Horror Collector
Oshimeter
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The internet is absolutely drowning in creepypastas and urban legends, stories everyone shares but nobody actually believes. Fushigi Chino believes them, because he's seen what happens when they turn out to be real. This kid in a red hood wanders from town to town across Japan, showing up wherever something strange is happening, investigating supernatural incidents that most people write off as hoaxes or pranks. He's not alone, either. His companion is Jimmy, a former photographer who got turned into a dog with a human face, which is exactly as unsettling as it sounds. Together they're tracking down Fushigi's twin sister, Himitsu, who has the dangerous ability to actually bring the supernatural into existence. Each episode digs into a different urban legend or eerie occurrence, and the show takes its time building atmosphere rather than rushing to the scares. The vibe sits somewhere between Mushishi's quiet, wandering investigation format and Ghost Hunt's more direct confrontations with the paranormal, but filtered through modern internet horror culture, think cursed videos, cryptid sightings, and unsolved disappearances that started as forum posts. If you liked Mononoke's layered approach to supernatural storytelling, this hits a similar nerve. It's tagged as a kids' demographic, but the tone leans genuinely dark and mysterious, so don't expect it to pull its punches just because of that label. Based on a novel, airing as a TV series in 2026.
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The streamer getting dragged off the roof by nothing was the one that got under my skin. He's screaming into his phone asking chat for help and they're just watching him go. That's the whole internet now
The static shots and stiff character animation bugged me at first and then the loop hallway started and I stopped caring. Something about the flat ugly look makes the curse feel more wrong
Two curses crammed into one episode and both still landed for me. The rooftop blue clothes thing and then the AI going red-eyed worked as a double feature. People keep calling it a speed run like that's a bad word
That AI voice really does sound like a toy robot from 1987 and it kept pulling me out of the scenes. Hard to feel dread from an app that talks like a microwave
Can someone explain why Himitsu is doing any of this. Every episode I get more questions about her and less answers. The fear she's carrying must be rough but manifesting curses on random reporters is a lot
Jimmy was a human the whole time?? I sat there with my mouth open when the transformation happened. Poor guy just wanted a scoop and now he's a dog with his own face on it. That is genuinely upsetting
Fushigi just watching people get cursed and not really caring is getting harder to ignore. Saving folks while acting like they're an inconvenience is a strange look for a lead. Curious where they take him
Legend of the week wrapped up fast but I didn't mind. Punchy fits the anthology thing. The Jimmy reveal needed the room it got
The moment Atsuko grabs Jimmy and Fushigi just says he's not his partner hit way harder than any ghost this episode. That flat delivery after she'd been crying about Sachi. Cold. Told me everything about this guy in one line
Jimmy holding back what the app told him at the end is going to sit with me all week. He looked genuinely scared. The dog is the emotional center of this show and nobody expected that going in
This one felt rushed to me. The faceless child legend got maybe a scene and a half before we were back at the office for the Jimmy stuff. Would have liked the woods to breathe more
Himitsu touching Jimmy's face and just changing him into that thing with no explanation is the scariest beat of the season so far. She didn't even seem angry. That blank calm is what gets me
Saito stealing Jimmy's photos and just carrying on like nothing happened made me angrier than the curse did. Dude was his colleague. Then he starts taking orders from an umbrella man. No thanks
The rainy scenes carried this one. Something about wet streets and a kid in a black hood standing in the woods does more than any monster scream could. The OP too. Still not skipping it
That sakura tree reveal got under my skin. She kept chasing a boy who could never touch her and it was the tree using her the whole time. Rough
Momo is killing the mood for me. Jimmy is standing in a haunted street and the cat is cracking jokes. Throw the cat in a mirror
Horror works really well as an anthology series, and I appreciate getting one of those in October.
People are too hard on Fushigi. The man watched a girl get dragged by a tree curse and still carried Jimmy home on his back. That is not a jerk
Fushigi telling Jimmy he does nothing but disappoint him right after the mirror ghost got away was cold. I get the guy has trauma but Jimmy is literally a dog trying his best
I like this spin on the Bloody Mary story, and the Cursed Cherry Tree was Interestingly done.
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