Shiki
屍鬼
During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her.
Shiki is a tv with 22 episodes, from Summer 2010, produced by Daume, rated 7.5/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her.
Main Characters
Tags
- Vampire — Prominently features a character who is a vampire.
- Survival — Centers around the struggle to live in spite of extreme obstacles.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Rural — Partly or completely set in the countryside.
- Anti-Hero — Features a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic attributes and may be considered a borderline villain.
- Ensemble Cast — Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.
- Zombie — Prominently features reanimated corpses which often prey on live humans and turn them into zombies.
- Nudity — Features a character wearing no clothing or exposing intimate body parts.
- Philosophy — Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
- Gore — Prominently features graphic bloodshed and violence.
- Denpa — Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.
- Urban Fantasy — Set in a world similar to the real world, but with the existence of magic or other supernatural elements.