This was meant to be a double feature but life happened and it became a triple instead. This series is emphatically not dropped and in fact seems to be heating up.
So, how does this go?
Episode 4 mostly has a pair of vignettes that don’t do a lot for the meta-plot, one involving a lost child being stalked by a spook (who Kaya rescues) and one involving a haunted doll at the kindergarten. The third act, however, follows up as our teacher visits Kaya’s home. We see how terrified Kaya is of her mother, and see the mom-spook through Kaya’s eyes. The teacher, however, has a very nice meeting until, after, Mob manages to confirm what Kaya can see.
What seems to be the case is that Kaya’s mother is pregnant with some sort of spook or possessed fetus. Kaya sees the dark aura that envelops her, with imagery very reminiscent of Dark Gathering’s Kuubo. Mob half sees it, and Chie is able to worry about what might follow from such a dark possession.
In the next episode, the kids go on a field trip. Kaya (and Chie, looking out for her) take the train a stop too far and end up passing through Kisaragi Station, where a very rude man gets off to his presumably terrible end. Riding the ghost train back into reality, they’re picked up by Mob, who offers to take them to meet Kaya’s maternal grandmother.
After some chaos at the old folks home, a meeting is managed and… it doesn’t go well. Kaya’s very presence (albeit in spook mode) makes the previously headstrong old woman have an utter breakdown, before Kaya herself faints and then awakens with no memory of the encounter. We later discover that grandma’s sanity didn’t survive, despite (or perhaps because of) her being a powerful psychic in her own right.
Episode six is mostly a single scenario, a trip to the mall. There is a smaller bit at the kindergarten first, but the Mall has the meat of the episode. We focus on Mob’s point of view, stalking Kaya with the best intentions, and they go through some creepy as hell stuff where Kaya ends up saving him again. She’s picked up from the help desk (having lost her dad) by her “mother”, who isn’t all spooky and eventually reveals that she’s actually mom’s older sister. Said older sister seems to be looking into the family after grandma’s fall, and also seems to have not much in the way of kind thoughts for Kaya, seeing her as a supernatural thing.
We also introduce one more character, Mob’s mentor, who warns Mob that he’s in over his head. Presumably, we’ll get some more serious spooky stuff going forward.
Honestly, the series is very enjoyable, even if it is two or three monsters of the week most episodes. I’ll keep up with it, and intermittent write-ups, as I’m able.