

24 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestOrdinary high school student, Rikugou Tokidoki, has to take supplementary History classes, to boost his failing grade, at a state-of-the-art museum. This museum allows the visitor to use high-tech virtual reality to reconstruct a realistic Edo of the Bakumatsu period. However, once the simulation begins, Tokidoki is attacked by a strange creature. After something happens to his left eye, he realizes that he is not wearing the VR goggles - it is no longer a simulation; he's trapped in the virtual world and has no way of getting back.
Cinematography
Stunning watercolor backgrounds that blend Edo beauty with digital unease
Costume
Gorgeous period designs that subtly signal character otherworldliness
Acting
Fukuyama's panicked everyman against Park's fierce intensity
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amatsuki adapts an ongoing manga by Shinobu Takayama that started in 2002 and still hasn't concluded, explaining the anime's notorious cliffhanger ending.
The Bakumatsu setting isn't just wallpaper—it deliberately mirrors Japan's real identity crisis between isolation and modernization, making Tokidoki's virtual trap weirdly metaphorical.