Episode 117 min 45 secFreeThe Night She Was OfferedLeft bound as an offering by her village, the last shrine maiden is tied instead by a red thread to a fox god freed after a thousand years, and must bring the ruined shrine back to life before dawn.
Episode 214 min 54 secFreeShiranuiAyame speaks the name of the sealing clan aloud for the first time, and Azusa, its eldest daughter, climbs to the shrine with iron nails. Ayame refuses to step aside, but a single nail driven into the pillar begins to unravel the fox god's fingertips.
Episode 313 min 50 secFreeThe Morning NailAyame grips the slipping thread from her own end and wrenches the sealing family's nail out with bare hands. At dusk by the lowest torii gate, she sees that the fox god cannot reach even a hand's width beyond it.
Episode 412 min 06 sec20The Bottom ToriiBefore the priest who sent her up as an offering, Ayame grips the thread instead of leaving and bows to him first. The notice he brings says the shrine will be erased unless thirty worshippers sign its register by the winter solstice.
Episode 516 min 06 sec20The Inner ShrineWhen the name of the sealing clan rolls off the ledger as beads of ink and into the mountain, Ayame follows them into the cave where Hisui was chained, to hear what that family prayed into its iron a thousand years ago.
Episode 615 min 29 secNew20Suzu's TabooBreaking her own count, the fox god pulls the thread early, and a single line of the enshrinement prayer sticks in her throat like a fishbone. Going down the mountain for the first time to learn what it was, the shrine maiden Ayame tells her grandmother, for the first time in her life, that she is afraid.
HisuiLove interestA fox god, free after a thousand years under a seal. The villagers offered her a shrine maiden to eat. She didn't eat the girl. She bound her with red thread instead. She still remembers the face of every human who helped lock her away.
AyameProtagonistFor twenty years you were the only shrine maiden here. And all that time, there was no god on the altar you bowed to. Only cold ash. On the night the seal broke, the villagers laid you on the floor of the worship hall as an offering. The fox god who walked out after a thousand years didn't eat you. She tied a red thread around your wrist and made you her shrine maiden instead. If you don't want to be eaten, you have to bring the ruined shrine back to life. And your new master hasn't forgiven a single one of the humans who sealed her away.
Sakaki GennoshinThe priest down in the village who has never given up on the ruined shrine. He sent Ayame up the mountain himself, and he has paid for it every night since by keeping a lantern lit.
Shiranui AzusaHeir to the family that sealed the fox god a thousand years ago. She climbs the mountain with nails and paper charms, set on shutting away whatever has gotten loose.
Amamiya SoichiroHead of the electric company bringing streetlights to the city. He hands over papers with a price already on the shrine land, and he brags about how fast the night is disappearing.
KohakuA fox spirit who served Hisui long before the seal. She talks far too much for someone who waited a thousand years, and she reports her mistress's mood like a weather forecast.
Granny SuzuAyame's grandmother, and the shrine maiden before her. She can't climb the mountain anymore, but she still knows exactly what the mountain wants.
ChiyoA waitress at a cafe in town. Any rumor going around the city lands on Chiyo's tray before it reaches the papers.
Horie TatsuoA reporter who covers ghost stories. One word about fox fire on the mountain and he's grabbing his camera. Ghosts don't scare him half as much as deadlines do.
Akagi JinThe young patrolman from the police box at the foot of the mountain. He keeps climbing the shrine steps with his rounds as the excuse, and every time he leaves something behind.
