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* ArtShift: In season 4, each episodes will have close-up shots in live-action, usually on a small object or a note.
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* ArtShift: Season 3 features bouncier and more fluid animation, and slightly more visceral styles for monsters. In season 4, each episodes will have close-up shots in live-action, usually on a small object or a note.note. In season 5, the art takes on more of a stylized from resembling watercolor or illustration, and some of the episodes feature film grain effects.
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** The little girl in "Give It To Me" starts out normal enough, but she gets increasingly creepy as the episode progresses. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven when she suddenly appears in the protagonists car...]]
* CreepyCrows: "The Crow Children". [[spoiler: They're not actually crows...]]
* CreepyCrows: "The Crow Children". [[spoiler: They're not actually crows...]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The main character from "Copycat" is actually a ghost, which leads to her copycat friend committing suicide.]]
* EvilPhone: "Giveback-Sama" revolves around a phone number you can call and ask a mysterious entity for a favor. However, you have to call the number again the next day and say thanks, otherwise it will have deadly consequences. Moreso, you can only make the call one minute before midnight.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The main character of "Tongue" is haunted for giving a dead cat a proper burial.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The main character of "Tongue" is haunted for giving a dead cat a proper burial. [[spoiler: The ghost is angry that he didnt find ''her'' body!]]
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** The later seasons basically all have the moral of "Dont do anything or go anywhere, because you got a good chance of being brutally murdered by ghosts or yokai]]
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** The later seasons basically all have the moral of "Dont do anything or go anywhere, because you got a good chance of being brutally murdered by ghosts or yokai]]yokai".
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** [[spoiler: Nayakama/Honoko]] in "Calling Crane.
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** [[spoiler: Nayakama/Honoko]] Nakayama/Honoka]] in "Calling Crane.
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--> ''Step right up and have a look, it's time for Yami Shibai...''
** Once again in Season 4, to the point that some episodes look more like mainstream anime aside from the stop motion.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The man in "The Next Floor" wanted to be left alone... So he's left alone in the closed-down, haunted mall at night.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The man in "The Next Floor" wanted to be left alone... So he's left alone in the closed-down, haunted mall at night.night (or possibly forever...).
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* CreepilyLongArms: [[spoiler: Whatever is inside the aquarium in "Fish Tank"]]
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* EvolvingCredits: In Season 3, a new singing mask was added to the credits every episode, until 13 of them appeared around the drawing boy.
* FailingATaxi: "Red High Heel" starts with a salary man who's been working late finding it impossible to catch a cab home, and starts to walk home. Once a free taxi picks him up on an empty suburban road, he quickly wishes it hadnt...
* FailingATaxi: "Red High Heel" starts with a salary man who's been working late finding it impossible to catch a cab home, and starts to walk home. Once a free taxi picks him up on an empty suburban road, he quickly wishes it hadnt...
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* MoodWhiplash: All the series have a far more energetic and positive soundtrack in the credits than in the intro or in the episodes themselves. Season 4 is especially upbeat.
** In-universe, we have "The Umbrella Godess". The sun is rising, the mood is cheerful [[spoiler: and the boy doesnt notice the Godess waiting right outside the door]]
** In-universe, we have "The Umbrella Godess". The sun is rising, the mood is cheerful [[spoiler: and the boy doesnt notice the Godess waiting right outside the door]]
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** The main character in "Cassette Tape" returns to his parents home and finds one of the old tapes he used to record audio diaries as a child. They start out normal, but the entries go on longer than he remembers doing the diaries, and become increasingly nonsensical and surreal. Eventually, it reaches his teen and adult years, long after he moved out of his parents home, and finally reaches ''the day he arrived back''. He understandably freaks out and pulls off the headphones [[spoiler: which he only now notices are not plugged in]].
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* LossOfIdentity: Seems to be the MindScrew ending of "Guess Who?".
* MissedTheBus: The main characer of "Night Bus" gets back on what he ''thinks'' is his bus at a rest stop...
* MissedTheBus: The main characer of "Night Bus" gets back on what he ''thinks'' is his bus at a rest stop...
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* OffWithHisHead: Whatever is haunting the apartment in "Sewing Shears", as the top half of his head is missing.
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** The later seasons basically all have the moral of "Dont do anything or go anywhere, because you got a good chance of being brutally murdered by ghosts or yokai]]
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* TheToothHurts: "Grinding Teeth"
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* CatsAreMean: In "Tongue" a man is seemingly haunted by the ghost of a cat for the sole crime of burying it after it had been hit by a car. [[spoiler: Except it's not the CATS ghost, it's the ghost of a woman who's body he DIDNT find]]
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: When even apparently normal human characters have these eyes, watch out...
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* CreepyMonotone:
** The old man telling the stories tends to always speak like this.
** The speaking voice of the Umbrella Goddess.
** The nurse in "The Noisy Hospital Room".
* CreepyMonotone:
** The old man telling the stories tends to always speak like this.
** The speaking voice of the Umbrella Goddess.
** The nurse in "The Noisy Hospital Room".
* CreepyMonotone:
** The old man telling the stories tends to always speak like this.
** The speaking voice of the Umbrella Goddess.
** The nurse in "The Noisy Hospital Room".
** The old man telling the stories tends to always speak like this.
** The speaking voice of the Umbrella Goddess.
** The nurse in "The Noisy Hospital Room".
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The four demonic laughing doctors in "The Noisy Hospital Room", who's faces are basically just giant, grinning mouths.
