While sorting through her boxes, she finds a disturbing newspaper that depicts four students being slain in a gas explosion. the newspaper is dated some days before and Shizuru doesn’t think much of it.
But that night, at the stroke of midnight, there is a determined rapping at her door, and when she approaches the door, another newspaper is slipped thru her mailbox. This time the terrifying depiction is a girl hurtling to her death, a suicide from jumping off a building.
She rushes to the door to see who might have left the disturbing sheet, but there is no one outside....
Shizuru's forgotten about it the next day, focused on her new job as a delivery courier.
But when she is out making deliveries, she comes across a crowd gathered outside of a building she has just delivered to. Looking up, Sei is HORRIFIED to see a young girl leap off the building to her death...
…RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER!
The shaken Shizuru is sent home, and it’s only then that she realizes the suicide is EXACTLY what the newspaper had predicted! But it must be a coincidence, mustn’t it?
She goes to her computer and, looking up the events from the day before, finds the gas explosion and deaths that the newspaper had predicted had ALSO occurred!
Thus she learns that the newspapers some mysterious being has been leaving her each night…reports unshakeable predictions of DEATH to occur that following day!
No one seems to believe her. Her best friend Momoka (Yuki Katayama) is no help,
nor her mother (Hitomi Kuroki), who seems to be having issues of her own...
...or even her co-worker Yusuke (Taiki Sato), who becomes her romantic interest in the days to come…
But when she gets another paper predicting the death of her FATHER, Shizuru knows SOMETHING has to be done!
Holy Horrors, Batman!!! While a good and spooky idea (shades of Mirai Nikki), this Supernatural J-drama is so CAMPY that it seems like it’s done by Horror schlockmeisters BLUMHOUSE with its wacky, bloody murders, exaggerated effects and overbearing JUMP SCARES! (they even do that cliche jump-scare when someone’s hand grabs the girl’s shoulder…only for it to turn out to be her friend, groaannnn…)
Seriously, everything is so OVER the TOP, Kyoufu Shibun is either a really HOKEY drama or a TERRIFIC cult-style romp, you choose!
Still, it is great to see pretty Sei Shiraishi again- I have high hopes for her to become one of J-dramas’s uprising stars and looks like she’s on her way!