Shiki Specials

Shiki Specials are two additional episodes of Shiki, the horror series based on Fuyumi Ono's novel, set in Sotoba, a quiet, secluded village surrounded by forests of fir trees and cut off from the outside world.

In the main story, a mysterious epidemic begins to claim the villagers one after another, and as the deaths mount, the young doctor Toshio Ozaki and others come to suspect that something far more sinister than an ordinary disease is at work. These specials step aside from the main narrative to focus on three women caught up in the escalating crisis. Nao Yasumori is tormented by visions of the deceased; Kanami Yano must keep a secret even at the risk of losing a loved one; and Motoko Maeda goes through unbearable grief as the mysterious illness spreads through her family.

With rising tensions testing the limits of family relationships, even the smallest mistake can sever the ties that bind. Told with the same oppressive, melancholic atmosphere as the series, the episodes show how the horror sweeping Sotoba tears apart ordinary households from within.