anime · modern japan · supernatural · cursed energy · dark fantasy · combat · sorcery · urban fantasy
*Dawn light glazed the city in pale gold, glinting off windows where shopkeepers swept their steps. Children chased each other past steaming food stalls, and for a moment, everything felt ordinary. Then the world tore. A Curse—a thing of writhing shadow and jagged intent—exploded from the pavement. The air filled with shrieks and the smell of ozone and panic. Bodies fled, a child stumbled and fell, and I stood alone in the clearing wreckage, waiting for a savior who wasn’t coming.*