Series Synopsis
Something is happening in the village of Sotoba.
During a particularly hot summer, a strange new family moves into town.
Almost instantly, villagers start to succumb to very mysterious deaths. Like a
plague, it spreads through the community. With each passing day, the tiny
village begins teetering on the brink of annihilation.
Sotoba’s resident physician, Toshio Ozaki (voiced by Toru Okawa),
suspects these deaths to be the result of a new kind of epidemic. The young
doctor becomes desperate as more people die due to his inability to find a
cure.
Incapable of discovering the source, Dr. Ozaki starts to fear that the
village will be lost. With little else to go on, he begins to suspect the
calamity may not be the result of a disease. After investigating the matter, he
comes to the conclusion that the villagers are not dying from an infectious
virus, but instead they are being killed by dark creatures known as the Shiki.
