Yurei Deco

In the cyber city Tom Sawyer, society revolves around earning "Love," akin to receiving likes on social media. Citizens of this augmented reality exchange Love for public services and appearance-changing avatars via the Decoration Customizer, also known as "Deco," a hologram device implanted in an individual's eyes from early childhood. Under the government's careful management, the people of Tom Sawyer live a peaceful existence, outside the occasional appearance of Phantom Zero, a mysterious criminal who brings all Love to zero within their vicinity.

Berry, a mischievous girl fascinated by Phantom Zero, lives comfortably in the system of Tom Sawyer until her Deco malfunctions, enabling her to see a camouflaged prankster named Hack. Believing Hack to be Phantom Zero, Berry chases after the suspect and, in the process, begins to uncover society's most well-kept secrets. As it turns out, Hack is not the only person living outside the system's rules—and the vibrant colors of Tom Sawyer hide a darker nature.

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Hack

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Nagase, Anna
Japanese

Berry

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Kawakatsu, Mira
Japanese

Finn

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Irino, Miyu
Japanese

Hank

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Satou, Setsuji
Japanese

Smiley

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Kugimiya, Rie
Japanese

Madam 44

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Sadaoka, Sayuri
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Phantom Zero

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Gankai

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Mitsumame

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Analytica

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Cao, Cong

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Kim, Lili

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Tomita, Shizuka

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Shimoyama, Tomohisa

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"1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 LOVE" by Clammbon

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"I'm in Love (あいむいんらぶ)" by Hack'nBerry

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Sep 19, 2022

KaiKEKz

Recommended

It's kinda sad to see Yurei Deco kinda underrated, because it's pretty impressive, atleast for me personaly.

Despite how it cartoony looks, the overall art of it still looks so dang good, the soundtracks dope, and most importantly the messages that author want to deliver actually pretty deep.

The story kinda reminds me about how evil Facebook Community Standard is.
The Show itself trying to show what really happen in this current digital era where Illusory Truth Effect, Privacy Violations, and, States Censorship made us live in a bubble, and made us forget how reality looks like.

This series really deserves more audiences.

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Sep 18, 2022

Mcsuper

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

If I were to describe this series, I’d describe it as a mixture of Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One”, and George Orwell’s “1984”, but in a very kid-friendly sense. It tackles themes of a futuristic world of augmented reality and information control, and in a sense, it almost has me fearing if this kind of world is what we’ll see in the future.

In a nutshell, Yurei Deco is set in a world filled with advanced technology where people see the world through “Deco”, which is a compulsory piece of equipment for citizens that allows them to see things in augmented reality. The other function of ...

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Sep 18, 2022

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

Recommendation: Skip it.

Yurei Deco is the kind of anime that cultivates an image of being intelligent social commentary, but ultimately is only interested in the trappings of that and has nothing interesting to say. The first thing you'd think upon being introduced to this series is that it's some sort of satire of the metaverse or social media, but this is instead simply a setting for a generic adventure story. It would have been better even with some ham-handed "social media is like a drug, man" Adbusters bullshit, but doesn't even attempt that. The closest thing there is to social commentary is the Orwellian "Customer ... Care Center" censoring inconvenient and harmful information, but the show doesn't even try to engage with the few questions it raises about this and whether or not it's justified. They're never really thematically relevant, just a villain to put our heroes, the Yurei Detective Club, on the run. Likewise, the series extensively references Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but to no apparent end. It's not a retelling of the story in any way and the references appear to be random and pointless. It gestures at a few interesting ideas but has no intention of following through on any of them.

The lack of any message or point to any of this could be forgiven if Berry and Hack's adventures to discover who is behind Phantom Zero were fun and interesting, but this is actually where it falls the shortest. Phantom Zero is not a compelling villain, she mainly just appears and makes everyone's Love (a kind of internet currency) disappear. Most of the series is just aimless, low stakes "mystery of the week" investigations that are even less interesting than Phantom Zero, until they randomly stumble upon the answers to everything while looking for a ramen stand (not joking) during one of them. The reveal of Zero's identity is underwhelming to say the least after being built up as the central mystery of the series. When it's over, all I could think was "what was the point of all this?" Nothing was different, everyone went back to their lives, and the characters didn't even grow.

The characters are consistently a weak point of the series, rarely rising above cardboard cutout status, and tossing out catchphrases like "Love-y!" and "I Love Ai" in lieu of real personalities. They feel artificial and pointlessly quirky. The needless quirkiness extends to the character designs, which are certainly very unique, but not in a good way. To be blunt about it, they look terrible, and the animation is poor overall, which takes the air out of the very few action scenes that threaten to make this adventure entertaining. The result is an overall visual style that's something like neon VFX vomit over misshapen Blue Reflection Ray characters. Whatever Science SARU was going for here, they missed badly.

If I'm looking for positive things to say about it, I'd say the music is pretty good and the OP is very catchy, and there are a handful of individually compelling scenes, like the scene where Berry contemplates deleting her personal data to get her parents released from custody. But these are few and far between, and a few decent points doesn't add enough to this series to even bring it up to average. Overall, it's a forgettable and disappointing sci fi "adventure" with an uninteresting destination and no reason to exist beyond being a failed experiment in developing a unique visual identity.

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