At a live conference streamed on Niconico Live, Yamaguchi Yu’s light novel “Arve Rezzle -Kikaijikake no Yoseitachi-” was announced to get an anime adaptation. It will be released next summer.
Cover art of Arve Rezzle
Cover art of the second chapter
Synopsis:
A cyber battle sci-fi. In 2022, the technology of the quantum computing has greatly advanced and many people transfers their mind into the cyber space. Remu’s sister-in-law Shiki skipped grades and entered a high school in an academic city “Okinotori-island Mega Float City (OMFC)” when she was 14. One day, Shiki confessed to her brother via Skype that she was talking to him directly from the cyber space and her real body had been kept in a water tank filled with culture medium. It’s called “Body pool” and Shiki connected to the network by nanomachines implanted in her brain. Remu was surprised but he accepted her decision until the accident called “Early Rupture” happened. The network server got overloaded and the minds of the users were lost in the cyber space leaving soulless living bodies in the Body Pools. In order to bring Shiki’s mind back, Remu visits her apartment in OMFC and there he meets Shiki escaped from the hospital. But the girl tells him that she is not Shiki and she happens to take over Shiki’s body. When Remu tries to figure out the situation, a violent attack strikes the apartment.
Sources: Niconico Live Archive,
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