Shenmi Fusu

"Yang Jian is already dead by the time you read this." That's the opening line, and it sets the mood for everything that follows. Yang Jian is just a regular high school student until a supernatural invasion tears through his campus. In the chaos, he gets his hands on a parchment from the future and inherits a mysterious eye that lets him wield ghostly powers. He and his classmates manage to escape the school, but that's where things get worse — the world outside is somehow more dangerous than what was hunting them inside. This ONA leans hard into its urban fantasy setting, building an atmosphere that feels genuinely unsettling. The power system revolves around ghost-wielding abilities, which is a refreshing change from the usual supernatural fare. Kung Fu Frog Animation brings a dark, atmospheric visual style that really sells the eerie tone, and the soundtrack does a lot of heavy lifting to keep the tension tight. If you liked Tokyo Ghoul's premise of an ordinary person thrust into a monstrous world they don't understand, or the body-horror paranoia of Parasyte, this hits similar notes. There's also some Ajin energy here — that feeling of being hunted while barely grasping what you've become. The tagline says it best: the price of peering into darkness is eternal loss. Based on a web novel, so there's plenty of source material to draw from. Worth keeping on your radar for 2026.