** "The Handshake Man"
* NightmareFace: Plenty of them!
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* NightmareFace: Plenty of them!
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The four demonic laughing doctors in "The Noisy Hospital Room", who's faces are basically just giant, grinning mouths.
** "The Handshake Man"
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The four demonic laughing doctors in "The Noisy Hospital Room", who's faces are basically just giant, grinning mouths.
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* WhamEpisode: The season 3 finale, which reveals that the boy from the intro is really [[spoiler: the old masked man from season 1 and 2.]]
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* ArtifactTitle: In season 3, the original intro with the paper theater and the old man is replaced with a child drawing in a sketchbook on the playground, so the pun about "Kamishibai" no longer makes sense.
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* ArtifactTitle: In season 3, the original intro with the paper theater and the old man is replaced with a child drawing in a sketchbook on the playground, so the pun about "Kamishibai" no longer makes sense. [[spoiler: Then the season 3 finale reveals that the boy was the old man all along]]
** Asako from "That Side Festival" wanted to stay at the festival forever...
* BodyHorror: Satomi from "Merry Go Round" is [[spoiler: turned into a twisted merry go round horse, and is still alive]]
* BodyHorror: Satomi from "Merry Go Round" is [[spoiler: turned into a twisted merry go round horse, and is still alive]]
** Not a GHOST per se, but the long, stringy hair appears again in "In The Water", this time belonging to [[spoiler: a monstrous fish woman]]
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* WhamEpisode: The season 3 finale, which reveals that the boy from the intro is really [[spoiler: the old masked man from season 1 and 2.]]
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* AnimationBump: Season 3 has notably better drawn character models, though still with the iconic stop motion animation.
* ArtifactTitle: In season 3, the original intro with the paper theater and the old man is replaced with a child drawing in a sketchbook on the playground, so the pun about "Kamishibai" no longer makes sense.
* ArtifactTitle: In season 3, the original intro with the paper theater and the old man is replaced with a child drawing in a sketchbook on the playground, so the pun about "Kamishibai" no longer makes sense.
** The nurse in "The Noisy Hospital Room".
* CreepyChild: The boy in the season 3 intro.
** "Tunnel" seems like its going in this direction at first. [[NightmareFuel The actual twist is even worse]].
* CreepyChild: The boy in the season 3 intro.
** "Tunnel" seems like its going in this direction at first. [[NightmareFuel The actual twist is even worse]].
** "The Empress Doll"
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The four demonic laughing doctors in "The Noisy Hospital Room", who's faces are basically just giant, grinning mouths.
** "The Handshake Man"
* RapidAging: One of the stories in season 2 involves a young man who turns into an oldman.man while using a cursed toy dispenser.
** "The Handshake Man"
* RapidAging: One of the stories in season 2 involves a young man who turns into an old
* TaxidermyIsCreepy: "Museum Of Taxidermy". It's especially creepy when [[spoiler: The animal exhibits kill the visitors and staff and turn them into exhibits]]
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* YouDirtyRat: The wife in "Rat" is scared of the rats living in the couples new apartment. [[BodyHorror She was right to be scared]].
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Cursed Tape doesn\'t exist, but there\'s this.
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Everybody loves a good horror story, don't they? [[NightmareFuel Well, maybe they got a little more than they wished for in this...]]
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Everybody loves a good horror story, don't they? ''don't they''? [[NightmareFuel Well, maybe they got a little more than they wished for in this...]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The man in "The Next Floor" wanted to be left alone... so So he's left alone in the closed-down, haunted mall.
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* CreepyDoll: The Matrushka doll from "Inside" and the doll in the train locker from "Locker".
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* CreepyDoll: The Matrushka doll from "Inside" and also the doll in inside the train locker from "Locker"."Locker".
* CursedTape: Three boys decided to play it. It doesn't end well for them.
* DemBones: The creepy skeletons that appear when a character [[spoiler: lies about writing a story he found on a train and they drag him down to Hell.]]
* CursedTape: Three boys decided to play it. It doesn't end well for them.
* DemBones: The creepy skeletons that appear when a character [[spoiler: lies about writing a story he found on a train and they drag him down to Hell.]]
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* {{Hellevator}}: "The Next Floor". It takes the protagonist to floor [[FourIsDeath B4]], which is a totally dark floor that all the patrons minus him walk into as if in a trance. Then it goes to [[ThirteenIsUnlucky B13]], this one lit with a RedFilterOfDoom, and a bloodied man tries to drag himself into the elevator, but the doors close in time.
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* {{Hellevator}}: "The Next Floor". It takes the protagonist to floor [[FourIsDeath B4]], which is a totally dark floor that all the patrons minus him (minus him) walk into as if in a trance. Then it goes to [[ThirteenIsUnlucky B13]], this one lit with a RedFilterOfDoom, and a bloodied man tries to drag himself into the elevator, but the doors close in time.time.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Quite often.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Quite often.
