[Picture-story] Yami Shibi

Yami Shibi

If you don’t have too much of time but want to feel the phantom. You should to watch this Japanese cartoon which contains many very famous ghost stories with only 4 minutes per phantom.

[Picture & Information credit: http://myanimelist.net/anime/19383/Yami_Shibai]

Other name: Yamishibai; Japanese Ghost Stories; Theater of Darkness; 闇芝居

      Episodes: season 1 have 12 episodes and season 2 have 4 episodes now.

               Status: season 1 is Finished Airing and season 2 is on airing.

   Producers: TV Tokyo, Ilca

                                           Genres: Horror, Supernatural

                                           Duration: 4 min. per episode

                                                    Rating: G - All Age

Come on! Let’s see. It’s time for Yamishibai….

Every week at 5 p.m. an old man with his bicycle shows up at a children's playground and  tells them ghost stories  based on myths and urban legends]of Japanese origin by using a traditional kamishibai method.

Even if the stories are scare you but they still teaches you too. For example… ..

Season 2; Episode 1; "Taro-chan"

A police officer named Hatanaka decides to teach others about road safety by doing his ventriloquism act with a doll named "Taro-chan" at a public meeting.

     The act begins smoothly enough until Hatanaka briefly panics when the doll's head gets stuckand a talisman falls out of it. Afterwards "Taro-chan" convulses and seemingly gains aconsciousness of its own and explains experiencing a bicycle accident much to Hatanaka's horror.

 As Hatanaka desperately struggles to remove his hand from "Taro-chan", the crowd believes it all to be a part of the act. However Hatanaka manages to throw "Taro-chan" down stage where it says that the accident "hurt".

I think this story teaches us to don’t drive too fast. And I think the ghost want to scare no one, he only wanted to warning people to be careful because he didn’t want anyone to be like himself.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Useful hint:

“Yamishibai is a traditional storytelling technique inspired by the artistic usage of paper figures and scrolls. It’s a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.