Main cast: Orn Patchanan Jiajirachote (Saiparn), Fah Sarika Sathsilpsupa (Narin), and Fai Rutrawee Jeeradechakul (Ploypoom)
Director: Nuttapong Wongkaveepairoj
In Kunakorn’s Girl School, the library is said to house a very special book that can grant one the ability to do magical things.
Well, Saiparn, the constant target of a bunch of particularly vile girls so horrible that they could very well exist in the real world, may have found The Book of Corpses while cowering in the library and hiding from those bullies.
It turns out that the book is the journal of a girl that died from a vicious prank years ago, and adding her own story of being bullied as well as her furious thoughts of revenge into it would empower the darkness within that book to avenge Saiparn.
The price of such supernatural revenge, naturally, is far, far, far higher than our poor little darling expects to pay…
Oh boy, this episode is very hard to watch, because the bullies are brutal and without any redeeming qualities whatsoever, and they are given way too much screen time to be cruel to Saiparn than I’ve have liked.
It is only within the last 12 minutes or so does Saiparn have the pleasure of turning the tables on the lead bully, and the resulting carnage is utterly glorious, violent, and bloody to behold. Of course, my loathing of those bullies only accentuates a hundredfold my pleasure of seeing that despicable waste of flesh meet a vicious death.
Alas, our protagonist has little time to enjoy her triumph before she has to pay the price of the satisfaction of revenge.
Now, my enjoyment of this episode is slightly soured by the unnecessary reveal of the twist at the very start of the episode. Whose bright idea is this? Which imbecile thinks that this is a good idea?
Still, the revisit of that twist at the climactic moment of this episode is such a grand display of prime body horror that I am somewhat placated by this faux pas. Seriously, that scene is awesome, due to how gruesome and painful the whole transformation scene is, especially for an episode made on a somewhat not-that-large budget.
It is odd, however, how the CGI is pretty fake-looking when the practical effects are solid. Did the money run out after spending on the practical effects that they had to hire some school kid to press random buttons as a result?
All in all, this is a disquieting episode to watch, due to the viciousness of the bullying scenes, topped off with some spectacular macabre elements and a climactic scene that will haunt the mind for quite a while. This episode does a great job in showing how brutal ordinary people can be, and how more brutal the retaliation can be, although at what cost, really.
Truly, this is the best episode to date, and for good reasons!
