History Anime / TheCurseOfKazuoUmezu

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Masami in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?". An interesting variant in that Masami's jealous feelings toward Masami seem to have turned her into a DemonOfHumanOrigin without her realizing it]].

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Produced by Creator/TakahashiStudio in association with Yuwa, the OVA was released by Nippon Columbia under their Columbia Video brand on VHS and [=LaserDisc=] in Japan on 1 March 1990.

* WhatIsThisFeeling: Upon first catching sight of the beautiful Rima Ogawa, Masami is filled with an overwhelming feeling she can't describe, one which makes her obsessed with the other girl, who constantly haunts her thoughts. What could these strange feelings be? [[spoiler:Probably not what you might be thinking. Probably]]?

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Masami starts developing a strange, sometimes bloody neck wound when the fascinatingly beautiful Rima Ogawa moves into town, and starts having strange dreams at night of holy symbols and violent attacks. Is Rima a vampire? [[spoiler:Nope! Masami has developed a severe case of DemonOfHumanOrigin and has been feeding on Rima's blood with the mouth she grew on her throat! On the other hand Masami does become more beautiful as she feeds on blood, so it may be a case of OurVampiresAreDifferent.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: [[spoiler:As Masami's SuperpoweredEvilSide continues to attack Rima and draon her blood, it's noted that Masami becomes much more attractive than she did before]].

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Masami's prepressed jealousy toward Rima leads to her developing a demonic mouth in her neck whose consciousness takes over Masami's body whenever she sleeps for the purpose of stealing the other girl's vitality and beauty through her blood. Meanwhile, Masami's own head hangs off the back of the neck staring blankly at nothing. At first she has no memory of her nightly doings, but then she sees the video Umezu made]].

* KnockoutGas: The [spoiler:demon]] in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" can emit this.

* WhatIsThisFeeling: Upon first catching sight of the beautiful Rima Ogawa, Masami is filled with an overwhelming feeling she can't describe, one which makes her obsessed with the other girl, who constantly haunts her thoughts. What could these strange feelings be? [[spoiler:Probably not what you might be thinking]].

* CantSpitItOur: Umezu is so freaked out by what he sees in the video he made using a camera to monitor Masami while she's sleeping that he can't bear to tell her what it was and says she needs to see it for herself.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Masami starts developing a strange, sometimes bloody neck wound when the fascinatingly beautiful Rima Ogawa moves into town, and starts having strange dreams at night of holy symbols and violent attacks. Is Rima a vampire? [[spoiler:Nope! Masami has developed a severe case of demon, and has been feeding on Rima's blood with the mouth she grew on her throat]]!

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Masami in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?". Of course, she couldn't get those strange feelings out of her head]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:At the end of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", after seeing Masami have a demon come out of her neck upon seeing a scary video recorded from his video camera, a male student gets scared so much that he leaps out the window when she approaches him]].
* TheDreaded: Rima, a transfer student from Mexico in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?". Despite her beautiful looks, Masami gets easily scared of her and causes great agitation into her life.

* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:From what the possessed Masami is is saying when she attacks Rima, it seems her jealousy of Rima's looks caused her to develop the demon which takes her over or at least made her vulnerable to it]].

* HolyBurnsEvil: Subverted. The ritual incense Rima wields to try and stop the possessed Masami from feeding on her ''does'' hurt...but that just pisses the demon off.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: [[spoiler:Being possessed by the demon in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" makes the subject glow with beauty, since they're draining vitality from others and giving it to themself]].

* ShroudedInMyth: No one remembers just what makes "The Haunted Mansion" haunted. Was it a suicide by fire? A murder? [[spoiler:Given the presence of a child's room and the ghost who looks like her dress burned...it may be ''[[DeathOfAChild both]]'']].

* EverybodyDiesEnding: The girls suffer from this at the end of "The Haunted Mansion".

* HolyBurnsEvil: Subverted. The ritual incense Rima uses to try and stop the possessed Masami from feeding on her ''does'' hurt...but that just pisses the demon off.

