Description
Episode Title:
— Drawings —.Episode Description:
This episode does not begin with the same opening as the other episodes in the series. Instead, the episode immediately begins with a scene of the boy in the opening title sequence from season 3 sitting on a playground slide drawing while other three other children are playing hopscotch. A woman comes onto the playground and it is revealed that she has just moved to this town to work as a teacher. She tries to talk to the boy, but he walks away. While teaching, she notices the same boy is sitting in the back of the class drawing. After class she asks him to draw her, but he claims that it would be boring. Immediately after, another teacher approaches her and says that three children were absent from class and were also missing. He claims that they were at the park that morning, but then walks away. The teacher walks home late at night and spots the boy sketching a picture of a monster assimilating a man they both see in a phone booth. She decides to follow him over the course of the next few days and observes many different monsters such as a giant heron eating a man and a clothing store manager being chased by an army of mannequins and the boy drawing them while laughing. The following day, she looks at his sketchbook and sees a picture of the three children playing hopscotch being grabbed by a monster, then realizing it was of the children that she had seen earlier that had gone missing. She suddenly sees the boy behind her drawing, who claims that he will draw her now, saying she's much more interesting than she was when he first met her. She becomes surrounded by the monsters from the entire third season and screams as the boy's face slowly fades into the mask that the kamishibaiya from the first two seasons wore. Then the kamishibai panel that was used as a ending card for seasons one and two slams and the storyteller says "the end" (oshimai) as he did in the first two seasons. The camera pans out and reveals the opening scene of season 1, and then to a group of children watching the story teller with open mouths and blank looks on their faces. The end card slams again and the camera pans out to the children again, this time their faces become more distorted and monstrous, taking on the characteristics of a frog, a prawn and a sea slug. This happens numerous more times with the children's faces becoming more and more hideous, until it shows the boy standing in front of the kamishibai theater wearing the original kamishibaiya's mask. The end card from season 1 and 2 comes up again, and this time, the boy says the words "The End..."
