Dive at 2:00 a.m. - October 31,2025

[Posted： 2025/10/31]

2AM Brainstorm Dump ? October 31, 2025: “True Scary Stories”

At 2 in the morning, running high on caffeine and questionable decisions, I, Kazuhiro Tanaka, jotted down the wild thoughts spinning in my head. And now, in the cold light of day, I publish them unfiltered. Yes, even the embarrassing ones. Especially the embarrassing ones.

Today's delirious daydream:

Fuji TV's “True Scary Stories” ? But, Like… What Actually Happens After the Main Character Passes Out?

You know that Fuji TV show, “Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi” ? the one that dramatizes supposedly real ghost stories?

Yeah. I love that show. Like, unreasonably love it.

About a month before each annual episode airs, I start pacing my apartment like,

“Is it happening this year? It's happening, right?!”

Then the official announcement drops and I scream like a middle schooler at a boyband concert.

And come the day of the broadcast? I grab a drink, plop in front of the TV, and enter full-on ceremonial mode.

Yes, it's that serious.

Of course, it's not nightmare-inducing horror like The Ring or Ju-on.

It's not the kind of fear that has you wetting yourself just trying to get to the toilet at 3AM.

But as horror-themed entertainment? It's flawless.

Perfect balance.

Chills with your evening beer, spooky comfort food.

It leaves you saying “That was great!” and sleeping like a happy corpse.

However.

There's one recurring pattern that bugs me every single year.

The “protagonist passes out at the climax” ending.

You know the one:

“The ghost came closer and closer?

I screamed?

Darkness?

‘And then I lost consciousness. When I came to, I was lying on the floor. What… what even happened back there…?'”

LIKE DUDE,

You met a ghost, screamed, and then... just fainted??

And somehow life goes back to normal??

No death.

No curse.

Just… Monday morning at the office again?

I get it. Not all ghosts are hostile. Some just want to pass along a message.

But like… remember the episode “The Face Road,” starring Takeru Satoh?

That ghost was NOT there to share wisdom. That ghost came to haunt.

So that got me thinking?

What the hell is happening in the time after the protagonist faints??

As a certified fanboy of “True Scary Stories,” I want to explore this not as a complaint, but as an act of pure curiosity.

I want to believe.

So I propose the following:

Let's assume:

The ghost is real.

The ghost is hostile.

The protagonist screamed and fainted mid-haunt.

Now. What happens next?

Here's my working theory:

The ghost… loses connection.

Like in two senses of the word:

Gets pissed off (ブチ切れる “buchi-gireru”)

Gets disconnected (通信切れる “tsuushin-gireru”)

Think about it.

A ghost is not a physical being.

They're thought-forms, consciousness without form.

So they don't perceive us with eyes and ears ? they connect directly to our consciousness.

And if we're unconscious?

Connection lost.

It's just like an online match where your opponent rage-quits mid-game.

And when that happens?

Yeah.

The ghost rage-quits back.

You get up like, “Whoa, what happened?”

Meanwhile the ghost's like:

“HEY! I was still haunting you, jerk!!”

End scene.

Morning-After Reflection ? October 31, 2025

Iwakodejima, Iwakodejima… May all spirits be banished and all chicken hearts go in peace!

To all the Fuji TV staff ? thank you for keeping “True Scary Stories” alive.

Looking forward to next year's screams.

Also, sorry for trying to ghost-theorize your scripts.

Happy hauntings,

?Kazuhiro