Koichi Asakawa- Reiko's father. He willingly watched the tape to save Yoichi but did not make a copy and died to end the curse, although this failed. Masami Kurahashi- Tomoko's best friend who witnessed her death. She went mad and was institutionalised. InRing 2, she gains psychic powe...
So the LORD God said to the snake: "Because of what you have done, you will be the only animal to suffer this curse--For as long as you live, you will crawl on your stomach and eat dirt. English Revised VersionAnd the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this,...
The stranger began by saying that this was the true story of Tanaka Kawachinosuke, and what happened to him following the notorious “Event at the Terata Inn.” The tale, he said, was one of ill omen, and carried a curse that would fall on anyone who told it. As a result, the tru...
Toriyama took a particular yokai running around with its tongue out staring and the ceiling and decided that was his tenjoname. Strangely enough that particular yokai inspired other yokai as well. A different version of the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki has the word “Isogashi” (meaning “busy” or ...
As yet no sentence had been pronounced upon either of the two human offenders, but the promise was given under the form of a sentence pronounced upon the serpent Not yet had the woman been condemned to painful travail, or the man to exhausting labour, or even the soil to the curse of ...