Shikabane Hime: Aka

The Dead Dance

Makina is an undead teen mercenary trained to hunt down corpses that won’t stay buried. Her first mission is to take down a sicko with a thing for biting young girls.

The Game Continues

After three children killed in a highway accident come back to life as Shikabane, Makina is dispatched to kill them. However, Ouri unwittingly interferes when he helps one of the Shikabane escape, mistaking her for a normal child named Hikaru, which irritates Makina. Keisei, Contracted Monk and Makina's counterpart, along with his fellow monks who are part of an anti-corpse group known as the Kougon Sect, assist Makina in taking down the three Shikabane children, who combine themselves into one while being pursued in a park. After Ouri shows Makina a drawing that Hikaru had sketched of her family, he runs back to his apartment in tears. (Source: Wikipedia)

Voice of Night

An unknown Shikabane, heard by a cry of a baby, is responsible for killing young women, and Makina finds her task difficult in hunting it down. Ouri, who was sick from school, finds himself inside an infirmary of a newborn nursery, in the care of a doctor named Sunao Rukuoka, soon crossing paths with Makina. After Makina finds a baby housed alone in the nursery and attempts to shoot it against Ouri's plea, they are attacked by a Shikabane, revealed to be the baby's mother. Keisei learns from Rika Aragami that someone familiar with Shikabane is conducting illegal experiments on inanimate dead bodies in order to turn them into monstrous Shikabane. Although Rukuoka tries to do this to Makina, she frees herself and shoots the Shikabane to its death. When Makina then points her gun at Rukuoka, Keisei arrives and manages to stop her before she pulls the trigger. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hymn of Tragedy

Keisei dispatches Makina to destroy a J-pop singer named Kun Osaki, rumored to have become a Shikabane after refusing to accept her death without having a concert. However, the job is made more difficult because Osaki has ties to organized yakuza mobsters, who interfered with the first assassination attempt after being tipped off by a mysterious monk. Ouri, digging for information regarding a fire that had killed Makina and her family in the past, is led to her tombstone in the Hakuji Temple. After he finds Makina there, she explains that Osaki is her next target, which urges him to help her no matter what. The two go back to find Osaki, who then turns into a Shikabane. Keisei arrives and explains to Ouri the relationship between Shikabane Hime and Contracted Monks. While playing a soundtrack from Osaki's album cover, Keisei gives Makina a hand in destroying Osaki. (Source: Wikipedia)

Traitor Monk

Keisei tells Ouri the true nature of his job, which later results in his suspension from duty. A Shikabane that has taken the form of an SUV lurks in a rental car facility at night, killing all who dare to ride in it. A mysterious but beautiful transfer student named Itsuki Yamagami arrives in the school, who becomes good friends with Ouri on her first day. As Makina is left on her own to track down the SUV at night, she finds Ouri and Itsuki at the rental car facility. As the three ride inside the SUV, it takes control and tells them to kill each other until one is left, lest they all will die. In retaliation, Makina shoots the SUV from the inside and kicks Ouri out. Ouri encounters a traitor priest of the Kougon Sect, explaining that the Shikabane Hime will gain entry to heaven after killing 108 Shikabane. Itsuki happens to be a Shikabane Hime in the care of a Contracted Monk named Takamasa Sogi. (Source: Wikipedia)

At the End of the Dangerous Run

The traitor priest is revealed to be Akasha Shishido, a member of the Kougon Sect who went rogue due to his radical views regarding Shikabane Hime. Makina defeats the SUV Shikabane after being assisted by Keisei, who violated his suspension in doing so, having to severe her right arm in sacrifice. After figuring out that Akasha used a dark artifact to create Shikabane from the human lives suffered inside the SUV, a desperate Keisei turns the dark artifact against Akasha, temporarily routing the rogue priest, but at great cost to his own health. Ouri narrowly avoids a sniper's bullet from a heretofore unseen third Shikabane Hime and Contracted Monk observing the battle from above. The entire Kougon Sect is shocked to learn that Akasha has resurfaced. Keisei is reinstated but is recovering from the psychic backlash of using the dark artifact. (Source: Wikipedia)

The False Power of Words

It is explained that Akasha was the sole survivor of a suppression unit that were after a group of powerful Shikabane five years ago, and his Shikabane Hime was split in half during the battle. After failing to restore her body a week later, he stole secrets ritual scriptures before going rogue. Ouri talks to his classmate Sumitori, who shows Ouri a blog written by an ex-classmate named Mitsuyoshi, rumored to have been electrocuted. Ouri deduces that Mitsuyoshi had earlier have dropped out of school and somehow later turned into a Shikabane with telekinetic abilities. After encountering Mitsuyoshi at night, Ouri is protected by a new Shikabane Hime and Contracted Monk: a brawler Minai Ruo and her cold, cruel handler Shuji Isaki. Despite Makina and Minai's intervention in trying to kill him, Mitsuyoshi's abilities and his fighting strength resist their efforts to subdue him. (Source: Wikipedia)

