A newspaper arrives at midnight predicting your teacher's death, and you watch it happen the next morning. The Horror News keeps coming, keeps being right, and you're trapped in a loop where knowing what's going to happen doesn't stop it from happening. Rei isn't trying to be a hero, he's just trying to survive the next edition, which means you're not watching someone solve a mystery, you're watching someone get crushed under the weight of foreknowledge that he cannot use. The show understands that horror isn't about jump scares, it's about the helplessness of seeing the future and being completely powerless to change it. This is bleak enough that it demands viewers who can sit with dread instead of needing resolution.

Rei Kigata is a first-year student at Ishido Middle School who puts no stock in ghosts, spirits or any other paranormal phenomena. One night at midnight, while he is asleep, a mysterious paper called "Horror News" turns up in his room. Its story says one of his teachers will be killed in a car accident the next morning, with Rei there to witness it. The following day, the story becomes reality. From then on, the strange newspaper arrives every single day. The result is a 16-episode horror ONA built around a skeptic faced with the uncanny.