Set in a future world. Japan has created a great medical technology that controls ethics, health, and social interaction to create a perfect world. Three young girls attempt to stand up to this by committing suicide, but it doesn't work. Years later, Tuan, one of the girls who attempted suicide must prevent a crisis that threatens this "perfect" world.
Direction
Nakamura's clinical framing makes comfort feel actively menacing.
Production
That sterile white aesthetic? Perfect visual lie for the rot underneath.
Writing
Adapts Project Itoh's novel with zero hand-holding on the philosophy.
Director
Takashi Nakamura
Miyuki Sawashiro
Tuan Kirie (voice)
Reina Ueda
Miach Mihie (voice)
Aya Suzaki
Cian Reikado (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Os Cara Stauffenberg (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Elijah Vashlov (voice)
Cho
Keita Saeki (voice)
Junpei Morita
Nuaza Kirie (voice)
Akeno Watanabe
Gabrielle Étaín (voice)
Chiaki Mori
Reiko Mihie (voice)
Atsushi Ono
Uwe Woll (voice)
Akio Otsuka
Asaf (voice)
Bin Sasaki
Elder (voice)
Mitsuru Hofu
Elder (voice)
Sokyu Fujita
Elder (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Project Itoh wrote this while dying of cancer; he never saw the adaptation completed. The novel's urgency about bodily autonomy hits different knowing that.
Miach's name references MIACH, an Irish god of healing—ironic given her role as death-bringer to a medical utopia.
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