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Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Kyougoku Daijirou is the 15th generation owner of the Kyoto sweets shop Amashoudou. One day, Daijirou discovers a giant robot named Doamaiger D in his store's basement. At the same time, enemies called "Mekaijuu" appear in Kyoto and begin wreaking havoc.

Unique monsters that suddenly began to appear all over the world from the beginning of the 20th century. At first, human beings tried to resist, but in the face of their enormous power, they came to the conclusion that complete extermination was impossible, and concentrated their wisdom on monitoring and analyzing monsters. The United Nations Kaiju Observatory (commonly known as Coulons) was born. Leading by the indomitable leader Yuichiro Kaido, the authority of monster ecology, Toji Kobayashi, the talent of monster function analysis, Claire Coleman, the maverick of monster disaster prevention, Kenny Mikoshiba, and the nobleman of monster strategy, Nikita Tarkovsky. A new generation Lulu de Picard who paved the way for monster linguistics, and Guillermo Marquez, a monster life science tycoon. Experts in monster science monitored and analyzed hundreds of monsters, and continued to explore a world where monsters and humankind live together.

In the midst of Shouwa era Japan, greed runs rampant through the bustling cities and communities of the nation. King of Hell Enma Daiou summons an envoy into his office in the form of a small boy named Kurayami Santa. Through Enma's debriefing, Santa learns that the amount of greed and selfish behavior produced by humans will soon create an enormous wave of souls entering into Hell simultaneously, which would be catastrophic for Hell itself. Santa is given one mission: do something about it. With neither guidelines nor rules, Santa is tasked to handle the situation as he sees fit. In the human world, a rampaging thunderstorm strikes a nearby cemetery with a bolt of lightning, and the envoy of Hell appears. Teleported into the human world, Santa quickly realizes that humans are just as wicked as Enma had described. Without upsetting the balance between light and dark, Santa begins his quest to complete the mission from Hell and restore order to the human world.

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories spin-off. The story will center on the Tōkeshū ninja group in Tokyo, the city where dreams and desires swirl like eddies in a river. With ancient techniques passed down through generations, the ninja are intent on wiping out the "darkness" enveloping people in the current Reiwa era.

In today's world full of wondrous technological innovation, the unnatural and mysterious sometimes appear even more horrifying than usual. But despite how far society has advanced, the fear of the unknown always remains.