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Your Tales of the Unusual

2021 · 1 season

Five separate strange little stories that lure you in with odd, unsettling details and then twist into something frightening or darkly funny.

Created by
Tatsuya Ikezawa
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Yuina Kuroshima, Wakana Aoi, Shori Sato
Tagline
Bizarre worldviews, lots of foreshadowing, unpredictable plots. Outcomes that exceed the imagination, followed by terror. These are the stories of five people who get lost in weird, scary, even amusing worlds filled with twists and turns.
Overview
An omnibus drama based on short stories by Ryo Asai, who won the 22nd Novel Subaru Rookie Award for The Kirishima Thing and the 148th Naoki 35 Award for SOMEONE.

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Created by
Tatsuya Ikezawa
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Yuina Kuroshima, Wakana Aoi, Shori Sato
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • deception
  • fate
  • identity
  • obsession
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • anthology
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror5
Humour4
Realism6
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, mystery
Created by
Tatsuya Ikezawa
Written by
Chiho Watanabe
Starring
Yuina Kuroshima, Wakana Aoi, Shori Sato, Rena Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda, Shuji Kashiwabara, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Rena Takeda
Music
Nobuaki Nobusawa
Length
1 seasons, 5 episodes, 25 min each
Network
WOWOW Prime
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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