Three stories per episode, three different ways to make you uncomfortable without screaming at you. Kaidan Restaurant builds dread the way an old book does, patient, atmospheric, letting your own imagination fill the dark spaces instead of flashing gore at the screen. Ako and her friends are thin sketches, but that's the point; they're just the frame for what matters, which is the feeling that something wrong lives in the spaces between ordinary days, waiting to remind you that sixth grade was already unsettling enough without the supernatural. A show that trusts kids to be scared by suggestion instead of spectacle.

Adapted from a best-selling picture book series of ghost story anthologies, Kaidan Restaurant is a horror anthology for kids that serves up three short tales in every episode: an appetizer, a main dish and a dessert. The first two courses center on Ako Ozara, an ordinary sixth-grade girl, and the eerie, bizarre happenings that strike the classmates around her. The dessert is a separate short ghost story that Ako and her friends tell themselves.