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
Kenji Nojima
Heihachi (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Ginshu (voice)
Romi Park
Kuchiha (voice)
Jun Fukuyama
Tokidoki Rikugou (voice)
Yuki Matsuoka
Shinshu (voice)
Showtaro Morikubo
Tsuyukusa (voice)
Koji Yusa
Kon Shinonome (voice)
Jouji Nakata
Shamon (voice)
Junichi Suwabe
Bonten (voice)
Jurota Kosugi
Utsubushi (voice)
Marina Inoue
Tsuruume (voice)
Toru Okawa
Tadajirō Sasaki (voice)
Daisuke Kirii
Kurotobi (voice)
Rei Igarashi
Imayou (voice)
Ken Narita
Byakuroku (voice)
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.
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