories were also mostly too random and lame. |
SerafosJan 13, 2024 5:48 AM
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| Okayish at best. Honestly, this was the weakest season yet. Honestly, the narration was one of the biggest turn-offs 3/10 |
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| I didn't like this season, will I watch the other 7 that are ahead? absolutely I will. |
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| Not a bad last episode, it definitely had a good atmosphere and the twist that the weird construction guy was actually trying to help was good, but honestly can’t blame the guy for not listening because nine times out of ten going down the scarier path is a bad idea lol. I liked this season, although it is my least favorite so far. My biggest complaint is probably the same as others in the fact there’s too much narration, it kinda took some of the spook away but it did also kinda recreate the feeling of actually listening to a scary story which was pretty cool. Another cool unique aspect of this season that I liked was the live action bits, I feel like they could have done more with them but I did think they were fun. And lastly, while this is my least favorite season I do appreciate that it kinda tried to do what Seasons 1 and 2 did and be more creepy and unsettling versus Season 3 which was more about monsters, there were quite a bit of stories I really liked in this one like Sewing Shears, Night Bus, Guess Who, Cassette Tape, Calling Crane and Snow Hut, so when I look back there were a lot of good ones here. And the ED, while unfitting, I found it to be a nice contrast to the episodes and a very good song. |
TheColonel76Jul 25, 2023 6:34 AM
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