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The Best Episodes of Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai

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The Best Episodes of Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

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  1. 8.0/10(7 votes)

    #1 - String Lottery

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    S13:E11

    This is the story of a child who took a detour on his way home from school...

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  2. 7.7/10(31 votes)

    #2 - Echoes

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    S6:E13

    Two young women, Eriko and Shiho, are climbing a mountain. Shiho is having a great time hearing her own voice echo in the mountains, but Eriko just wants to enjoy the view in peace. Then a man's voice breaks through the still air, and the echoes Eriko and Shiho hear suddenly bring a sense of fear...

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  3. 7.6/10(43 votes)

    #3 - The Fourth Man

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    S3:E9

    Two high school students run into the handshake men.

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  4. 7.6/10(35 votes)

    #4 - Flower Reading

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    S5:E10

    The story of a company employee waiting at a bus stop. On a rainy night, a young girl with an ethereal feel about her begins the child's game of flower reading with a bloom held in her small hand. Is she a dream, or an illusion? Her readings toy with his mind more and more. As he watches the petals fall, the man learns of his own fate...

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  5. 7.5/10(44 votes)

    #5 - Drawings

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    S3:E13

    A teacher notices a boy drawing pictures of people who end up missing.

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  6. 7.5/10(38 votes)

    #6 - Hide-and-Seek

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    S5:E7

    The story of a family visiting the countryside. The grandma tells her grandson Takeshi that he must not go near the house with the mountain behind it. But Takeshi, during a game of hide-and-seek with his cousins, disobeys his grandma and enters the forbidden house. From there, Takeshi is led into a world of darkness...

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  8. 7.4/10(78 votes)

    #7 - The Next Floor

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    S1:E5

    This is the story of a particular family that went shopping for their young son's birthday present at a department store...

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  9. 7.4/10(69 votes)

    #8 - Contradiction

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    S1:E7

    This story begins with a phone call that was received at a particular young woman's home, in the middle of the night...

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  10. 7.4/10(28 votes)

    #9 - Death Day

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    S8:E2

    This is the tale of a certain family's tradition...

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  11. 7.3/10(64 votes)

    #10 - Tomonari-kun

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    S1:E12

    This is the story of a high school girl and some young boys who lived in a particular housing complex...

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  12. 7.3/10(35 votes)

    #11 - Sakura

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    S6:E6

    Shouta has been admitted to a hospital in the countryside after a car accident. He finds himself regularly conversing through the wall with two children in the room next to his. Eventually these conversations leave Shouta with a sense of fear...

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  13. 7.3/10(34 votes)

    #12 - Trees of Innocence

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    S6:E10

    Twin boys, Takashi and Satoshi, are playing in a forest. The energetic Takashi talks the shy Satoshi into climbing a large tree, but as they do, Satoshi recalls something that had vanished from his memory...

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  14. 7.3/10(25 votes)

    #13 - Public Phone

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    S7:E7

    Chie suddenly gets a call from her younger sister during work asking for her help. She heads toward the phone booth that her sister directed her to, but an unusual sight awaits her... What could have happened to Chie's sister?

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  15. 7.3/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Totem

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    S12:E12

    This is the story of a high school student encountering a string of bad luck...

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  16. 7.2/10(63 votes)

    #15 - The Umbrella Goddess

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    S1:E8

    This is the story of a particular boy who went to visit his friend, who had just moved out to the country...

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  17. 7.2/10(63 votes)

    #16 - Video

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    S1:E11

    This is a story that three middle school students experienced on the last day of summer vacation...

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  18. 7.2/10(65 votes)

    #17 - Tormentor

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    S1:E13

    This is the story of a particular group of boys attending an elementary school in the country...

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  19. 7.2/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Night Bus

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    S4:E5

    A group of college students sets off on a night bus to go on vacation. On the way, one of them develops a stomachache and asks the driver to stop at a service area along the highway. But when he returns from the bathroom, the atmosphere inside the bus is very different..

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  20. 7.2/10(35 votes)

    #19 - Calling Crane

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    S4:E10

    Some middle school girls are staying over at a classmate's house. At school that day, the girls had agreed to perform a ritual at the sleepover that they believe will let them speak to the dead.

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  21. 7.2/10(34 votes)

    #20 - Swamp Offering

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    S6:E4

    Haruko moves to a village in the countryside to live with her new husband's family, On the way, he tells her about a custom in the village that requires its residents to toss their most prized possessions into a swamp. Shortly after they arrive at his family's home, Haruko is forced to join in this ritual with the rest of the villagers...

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  22. 7.2/10(26 votes)

    #21 - Delivery

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    S7:E1

    Katagiri is housesitting for his friend, who's traveling and needs someone to be there to accept an important package he's expecting. The delivery finally arrives late that evening, but his friend says he's expecting another package the next day and asks him to stay one more night. Katagiri begins to wonder what is in these packages that's so important...

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  23. 7.1/10(83 votes)

    #22 - Zanbai

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    S1:E2

    This is the story of a man who went to a particular village in the country on a business trip...

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  24. 7.1/10(36 votes)

    #23 - Underground Walkway

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    S4:E13

    A college student is caught in a sudden rainfall on the way home from a night out drinking. He attempts to take shelter until the rain stops, but discovers an underground path to the train station and heads down it.

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  25. 7.1/10(39 votes)

    #24 - Copycat

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    S5:E4

    The story of two girls who have been together in all things since they were children. Yukari has always been the type who wanted to do everything her best friend Haru did. It's unclear whether she acts out of envy, love, or madness, but her feelings become a darkness that leads to a tragic fate...

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  26. 7.1/10(30 votes)

    #25 - Waterfall Drop

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    S6:E12

    Yurika is traveling with her friends from college. The group finds themselves at a waterfall deep in a forest that wasn't mentioned in their guidebook, and they hear what sounds like objects falling over the roar of the water...

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Best Episodes Summary

"String Lottery" is the best rated episode of "Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai". It scored 8/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/23/2024. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Echoes".