Two episodes, and it spends them getting under your skin rather than blowing anything up. The title itself is the oldest poem in Japanese literature, Susanoo's verse about eight clouds rising over Izumo, and the OVA takes that seriously: this is horror sourced from the actual birthplace of the myths, not a generic haunted shrine. Fuzuchi Kuraki is the quiet kid with a sword and psychic pressure he never raises his voice about, and Takeo Nanachi is the older student who keeps getting pulled deeper into it because something in him answers back. The charge between those two is the real engine here, all unspoken obligation and a bond neither of them names out loud. It's 1997 OVA craft at its moodiest, dim palettes and long silences, and it ends before it explains itself. That unfinished ache is exactly why people still hunt this one down.

Fuzuchi Kuraki is a reserved high school student with enormous psychic power and an ancient sword said to be able to cut through souls. He is hunting for other magical artifacts, aided by Nanachi Takeo, a college student whose own abilities have yet to fully surface. Their search takes them into the dark sorcery of Izumo, where they uncover secrets hidden in the place where Japanese mythology began. Takeo first arrives in a rural village with friends looking for ideas for a stage play, hoping to have his grandfather's old sword purified during a rare, solemn festival. When car trouble leaves him stuck there, he is pulled into the villagers' rites and grows close to Kuraki, son of the head priest. The two-episode OVA mixes supernatural horror, psychological drama and adventure.