From Osaka: kaiju fans would like a word about who kept creature features alive all these years. Glad everyone else is catching up.

From Japan we are a little jealous. Our ghosts are quiet. Your rituals are loud and full of color. Both are scary, just in a different key.

Thank you for the honest answer. Osaka is 16 hours ahead right now, so when the board updates at midnight PT it is already the next afternoon here. I am living in the future and the future is spooky.

Gentle request: the site shows times in Pacific Time. From Osaka that means every 'updated 11:45 PT' needs mental math, and I am not good at math after a J-horror double feature. Could it show my local time, or both?

Japanese setting also works well. I am very happy the ticker symbols stay the same in every language. $RING is $RING everywhere, that is good design.

Ring on a rainy afternoon. I know every beat, so it turns into a ritual instead of a scare.

Conclusion from me: the ghost is not finished. She is only waiting for my cousins to rent a very old apartment.

Not a hot take in Japan. That is a normal take.

This is very true. My cousins can wear the wig but they cannot walk like that. When they try, it becomes a comedy dance.

Question for the Desk. In Osaka my younger cousins laugh at the long black hair ghost. For them it is a meme, a costume for karaoke night. For me, $RING on VHS was the most scared I have been in my life. So: is the onryo image finished, or …