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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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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Places
    None
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror7
    Humour1
    Realism4
    Romance1
    Tension6
    Darkness7
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight6

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    animation
    Starring
    Chafurin, Miki Ito
    Length
    1 seasons, 1 episodes
    Network
    TSK
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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