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Two candles left. Fear is welling up, bubbling inside of a tea pot. The lamp oil is burning away, soon, the final candle will be extinguished. What will we see, in the murk?

Time is a circle. The Heavenly Child, it is something that 'eats' Kudan. But to know of the Kudan is to know that it is inevitably fleeting by nature. The cyclical nature of it, perhaps there's just one or a dozen Kudan - Endlessly hunted down and 'eaten' by the Heavenly Child. It is also a...

The profane and the divine are of the same coin, just different sides. Flesh-rending and bone-grinding, I wonder if it's some sort of ritual too. But my question would be what it's goals would be in the end. All curses have, at least in traditional Japanese folklore, a corpus and a symptomatic...

A rope to the heavens. A kawa bound by the gods. Boundaries, liminal spaces where things that are and aren't exist. Oh, this is quite good, quite nice indeed. We shall be watching with great interest.

The curse was broken the moment the poor girl gave the coin away, for the two five yen coins. I like to think that it was, indeed, Kokkuri-San giving a comforting answer to the girl. Death happens, whether by one own's hands or by the randomness of life. Three more candles to go, three more...

A wonderful classic 2chan tale of terror. A modern day kaidan, that's the word. Terror spreads through word of mouth, before it takes it's own life. Just enough things to intrigue the readers; The why, what, whom and all that.

The Hyakku Monogatari always was meant to bring terror into the world. Once the final candle was snuffed out, something terrible will happen to the storyteller. Whether whatever is possessing Hina is actually Yuma's mother or not, one thing is for sure - Something will be born in the end...

The Gu ritual has always been known to only cause suffering, not just for those who are cursed by it but especially by the ones who use it. A hell of their own making, as it were. A fitting ending for the story and one that is quite stark in nature as well. Thank you for the translations, it was...

If you've read or heard about the original story, the visuals here makes it even more chilling. Hair, cupboards, nails, and paradise. Four words that links into the Kinkisaki Pandora tale. And names as well. True names, given names.

It also occurs to me that Oota Taneko, the deputy of the Replaced, is also someone of some small historical note. Could it be, and I am simply theorising here, that the leader of the Replaced is someone who's known to Abe no Seimei? Maybe someone who's well known to be an enemy of Seimei? Could...

The replaced priest with one arm. He's called Nankobo Tenkai, a famous buddhist monk back in the Sengoku era and served diligently as an advisor to the Tokugawa Shogunate. Maybe he's most famous that in most Japanese fiction he's in, he's actually Akechi Mitsuhide after he was presumably killed...