Yoshiaki Kawajiri animates noir like he's painting in shadow and neon, every frame built to make you feel the weight of a detective who gave up his eye to see everything. The microscopic tech stuffed into that socket isn't just a plot device, it's the visual metaphor made literal, a man so obsessed with truth that he rewired his own skull to chase it. One episode. No filler, no mercy, just a cyberpunk fever dream that knows exactly how long it needs to exist.
Goku Furinji is an ex-cop turned private detective in Tokyo in 2014, a city poised between wealth and the threat of earthquake ruin. While looking into the murder of a colleague from his police days, he ignores pressure from senior officials to back off, and the case costs him his left eye. As he faces death, a mysterious group rescues him and fits him with an artificial eye. The device links to computer networks worldwide and lets him take control of any machine. His work also sets him against arms dealer Genji Hakuryu, since every detective looking into that man has died under suspicious circumstances. Along the way he uncovers modified humans who wield strange powers, and he nearly succumbs to an assassin's hypnotic suggestions.
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