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Format
TV
Episodes
12
Episode Duration
23 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Winter 2021
Aired
2021-01-10 to 2021-03-28
Source
Manga
Rating
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Genres
Action
Mythology
Mystery
Shounen
Supernatural
Studios
Ajia-do
Producers
Frontier Works
Lantis
Shueisha
Yomiuri TV Enterprise
Bandai Namco Arts
JTB Next Creation
Licensors
Funimation
Kemono Jihen (怪物事変)
Kohachi Inugami, a detective who specializes in the occult, arrives at a remote village in the Japanese countryside, tasked by a hostess at a local inn to investigate a string of incidents involving rotting and mutilated livestock corpses that have been appearing for seemingly no reason. While surveying, Inugami notices a peculiar young boy working in the fields. Evaded by his peers and called "Dorotabou" for his stench, the young farmhand is surprised that anybody would take an interest in him. Inugami, piqued with curiosity, enlists Dorotabou in helping him with the investigation, despite scorned looks from the villagers. Unbeknownst to Dorotabou, this investigation will reveal a strange new world to him—one of the beast-like entities known as Kemono existing in tandem with humans—along with breathing new purpose into his previously empty life. [Written by MAL Rewrite]