Kaidan Restaurant
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怪談レストラン (Kaidan Resutoran) |
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| Genre | Horror, Mystery, Supernatural |
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| Directed by | Yoko Ikeda (Series Director) |
| Produced by | Tomomi Imagawa (TV Asahi) (eps 1-11) Tomoharu Matsuhisa (TV Asahi) (eps 11-23) Takashi Washio (Toei Animation) Yousuke Asama (Toei Animation) (eps 1-11) |
| Written by | Shōji Yonemura |
| Music by | Hiroshi Takaki |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | October 13, 2009 – June 8, 2010 |
| Episodes | 23 |
Kaidan Restaurant (怪談レストラン Kaidan Resutoran?) is a Japanese children's storybook series. The books take the form of horror anthologies, edited by Miyoko Matsutani and illustrated by Yoshikazu Takai and Kumiko Katō. As of 2007, there were 50 volumes published by Doshinsha. Over 8 million copies of the books have published so far.
The books were adapted into a TV anime series by Toei Animation, which began airing in 2009. It derives its name from "kaidan", which, here, loosely translates as "thriller" (from "kai", meaning strange, mysterious, rare or bewitching apparition, and "dan", meaning talk or recited narrative; a more direct translation would be a ghost or horror story). Rather than forming a linear plot, the anime follows the anthology format of the book and tells a collection of ghost stories similar to what would be traditionally told around a campfire. The anime was frequently among the 10 highest rated anime shows of the week in Japan.
The series was adapted into a hybrid live-action and anime feature film in 2010 starring Ayano Kudo.
There is a loose theme throughout the series of the "Thriller Restaurant", which is introduced in the first episode. The remainder of the series is a collection of ghost stories reminiscent of the Scary Stories anthology and Kwaidan.
Each episode is broken up into three "dishes", namely the Appetizer, the Main Dish, and the Dessert. The "Appetizer" is a short story featuring something supernatural, such as ghosts, spirits, or similar. The "Main Dish" is a longer ghost story similar to the Appetizer, usually with a twist. The "Dessert" is a ghost story told by one of the main characters while playing Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai?). These involve characters not related to the series and end with some sort of a moral lesson. From the thirteenth episode onwards, a fourth story is told while the ending score plays, replacing the original animation; these stories have a scary picture shown when the music ends.
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