Episode 385 - Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories

Anime Out of Context

Shaun Rollins and Remington Chase

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Comedy, Leisure:animation & Manga, Leisure

4.6 • 829 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, just in time for Halloween, Shaun has brought us something actually designed to be spooky! Will the first season of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories bring the scares? Meanwhile Remington waxes poetic about anthologies. If you'd like to give us feedback, ask a question, or correct a mistake, send an email to [email protected]. Like our show? Check out our friends Shonen Flop & AnimEighties for more anime & manga reviews! Visit our Patreon at patreon.com/AnimeoutofContext if you would like to contribute to the show and get bonus content ranging from clips from our pre-episode banter, bonus episodes (including the 12 days of April Fools), our prototype Episode 0, to even getting shout-outs in the show! Intro and Outro are trimmed from "Remiga Impulse" by Jens Kiilstofte, licensed by MachinimaSound to Anime Out of Context under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 which the licensor has modified for the licensee to allow reproduction and sharing of the Adapted Material for Commercial purposes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Anime Out of Context, a comedy review show where a man completely immersed in anime culture, Tormense's co-host, who is only allowed to watch the shows featured here.
0:09.2	If you'd like to support the show, you can do so at patreon.com slash anime out of context.
0:13.6	Alongside over 100 hours of exclusive bonus material, all episodes uploaded to Patreon are completely ad-free, even to non-patrons.
0:20.2	Thank you for listening and enjoy.
0:24.2	Hello and welcome to Anime Out of Context, the show where I attempt to explain, sometimes weird,
0:28.7	sometimes wonderful, but always hilarious world of anime.
0:31.4	And I fall in love with a spooky card game.
0:37.0	I'm Sean Rollins. I'm Remedy's. All All right now that we fucked the rhythm of this episode right up. Hey, man, don't worry. It's spooky month. Fucking up the rhythm is just something that we do pretty regularly with this time of year. Usually because we were exhausted with haunted house shenankins. This time around, it's just because we're scatterbrained.
0:55.3	Yep, yep.
0:56.0	But no, Rebitton, I've got something weird for you this special spooky episode. All right, all right. Because if last week wasn't weird enough for you. Yeah, we've been in a pretty weird area, but I guess let's keep being weird and spooky. Well, yeah, I mean, that's just kind of the nature of horror, my guy, is when you're struggling
1:13.7	to find an anime that truly lines up with, like, the philosophy of, and, like, execution
1:20.4	of good quality horror, sometimes the best place to look is in the weird shit, because the
1:24.8	weird shit is at least going to give you something you might not have seen before.
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:29.0	And today, Rem, I've got something that's just a little odd.
1:33.1	And it's odd for both meta reasons and contextual reasons as well.
1:39.3	Tell me, Rem, what's one of the best things about the spooky season?
1:43.7	When you do your yearly slutty costume fashion show for me.
1:50.3	Well, I mean, that's one thing.
1:51.8	But I was going to just say the chance to get with your friends and just talk and tell spooky stories together.
1:58.5	Oh, yeah, that too.
1:59.5	Yeah, yeah.
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