The fall 2015 short-form series Kowabon saw its home video release in Japan back in January 2016 but we’ve not had much in the way of movement for it in North America since. The folks at Tubi TV have now picked up the series for streaming here and the thirteen-episode run, which clocks in at forty minutes, is available to viewers in its original Japanese language with English subtitles.
This horror series is an interesting one as it’s done in the five-minute short-form approach and also uses rotoscoping to add to the eerie feeling of it all. It’s being directed by Kazuma Taketani with scripts by Hiromu Kumamoto.
Plot concept: The premise of the series involves modern humanity’s reliance on communications technology such as smartphones and social media. Kowabon poses such questions as: what if something sinister is watching us through all of the cameras that we take for granted? What if a supernatural grudge could propagate through the Internet?
