Ep. 1: Occult detective investigates livestock deaths and a boy with a lifestone pendant in rural village
Aired on January 10, 2021
Kohachi Inugami, an occult detective from Tokyo, arrives in a rural village to investigate rotting livestock corpses. He meets Kabane Kusaka, a dirty boy nicknamed Dorotabo who is scorned by inn staff. Inugami notes that animals lose organs during full moons and identifies Kabane’s pendant as a lifestone, proving he is not abandoned. After Yataro steals the necklace, Kabane transforms into a ghoul, frightening Yataro away. Inugami reveals Kabane is a hanyo, a human-ghoul hybrid, while he himself is a bakedanuki. The lifestone previously prevented transformation. Kabane kills a deer ghoul culprit. Inugami then shoots Kabane, claiming his true mission was to kill him. Kabane survives, waking up in Tokyo at Inugami’s detective agency.
Episodes
- Ep. 1 · Occult detective investigates livestock deaths and a boy with a lifestone pendant in rural village
- Ep. 2 · Inugami introduces himself as the Kemonoist and Kabane meets Shiki and Akira
- Ep. 3 · Kabane loses his head to Kitsune Superintendent Inari but survives thanks to Shiki's intervention and Inugami's charm.
- Ep. 4 · Kabane accepts a mission to retrieve a nekomata while Akira investigates frog Kemono deaths.
- Ep. 5 · A narrative centered on the act of unauthorized entry into a specific location.