Air date: January 24, 2008

What is shamanism? According to Mircea Eliade, it refers to the techniques of slipping soul and ecstasy, while Ioan M. Lewis puts its importance as that of spirit possession. The only way to rationally understand something essentially unknowable is to speculate by rituals and symbolism. Nevertheless, the system of shamans still exists in present societies, although it is called with different names.

Script: Chiaki J. Konaka
Storyboard: Katsuhisa Yamada
Director: Hiroshi Tamada
Animation Director: Akiharu Ishii