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Shiki
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Tōru Mutō (voice)
22 eps
Wataru Takagi
Tatsumi (voice)
22 eps
GACKT
Seishirō Kirishiki (voice)
22 eps
Haruka Tomatsu
Megumi Shimizu (voice)
22 eps
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Seishin Muroi (voice)
22 eps
Koki Uchiyama
Natsuno Yūki (voice)
22 eps
Toru Okawa
Toshio Ozaki (voice)
22 eps
Nozomi Sasaki
Ritsuko Kunihiro (voice)
22 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Shiki actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Shiki reads strongest on Bingeability, World Building and Spectacle.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E02
Twenty-first Slaughter and Malice (Episode 21.5)
- Directed by Yasuo Tsuchiya
- Written by Kenji Sugihara
S00E01
Twentieth Mourning and Malice (Episode 20.5)
S01E22
The Final Hunt
- Directed by Kazuhiro Yoneda
- Written by Kenji Sugihara
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Ai AbeProducer
- Takamitsu InoueProducer
- Noriko OzakiProducer
Writing
- Sawako HirabayashiWriter
- Kenji SugiharaWriter
- Noboru TakagiWriter
Direction
- Takashi KobayashiDirector
- Tetsuro AminoDirector
- Yasuo TsuchiyaDirector
- Kazuhiro YonedaDirector
- Shinsuke TerasawaDirector
- Satoshi SagaDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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