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The Lost Village (2016)

The Lost Village poster
Original title
迷家-マヨイガ-
Directed by
Tsutomu Mizushima
Genre
animation, mystery, comedy, drama
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 37 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of young people with troubled pasts join a bus tour to a remote abandoned village in hopes of starting over. Once there, they begin to experience strange phenomena and tensions rise as secrets are revealed.

mysteriousatmosphericsuspensefulmelancholicquirkyslow-burnuneasyintrospective

What happens

The Lost Village (迷家-マヨイガ-, Mayoiga) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Diomedéa, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and written by Mari Okada, with character designs by Naomi Ide and music by Masaru Yokoyama. The series began airing on April 2, 2016, and finished airing on June 18, 2016. The title, Mayoiga (迷い家; "Illusion House"), originally stands for a Japanese folklore. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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