Some legitimately creepy moments in this episode, including Masao in the coffin during the episode intro and the middle portion of the story. I’m not particularly claustrophobic, but just imagining waking up and finding myself in such an enclosed space, with very little hope of escape, no matter how much I scratch and claw and [...]
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Natsuno: It’s a great idea. Don’t you think? Better than playing dumb in this stupid village. Had a crappy week, this means I have to spend less time lurking on the Internet, or else my grades will spiral down before you can say ‘vampires’ on the internet. Also, I’m suffering some sort of inferiority complex for [...]
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It’s Masao. He’s back. Konnichiwa minna-san~ Cool-chan here~ *bats eyelashes* <3 Sorry, just thought you might like some cuteness before we delve into the creeping terror that Shiki brings on.  Contrast, you know?  After our set-up episode last week, Shiki is starting to once again, slowly ramp things up….Kekeke~ After our recap, the [...]
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One thing I love about horror series is how consistent they are: once they’ve got an atmosphere built up, they can keep this one going for episodes and episodes. This episode yet again was excellent in the way that it progressed the plot, and this solid atmosphere really helped in bringing up the creepiness factor [...]
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  So much for forward progress. Impressions: Damn it, Shiki. You were threatening to make progress on the plot front last week. And now this week half of it is going "Hey, hold on, time out. Let’s think things over. There’s not reason to rush anything. Why break into a castle of vampires for direct [...]
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“So this… this isn’t an epidemic?” As we reach halfway Shiki’s tale of vampires and disease, we ready ourselves for the start of doctor Ozaki’s counter-attack. I must say, I’m really digging the atmosphere of this series. It’s done really nicely. If there’s anything that can be said wrong about Shiki, it’s definitely the character [...]
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For an episode with “deceit” right in the title, this one was shockingly predictable! Come on, Shiki – where’s the adventure? Where’s the challenge? If last week’s episode was an edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, this episode is more like…well, it wasn’t that. I’m not mad, Shiki. I’m just disappointed. So, Yuuki is watching helplessly (uh, maybe [...]
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...However, Anne Rice is hardly the beginning of vampire lore, and in fact her vampires are quite modern for all their adherence to such things as being unable to handle sunlight and an often cavalier attitude toward killing their victims...The vampires in Shiki aren't like that. In fact, the vampires in Shiki essentially take us back...
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...However, Anne Rice is hardly the beginning of vampire lore, and in fact her vampires are quite modern for all their adherence to such things as being unable to handle sunlight and an often cavalier attitude toward killing their victims...The vampires in Shiki aren't like that. In fact, the vampires in Shiki essentially take us back...
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The death toll keeps on rising and the characters finally start jumping on the supernatural bandwagon!  About bloody time too, it was pretty annoying watching them flapping about and thinking logically about things when we’ve known from the start that the issue is vampires   Maybe the pace will pick up now that we’re on [...]
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For me, this has been one of the best episodes of Shiki so far. it’s great to finally have another good horror series airing and this series is certainly pushing the right buttons. This episode continues the string of deaths throughout the village, but you can now really see how people are starting to change [...]
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Finally, our two main characters are slowly beginning to realize the true plague causing the deaths in the village. Unfortunately for Natsuno, crosses probably won’t do a thing against Shiki’s variation of vampires. That would be way too easy. Now that he knows what’s really been killing his beloved patients, our resident Dr. Toshio will [...]
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Summary: Exploiting his position as a priest who ‘actually cares’ about the dead, Seishin decides to do his own research into the deaths and gathers some social information on the victims. It seems like most of the dead had quit their jobs a few days before they died, as if they knew that something were [...]
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Oh, hello there. I’ll suck your blood right away! Sign my copy of your book, Muroi-san, before I do something nasty! Things slowed down a little this week, especially when the Youth Olympic Games are being held in my tiny little home Singapore for the next 12 days. Let’s hope the rainy weather here doesn’t affect [...]
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Everyone slowly draws closer to the truth… Yesterday I was fine, but today I’m sick… I spent yesterday playing video games all day with some friends after gorging on sushi, so maybe I’m being punished for having too much fun.  All I know is that I woke up with a [...]
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To make it up for a nonexistent post last week, I reviewed the current one up to speed along with the previous in one go. I have no excuses except for a working Saturday and loads of admin stuff that I had to deal with at Metanorn. So, without any further ado and before discussing [...] Related posts:Shiki 4 Shiki 3 Shiki 2
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It's time for another episode of Shiki, and still the deaths keep on ramping up - Hiromi is one of the latest to up the body count, while Masao is (thankfully) on his way out as we first join this episode.Naturally, the continuation of this ever more horrifying trend of deaths is getting to local doctor Ozaki - A little too much you could argue, as he snaps first at a patient and then at Muroi
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Summary: As the victims spread, the priest gets word that the teacher at the local school has also passed away. More and more people are dying as a local police officer has died too and his family fled the town strangely in the middle of the night, while his replacement has glowing red eyes. Even [...]
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Another week with me falling behind. Here I try to keep up, by writing about Shiki episode 6, Occult Academy (Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin) episode 7, and Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi episode 7. Before we get down to it, you might want to know that the mysterious driver of the cart has produced a chart [...]
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Episode 06 – 「第髏苦話」 (Dai Roku Wa) “The ‘Pain of Skull’ Episode” Just as expected from the last episode, Hiromi and Masao are also killed by the mysterious epidemic, while Dr. Ozaki is beginning to lose his patience and even vents his frustration on the families of the victims. Later, the priest Muroi, who happens to be [...]
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