Requiem from the Darkness - S01

<p>Hoping to revive his sagging career by gathering one hundred ghost stories, struggling author Momosuke Yamaoka travels across Edo-period Japan in search of material. On his journey, the young man wanders deep into the mountains, where he meets a monk named Mataichi. Ignoring the monk's warning to turn back, Momosuke continues on and soon sees Mataichi and two companions commit a murder. It turns out that Mataichi's group also looks into supernatural cases, with the goal of making those at fault pay the ultimate price.</p> <p>Still hunting for stories, Momosuke keeps running into the three outlaws and gets pulled deeper into their plans each time. As the author drifts closer to the world of darkness, he struggles with the morality of what the group does and with the line between humans and the supernatural.</p>