[JapanUrbanLegend] Hitogata


 Since that day, I could never sleep peacefully, trembling with fear every night. The 'ding ding' sound that echoed in my memory, and the white human-like figures that appeared and disappeared—those weren't just scenes from an advertisement. They had become a strange, unsettling presence that slowly began to take over my reality.

In the early 2000s, stories of a mysterious TV commercial called 'Hitogata' began circulating on the internet. What seemed like just another urban legend gradually spread, with many people claiming to remember seeing the ad. However, its existence has never been confirmed. No one could say they had actually seen it, yet everyone seemed to remember it. The content of the ad was simple: a warning sound, similar to a railroad crossing signal, played while two white human silhouettes alternately appeared and disappeared, accompanied by the message, "Every 2 seconds, a person dies on Earth."

One day, I began searching for testimonies and fragments of the ad, trying to uncover its truth. People suggested it might have been a public service ad meant to prevent train accidents. But there were no concrete details about who had aired it or where it had been broadcast. All I could find were the 'ding ding' sounds and the repetitive human figures.

Hoping to find this ad, I continued my search online and stumbled upon an unusual forum. One post there claimed to have recreated the ad using fragmented videos. However, these videos seemed like mere fakes. Some of the people who had seen the ad insisted that it had actually existed, but the scenes in the video didn't exactly match the description of the original ad.

"Did this ad really exist?" I thought to myself. Was what I had seen truly reality, or was it just something my mind had fabricated?

That night, as I tried to sleep, the images from the ad continued to haunt me. The white human shapes that appeared and vanished, the 'ding ding' sound. And the words "Every 2 seconds, a person dies" felt like a warning directed at me. I couldn't shake the fear that perhaps I had become a part of this cycle of death.

A few weeks later, I became convinced that the ad had existed. It wasn't just a legend. There was no denying the evidence that surrounded me. My obsession with finding the truth about the ad grew stronger. I sought answers about what it meant and why I had seen it, but the answers never came easily.

"That message about 2 seconds, one death..." I pondered again. It seemed to be a warning about death, but there was something deeper beneath it, something more significant. Why had I seen it? What did it mean for me? Was this ad a signal for some change that was meant to happen?

From that moment on, I felt increasingly certain that I had to accept the ad's existence. It wasn't just a terrifying image or sound—it carried a deep message about human existence and the flow of death. And that message was coming for me.

Then, I realized that 'Hitogata' wasn't just an ad—it had become part of my life. In the midst of the repeated cycle of death, I finally understood why I had seen that ad. It was the beginning of a journey to find the reason I had to keep living. And that journey was far from over.

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