KASUMI: CITY WITHOUT DAWN —

KASUMI: CITY WITHOUT DAWN — Episode 1

What if the person you fear is someone you once asked to wait?

At a deserted Japanese station before dawn, KASUMI touches a red umbrella and glimpses a fragment of the past. Black ink gathers into a blade in her hand. Then a pale stranger speaks: “You told me to wait.”

I created this supernatural mystery around a moment of recognition: fear briefly gives way to warmth, then uncertainty. The umbrella, the hands, and the dissolving blade connect memory to emotion, letting small gestures carry the story.

The series follows KASUMI through a city where pieces of reality are disappearing. Her ability to recover echoes of the past costs her memories of her own. Future episodes will uncover her connection to THE PALE—and whether she can restore what is missing without losing herself.

My goal was to make viewers ask both “What happened here?” and “Who was this person to her?”