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Shiki

★ 7.6 5K votes 2010–2011 1 season · 24 episodes Ended Fuji TV
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Monster horrorCreatures and slashers, fear made physical.This show: 8/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 8/10Small townA tight community where everyone knows everyone.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Toru OkawaKoki UchiyamaKazuyuki OkitsuWataru TakagiYasuaki TakumiIzumi Sawada
Written by
Ryu FujisakiFuyumi Ono
Starring
Toru OkawaKoki UchiyamaKazuyuki OkitsuWataru TakagiYasuaki TakumiIzumi Sawada
Written by
Ryu FujisakiFuyumi Ono
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03875113150

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About

"A village horror where nobody stays innocent"

In an isolated mountain village, people start dying of a mysterious illness just as a strange new family moves into the abandoned mansion on the hill. A doctor and a despairing young priest start noticing the pattern. What unfolds is less jump-scare horror than a slow, mournful study of a community eating itself alive, morally messy on both sides. The pace is deliberate and talky, the dread cumulative rather than immediate, and it lingers on grief, faith, and rot longer than most horror anime dare.

Watch it for

the way it refuses to let either the victims or the monsters stay simply good or evil.

Maybe skip if

you want fast scares rather than slow, talky dread about death and community collapse.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12010
7.72K249h 25m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1First Blood7.1
14324 min
▶2Second Decay7.1
11824 min
▶3Third Tragedy7.1
11624 min
▶4Fourth Death7.5
10824 min
▶5Fifth Deceit7.4
10224 min
▶6Sixth Skull7.6
10024 min
▶7Seventh Killing Spirit7.6
10024 min
▶8Eighth Night7.5
9424 min
▶9Ninth Coffin8.2
10424 min
▶10Tenth Mourning7.8
9624 min
▶11Eleventh Slaughter7.5
9523 min
▶12Twelfth Decay7.6
9123 min
▶13Thirteenth Tragedy7.7
9023 min
▶14Fourteenth Death8.3
12323 min
▶15Fifteenth Deceit7.5
9223 min
▶16Sixteenth Skull7.7
9023 min
▶17Seventeenth Killing Spirit7.9
9723 min
▶18Eighteenth Death8.2
11823 min
▶19Nineteenth Coffin7.9
9623 min
▶20Twentieth Mourning8.2
9923 min
▶21Twenty-First Slaughter7.9
10224 min
▶22The Final Hunt8.1
10224 min
▶23Twentieth Mourning and Offense8.1
8524 min
▶24Twenty-First Blood and Offense8.0
9323 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Toru Okawa Toshio Ozaki
Koki Uchiyama Natsuno Yuuki
Kazuyuki Okitsu Seishin Muroi
Wataru Takagi Tatsumi
Yasuaki Takumi Mutou, Masaki Tashiro, Tamotsu Mutou
Izumi Sawada Yasuyo Hashiguchi, Shizuko Mutou
Nozomi Sasaki Ritsuko Kunihiro
Haruka Nagashima Kaori Tanaka
Haruka Tomatsu Megumi Shimizu
Hayato Nakata Hasegawa, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Ikebe

Crew

Ryu Fujisaki
Fuyumi Ono

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