The first-ever collaboration between Sunrise and SHAFT has
a name, it has a history and it has a date. Fool Night, Kasumi
Yasuda's dystopia published in Big Comic Superior, was
confirmed as that joint project during the Annecy International
Animation Festival 2026 in France, with an exclusive premiere on Netflix worldwide
in 2026. The announcement came with a promotional image, teaser,
main cast and production team confirmed.
The story takes place on a future Earth covered
by dense clouds where most of the plant life has disappeared, generating a
severe shortage of oxygen. Humanity survives thanks to a technology
called Transfloration, which turns near-death people into
oxygen-generating plants. The protagonist, Toshiro Kamiya, is a
young man trapped in poverty who faces a life-changing choice: to continue
living as a human or to start a new existence as a plant.
The promotional image shows Toshiro on a train
with a person in the process of Transflowering, contrasting a field of vibrant
flowers with a menacing sky. The teaser offers the first images of characters
struggling to survive in that environment and of humans whose transformation is
already well advanced.
The Production Team
The direction is in charge of Atsuyuki
Yukawa, with credits in Suzume. The series is composed by Jin
Tanaka, known as Oshi no Ko. The sound direction is by Yota
Tsuruoka, responsible for the sound of A Silent Voice. The
music is composed by Tatsuya Kato, known as Dr. STONE. The
co-production is between Sunrise and SHAFT.
Yasuda created this commemorative image to celebrate
the announcement:
About Fool Night
Fool Night is a manga by Kasumi Yasuda published
in Big Comic Superior that has twelve volumes collected and
approximately 600,000 copies in circulation worldwide in
physical and digital editions, with releases in 17 countries and regions. The
series received recognition at the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023
and the Best Suspense Award at the Japan Expo Awards that same
year. Yasuda explained that the concept was born from imagining houseplants in
a sterile office, an image that grew organically into this story. For the
anime, the author expressed her hope that the adaptation will help even more
people discover the speculative science fiction world she built.
