Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2nd Season

JadedDragos Oct 7, 2018

8.5

Here is my review for Season 2. I enjoyed watching Season 2, but not as much as the first one. Not a lot of episodes I liked in this one, but a few..... Taro-chan, Inside, Wall Woman, and Capsule Toy Machine were my favorites. Animation once again was great. Showing the 2D animation style of old style story telling is always a plus and is a bit of a relief from standard anime. Music from this season is still creepy and is a good compliment to the stories. Characters are still unsuspecting people and do not need any sort of research other then what is going on at that moment. Overall I think it lacked a little after Season 1, but still had some good episodes and I am looking forward to Season 3.

nothingandnonsense Mar 7, 2021

9.6

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2nd Season ReviewYamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2nd Season is the second season for the series of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories, which each episode tells a different urban legend with supernatural, horror, and thriller in under 5 minutes. StorylineThere is no specific storyline as each episode tells a different urban legend, so there is no actual order to watch these in order. However, of course, it's better to watch these in order either way. CharactersThe characters here (as I found) are more appealing and interesting, and definitely creepier. VisualsSame as the prequel for the series, but of course, never amuses me with the creepy supernatural creatures. SoundmixingDefinitely keeps up with the suspense, good quality. OverallAs I found personally, I found the second season so far to be more appealing to suspense and horror than the first season. The way the visuals present, not knowing if the creeps could be there totally freaks me out. I definitely got a jumpscare or two from here than the first season. I would highly recommend watching this if you love horror, urban legends, thriller, and the supernatural. 

tollie01 Apr 23, 2017

7.5

Right, it's confession time for me. If you have been reading my reviews than you may have noticed that I tend to rip the anime a new one. There is a reason for this though and it has to do with the fact that I can't turn my brain off when watching anime. I can't ignore the stupid shown in the anime and this is a problem as most anime are very stupid indeed. In this case I'm not talking about a 90 pound girl catching a multi-ton cruise missile and throwing it back. Yes, it is stupid but it is a stupid that I'll allow. It's anime. Things like this are normal here and I'm pretty much fine with it. It annoys me to be sure but I will not rant about it. So, having explained this lets rip into this anime shall we? Just a heads up: There will most probably be spoilers. The more I hate an anime the more spoilers there will be. ART: Art is minimalistic, very minimalistic. This has its reasons though and I'll get back to this later. SOUND: Again no complaints from me. Due to the minimalistic artwork there is more dependent on the voice actors and they deliver. Music is good and sets the tone quite nicely but I'm not a fan of the jump scares. CHARACTERS: Main character is the Storyteller. At the start of each story he gives the barest minimum the story needs to set it up and then lets the characters go from there. STORY: ....There is none. The anime consists of 13 short stories so telling about it here is pointless. RANT: First thing to discuss is the art. As I said it is very minimalistic and closest I can come to describe it is that it looks like cartboard cutouts are being moved across the screen. There is actually a good reason for this. The style of story telling is based on Kamishibai. This is a form of Japanese street theatre so using the art as they did is a nice touch. It does take some getting used to but once you do there is nothing wrong with it. As for the stories themselves. They are very short with 4 minutes being the shortest and 5 the longest. It will be impossible to like them all but this is to be expected. Some are shit your pants scary, some are ok, some are meh and some are eh? If you are a fan of Japanese horror then you'll probably like this.