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Shiki

TV·2010–2010·1 season, 22 episodes·Fuji TV·Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy·25m·8.0·Created by Tetsuro Amino

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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.

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  1. 01Shiki S01E22The Final HuntS01E22 · 10.0The mountain is on fire and threatens to engulf the entire town. At the same time the final Shiki make their final effort to escape.
  2. 02Shiki S01E04Fourth DeathS01E04 · 9.0Dr. Ozaki holds a meeting with the staff at the clinic and announces his belief that an epidemic of unknown origin is present in the town and his killed 19 people. He asks them to be vigilant in looking for people exhibiting the known symptoms but not to tell anyone in fear of starting a mass panic. Natsuno continues to have dreams about Megumi staring at him through his bedroom window. The dreams become so disturbing for him that he has trouble sleeping and ask to spend the night at his friend Tooru's house. That night Natsuno has the most vivid dream yet, that Megumi is now in the room with him.
  3. 03Shiki S01E01First BloodS01E01 · 8.0Megumi hates living in the small village of Sotoba. She dreams of graduating from high school and moving to the city. Only two things hold her interest in the village, the giant European Mansion that was recently built atop a hillside and the boy Yuuki Natsuno. The owners of the mansion, the Kirishiki's, arrive under the cover of darkness. Megumi marches up their mansion with fantasies of being adopted. Hours later Megumi has failed to return home with the sun set the villagers begin searching the woods for her. They find her lying on the ground pale and weak. The town doctor suspects she is suffering from anemia and the next day she passes away.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes2010Aired 8.3Season avg
  1. S01E01Shiki S01E01First BloodJuly 9, 2010 8.0Megumi hates living in the small village of Sotoba. She dreams of graduating from high school and moving to the city. Only two things hold
  2. S01E02Shiki S01E02Second DecayJuly 16, 2010 8.0Megumi is dead and a burial is held for her. Doctor Ozaki is shocked at her sudden death and requests permission to perform an autopsy to d
  3. S01E03Shiki S01E03Third TragedyJuly 23, 2010 8.0Dr. Ozaki is convinced that Nao Yasumori has contracted the same illness that killed Megumi and several other in the village. He conducts n
  4. S01E04Shiki S01E04Fourth DeathJuly 30, 2010 9.0Dr. Ozaki holds a meeting with the staff at the clinic and announces his belief that an epidemic of unknown origin is present in the town an
  5. S01E05Shiki S01E05Fifth DeceitAugust 6, 2010 8.0Seishin talks to the relatives of the recently deceased and discovers the pattern that all of them became ill and weak only a few days befor
  6. S01E06Shiki S01E06Sixth SkullAugust 13, 2010 7.0Natsuno investigates local stories of the "Risen" after seeing that someone had disturbed the torn-up pieces of Megumi's letter he threw out
  7. S01E07Shiki S01E07Seventh Killing SpiritAugust 20, 2010 8.0Masao awakens to find himself lying on a bed of flowers, six feet under. Natsuno joins forces with Kaori and Akira and convinces them to he
  8. S01E08Shiki S01E08Eighth NightAugust 27, 2010Natsuno, Kaori and Akira dig up Megumi’s grave to confirm if she has truly risen or not. Finding her coffin empty Kaori is suddenly attack
  9. S01E09Shiki S01E09Ninth CoffinSeptember 3, 2010Dr. Ozaki and Seishin vainly try to save an elderly patients life. After a blood transfusion seems to return her strength Dr. Ozaki is sure
  10. S01E10Shiki S01E10Tenth MourningSeptember 10, 2010Natsuno house is visited by a strange young girl who demands to be invited in. When Natsuno returns home his parents tell him about the gir
  11. S01E11Shiki S01E11Eleventh SlaughterSeptember 17, 2010While Sotoba's villagers are debating the cause of the frequent deaths, the town shaman points her finger at the residents of Kanemasa mansi
  12. S01E12Shiki S01E12Twelfth DecayOctober 15, 2010Natsuno learns more about the Shiki and warns Kaori and Akira to leave town before it is to late.
  13. S01E13Shiki S01E13Thirteenth TragedyOctober 29, 2010Natsuno may be dead but will he rise? Dr. Ozaki discovers that his wife is already in the final stages of having her blood drained. After
  14. S01E14Shiki S01E14Fourteenth DeathNovember 5, 2010Kaori's father suddenly collapses. At the clinic, Dr. Ozaki studies his wife's corpse for clues on how to combat the Shiki.
  15. S01E15Shiki S01E15Fifteenth DeceitNovember 12, 2010Dr. Ozaki tries to tell the townspeople the truth but is laughed off by the villagers believing that he is overworked at the clinic. He the
  16. S01E16Shiki S01E16Sixteenth SkullNovember 19, 2010Kaori and Akira find their mother near death. Akira decides to take action and goes to the temple to collect talismans to ward off the Shik
  17. S01E17Shiki S01E17Seventeenth Killing SpiritNovember 26, 2010Seishin finds that his bed ridden father has disappeared without a trace. Kaori shows up at the temple covered in dirt her hair and eyes cr
  18. S01E18Shiki S01E18Eighteenth NightDecember 3, 2010Natsuno is paid a visit by Tatsumi who informs him that he is one of only four known “werewolf” Shiki, those that can walk in the open sun.
  19. S01E19Shiki S01E19Nineteenth CoffinDecember 10, 2010With the village finally believing Dr. Ozaki about the Shiki they begin to plan on how to exterminate them. Sunako hearing about Chizuro’s
  20. S01E20Shiki S01E20Twentieth MourningDecember 17, 2010With the first day drawing to a close the village has killed many Shiki but Dr. Ozaki believes that they haven’t most of them. Tooru is for
  21. S01E21Shiki S01E21Twenty-first SlaughterDecember 24, 2010The villagers finally discover where Sunako is hiding. Tatsumi creates a distraction to lure them away while Seishin tries to carry her to
  22. S01E22Shiki S01E22Season's bestThe Final HuntDecember 31, 2010 10.0The mountain is on fire and threatens to engulf the entire town. At the same time the final Shiki make their final effort to escape.

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