It was just a nice simple sleepover with Sophie-senpai until we both decided (for some reason) to watch another horror anime. So we flicked through the Horror list and came across this unusual looking anime called 'Shiki'. We tried the first episode (in dubbed) and I have to say after that episode we then watched the next one, then the next one and then the next one. We watched all the way up to the end. This is the story.
The story takes place in a particularly hot summer in the 1990s, in a small quiet Japanese village called Sotoba. A series of mysterious deaths begin to spread in the village, at the same time when a strange family moves into the long-abandoned Kanemasa mansion. Doctor Toshio Ozaki, director of Sotoba's only hospital, initially suspects an epidemic; however, as investigations continue and the deaths begin to pile up, he learns—and becomes convinced—that they are the work of the "shiki", vampire-like creatures, plaguing the village. A young man named Natsuno Yuuki, who hates living in the village, begins to be pursued and surrounded by death.
