The moment Kyouhei realizes his past isn't something you can just move away from, the show stops being about supernatural dolls and starts being about how violence shapes the people you grow up with. Every character in this show carries real damage from the same small town, and watching them collide in Tokyo is like watching old wounds open in real time. The mystery unfolds through character motivation, not plot exposition, which means you're always understanding the why before you understand the what. The pacing gets slack in the middle, and the final answers feel smaller than the questions deserved. Still, the specificity of these people, their shame, their loyalty, their fear of each other, is the kind of character work that stays with you longer than any mystery reveal.

Kyouhei moved to Tokyo to put the events of his old hometown behind him, but the past catches up during a drinking party with friends, including his former neighbor Shiba. After a night out, he and Shiba find a bloody corpse in an elevator. His younger sister Utao, accompanied by her Kamisama Doll, tells him the killers are Aki, an old friend, and Aki's Doll. Back home, Kyouhei was a seki, someone who can control a kakashi, an ancient wooden god capable of remarkable feats, with his mind. Now a kakashi is loose in Tokyo, and stopping it and the seki behind it may fall to him. The result is a supernatural action series.