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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Skull Man / The Skull Man
Official name：THE SKULLMAN
Chinese name：骷髅人
Other names：スカルマン
Premiered：April 28, 2007
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Science fiction / Action / Suspense / Seek novelty / Source manga
Original author：石ノ森章太郎
Director：もりたけし
Scenario：大野木寛 / 出渕裕 / 水上清資 / 武半慎吾
Storyboard：高柳滋仁 / 京田知己 / 加藤敏幸 / 寺東克己 / もりたけし
Co-director：南康宏 / 寺東克己 / 中川聡 / 室谷靖 / 横山淳一
Studios：BONES
Producers：フジテレビ
Family：The Skull Man
Rating：12+

Skull Man

Set in an alternate history of Japan, freelance photographer Minagami Hayato returns to his hometown of Ootomo to investigate rumors of a man wearing a skull mask committing murders there.

Once in the city, he discovers connections between the victims and a local pharmaceutical company, a new religious sect, and strange half human, half animal creatures.

Along with a young photographer, he decides to find out who the Skull Man really is.

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EP1 - The Town Where the Mask Dances

Journalist Hayato Mikogami arrives in his hometown and begins investigating the enigmatic Skull Man. However, he runs into his target sooner than expected.
EP2 - The Man From The Past

Hayato, temporarily a murder suspect, is released from police custody due to his connections. His further investigations reveal a possible connection between the Skull Man and an arson case ten years ago.
EP3 - Crimson Rain Falls in the Afternoon

Yui receives a threatening letter and later becomes the target of blackmail. Kiriko follows Yui and Sayoko to the theater. However, the real target of the Skull Man is Sayoko, who turns out to be a mutant.
EP4 - Wandering Ghost

A dead body hung from a railroad bridge makes Hayato investigate the legend of the Phantom Monorail. However, once on board, he becomes the target of the Skull Man.
EP5 - Fabricated Blindspot

Usami, the Skull Man impostor, tries to eliminate the original. Meanwhile, Kiriko discovers a person from her past among the Byakureikai members.
EP6 - Shinigamis' Banquet

Hayato and Kiriko run across yet another Skull Man killing the town mayor. With other trails getting cold, the two decide to investigate the Byakureikai from the inside.
EP7 - Human-beast Tamer

Hayato and Kiriko are discovered and kicked out of Byakureikai, but Hayato discovers that one of the disciples there is an old acquaintance of Kiriko and the reason for her entering the town.
EP8 - The Maiden Whispers in the Moonlight

Kiriko and Hayato, fresh off a lead left by Jin, work together to investigate photographs left by him of the White Bell compound. His legacy draws them deeper into the events surrounding the White Bell cult. Meanwhile, coming out of cathartis, Kiriko runs into Maya again after the previous episodes' developments, Hayato warms up to an old flame by the name of Nami that returns to the village after him, and learns about his old school crush's unfortunate history after he left Otomo.
EP9 - Blessed Are the Impure

The Police step up patrols in the city in response to the escalating violence and wind up with more victims as a result, due to a monster lurking about. At the same time Nami is having recurring nightmares, driving her to the brink of desperation, while her unknowing admirer Detective Shinjou gets high hopes after being promised a date with her. In the mix of encircling circumstances, Hayato tries to support Nami and is rejected, just as events unfold which change everything for the three of them.
EP10 - The Circus Laughs at Midnight

Hayato and Kiriko hide out in the woods, since Hayato is now a wanted criminal now. It is finally announced that Father Kanzaki is the Skull man, and with his Lost Numbers he would fight the new enemy cyborgs.
EP11 - Darkness Take My Hand

After the battle between the Skull Man and the Cyborgs in the forest subsides, Hayato, Kiriko, and Detective Shinjou descend on Yoshio Kanzaki's church to finally learn the truth about the Skull Man, but they are not alone.
EP12 - Bloody Eve

Taking up the dying wishes of his close friend, Hayato returns to the city to stop Masaki Kuroshio's evil machinations from unfolding. In the meantime, all hell breaks loose in the city as the fighting mutants and the army are also attacked by the Corporation's mechanical war machines and cyborgs.
EP13 - Black Fable: All That I Love Leaves Me

Having succeeded in achieving his objective Masaki Kuroshio announces the birth of a new humanity, and the new Skull Man is the only one who can stop him. But this will cost him everything he has yet to give.