Gannibal
"In this village, you will be eaten alive."
Overview
After causing a major incident, police officer Daigo Agawa takes his wife and daughter to live in the remote mountain village of Kuge. It seems the perfect place to recover from the ordeal, despite the mysterious disappearance of a previous officer posted there. One day, the body of an old woman is found on the mountain. The Goto family says she was attacked by a bear, but Daigo notices a human bite mark. It soon becomes clear that not all is as it seems in the village.
Gannibal presents a clash between urban policing and the insular traditions of Kuge. When Daigo Agawa relocates his family to this remote mountain village, the promise of quiet recovery quickly dissolves into an investigation of a single bite mark on a corpse. The local Goto family insists on a bear attack, but the evidence points toward a much grimmer reality regarding the residents.
The tension depends on the friction between a lawman and a closed society guarding its own secrets. Yuya Yagira portrays a protagonist caught in an escalating spiral of murder and rural madness. The series adapts a manga to create a setting where the geography feels as hostile as the people. It focuses on the psychological breakdown of an outsider attempting to expose a village operating under its own set of brutal rules.
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- First Aired
- December 28, 2022
- Status
- Ended
- Episode Runtime
- 50 minutes
- Origin
- JP
- TMDB Votes
- 78