Shiori is a typical high school student who dreams of online stardom, but struggles to capture attention. After an embarrassing video of her goes viral, she gets trapped in her smartphone and replaced by a charismatic alter ego. As the doppelganger charms the internet and devises a nefarious plot to replace mankind with brainrot, Shiori must partner with other online outcasts to stop her digital counterpart and reclaim her life in the real world.
Direction
Kawamori visualizes the internet as actual architecture—terrifying and gorgeous.
Visual Effects
Smartphone prison renders as infinite scrolling hellscape. Nightmare fuel.
Director
Shoji Kawamori
Taizo Harada
Komori (voice)
Aoi Ito
Kirara Kurashina (voice)
Jun Saito
Kento Yamada (voice)
Show Hayami
Keizō Maezawa (voice)
Maaya Sakamoto
Yoriko Maezawa (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
Tōsaka (voice)
Yuichi Nakamura
(voice)
Yuma Uchida
(voice)
Inori Minase
(voice)
Kana Hanazawa
(voice)
Yoko Hikasa
(voice)
Aya Endo
(voice)
May'n
(voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kawamori explicitly cited 'Ludwig' and TikTok's face filters as core inspirations—this is his first feature since pioneering Macross mecha design in the 80s.
SUZUKA recorded both Shioris simultaneously, wearing motion-capture suits facing each other—her actual doppelgänger performance.
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