24 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestThe end of the world draws near, as legendary memory eating plant approaches. What's more is that Kaiba/Warp wants everything to be erased, so Neiro is the only one able to stop him with the memory Kaiba had once forgotten.
In a world where memories can be stored like computer data, a young man named Kaiba searches for his lost memories and discovers a connection with a mysterious girl.
Direction
Yuasa's rubber-hose surrealism meets dystopian sci-fi
Writing
12 episodes that hit harder than most 50-episode series
Creator
Masaaki Yuasa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yuasa cited Osamu Tezuka and 1930s American animation as direct influences for the deliberately 'aged' visual style that contrasts with the futuristic setting.
The memory-chip economy directly critiques early-2000s digital rights management debates and emerging cloud storage anxieties—eerily prescient for 2008.
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