Requiem from the Darkness (京極夏彦 巷説百物語, Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari, lit.

"Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Hundred Stories") is an anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment based on the series of short stories written and collected under the title The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma (巷説百物語, Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari) by Natsuhiko Kyogoku.

Taking place during the Bakumatsu of the Edo period when the foundations of the Tokugawa shogunate have begun to sway, a young writer named Momosuke wishes to write a book of 100 ghost stories.

Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou, he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, and he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing...

To that end, they use their talents to set their target up to face his/her crimes before being executed and committing them to the next world.