The BEST episodes written by Hiromu Kumamoto

#1 - 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...

#2 - 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...

#3 - 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...

#4 - 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...

#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 - The Empress Doll

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 8

Two teenage couples visit an abandoned house for a test of courage. They find a set of dolls where the Empress doll is missing.

#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 - 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?

#9 - 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...

#10 - 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...

#11 - Drawings

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 13

A student teacher is on her way to her first day at her new school when she meets a strange boy at the park, sitting by himself drawing in a sketchbook. When she gets to school, she sees that the boy is in her class...

#12 - 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...

#13 - 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...

#14 - 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...

#15 - 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...

#16 - 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...

#17 - 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...

#18 - 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...

#19 - Deep Abyss

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 6

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

#20 - Quickening

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 1

#21 - Trial

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 4

#22 - Secret

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 3

#23 - Shadow Crocodile

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 10

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

#24 - Strange Colour

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 5

An invisible monster invades a convenience store.

#25 - 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...

#26 - Doba

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 1

Three boys go to an isolated island in search of dinosaurs for their online video channel. But they get more than they bargained for when the dinosaurs turn out to be real, and hungry.

#27 - Jet Black

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 12

At a pharmaceutical plant, Banba and Kimura talk while descending into a large underground lab. They speak of the origin of the shadow monsters, created by ancient warring tribes to bring peace. The first monster destroyed the two originating tribes. Though it is now gone, its cells remain, infecting animals of all sorts in the modern world. These infected animal become new monsters dubbed Kagewani. In the lab the two men see a newly-produced clone shadow monster, an offspring from the sewer monster seen before, and the part-plant young man from an earlier episode. The escaping sewer monster gores Banba, frightening Kimura into running alone into the lab's safety cell.

#28 - Office

Kowabon - Season 1 - Episode 3

Overview TBA… ▽ Office [Int'l: English title / Japan: literal English translation] ▽ Ofisu [Japan: original Romaji title]

#29 - Isolation

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 7

#30 - Flytrap

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 9

A boy is under arrest after his friends are found dead in an abandoned botanical gardens. He claims that a monster killed them... but did it?

#31 - Return

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 3

Monsters come ashore on an isolated beach town.

#32 - The Final Battle (Part 2)

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 13

#33 - Encounter

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 11

Dr. Banba reminisces about the time he lost his family to the Kagewani.

#34 - Feed

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 9

#35 - Intercom

Kowabon - Season 1 - Episode 8

#36 - Collision

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 5

#37 - Camouflage

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 8

A tunnel collapses, and Dr. Banba and his ex-girlfriend must escape.

#38 - Slashing Strike

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 7

A school is struck by a clawlike creature that lives underground.

#39 - The Final Battle (Part 1)

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 12

#40 - Blindness

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 6

#41 - Memories

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 8

#42 - Dream Demon

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 10

#43 - Skype 1

Kowabon - Season 1 - Episode 1

Overview TBA…

#44 - Double Bow

Kagewani - Season 1 - Episode 4

Kids attempt to retrieve their drone in a monster-haunted sewer.

#45 - Pursuit

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 2

#46 - Selfie

Kowabon - Season 1 - Episode 4

Overview TBA… ▽ Jidori [Japan: original Romaji title] ▽ Self-Taken Picture (aka: Selfie) [Japan: literal English translation] ▽ Selfie [Int'l: renamed English title]

#47 - 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...

#48 - Message

Kowabon - Season 1 - Episode 7

Overview TBA… ▽ Message [Int'l: English title / Japan: literal English translation] ▽ Messeeji [Japan: original Romaji title]

#49 - Evolution

Kagewani - Season 2 - Episode 11

#50 - Elevator

Kowabon - Season 1 - Episode 2

Overview TBA… ▽ Elevator [Japan: literal English translation / Int'l: English title] ▽ Erebeetaa [Japan: original Romaji title]