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* NothingIsScarier: Most of the time, we never really get an explanation for the weird stuff that happens. Hell, most of the stories dont even show what happens to the characters after TheReveal.
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* NothingIsScarier: Most of the time, we never really get an explanation for the weird stuff that happens. Hell, most of the stories dont don't even show ''show'' what happens to the main characters after TheReveal.TheReveal!
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* SpaceWhaleAesop: "The Next Floor" - don't think bad things about your family, because some supernatural being is gonna take you on a trip down to hell and then leave you alone in a closed mall.
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* SpaceWhaleAesop: "The Next Floor" - don't ever think bad things about your family, because some supernatural being is gonna take you on a trip down to hell and then leave you alone in a closed mall.mall for the rest of eternity.
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* RapidAging: One of the stories in season 2 involves a young man who turns into an old man.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The man in "The Next Floor" wanted to be left alone... so he's left in the closed-down, hunted mall.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The man in "The Next Floor" wanted to be left alone... so he's left in the closed-down, hunted haunted mall.
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* SpaceWhaleAesop: "The Next Floor" - don't think bad things about your family, because some supernatural being is gonna take you on a trip down to hell and then leave you alone in a closed mall.
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* GenreAnthology: The episodes are all independent from each other, with no revisited characters or horrors.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The man in "The Next Floor" wanted to be left alone... so he's left in the closed-down, hunted mall.
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* {{Hellevator}}: "The Next Floor". It takes the protagonist to floor [[FourIsDeath B4]], which is a totally dark floor that all the patrons minus him walk into as if in a trance. Then it goes to [[ThirteenIsUnlucky B13]], this one lit with a RedFilterOfDoom, and a bloodied man tries to drag himself into the elevator, but the doors close in time.
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* DemonicPossession: "Tormentor", "Contradiction, possibly "Inside"
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* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren't {{Humanoid Abomination}}s or {{Animalistic Abomination}}s.
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* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren't {{Humanoid Abomination}}s or {{Animalistic Abomination}}s.Abomination}}s).
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Whatever entities possesses entity's possessing the doll in "Inside".
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* GhostStories: A no-brainer, although in some cases it seems to play with the usual expectations.
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* GhostStories: GhostStory: A no-brainer, although in some cases it seems to play with the usual expectations.
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* GhostStories: A no brainer, no-brainer, although in some cases it seems to play with the usual expectations.
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* CreepyDoll: The Matrushka doll from "Inside" and the doll in the train locker from "Locker".
* DemonicDummy: The ventriloquist dummy from Taro-chan.
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* NoEnding: The stories that dont have downright Downer Endings just sort of...stop.
* NightmareFace: Plenty.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Whatever entities posseses the doll in "Inside".
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A rather peculiar animated series from Japan, YamiShibai (also known as Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories or Theater of Darkness) is a compendium of short horror stories based off japanese folklore and urban legends, as told by an old man to the kids in a playground, through the paper theater (or "kamishibai").
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A rather peculiar animated series from Japan, YamiShibai ''Anime/YamiShibai'' (also known as Yamishibai: ''Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories or Theater of Darkness) Darkness'') is a compendium of short horror stories based off japanese Japanese folklore and urban legends, as told by an old man to the kids in a playground, through the paper theater (or "kamishibai").
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Nothing Is Scarier misuse.
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* DownerEnding: For the most part, the stories told by the old man seem to be lack anything resembling a Main/HappyEnding.HappyEnding.
* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren'tMain/HumanoidAbominations {{Humanoid Abomination}}s or Main/AnimalisticAbominations){{Animalistic Abomination}}s.
* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren't
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* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren't
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A rather peculiar animated series from Japan, YamiShibai (also known as Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories or Theater of Darkness) is a compendium of short horror stories based off japanese folklore and urban legends, as told by an old man to the kids in a playground, through the paper theater (or "kamishibai").
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* DownerEnding: For the most part, the stories told by the old man seem to be lack anything resembling a HappyEnding.
* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren't HumanoidAbominations or AnimalisticAbominations)
* GhostStories: A no brainer, although in some cases it seems to play with the usual expectations.
* NothingIsScaries: NONE of the stories get an explanation, at all. If anything, that just [[NightmareFuel adds to the atmosphere...]]
A rather peculiar animated series from Japan, YamiShibai (also known as Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories or Theater of Darkness) is a compendium of short horror stories based off japanese folklore and urban legends, as told by an old man to the kids in a playground, through the paper theater (or "kamishibai").
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* CreepyMonotone: The old man telling the stories tends to speak like this.
* DownerEnding: For the most part, the stories told by the old man seem to be lack anything resembling a HappyEnding.
* EldritchAbomination: More than a few of the... things that appear in the show (read: those that aren't HumanoidAbominations or AnimalisticAbominations)
* GhostStories: A no brainer, although in some cases it seems to play with the usual expectations.
* NothingIsScaries: NONE of the stories get an explanation, at all. If anything, that just [[NightmareFuel adds to the atmosphere...]]
