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Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Anime Gets 10th Season in January
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories television anime will get a 10th season that will premiere in January.
Animators include: Rin Kaname, jimmy, Kōichi Sugaya, Hiiragi Watanabe, Momoka Higure, and Fūgetsu.
The original Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories series of anime shorts featured six-minute horror stories based on urban legends in a modern day setting. The shorts draw inspiration from Shōwa-era illustrated paper theater (kamishibai) productions.
The anime's first season premiered in July 2013, and the ninth and most recent season streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
A live-action series streamed the series. The production does not use regular video footage, but instead composites still photos of landscape paintings with photos of the cast, in the style of the original anime. The live-action episodes feature both remakes of popular stories from the anime, and its own original stories. The cast includes idols and actors from "2.5D stage plays."
Source: Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories ninth season's website
