A Trip To Isekai
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Four trips to a world similar to and yet different to our own. How can you get there? What can you do once you’re there? And do you really want to be there in the first place?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana, |
| 0:15.7 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. The latest book in the Daykan series, Volume 3, is now out. |
| 0:23.7 | If you'd like to learn more about some of Japan's most haunted and dangerous spots, |
| 0:28.0 | then this is the book for you. |
| 0:29.8 | You can find all sorts of abandoned shrines, hospitals, parks, |
| 0:33.5 | and even lesser-known places you wouldn't even think could be haunted. |
| 0:38.0 | That's Daykan, the most haunted locations in Japan, Volume 3, out now. |
| 0:44.2 | This week, we're taking a trip to another world, or several other worlds. |
| 0:50.6 | Will we be able to come back from them? |
| 0:52.9 | Only one way to find out. |
| 0:55.2 | First up, a group of university students take a mountain road on their way home from a training camp, |
| 1:01.0 | but they soon find themselves unfortunately caught up in a local legend. |
| 1:06.3 | A legend that seems to want to spirit them away. |
| 1:10.2 | Find out why in... |
| 1:12.4 | Scary Story Drive. |
| 1:22.0 | More than a decade ago, when I was a university student, I attended a summer training |
| 1:26.6 | camp for my club, although it |
| 1:29.1 | was honestly more of a trip. |
| 1:31.7 | When it was time to go home, one of the senior club members invited some of us to visit |
| 1:36.3 | the local fireworks festival with him, because his parents' house was nearby. |
| 1:41.7 | After the festival, we enjoyed some more fireworks by ourselves on the nearby |
| 1:46.1 | beach, and then we all got into the senior's car and started our trip back to Tokyo. We |
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