As of July 2026, Shiki Season 1 aired in 2010 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Shiki Season 1

2010 22 Episodes Animation · Mystery ⭐ 8/10

Shiki Season 1 has built a real following among viewers who want their sci-fi to think as hard as it looks. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 225 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Nobuhiko Okamoto leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Shiki Season 1 earns its spot. Shiki Season 1 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. Season 1 of Shiki includes 22 episodes. It aired from July 2010 to December 2010. This season stars Nobuhiko Okamoto, Wataru Takagi and GACKT. Nobuhiko Okamoto and Wataru Takagi lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2010. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details early on that only make sense later. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Shiki Season 1 a chance. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Nobuhiko Okamoto grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.

📡 Where to Watch Shiki Season 1

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🎬 Shiki Season 1 — Episode Guide

Megumi hates living in the small village of Sotoba. She dreams of graduating from high school and moving to the city. Only two things hold her interest in the village, the giant European Mansion that was recently built atop a hillside and the boy Yuuki Natsuno. The owners of the mansion, the Kiri...

Megumi is dead and a burial is held for her. Doctor Ozaki is shocked at her sudden death and requests permission to perform an autopsy to determine the exact cause of her death but Megumi's father refuses. Later two more villagers die suddenly. Growing concerned about so many deaths happen in a s...

Dr. Ozaki is convinced that Nao Yasumori has contracted the same illness that killed Megumi and several other in the village. He conducts numerous tests, all of which return conflicting results that do not match any known disease. Nao dies just like the others from an unknown cause. Meanwhile Nat...

Dr. Ozaki holds a meeting with the staff at the clinic and announces his belief that an epidemic of unknown origin is present in the town and his killed 19 people. He asks them to be vigilant in looking for people exhibiting the known symptoms but not to tell anyone in fear of starting a mass panic...

Seishin talks to the relatives of the recently deceased and discovers the pattern that all of them became ill and weak only a few days before they died and that many quit their jobs before becoming ill. He also learns that many families have suddenly picked up moved in the middle of the night witho...

Natsuno investigates local stories of the "Risen" after seeing that someone had disturbed the torn-up pieces of Megumi's letter he threw out. Meanwhile, Masao's brother Hiromi has died of the same mysterious causes, and Masao is bedridden with peculiar bite wounds. Seishin meets with Dr. Ozaki with...

Seventh Killing Spirit

Masao awakens to find himself lying on a bed of flowers, six feet under. Natsuno joins forces with Kaori and Akira and convinces them to help him dig up Megumi’s grave to confirm if she is really dead or if she has “risen”. Meanwhile after his brief encounter with Natsuno, Dr. Ozaki has become con...

Natsuno, Kaori and Akira dig up Megumi’s grave to confirm if she has truly risen or not. Finding her coffin empty Kaori is suddenly attack by a strange man whose body is as cold as a corpse. Later unbeknownst to them Natsuno’s parents are visited by a strange girl who asks to be let into the house...

Dr. Ozaki and Seishin vainly try to save an elderly patients life. After a blood transfusion seems to return her strength Dr. Ozaki is sure that he has discovered the cure. That night he is shown irrefutable proof that the plague is actually a vampire plot. Join them or die.

Natsuno house is visited by a strange young girl who demands to be invited in. When Natsuno returns home his parents tell him about the girl but she is gone. Realizing that his parents have given permission to the vampire to enter his house at any time he prepares for them to come for him. Sure t...

Eleventh Slaughter

While Sotoba's villagers are debating the cause of the frequent deaths, the town shaman points her finger at the residents of Kanemasa mansion.

Natsuno learns more about the Shiki and warns Kaori and Akira to leave town before it is to late.

Thirteenth Tragedy

Natsuno may be dead but will he rise? Dr. Ozaki discovers that his wife is already in the final stages of having her blood drained. After she flat lines during the night he tells everyone that he will take care of her, but how does one take care of a dead person?

Fourteenth Death

Kaori's father suddenly collapses. At the clinic, Dr. Ozaki studies his wife's corpse for clues on how to combat the Shiki.

Fifteenth Deceit

Dr. Ozaki tries to tell the townspeople the truth but is laughed off by the villagers believing that he is overworked at the clinic. He then tries to gather evidence to inform the outside world of what is occurring only to find that the Shiki have taken control of the local government and have alte...

Sixteenth Skull

Kaori and Akira find their mother near death. Akira decides to take action and goes to the temple to collect talismans to ward off the Shiki while Kaori prepares stakes. At the same time Tooru is invited to tea with Sunako and learns of her origins as a Shiki.

Seventeenth Killing Spirit

Seishin finds that his bed ridden father has disappeared without a trace. Kaori shows up at the temple covered in dirt her hair and eyes crazed with desperation and begs Seishin to give her last rights so that she will be ready when Megumi comes to kill her like the rest of her family. Dr. Ozaki m...

Eighteenth Night

Natsuno is paid a visit by Tatsumi who informs him that he is one of only four known “werewolf” Shiki, those that can walk in the open sun. That night Tooru is taken to the huts where the Shiki have been putting bodies waiting to see if they turn, inside he finds nurse Ritsuko has turned but has po...

Nineteenth Coffin

With the village finally believing Dr. Ozaki about the Shiki they begin to plan on how to exterminate them. Sunako hearing about Chizuro’s death orders Tatsumi to prepare the Shiki to finish off the village by killing or turning the bitten on the survivors.

Twentieth Mourning

With the first day drawing to a close the village has killed many Shiki but Dr. Ozaki believes that they haven’t most of them. Tooru is forced to make a decision about Ritsuko refusing to drink blood and as dawn breaks on the 2nd day a new form off attack is revealed by the Shiki.

🎭 Cast of Shiki Season 1

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Tōru Mutō (voice)

Wataru Takagi

Tatsumi (voice)

GACKT

GACKT

Seishirō Kirishiki (voice)

Haruka Tomatsu

Megumi Shimizu (voice)

Kazuyuki Okitsu

Kazuyuki Okitsu

Seishin Muroi (voice)

Koki Uchiyama

Natsuno Yūki (voice)

Toru Okawa

Toru Okawa

Toshio Ozaki (voice)

Nozomi Sasaki

Nozomi Sasaki

Ritsuko Kunihiro (voice)

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