The staff of the Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories television anime announced on Friday that the anime is getting a 15th season that will air on the TV Tokyo channel starting on July 13. The theme for this season is “remains.”
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Cast members in the new season include: Kanji Tsuda, Yutaka Shimizu, Ponzu, Satoko Tsuchiya, Kōichi Kosse, Nana Akuzawa, Yūta Hoshino, Hina Koyonagi, Kyōka Maruyama, Hako Ōshima, and Toshimasa Niiro.
Naoto Inti Raymi is performing the ending theme song “Dauto.”
Akira Funada is returning from the last four seasons to direct and produce the anime at ILCA with production cooperation by ILCASHIPS and LEON STUDIO. Scriptwriters include Hiromu Kumamoto, Mitsuhiro Sasaki, and Kanako Ishigami. Yū Ebihara is animating the opening and ending.
Additional producers include Takuya Iwasaki and Norio Yamakawa.
Animators will include: Kazuma Taketani, jimmy, “nishiyama&rie,” Momoka Higurashi, Hiromasa Horie, OHAGI, Takashi Iitsuka, and Norio Yamakawa. Storyboarders will include: Shōma Mutō, Choji Yoshikawa, and Kazuma Taketani.
The original Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories series of anime shorts featured six-minute horror stories based on urban legends in a modern day setting. The shorts draw inspiration from Shōwa-era illustrated paper theater (kamishibai) productions.
The anime’s first season premiered in July 2013, and the 14th and most recent season premiered on January 4.
The project inspired a spinoff, The World Yamizukan, in spring 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the previous seasons and The World Yamizukan as they aired. The anime also inspired the Ninja Collection spinoff anime. The anime premiered in July 2020. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
A live-action series adaptation of the anime premiered in Japan in September 2020. Crunchyroll streamed the series.
Thanks to DokoMadeMo for the news tip.
Sources: Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories anime’s website, Comic Natalie
