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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

If you're going to kill yourself, why don't you sleep with me first?

Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Tara A. Devlin

Drama, Arts, Leisure, Fiction, Hobbies, Literature

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Episode Notes

A special double-length episode for the holiday season! A woman is about to jump from the roof of her building when a man approaches. He's rude, and says things no-one in their right mind would say to a suicidal woman. Who, or what, is he?

BGM thanks to Myuuji Intro & Outro BGM thanks to Kevin MacLeod Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, how's it going?

0:12.4

My name's Tara and welcome to a very special episode of Kowabana, true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

0:20.6

Why is this episode special?

0:22.6

Because this week is a special double-length episode.

0:25.6

But not only that, I'm going to be reading you my absolute favorite story that I've translated so far.

0:31.6

I came across this story a few months back, and from the moment I started reading it, I was taken in.

0:38.2

It was quite long, spread over three separate posts, but once I started, I couldn't stop.

0:44.4

I finished the whole story, start to finish, and I knew then and there that I had to translate

0:49.0

it, no matter what.

0:51.3

It took me about a week or so to finish it, but it was beyond worth it to be able to share

0:55.8

this story with a whole new audience.

0:58.9

This is a unique story, in that it's the only of its kind I've ever seen presented this

1:03.5

way.

1:05.0

This is not your traditional creepypasta or blog entry where someone is retelling a scary experience they had. This is more like a script.

1:13.6

It contains nothing but the dialogue between a young man and a woman. Their banter is truly

1:19.6

impressive and what sucked me into the story in the first place. But that's enough from me.

1:24.6

We're going to delve right into the story. Today's story is called, If you're going to jump, aren't you?

1:55.0

Like you said, I'm just about to jump. What's it to you?

2:02.1

Oh, good.

2:04.3

I'm sorry.

2:08.2

I mean, you're going to kill yourself, right?

2:10.5

If you're planning to jump from here?

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