The BEST episodes of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories season 3
Every episode of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories season 3!
Akin to TV Tokyo’s Folktales from Japan, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories takes a narrative format to explore the rich occult history from Japan, moreover, the storytelling techniques in this brand new series will mimic kamishibai – a traditional storytelling technique inspired by the artistic usage of paper figures and scrolls. “Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.”
#1 - Drawings
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/3/2016
The boy in the opening title sequence from season 3 sitting on a playground slide drawing while other three other children are playing hopscotch. A woman comes onto the playground and it is revealed that she has just moved to this town to work as a teacher. She tries to talk to the boy, but he walks away.
#2 - The Empress Doll
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2016
Two teenage couples pull over at an abandoned house for a test of courage.
#3 - Lend It to Me
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2016
A young man walks home from work when he stops by a bathhouse he never went in before.
#4 - The Fourth Man
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/2016
Haruko overhears a story about the Handshake Men, mysterious men who show up on the roadside and ask people to shake hands.
#5 - ''That Side'' Festival
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2016
Asako and Miki are enjoying a festival when Miki disappears. As Asako searches for her, she encounters a display of strange masks and the sound of mysterious voices chanting.
#6 - Merry-go-round
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/2016
A young couple, Shinichi and Satomi, arrive at a mall carnival that they remember their parents bringing them to.
#7 - Museum of Taxidermy
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2016
One rainy day, a young couple rush down the street, the woman a little annoyed that the weather has gotten bad. Along they way, the man spies a "Museum of Taxidermy" and decide that they should take shelter there.
#8 - Tunnel
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2016
Two men are driving their car to a hot spring, only they are lost, low on gas and getting nowhere fast on the mountain road. Eventually, they come to a fork in the road; one path leads to a tunnel that doesn't appear on their map.
#9 - Behind
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/2016
On a field trip with his school class, Osamu is having trouble getting to sleep because of a scary dream he's been having.
#10 - The Noisy Hospital Room
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/2016
At 2:15 AM in a local hospital, a patient walks down a hallway, past a window where a truck outside is carrying what look like blank mannequins. As he walks down the hall, he hears what sounds like people laughing coming from a lit up room.
#11 - Cuckoo Clock
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/20/2016
Rumi and her mother visit their grandmother's house where she takes notice to the cuckoo clock hanging on the wall at the exact time the little bird pops out.
#12 - In the Water
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2016
The star of the swim team prepares for a tournament by training on his own at the school pool at night.
#13 - Rat
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2016
A young couple, Kenta and Machiko, moves into an old apartment for cheap, finishing moving the boxes into their new home. They realize they have an unwanted roommate: a rat.