TV series

Fear Newspaper

2020 · 1 season

A creeping, dread-soaked mystery that unfolds quietly, making ordinary mornings feel ominous as predicted tragedies loom.

Overview: Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank but the stories in the newspapers begin happening one after the other. Murders, accidents, abuse, natural disasters, injustice... these newspapers predict all sorts of tragedies. What is the truth behind them?
How it feels: Eerie, dark, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Fate, death, mystery, guilt
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Full breakdown

Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 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: fate
death
mystery
guilt
survival
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none