This one drops you back into the exact rhythm that made the series a cult object: something old and angry wakes up on an anniversary, and Satsuki has about twenty minutes to find the right seal before it takes her head off. The headless rider working his way through town, hunting people to match himself, is the kind of clean, mean folklore hook this show ran on, no lore dumps, no mercy. Everything runs on the process. Crack open Kayako's ghost diary, get the ritual right, get it right the first time, and pry help out of Amanojaku, who lives in the family cat and would genuinely rather watch you die. Placed just before "Farewell, Amanojaku," it plays like a last errand before the bill comes due. Twenty minutes, one monster, one method, and a demon in a cat sighing at children again.

A headless motorcycle rider haunts the town on the anniversary of his death, hunting for people to decapitate so they end up like him. When the ghost aims his headlights at Satsuki, the gang has to work out how to lay him to rest again before it is too late. Part of the Gakkou no Kaidan franchise, this horror and supernatural mystery special aired months after the TV series ended but is set before its final episode.