A man in a faded business suit sat down across from him. He wasn’t looking at Leo. He was looking at the phone. Or rather, through it.
Leo stared at his phone. The final episode of Starlight Reverie was no longer his. But for the first time, he realized the show he was really in had just begun. He pocketed the phone and stood up. download from crunchyroll
Leo looked at the download. At the man’s hollow eyes. At the other passengers, all staring blankly at their own screens, probably downloading their own forbidden treasures. A man in a faded business suit sat down across from him
Shinjuku was three stops away.
He made a slicing motion across his own throat. Or rather, through it
Leo felt a cold knot in his stomach. He’d heard rumors. The Great Wipe. When the rights to almost every anime from the 2020s had reverted to a dozen different ghost companies. The only copies that survived were the ones people had downloaded before the purge.