Scripted series · Nippon TV
AKIBA LOST
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How AKIBA LOST actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
AKIBA LOST reads strongest on Cliffhanger Intensity, Tension and Serialized.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
Thirteen years after six girls mysteriously vanished in Akihabara, a live-action game recreating the case blurs into reality when six new women are cast, raising the question of whether AKIBA LOST can ever be completed.
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