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The anime "Ghost Deco", which aired in the summer of 2022, is set in the information city of Tom Sawyer Island and tells the story of people who live their lives using visual information devices called "Deco". The work is based on an original idea by Masaaki Yuasa and Dai Sato, directed by Tomohisa Shimoyama, and animated by Science SARU, and is a new type of work that combines near-future social networks and adventure.

story

On Tom Sawyer Island, residents use visual information devices called "Deco" to move between the real and virtual worlds. Everything on the island is shared by an evaluation coefficient called "Love," and people rush around every day to gather as much "Love" as possible. However, the island is plagued by the "0 Phenomenon," which is rumored to be the work of "Monster 0," and there have been frequent incidents of "Love" disappearing.

One day, Berry, an ordinary girl living on an island, meets Huck and his friends, residents known as "ghosts." In order to solve the mystery of the "0 phenomenon," Berry joins the "Ghost Detectives" led by Huck. As she solves various cases as part of the detective team, Berry gets closer to the truth hidden on Tom Sawyer Island.

Commentary

The residents of Tom Sawyer Island use a visual information device called "Deco" to travel between a virtual space called the hyper-realm and reality. Mutual evaluations called "Love" are visualized numerically, and the functionality of Deco can be expanded by collecting a lot of "Love". However, the island is facing a problem of "Love" disappearances called the "0 Phenomenon" caused by "Phantom 0".

Berry gets caught up in the "0 phenomenon" and becomes a being known as a "ghost." She meets Hack, a genius hacker, and joins the Ghost Detectives in an attempt to solve the mystery of Monster 0 and the "0 phenomenon." As she solves various cases as part of the detective team, Berry gets closer to the truth behind Tom Sawyer Island.

cast

The voice actors for the main characters are as follows:

• Berry: Miki Kawakatsu
• Hack: Anna Nagase
• Fin: Miyu Irino
• Hank: Setsuji Sato
• Madame 44: Sayuri Sadaoka
• Smiley: Rie Kugimiya
• Lamp: Haruka Shimizu
• Macial: Takeshi Miyajima
• Finn (childhood): Yuka Maruyama
• Logistics: Kazuomi Yamamoto
• Harper: Yumiko Matsuura
• Peacock Teacher: Echigoya Kosuke
• Isuda: Toru Nara
• Mitsumame: Kentaro Tone
• Mitsumame (Avatar): Chihiro Suno
• Bell: Kaori Kimura
• Doctor: Yohei Tadano
• Doron: Koji Ochiai
• Wilson: Masao Komatani
• AI Manager: Yuya Uchida
• Kids: Ohira Ahiru
• Uncle: Minoru Inaba
• Oji: Yu Nakano
• Aneki: Anand Yuki
• Cousin: Sato Rio
• Grandma: Saito Kozue
• Big Brother: Tomokazu Seki
• Hack's Mom: Suzuka Yuzuki
• Huck's Dad: Satoshi Mikami
• Injunction Joe: Tomoko Shiota
• Narration: Yoshihisa Yamamoto
• Monster 0: Akio Otsuka

Main Staff

The following staff members are involved in the production of this work:

• Original story: Masaaki Yuasa, Dai Sato
• Director: Tomohisa Shimoyama
• Series Composition: Dai Sato
• Screenplay: Dai Sato, Kimiko Ueno
• Music: Mito (Clammbon), KOTARO SAITO, Yebisu303
• Character design: Akira Homma
• Prop design: Masanobu Ishiyama, Ken Tsubuki
• Art director: Fuminao Akai
• Art setting: Takayuki Kotani, Hitomi Haga
• Color design: Kunio Tsujita
• Director of photography: Yoshihiro Sekiya, Hikari Ito
• Edited by: Akari Saito
• Sound Director: Soichiro Kubo
• Sound effects: Mutsuhiro Nishimura
• Music Production: Lantis
• Music producer: Junnosuke Sato
• Planning and production: Suzuki Satoshi
• Planning Supervisor: Ken Okawara, Takaya Yamaguchi
• Chief Producers: Hiroyuki Kikukawa, Eunyoung Choi, Nobuhito Tsuboi
• Producers: Kishiro Hyakutake, Kohei Sakita, Kim Lili, and Cho So
• Animation Production: Science SARU
• Produced by: Yurei Detectives (Bandai Namco Filmworks, Science SARU, Crunchyroll, NetEase Games)

Main Characters

The details of the main characters are as follows:

