Kanami is the owner of a roadside restaurant, Chigusa.   ~!Kanami&#039;s mother dies due to anemia and becomes a Shiki. After finding her way back to Kanami&#039;s house, the mother is too helpless to kill and survive on her own, so Kanami keeps her alive by feeding her glasses of her own blood, not wanting her mother to kill innocent people. Kanami&#039;s friend and co-worker Maeda Motoko finds out about Kanami&#039;s secret and promises not to tell anyone. However, Motoko becomes jealous of Kanami getting her mother back (while Motoko&#039;s entire family died at the hands of her father-in-law, who became a shiki) and reveals this to the villagers, who broke into Kanami&#039;s house and killed her mother. After this incident, Kanami is seen leaving the village when the Shiki extermination continues.  !~

During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her. 

Stephanie Young is an American voice actress who works for anime series of FUNimation Entertainment. She has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films. She is also a jazz singer, currently being the lead vocalist in her husband's band, "The Brehm's".

The story takes place in a particularly hot summer in the nineties, in a small quiet village called Sotoba. A series of mysterious deaths begin to spread in the village, at the same time when a strange family moves into the long abandoned Kanemasa mansion. Toshio Ozaki, dean of the only hospital in Sotoba, initially suspects an epidemic. But as investigations continue and the deaths begin to pile up, he becomes convinced that they are the work of the undead plaguing the village. A young man named Natsuno Yuuki, who hates living in the village, begins to be pursued and surrounded by death.<br><br>
(Source: Wikipedia)

The official website of the Shiki television anime series confirmed on Saturday that the anime's eighth and ninth Blu-ray Disc/DVD volumes will each include an unaired episode. The eighth volume will ship with Episode 21 and the unaired episode "Dai Futat&#333; to Han wa" (a wordplay for "Episode 20.5") on May 25, 2011, while the ninth volume will ship with Episode 22 and the unaired episode "Dai Futat&#333;-ichi to Han wa" ("Episode 21.5") on June 22.
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(Source: Anime News Network)

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