Serenity

Mitsuyoshi is stunned after hearing Sumitori's voice through Ouri's cellphone, allowing Minai to defeat Mitsuyoshi. The next day, Minai needs to confiscate to Ouri's cellphone as evidence, but offers to replace his cellphone in return. Shuji, trying to contact Minai but with no response, is kidnapped and later killed by thugs he had offended recently before. This causes Minai to begin reverting to an evil Shikabane driven solely by its regret. She is hunted down by Saki Amase, who wields a giant hammer. When Saki hesitates to kill Minai, Ouri flees and secrets her away into a bar where he works part-time, going out to plan a way for her to escape from the city. Unbeknownst to Ouri, his manager is a Contracted Monk. However, sympathetic to Minai's plight, Minai is told that if she makes a new contract with Ouri as her Contracted Monk, she will be able to return to being a Shikabane Hime, but she chooses to destroy herself instead. (Source: Wikipedia)

Set Your Heart Aflutter

Makina saves a group of students exploring a haunted building from a Shikabane as a bandit that attacked them with money. Nozomi Kasuga, one of the students, becomes infatuated with Makina and obsessed with death. Ouri questions an uncommunicative Makina about what happened to Minai. Curious about Ouri's compassion for Shikabane Hime and sensitivity to Shikabane, Makina approaches Keisei, who describes Ouri's first appearance at the orphanage at the age of three. Ouri was disaffected and detached from the world until he rescued a black cat crying by the riverbed. Shortly afterwards, the black cat was tragically run over by a car. Ouri, deeply affected by this incident, became keenly aware of death. Nozomi finds Makina and suggests that Ouri could never know Makina like she does, but Makina retorts by stating Ouri knows more about her than Nozomi ever will. (Source: Wikipedia)

Stars on the Ground

After learning that Minai was destroyed by a member of the Kougon Sect. Keishi rushes out of his hospital room to confront the Gon Dai Sojo, but he is calmed by the Dai Sojo. Nozomi shows Ouri a magazine article featuring a cult with followers that regenerate after being burned alive. Under the belief that it is related to the Shikabane, Ouri attends the cult's meeting, but is not impressed. The cult's founder Ooyatsuka is confronted and then killed by a powerful group of Shikabane known as the Seven Stars. The traitor monk Akasha allies himself with the Seven Stars to plot the total destruction of his former comrades at the Kougon Sect. Meanwhile, Keisei identifies the Contracted Monk who destroyed Minai as Sadahiro Mibu, Ouri's manager at the bar. With their cover blown, Sadahiro and his Shikabane Hime named Akira Tōoka abandon the bar, leaving Ouri unemployed. Makina has flashbacks of the Seven Stars, suggesting she was assaulted and killed by them. (Source: Wikipedia)

One Night

The Kougon Sect discover from surveillance videos the Seven Stars are in the area, led by Hokuto. As Rika assigns Keisei to pursue the Seven Stars, this gives Makina the resolve to finally have her vengeance against them. Ouri returns to living at the orphanage for the time being since he is unemployed, and Keishi reveals more about his bond with Makina. He had been raised by Makina's parents as a child before moving into the orphanage owned by Riko when he got older. However, after the Seven Stars burned Makina's family alive, he eventually agreed to make a pact to be Makina's Contracted Monk for her to avenge her family. Meanwhile, the plan to destroy the Kougon Sect advances when Ena makes his move and possesses Ouri. Kowaku and Akasha attack Makina and Keisei at the temple grounds. As Akasha retreats after revealing that this frontal assault was a ruse, Keisei goes in hot pursuit and Makina is left at the temple grounds to engage Kowaku. While checking on the safety of the orphans, Keisei is stabbed by the possessed Ouri. (Source: Wikipedia)

Dawn

After releasing Ouri from being possessed by Ena, Akasha appears and mortally wounds Keisei, taking out his left eye. Makina, struggling at this moment, is having a hard time shooting Kowaku due to his ability to change the makeup of his body. When Kowaku follows Makina into the orphanage, Keisei uses ancient scrolls to harden Kowaku's body and then to attack Akasha. Keisei, suffering from his wounds, transfers his pact to Ouri, much to Makina's sadness. With a new resolve, Makina destroys Kowaku, which drains much of Ouri's energy. However, Akasha still has some pity for Ouri and secretly heals his bruises. (Source: Wikipedia)

Funeral Program for a Contracted Monk

During the funeral, Ouri is approached by head inspector Rinsen Shirae, who says that Keisei was called into heaven before turning into a Shikabane. Later on, Sougen Takamine, Keisei's first mentor, defines and describes the roles of the Shikabane, Shikabane Hime and Contracted Monks. He then explains that it is the deed of the Shikabane Hime to kill 108 Shikabane to gain entry into heaven. Although Rinsen advises him not to, Ouri decides to become a Contracted Monk to honor Keisei's name and look after Makina's welfare. He encounters Sadahiro and Akira, who were aware of Ouri's involvement with Makina due to his former acquaintance with Minai before she was destroyed. Before they leave, he tells them that he is determined to become a Contracted Monk just like his older brother. Sprinkled throughout the episode are brief scenes from the series. (Source: Wikipedia)

Path of Light

My Enemy

Beloved Aberration

Itsuki's Form

Nature and Regrets

Monster Named Happiness

Mundane Wish

My Mother was Defiled

The Value of the Living

To the Other Side of Hell

One Hundred and Eight Lies