* {{Narrator}}: This OVA has one who exactly looks like Kazuo Umezu, yet voiced by Creator/IkuyaSawaki. In the beginning of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", he is seen sitting on a chain swing while warning us "not to toy with the supernatural" and asking us to "recall any mysterious incidents in our past" and if we had "times where scars we had no memories of receiving impossibly appeared somewhere on our bodies". At the end of "The Haunted Mansion", he has his LosingYourHead moment while narrating this:
-->'''Narrator:''' The girls fled the haunted mansion, only to return and confirm their fears. Or perhaps they did not truly return to the mansion; perhaps they merely saw a fleeting dream at the moment they perished at the hands of the ghost.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Masami starts developing a strange, sometimes bloody neck wound when the fascinatingly beautiful Rima Ogawa moves into town, and starts having strange dreams at night of holy symbols and violent attacks. Is Rima a vampire? No, Masami has developed a severe case of demon, and has been feeding on Rima's blood with the mouth she grew on her throat!

* DemonicPossession: Masami in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?". Of course, she couldn't get those strange feelings out of her head.

* DrivenToSuicide: At the end of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", after seeing Masami have a demon come out of her neck upon seeing a scary video recorded from his video camera, a male student gets scared so much that he leaps out the window when she approaches him.

* EyeCatch: The end of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" has the humorous one, showing the girls and the boy recording with a video camera fleeing from the ghost, only for the ghost to be eaten by Masami's demon neck.

* GreenEyedMonster: From what the possessed Masami is is saying when she attacks Rima, it seems her jealousy of Rima's looks caused her to develop the demon which takes her over or at least made her vulnerable to it.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Subverted. The ritual incense Rima uses to try and stop the possessed Masami from feeding on her ''does'' hurt...but that just pisses the demon off.
* IgnoranceIsBliss: Masami agrees to be videotaped during her nightly disturbances, but finds herself unable to watch, and so has no idea what her friend Umezu-kun saw on the video that scared him so much. When she finally watched it and learns the AwfulTruth--that she's possessed by a demon which feeds upon the vitality of pretty girls--she decides she was better off not knowing.
* KnockoutGas: The demon in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" can emit this.

* RedHerring: Rima is beautiful, ethereal and pale, and after one of her nightly disturbances Masami finds one of her long black hairs stuck in the strange wound on her neck--but it's Masami who's feeding on ''her''.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: Masami has a sharp-toothed demon that comes out of her neck in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", which apparently allows her to drain the vitality of others, giving her a healthy glow that makes her beautiful when the demon is inactive. Of course, she doesn't know what's going on.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Umezu-kun throws a can full of (fake?) spiders onto the possessed Masami, whose deep fear of spiders makes her freak out. Unfortunately, it doesn't snap her out of it.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Being possessed by the demon in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" makes the subject extremely beautiful, since they're draining vitality from others.

* DrivenToSuicide: At the end of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", after seeing Masami have a demon come out of her neck upon seeing a scary video recorded from his video camera, a male student gets scared so much that he falls out of the window with it.

* TransformationOfThePossessed: Masami has a sharp-toothed demon that comes out of her neck in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?".

* {{Narrator}}: This OVA has one who exactly looks like Kazuo Umezu, yet voiced by Creator/IkuyaSawaki. In the beginning of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", he is seen sitting on a chain swing while warning us "not to toy with the supernatural" and asking us to "recall any mysterious incidents in our past" and had "times where scars we had no memories of receiving impossibly appeared somewhere on our bodies". At the end of "The Haunted Mansion", he has his LosingYourHead moment while narrating this:

* BodyHorror: Pretty much of it in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?".

* DrivenToSuicide: After seeing Masami have a demon come out of her neck upon seeing a scary video recorded from his video camera, a male student gets scared so much that he falls out of the window with it.

* TheDreaded: Rima, a transfer student from Mexico in "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?". Despite her beautiful looks, Masami gets easily scared of her.