The BEST episodes written by Hiromu Kumamoto

#1 - Contradiction

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 7

This story begins with a phone call that was received at a particular young woman's home, in the middle of the night...

#2 - Drawings

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 13

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.

#3 - Tormentor

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 13

This is the story of a particular group of boys attending an elementary school in the country...

#4 - The Umbrella Goddess

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 8

This is the story of a particular boy who went to visit his friend, who had just moved out to the country...

#5 - Zanbai

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 2

This is the story of a man who went to a particular village in the country on a business trip...

#6 - Wall Woman

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 4

This is the story of a particular college student who fell in love with a woman living in the housing complex across the street...

#7 - Public Phone

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 7

Chie suddenly gets a call from her younger sister during work asking for her help. She heads toward the phone booth that her sister directed her to, but an unusual sight awaits her... What could have happened to Chie's sister?

#8 - Swamp Offering

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 4

Haruko moves to a village in the countryside to live with her new husband's family, On the way, he tells her about a custom in the village that requires its residents to toss their most prized possessions into a swamp. Shortly after they arrive at his family's home, Haruko is forced to join in this ritual with the rest of the villagers...

#9 - Video

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 11

This is a story that three middle school students experienced on the last day of summer vacation...

#10 - The Next Floor

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 5

This is the story of a particular family that went shopping for their young son's birthday present at a department store...

#11 - The Talisman Woman

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 1

This is the story of a man who had just moved into a particular apartment.

#12 - Refrigerator

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 13

The story of a close-knit family. The children look forward to their mother's cooking, and the parents watch out for their children. They live a happy life... but that happiness begins to change. What will become of this family?

#13 - Tomonari-kun

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 12

This is the story of a high school girl and some young boys who lived in a particular housing complex...

#14 - Delivery

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 1

Katagiri is housesitting for his friend, who's traveling and needs someone to be there to accept an important package he's expecting. The delivery finally arrives late that evening, but his friend says he's expecting another package the next day and asks him to stay one more night. Katagiri begins to wonder what is in these packages that's so important...

#15 - The Family Rule

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 3

This is the story of a boy named Toshiharu who moved back to the country with his parents.

#16 - Hair

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 4

This is the story of a teacher at a particular elementary school who had to work a bit late one day...

#17 - The Empress Doll

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 8

Two teenage couples pull over at an abandoned house for a test of courage.

#18 - Calling Crane

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 10

Some middle school girls are staying over at a classmate's house. At school that day, the girls had agreed to perform a ritual at the sleepover that they believe will let them speak to the dead. They're having a great time as they begin the ritual, but...

#19 - Sewing Shears

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 3

A young woman in college has moved into a certain old apartment building. As she's unpacking her belongings, she sees a spot on the wooden floor where a mismatched board has been added. Curious, she lifts the board to find a dirt surface with a pair of rusty scissors stuck in the earth...

#20 - Lend It to Me

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 1

A young man walks home from work when he stops by a bathhouse he never went in before.

#21 - Ice Fang

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 2

A band of professional mountain climbers is only 50 feet away from the summit of a mountain when they're attacked by a snow monster. The sole surviving member has to find a way to stay alive, and she has to think fast...

#22 - Deep Abyss

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 6

A wedding underneath the South Pole is interrupted by a giant monster.

#23 - Inside

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 3

This is the story of a particular boy who found a worn-out old doll, and his family...

#24 - The Fourth Man

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 9

Haruko overhears a story about the Handshake Men, mysterious men who show up on the roadside and ask people to shake hands.

#25 - Death Day

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 8 - Episode 2

A family who gathers once a year on the anniversary of their mother's death. It looked like a family gathering, but Sachiko, the new wife who participated for the first time, gradually began to feel a disturbing atmosphere.

#26 - Guess Who?

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 6

A high school student is visiting an amusement park with an older member of her club, whom she has a crush on. She's thrilled at the prospect of going on this date with the senpai she admires. But on the way home, they see a creepy woman on the train platform, and from that point onward, the girl's head is overtaken by a frightening suspicion...

#27 - The Woman in the Elevator

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 9

The residents of a certain apartment complex are taking the elevator early one morning. The day starts out like any other, but is soon warped by terror...

#28 - Quickening

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 1

#29 - Cursed

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 9

This is the story of a particular mother and daughter who were inflicted with a terrible curse...

#30 - Tongue

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 1

A salaryman on his way home from work spots a cat lying lifelessly in the road after being hit by a car. He carries it to the sidewalk, but it's clearly beyond help, so he makes a grave for it and heads home. That night, while relaxing at home, he hears what sounds like a kitten's cry...

#31 - Merry-go-round

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 10

A young couple, Shinichi and Satomi, arrive at a mall carnival that they remember their parents bringing them to.

#32 - The Dripping

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 5

Shimada, a salaryman, stops by a convenience store on his way home from work. It suddenly starts to rain, and he doesn't have an umbrella, so he "borrows" one that he finds on the umbrella rack. But as he walks along with the umbrella open, he senses a darkness approaching from behind...

#33 - Ominie-san

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 9

This is the story of a new teacher who moved from Tokyo to teach at a middle school in the countryside...

#34 - Thunderous Visitor

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 1

Thunder rumbles on a stormy night. At a certain house where Ryousuke, a high school boy is currently home alone, the phone rings just moments after the power goes out. Then a flash of lightning displays the shape of a person outside the window...

#35 - Mud Games

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 9

Mika drives through the rain to pick up her daughter, Michiko, from day care. She tries to talk with Michiko on the way home, but as their conversation carries on, Mika remembers something horrifying...

#36 - Sakura

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 6

Shouta has been admitted to a hospital in the countryside after a car accident. He finds himself regularly conversing through the wall with two children in the room next to his. Eventually these conversations leave Shouta with a sense of fear...

#37 - Night Bus

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 5

A group of college students sets off on a night bus to go on vacation. On the way, one of them develops a stomachache and asks the driver to stop at a service area along the highway. But when he returns from the bathroom, the atmosphere inside the bus is very different..

#38 - Tunnel

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 2

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.

#39 - Echoes

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 13

#40 - Paintings

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 4

A certain young man visits an art exhibit after receiving a free entry ticket. The lady at the reception desk seems creepy enough, but all the paintings in this bizarre exhibit are like nothing he's seen before. When the young man does something he was advised not to do, an unexpected fate awaits him...

#41 - Behind

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 7

On a field trip with his school class, Osamu is having trouble getting to sleep because of a scary dream he's been having.

#42 - Papier-mâché Tiger

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 9 - Episode 5

This is the story of a certain man whose son had passed away in an accident...

#43 - Taro-chan

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 1

This is the story of a particular rookie police officer who displayed his ventriloquism ability at a traffic safety meeting...

#44 - Trial

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 4

#45 - Secret

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 3

#46 - The Noisy Hospital Room

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 4

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.

#47 - Netsuke

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 12

This is the story of a particular female college student who came to help at her grandmother's store...

#48 - Shadow Crocodile

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 10

A shadow crocodile stalks a village. The villagers prepare to run, but one girl has a plan.

#49 - Strange Colour

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 5

An invisible monster invades a convenience store.

#50 - Little Sister's Room

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 11

Taiji and Miho, who are not close friends. Miho brings an inspiring friend, so the brothers and sisters get caught up in unexpected horror ...