• Berry: A girl who gets excited when her "love" increases. She wants to capture the monster 0 and collect as much "love" as possible. Due to her Deco's condition, she meets Hack, a mysterious being known as a ghost. Her catchphrase is "Love!".
• Hack: Giga Terapeta Exazeta Yota Harpo. A mysterious child with a unique way of speaking, he is a genius hacker. He wanders the city hiding in his deco camouflage. He meets Berry and leads the Ghost Detectives.
• Finn: His only flaw is that he's too serious. He is the leader of the Ghost Detectives, and is good at worlding, which uses a device called SOS to create a super realistic space. He's also a top-notch cook.
• Hank: He is a technician for the Ghost Detectives, and is good at repairing junk. He can make anything out of junk collected from around the island. It was Hank who created Finn's SOS.
• Mr. Watson: A rumor-gathering information officer for the Ghost Detective Agency with cat ears perked up. He is silent and always wears a cat headgear. He loves rumors and his hobby is collecting interesting ones.
• Madame 44: Super Grandma. She looks like a normal grandma, but she's a smart girl who secretly cooperates with the Ghost Detectives. She usually contacts the detectives via remote communication.
• Smiley: A cute girl under the mask. She always wears a gas mask, her facial expressions are unreadable, she has a foul mouth, and she's only interested in getting "love".
• Pup: An AI robot that takes care of Huck. He is a reliable companion who sometimes helps the detective team with their investigations.
• Robocchiken: A robot dog that Hank made from junk. It can detect Data's scent. It is Berry's pet.
• Masiah: Berry's father, who works as a content moderator in the customer center.
• Lamp: I'm Berry's mother and work as a content moderator in the customer center with my husband, Masia.
• Logi: Berry's classmate and a companion in the search for Phantom 0. He's a mystery nerd.
• Harper: Berry's classmate and a companion in the search for Phantom 0. He loves to eat.
• Mitsumame: A man asks the Ghost Detectives to find his daughter. However, the daughter he is referring to is the girl-type avatar he is using. He is ignored by the customer service center, so he turns to the Ghost Detectives.
• The Doctor: The creator of the "Neo Animal Museum," which displays various artificial animals made with Deco. He cannot accept that the information on Nue in the Decopedia is incorrect, so he asks the Ghost Detectives to correct the data.
• Doron: A general-purpose drone that Smiley found amongst the junk. An error in the internal records caused it to lose its memory, and it asks the Ghost Detectives to help it find its owner.
• Hackett: Another name for Architect Carney. A legendary game designer of the Hyper-Reproduced Space and a genius at Worlding. He was also the creator of the Phantom Zero Nation, but he has already passed away. He is also Finn's spiritual mentor.
• Analitia: The owner of a ramen stand that is rumored to exist somewhere in the city. She keeps the existence of her stand hidden in order to study the system that makes people believe in rumors. Her true identity is an artificial intelligence engineer who created a place called Mark Twain and also created Tom Sawyer Island.
• Aniki: Finn's older brother. He found an old deco for young Finn who has an allergy to deco. He is not related to Finn by blood. In a past incident, he drove young Finn out of his hometown.

Main Robot Items

The main robots and items that appear in this work are as follows.

• Tom Sawyer Island: An information-managed city where information and personal data are numerically visualized using an evaluation coefficient called "Love." Residents of Tom Sawyer Island are required to wear a device called Deco, which reproduces augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Citizens' information is shared with each other in real time by Deco, making it a transparent, safe, and comfortable city to live in, free of fraud and deception. Thanks to this, there are no conflicts on Tom Sawyer Island, and the crime rate has been zero for years.
• Love: An evaluation coefficient essential for living on Tom Sawyer Island. Mutual evaluations of all information are numerically visualized through Deco. By collecting a lot of "Love", you can expand the functions of Deco and receive various services on the island.
• DECO: Decoration Customizer (commonly known as DECO), a visual information device that residents of Tom Sawyer Island are required to wear on their eyes. Through DECO, residents can visualize their "love" numerically, and DECO allows them to see only the things and scenery they want to see. Residents' information is shared with the customer center in real time from DECO.
• Customer Center: The management organization of Tom Sawyer Island. It manages the Deco System and provides various services to citizens according to their evaluation coefficient "Love" for their happiness. In addition, the Customer Center controls information about citizens and provides security on the island, with people in a profession called content moderators judging whether information is appropriate or inappropriate.
• Hyper-Reproduced Space: A virtual space created using DECO's VR function. Not only visual information from DECO, but also hearing, smell, taste, and touch can be reproduced. The citizens of Tom Sawyer attend school classes and work through the hyper-reproduced space, so they do not have to go to the actual place.
• 0 (Zero) Phenomenon: A "Love" disappearance incident spreading across Tom Sawyer Island. This is a phenomenon in which all "Love" in the surrounding area is forcibly reduced to 0, and it is rumored that a mysterious entity called "Phantom 0" is responsible.

