Descending Stories

About Descending Stories

When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's rendition of the story called "Shinigami," he is determined to become his apprentice.

Descending Stories is an animation series made for MBS and TBS. Tomokazu Seki appears as Yotarou (voice), Koichi Yamadera as Sukeroku Yuurakutei (voice), Akira Ishida as Yakumo Yuurakutei (voice), and Kappei Yamaguchi as Amaken (voice).

Its 2 seasons and 25 episodes aired between January 2016 and March 2017. That is around 13 episodes a season. It is adapted from a manga.

Shelv files it under training, art, josei, and performing arts. It streams on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It scores 8.0 out of 10 from 65 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

Kids on the Slope, The Piano Forest, and Hunter x Hunter make useful companions to Descending Stories, all filed under bromance, coming of age, and based on manga.