Yōkai Ningen Bem (1968)

Original title

妖怪人間ベム

Directed by

Yoshinori Odaka

Genre

horror anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three humanoid monsters fight evil creatures and protect humans who fear them. Each episode features them battling a new yokai threat while struggling with their own loneliness.

monster-of-the-weekmelancholicdarkatmosphericepisodicretrosupernatural

What happens

Humanoid Monster Bem (Japanese: 妖怪人間ベム, Hepburn: Yōkai Ningen Bemu) is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series, which first aired on Fuji TV between October 7, 1968 and March 31, 1969, on its 19:30–20:00 timeslot. The series was later remade into a second anime television series, which premiered in April 2006 in Japan on Animax, featuring a new cast, with a total of 26 episodes also produced. A live-action television drama adaptation premiered on NTV on October 22, 2011. A film was released on December 15, 2012. For the series' 50th anniversary, a third anime television series adaptation titled BEM was confirmed to be in production. The third series aired from July 14 to October 13, 2019. A new film titled BEM: Become Human, was released on October 2, 2020. It streamed on Funimation's website on October 29, 2020. A spin-off live-action film Yokai Ningen Bela was released on September 11, 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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