Shiki
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
Tôru ÔkawaKôki UchiyamaKazuyuki OkitsuWataru TakagiYasuaki TakumiIzumi Sawada
Written by
Ryu FujisakiFuyumi Ono
Starring
Tôru ÔkawaKôki UchiyamaKazuyuki OkitsuWataru TakagiYasuaki TakumiIzumi Sawada
Written by
Ryu FujisakiFuyumi Ono
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Shiki Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | ||
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| S1 | 7.7 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 |
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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
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | First Blood | 7.1 | 137 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Second Decay | 7.0 | 112 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Third Tragedy | 7.2 | 110 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Fourth Death | 7.4 | 102 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Fifth Deceit | 7.4 | 97 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Sixth Skull | 7.6 | 96 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Seventh Killing Spirit | 7.6 | 96 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | Eighth Night | 7.5 | 90 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 9 | Ninth Coffin | 8.1 | 100 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 10 | Tenth Mourning | 7.7 | 92 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 11 | Eleventh Slaughter | 7.5 | 91 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 12 | Twelfth Decay | 7.6 | 87 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 13 | Thirteenth Tragedy | 7.7 | 86 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 14 | Fourteenth Death | 8.3 | 118 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 15 | Fifteenth Deceit | 7.5 | 87 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 16 | Sixteenth Skull | 7.7 | 86 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 17 | Seventeenth Killing Spirit | 7.9 | 93 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 18 | Eighteenth Death | 8.2 | 114 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 19 | Nineteenth Coffin | 7.9 | 92 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 20 | Twentieth Mourning | 8.1 | 95 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 21 | Twenty-First Slaughter | 7.9 | 98 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 22 | The Final Hunt | 8.1 | 98 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 23 | Twentieth Mourning and Offense | 8.0 | 83 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 24 | Twenty-First Blood and Offense | 8.0 | 90 | 23 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Tôru Ôkawa Toshio Ozaki
Kôki 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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