The production team behind Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories announced on Friday that the anime will return for a 17th season, premiering on TV Tokyo on July 12. The new season’s central theme is “decision.”
Cast
The voice cast for the new season includes Kanji Tsuda, Tomoko Ōishi, Satoko Tsuchiya, Ryō Shinoda, Ray Shirakawa, Toshimasa Niiro, Miu Miyake, Akari Nakamura, Ann Yamane, Rina Gorōmaru, Sōsuke Hanatani, and Takuya and Shoji of the group Fuurin.
Staff
Akira Funada returns to direct and produce the season — a role he has held for the past six seasons — at ILCA, with production cooperation from ILCASHIPS and LEON STUDIO. Takuya Iwasaki and Norio Yamakawa serve as additional producers.
The scriptwriting team consists of Hiromu Kumamoto, Mitsuhiro Sasaki, and Kanako Ishigami. Animators include Kazuma Taketani, jimmy, OHAGI, Yū Ebihara, Momoka Higurashi, “nishiyama&rie,” Takashi Iitsuka, Oroka Ohno, and Norio Yamakawa, while storyboards are handled by Shōma Mutō, Chōji Yoshikawa, and Kazuma Taketani.
Fuurin performs the ending theme song, titled “Yamishibai no Blues.”
About the Series
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories is a horror anthology of roughly six-minute shorts, presenting urban-legend-inspired tales set in contemporary Japan. The series draws its distinctive visual style from kamishibai — the illustrated paper-theater storytelling tradition of the Shōwa era.
The first season debuted in July 2013, and the most recent entry, Season 16, began airing on January 11. The franchise has also spawned the spinoff The World Yamizukan (spring 2017) and the Ninja Collection spinoff anime (July 2020), both of which were streamed by Crunchyroll. A live-action adaptation of the series premiered in Japan in September 2020 and was likewise streamed on Crunchyroll.
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