What is Hitokowa?
It’s a Japanese word and can also be separated into two independent words. Hito and Kowa.
Hito means people, and kowa means horror. So now you can guess what those two words mean when combined, right?
Hitokowa is a Japanese term to describe human-based horror stories. It means, you know, there are a bunch of scary supernatural things like ghosts, curses, etc. But look around you in daily life. People are as scary as the supernatural for sure.
Hitokowa stories focus on the darkness of humans that’s usually hidden under the face of ordinary people but comes out as psychological terror or social anxiety in the end.
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