Why not? If it works once, try it again with a different tale and different cast. (After all, the "syfy channel" rose to the "top of the horror sewer" with "Sharknado" series.:( The World War II tale has gone from mystery to creepy to "can anyone stop this?" with a cultural bend. The "Creepypasta" flavor has been turning up in various places with various degrees of success.

@klownz said:

I think they are going for "Diversity" and popular left wing shit... That is the target.

I have seen a huge amount of Japanese horror though: https://letterboxd.com/klownz/list/japanese-horror/

They are going for traditional Yūrei but largely missing on everything but it does look pretty cool... They should have gone with bakeneko stories and should have taken into account things like Sadako are vengeful and Kayako a ghoul... What they miss are the basic things in Asian horror. The series reminds me more like the Snow Woman that has a target... most Japanese films do not have the target.

Oh well it is still good & hopefully gets better

I think it's important to remember that this is a Nisei story not a Japanese story, so it contains elements of both American and Japanese horror, plus some Mexican stuff as well. If it were just a classic Japanese genre story, the supernatural element would clash with the parallel story about Nisei treatment during WW2.

@spirit-with-a-vision said:

The first season is an adaption of the book with the same name. It's based on a true story, with real people and has a name that both refers to the ship, and the mysterious things that happens. It's an ending story. So why not just make it a mini-series and call it a day?

Not to say that the 2nd season is bad, I've heard good things about it. But why not make 2 mini-series instead? Are they trying to surf on the 1st season's popularity?

I believe it was always intended to be an anthology series and the original intention was to spin it out to 5 seasons.

The common thread for both seasons btw is a group of people from an alien society trapped in an environment they cannot successfully navigate either in the physical sense or the supernatural. It is about how people face, or fail to face, a collective threat.