TV series
The World of Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan
2025 · 1 season
A quiet, unsettling plunge into old ghost stories, told with eerie stillness and a strange, experimental edge.
- Genres
- Animation
- Overview
- Based on the work of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo), a resident of Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture, who left a significant mark on Japanese ghost story literature, this animated series utilizes AI production techniques. The original characters were created in-house, and the same script was produced using two different approaches: an "anime-look version" created in a standard 2D animation style, and a "live-action-look version" that emphasizes the horror of the ghost story with photorealistic AI rendering. Each version will be broadcast in a different time slot. This entry is for the "anime-look version" broadcast.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Death, memory, isolation, fate
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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