“Kagewani” is a new short horror anime that looks and feels a lot like the two “Yami Shibai” series. Like those two series it presents horror morality tales. In the first episode for example, a camera crew trespasses into a forbidden forest in order to fake some footage of a loch ness type monster, but the fraud quickly goes fatally bad. It appears that the stories will be tied together by a teacher who likes to investigate mysterious occurrences and who also has some sort of scar that warns him of danger.
While the episodes of “Yami Shibai” tended to go by quickly and stylishly, the first episode of “Kagewani” was ponderous and too familiar to be interesting or scary. The only vibe I got from the episode was “same old, same old”. So I won't be watching any more and my final rating is C.
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