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Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories Anime Gets Ninja Collection Spinoff in July
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The TV Tokyo in July. TV Tokyo's animeteleto subscription service will stream the anime one week before it premieres on broadcast television.
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 productions.
The new Ninja Collection anime will retain the urban legend and horror elements, but will center on the Tōkeshū ninja group in Tokyo, the city where dreams and desires swirl like eddies in a river. With ancient techniques ed down through generations, the ninja are intent on wiping out the "darkness" enveloping people in the current Reiwa era.
The anime stars actors from "2.5D stage plays" such as Masaki Sawai, and others.
Satoshi Umetsu is producing with Funada.
The rock band Backdrop Cinderella performs the ending theme song "Shinobi Odoru" (Dance 'Unzaunza' on Your Tippy-toes Like a Ninja, a reference to the band's signature "unzaunza" sound).
The Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories anime's first season premiered in July 2013, and the seventh and most recent season streamed all seven seasons and The World Yamizukan as they aired.
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Source: Comic Natalie
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