The first three episodes hook you with pure stylistic violence and a soundtrack that sounds like a industrial club caught fire. After that, the story collapses into incomprehensible plot threads that the source material fans still argue about. If you're here for brutal fight choreography and synth-heavy atmosphere, you get exactly that; if you need narrative coherence, this isn't your show.
Japan lies divided in two after a devastating third world war, and the ruined city of Toshima, once Tokyo, has fallen into lawlessness. A criminal organization called Vischio controls the city and runs Igura, a bloody battle game fought in its back alleys. Akira, a young man cut off from his family, is known as unbeatable at Bl@ster, a rival fighting game that bans weapons and killing. Then he is falsely accused of murder and arrested. A mysterious woman named Emma offers him a way out: enter Igura and defeat its strongest fighter, the king known as Il-re. To win back his freedom, Akira must survive the harsh streets of Toshima while trying to make sense of the mysteries unfolding around him. The action and sci-fi series adapts a boys love visual novel from Nitro+chiral.
