TV series

Mysterious Transfer Student

2014 · 1 season

A quiet, eerie school mystery that unfolds slowly, blending everyday adolescent life with a lingering sense of the strange.

Overview: Iwata Koichi and Kagawa Midori are second-year students at Tozaiyama High School. One day, while coming home from school, they discover a shooting star rising up in the sky. The next day, Midori sees a shining figure in school and everyone on the school grounds starts talking about a ghost. At that point, a mysterious transfer student called Yamazawa Norio suddenly arrives at the school.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Mystery, identity, isolation, friendship
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
identity
isolation
friendship
coming-of-age
Places: school
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none