subtitle

The subtitles and broadcast dates for each episode are as follows:

• #1: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2022/07/03)
• #2: Mysterious Stranger (2022/07/10)
• #3: Rigged Trial (2022/07/17)
• #4: Ghost Detectives (2022/07/24)
• #5: Chasing the Lying Nue (2022/07/31)
• #6: Smiley's Jumping Lost (2022/08/07)
• #7: The Inhuman Food Stall (2022/08/14)
• #8: Reach for Heaven! (2022/08/21)
• #9: Burning Brand (2022/08/28)
• #10: Two Fathoms to Heaven? (2022/09/04)
• #11: Fate Changes Twice (2022/09/11)
• #12: The Best Secret Place (2022/09/18)

Theme songs and music

The theme songs and insert songs for this work are as follows.

• OP1: "1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 LOVE" (Yotta Love)
• Lyricist: Mito
• Composer: Mito
• Arrangement: DE DE MOUSE
• Vocals: Clammbon
• ED1: "I'm in love"
• Lyrics: PC Music Club
• Composed by: PC Music Club
• Sung by: Berry (Kawakatsu Mirai), Hack (Nagase Anna)
• IN1: "When we laugh together"
• Lyrics: MCU, Takeshi Yoshimura
• Composer: Takeshi Yomura
• Arrangement: Takeshi Yomura
• Sung by: YMCK, MCU
• IN2: "Utopia"
• Lyricist: Mito
• Composer: Mito
• Arrangement: Mito
• Vocals: Clammbon

Broadcast information

"Ghost Deco" was broadcast on the following stations:

• TOKYO MX: July 3, 2022 to September 18, 2022 (Every Sunday 23:00-23:30)
• BS Nippon Television: July 5, 2022 to September 20, 2022 (every Tuesday from 0:30 to 1:00)
• Mainichi Broadcasting System: July 6, 2022 to September 21, 2022 (every Wednesday 3:30 to 4:00)

In addition, the film was available for unlimited viewing on the following online streaming services:

• Amazon Prime Video: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Animehodai: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• ABEMA Premium: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• FOD: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• MBS Videoism: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• au Smart Pass Premium: From July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• GYAO! Store: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• J:COM On Demand: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• TELASA: From July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• d Anime Store: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• dTV: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Niconico Channel: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• HAPPY! Video: From July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Bandai Channel: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Hikari TV: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Video Market: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Hulu: From July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• music.jp: From July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• milplus: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• U-NEXT: July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)
• Rakuten TV: From July 3, 2022 (Updated every Sunday from 23:30)

Ratings and Recommendations

"Ghost Deco" is a new type of anime set in a near-future information society. It depicts a life where people move between the real and virtual worlds through a visual information device called "Deco," and the story is fascinating as it follows the mystery of people's mutual evaluations through the evaluation coefficient "Love" and the disappearance of "Love," also known as the "0 phenomenon."

The greatest appeal of this work is the unique characters and their growth. The main character, Berry, grows as a member of the Ghost Detectives while struggling to collect "love". The backgrounds and relationships of each character, such as Hack, a genius hacker, and Finn, the leader of the Ghost Detectives, are depicted in depth. Also, the process in which the members of the Ghost Detectives work together to solve cases is worth watching.

Don't miss the worldview that skillfully incorporates near-future technology, such as the visual information device "DECO" and ultra-recreated spaces. The way people share information and live their lives through DECO is reminiscent of modern social media and VR technology, giving viewers a sense of the real future. In addition, the story that follows the mystery of the "0 Phenomenon," the disappearance of "Love," depicts the darkness behind society and people's desires, raising deep themes.

The music is also one of the charms of this work. The opening theme "1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 LOVE" by Clammbon has a futuristic melody and impressive lyrics that enhance the worldview of the work. In addition, the ending theme "I'm in Love" by Berry and Hack is a song that symbolizes the relationship and growth of the two characters.

"Ghost Deco" is a groundbreaking anime set in a near-future information society, with a storyline that depicts the growth of unique characters and deep themes. Don't miss the worldview that skillfully incorporates future technology, such as the visual information device "Deco" and ultra-recreated spaces. The music also enhances the appeal of the work, making it a worthwhile watch throughout. This work is recommended for those who are interested in near-future society and technology, and those who want to enjoy unique characters and a deep storyline.