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A few things before I begin. First and foremost, this review is, as are all reviews, only an opinion, so if you feel differently than I do, please do not take what I say personally. Also this review won't be one that's professionally structured in any way, I'm not going to go through each category and label what I liked and disliked about it, so essentially this is just going to be a big wall of text about things I didn't like about this show (not much positivity here), so I apologize in advance for that. I don't typically write reviews but I feel like ... I need to this time around just to express my disappointment.

Yamishibai is an amazing show, specifically the first season. I think it's a gem that every fan of horror should watch. Seasons 2 and 3 less so, but they're still at least fairly enjoyable. This season however was just bad. The first thing I noticed was the change in the narrator, now I could've looked past this eventually, however the narrator is changed constantly, and none of the new narrators came close to being as good as the original. The original narrator started each episode with a sinister, creepy tone of voice, most if not all the narrators in this season failed to do so and in most circumstances, sounded comical. Continuing in my complaints with the narration, for some reason in this season, the narrator would narrate the entire episode instead of just setting the scene like in previous seasons (minus season 3) which prevented the stories from organically telling themselves. The art style in this season was also very poor, whereas in previous seasons it was a paper puppet look with lite animation, this season's was more of a slideshow of rough sketches, especially in the latter half of the season. The stories themselves this time around were also just not scary in the slightest, not even the tiniest bit creepy or unsettling, or even interesting, which obviously in a horror show is the biggest drawback of all, I could forgive everything else if the stories where at least good, but alas they were not. In the end this season made me sad, as the first season of Yamishibai was so incredible, and although seasons 2 and 3 were no where near as good as the first, I couldn't believe how far this show has fallen. I can only hope that season 5 restores some of the magic this show originally contained.