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Looking for a horror series, I found a new one called Yami Shibai. Each
episode is a very short horror ghost story.

I feel like many of the stories in this series are too incomplete, as in,
lacking any story/development - it almost seems as if the producer is just
making up some random nonsensical stuff in an attempt you scare you off.

But maybe the stories presented do have a background story - like a reference
to a well-known ghost story or something.

Some of the stories presented do seem to be somewhat self-contained. For
instance, the third episode, "Family Rule", does explain the situation (the
adults are offering their own laughter to please an evil spirit), but other
stories don't explain what's going on (for instance, the photocopier episode -
there's just this ghost haunting a photocopier, but we don't know why, or what
for, etc).

Are the Yami Shibai horror stories based on something, or are they just made
up for this series?

They might be well-known Japanese stories, but I don't know much about
japanese culture so I'm not sure.

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Do the Yami Shibai horror stories have any background/reference?


ANN writes the following:

> A series of short horror stories **based around Japanese myths and urban
> legends**. The series is framed around an old man telling these tales to
> schoolchildren on a playground using kamishibai, a traditional Japanese
> storytelling method using paper scrolls.

The same goes for summaries on crunchyroll or other sites.

I guess that stories like "Hair" (the photocopier-one) are just urban-legends,
so there isn't much to explain.


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