Shiki -2010- Japanese Anime -

The answer won’t fit on a stake.

Shiki asks: Is loyalty to your species inherently moral? Or is it just tribalism with a pulse? Shiki -2010- Japanese Anime

On the surface, Shiki is a rural gothic tragedy: a remote Japanese village, a mysterious new family in a Western-style castle, and a summer epidemic of deaths that aren’t quite deaths. But strip away the vampire mechanics, and what remains is a slow, surgical dissection of —and the terrifying realization that the other might be you. The answer won’t fit on a stake