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“Skeptic Rei receives cursed "Horror News" predicting deaths, each reading shortens his lifespan by 100 days.”
Horror News
恐怖新聞 (2014)
5.43
13,238 rank · 2,458 viewers · 7 favorites
Horror
Supernatural
Mythology
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Synopsis
Skeptic Rei receives cursed "Horror News" predicting deaths, each reading shortens his lifespan by 100 days.
Rei Kigata is a first year middle schooler at Ishido Middle School. He is not a believer of any paranormal phenomena such as existence of ghosts or spirits in any kind, but one day at midnight, while he is sleeping, a mysterious newspaper called "Horror News" is delivered to his room. The newspaper tells a story in which one of his teachers at the school will get killed in a car accident the following morning and Kigata will be a witness of the accident. The story turns into a fact in the following day and since then, the mysterious newspaper is delivered everyday. He realizes he is haunted by this newspaper and that his life span would be shortened in 100 days every time he reads it. (Source: Crunchyroll, edited)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.7
/10
What 3 viewers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 2
σ 2.62
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.62 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.33
Running avg · Dec 2015 → Jul 2018
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “The year is 1974 and Kigata Rei is haunted by a newspaper that is delivered every night at midnight. This is heavily based on the manga including the art and the pacing. Older manga tended to...”
- 8 “Oh boy, it's been such a long time since I last written a review. Ok, so, this is probably the most unpopular anime out there. Maybe it's because ONA scares the hell out of people. OVA is somewhat...”
- 2 “You know, it's not often that I say an anime is MADE for LOSERS. I will often say that an anime is made BY losers (for example Ninja Slayer), or will say that its fanbase is composed of losers (say...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 0%
Long · 33%
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A Ona Production
Next Media Animation.- Format 16 × 10′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 40m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2014 – Aug 2014
- Source Ona media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-10508 catalog