Overview
- Critics and viewers highlight its unsettling atmosphere that favors sustained tension over jump scares.
- Reviewers single out director Ryohei Takeshita’s visual composition, drawing comparisons to Twin Peaks for making the ordinary feel ominous.
- The story blends supernatural horror with a coming-of-age thread in a rural village after Hikaru’s weeklong disappearance.
- Audience reception is strong with an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score and social posts calling the series haunting, disturbing, and perfect.
- Adapted from Mokumokuren’s manga, the Japanese-language series features Shuichiro Umeda and Chiaki Kobayashi as Hikaru and Yoshiki.