Description
Episode Title:
Nao-chan.Episode Description:
A family living in a small flat plays with shadow puppets on the ceiling while they prepare for bed. When the lights go out, the boy, Takkun, watches as shadows coalesce on the ceiling. Before happily drifting off to sleep, the little boy mumbles "Nao-chan..." Some time later, the woman asks her husband if he knows anyone named "Nao", since their son has been calling this name up at the ceiling at night, but to no avail. Takkun tries to point "Nao-chan" out, but his parents see only an ordinary ceiling, prompting the father to think Takkun just wants to play with shadow puppets again. After lights-out, Takkun calls out to Nao-chan again, but this time, a ghostly disfigured, sad-looking face appears on the ceiling. The face approaches Takkun's mother... The next morning, she awakens and remembers Nao as being a college friend of her husband's, who died alone shortly after contacting them. The narrator explains that this friend was responsible for Takkun's parents' marriage. A few months later, another baby boy is born with a face that resembles that of the ghostly figure... a baby whom they name Nao-chan.
