Created by Koichi Mashimo with character design from Yoshiyuki Sadamoto of Evangelion.

Internet and online games can take a person who wants to escape reality and the world around him/her. This series explores that world and shows that it can be used to sever social human ties or could be used as building blocks for there of.

When Pluto's Kiss ( a computer virus) sweeps across causing a 77 minute long massive Internet shutdown the world goes into catastrophe. Two years later when access to networks comes back the computer game "The World" is distributed by the CC Corporation. The first online game since the shutdown. It is there where the story takes place with outstanding AI and environments.