Yurei Deco

A pastel dystopia where Likes are currency and vanishing is rebellion.

In the neon-drenched metropolis of Tom Sawyer, social currency isn't money — it's "Love," a quantified stream of validation harvested through eye-implanted Deco devices that paint reality in customizable holograms. Citizens trade Likes for transit, healthcare, and identity itself, all under the benevolent gaze of an algorithmic government. The only glitch in this pastel dystopia is Phantom Zero, a spectral saboteur who zeroes out Love wherever they manifest, leaving hollowed-out avatars in their wake. Berry, a technicolor rebel with a Phantom Zero obsession, gets her wish when her Deco fractures, revealing Hack — a camouflaged trickster moving through the city's blind spots. Convinced Hack is her idol, Berry pursues them into the city's unrendered underbelly, where she discovers a whole subculture of "Zeroes" living off-grid, unmonitored, and dangerously free. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: Tom Sawyer's vibrant facade masks a surveillance state that commodifies attention and erases dissent. Phantom Zero isn't a criminal — they're a symptom, a glitch in the system's perfect control. Science SARU's signature kinetic style turns this cyberpunk fable into a sensory assault, all saturated gradients and frantic frame rates. But beneath the sensory overload beats a sharp critique of platform capitalism, where selfhood is curated, community is algorithmic, and resistance looks like disappearing. Berry's journey from fangirl to fugitive maps the awakening of a generation raised on engagement metrics, learning that true connection requires logging off.

A vibrant sci-fi mystery where a girl discovers her augmented-reality society manipulates citizens through a social-credit system. Themes of surveillance and truth are wrapped in a colorful, youth-focused adventure.