Rinkan Club

There are two faces to Maki Katsuragi. On the surface, she's the student council president of Rinin High School — reliable, respected, the kind of person everyone trusts. Underneath that, she runs something else entirely: the Rinkan Club, a secretive group operating in the shadows of a remote mountain town with roots in rituals supposedly older than the school itself. The story leans hard into that duality — the gap between who someone appears to be and what they're actually doing behind closed doors. The setting matters here. Rinin City is isolated, insular, the kind of place where old traditions stick around longer than they probably should, and that atmosphere feeds directly into the club's justifications for what it does. It's dark, deliberately uncomfortable, and not shy about any of it. If you've watched something like Bible Black or Discipline: The Record of a Crusade and appreciated how they use institutional power structures to frame their content, this hits a similar note. Like Night Shift Nurses, it wraps its material in a thin layer of social hierarchy and asks what people do when authority goes unchecked. Four episodes, based on a visual novel, produced by Seven in 2011. Go in knowing exactly what this is — it doesn't soften its edges for anyone.