nietak★★★★★EP 18-shaku 8-wa Kerakumeguri: Igyou Kaikitan The Animation
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Synopsis
One afternoon, a boy crossing paths with a woman discovers she's not quite a woman at all: she's impossibly tall, pale, and wrong in a way he can't articulate. He runs home, and when he describes what he saw, his grandparents go quiet. They know exactly what she is. That setup alone is genuinely unsettling, and it's the backbone of this three-episode OVA from 2016, adapted from Jyoka's manga. The story gets told in layers: a hitchhiker recounting the tale to a stranger, folding the horror inside a frame narrative that keeps you slightly off-balance about who's safe and who isn't. The entity at the center, Hachishaku-sama, draws from Japanese folklore in a way that feels grounded rather than generic. She doesn't need jump scares. Her presence is the scare. Now, fair warning: this is a hentai OVA produced by Studio Seven, so the supernatural tension shares space with explicit content. If you went into something like Bible Black or Shoujo Sect knowing what you were signing up for and appreciated that they still bothered to build atmosphere, this scratches a similar itch. It's not trying to be high art, but it's also not completely brainless: the folklore wrapper gives it more texture than most titles in this space bother with. Three episodes, one strange woman, and a story that gets under your skin a little more than you'd expect.
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Hasshaku-sama
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nietak★★★★★EP 1
chesmotrish71★★★☆☆EP 1
braluie205★★★☆☆EP 1
zora_284★★★★☆EP 1The way she just looms over him is still super unsettling and my heart dropped when she started making those weird noises in the distance even if it was less dark than the manga
kushina_kunoichi★★☆☆☆EP 1The hitchhiker framing device is a cool way to start the story, but the actual horror scenes felt a bit too generic compared to how gritty the manga looked.
noelle_neptune★★★★☆EP 1That scene where the grandparents realize who he saw gave me chills because of how scared they were and it really sells the threat of the tall woman
gigai_ghost_476★★★☆☆EP 1It followed the manga really well but the sex scenes were way too soft compared to the source material and it felt like they held back on the messed up stuff
hari_257★★★☆☆EP 1I liked the tall lady design but the colors felt way too bright for a horror show and it took away from the creepy vibe when the kid saw her standing there
tellu★★★☆☆EP 1the panic from the old couple when they were locking all the windows and doors made the Hachishaku threat feel much more immediate
yanari_yurei★★★☆☆EP 1the height difference is actually insane and seeing her hand reach through that tiny gap in the door was the most chilling part
shunseui_sensei_466★★☆☆☆EP 1the story setup with the guy hitchhiking works well enough and the legend itself is pretty spooky but the pacing slowed down too much in the middle
darmani★★★★☆EP 1That "po po po" sound is going to be stuck in my head for days and the way she just looms over everyone is so effective at making you feel small. It started as a solid horror mystery with the hitchhiker story, and then it went in a very different direction during the bedroom scene which was intense in a lot of ways
japas_282★★★★☆EP 1those salt piles turning black was such a cool visual and it really sold the danger of the ritual for me
majora★★★☆☆EP 1the animation quality during the more graphic scenes was kind of choppy and it broke the scary feeling
rengoku_radiance★★★★☆EP 1I got a chill from that weird sound she makes and the way the tall woman looked was actually terrifying
hatifnatik★★☆☆☆EP 1The urban legend part is cool, but I felt like the hentai scenes ruined the tension a bit because they lasted way too long for a horror show
devonte2847★★★★☆EP 1that moment where she peeked over the high fence and stared him down with those eyes was so unnerving
ruto★★★★☆EP 1it was a great touch for the atmosphere when the grandparents got so scared just by hearing about the hat and the height
toga_260★★★★☆EP 1The sight of her towering over the hedge made my skin crawl and I think they did a good job with the urban legend vibes
twili_287★★★★☆EP 1Watching him look out the window and see her peering in was actually pretty scary, even if the later parts were way less serious


