【Live-Action x Suspense】 Truly a live-action movie! Experience a new live-action suspense game fusing zapping sound novel, high-quality movie, and 360° camera direction! AKIBA LOST decided to release!

“What if my own casual choice changed the fate of someone in another place?” What lets you taste the tension starting from such an imagination as a game is the feature-length live-action ensemble drama multi-angle suspense “AKIBA LOST.” The center of the story is an unsolved incident 13 years ago in Akihabara where 6 girls disappeared, commonly known as “Spiriting Away in Akiba.” Hiroki Shinjo, once called a genius creator, declares development of a new work “AKIBA LOST” taking this incident as a subject at an annual game show. However, with that as a turning point, mysterious disappearances occur again. He was supposed to make a game, but before long the boundary between game and reality itself begins to waver. Even with just this disturbing introduction, it makes you want to verify what lies ahead, asking “What happened 13 years ago?”

The women gathered into the story are truly unique as well. Starting with Hiroki's younger sister Aoi Shinjo who works at a maid cafe, Kokone Nagato the underground idol, Moe Kurosu the gourmet writer, Chihiro Jinbo the shrine maiden, Wakana Yusa the cosplayer, and Yukimi Kurahashi the game streamer, a lineup as if reflecting the diverse culture of the city of Akihabara is gathered. And a threatening phone call urging Shinjo “Stop developing the game” arrives, and even Aoi disappears. From here, “AKIBA LOST” comes to not settle with just a story surrounding game development. Can Shinjo complete the work, can he save his companion, and what kind of relation exists between the current incidents and the events 13 years ago? Because multiple mysteries overlap, expectations swell for a structure where, just when thinking you approached one answer, another question floats up.

What particularly catches interest in this work is the character switching system called “ZAPPING.” Rather than following the same timeframe from only one person's perspective, you change operating characters and proceed while verifying events from respective standpoints. Moments when you notice “Behind that scene, such a thing was happening” come out. Furthermore, because decisions made by one person can affect another person, each story seems independent but is actually connected. Even when the story stops, adopting a mechanism capable of moving developments from another character's side via “FREEZE&ACTIVATE.” Changing even deadlocks into the interest of ensemble drama is unique.

When choices are displayed in suspense games, one worries asking “Which should I choose?”, but in “AKIBA LOST” that hesitation seems to become even larger. In the “SELECT” system, the story branches according to the player's judgment, and depending on cases even developments of another character change. In other words, an action that seems correct for the person in front of you holds the possibility of leading to unexpected results in another place. Including even the sense of noticing later “I might have made a mistake in that choice earlier” is likely the suspense of this work. Precisely because determining the final outcome is the player themselves, a sense of ownership that cannot be obtained merely by gazing at videos is born.

What heightens the feeling of immersion further is the combination of high-quality live-action movie and “360°VIEW.” Because you can look around from the eye level of the operating character, the player not only looks at the incident as a third party, but approaches the sensation of a person standing on the spot. Precisely because it is a live-action work, the sense of presence when actors' facial expressions and reality of space are combined with 360-degree viewpoint control catches interest. Personality-rich buddy characters join there as well, enlivening the story from both sides of human relations and mystery solving.

The fun of “AKIBA LOST” lies in the point of incorporating video, choices, character switching, and 360-degree viewpoint control into the structure itself of ensemble suspense, rather than preparing them as separate gimmicks. Whose perspective to look at, what action to choose, from whom to move the stopped story. Through that accumulation, the player themselves builds up the entire picture of the incident. The truth of “Spiriting Away in Akiba” 13 years ago, disappearance incidents started again, and the whereabouts of the game Shinjo is trying to make. When all of those connect into one, what on earth will become visible? Making you think not only “I want to see the next” but “I want to move the next by myself”—there lies the charm unique to “AKIBA LOST.”