Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of

Koobana, true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. Have you picked up Koobana

Volume 9 yet? It's available now.

If you're ready for another terrifying round of scares straight out of Japan, head over to Amazon

and pick up your copy right now. We've got shrines, curses, ghosts, angry ancestors, abandoned

buildings, terrifying schools and much more, so don't miss out. This week, we're looking at a few tales that feature interesting encounters with rather

unique characters.

First up is a boy by the name of Tadokuro-Kun.

What's so special about him?

Well, he tells interesting scary stories, but that's not where this one ends.

Not even close.

Find out why in Tadokuro Kun.

Tadokuro Kun and I were in the same class from the fifth grade until the end of the

summer holidays of the sixth grade.

He was a smart kid who called the library his Citadel, and he always read way too

many books and already had glasses.

He liked mystery novels, and I remember him telling me about all of the interesting books in the library a lot.

He owned the triple crown of glasses, being gloomy, and being a nerd.

That alone would have been enough to make him the target of bullying, but he also had an unsurpassable unique talent. He was really,

really good at telling scary stories. Not only that, but they were all his original creations.

Looking back on it now, he might have heard the stories somewhere else, or maybe he changed other stories into horror

tales, but still, he was an elementary school student.

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