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Me before watching: "What the hell does '*Dead Account'* mean?"

Me 30 seconds in: "Oh."

I suppose this is what keyboard warriors actually look like.

This wasn’t half bad. General premise is pretty unique and the MC seems ok. This feels like it won’t be quite Dark Gathering levels of creepy but just scary enough to make the ghosts feel eerie. It also looks like it’ll have a healthy dose of action which is nice.

It's amazing how I don't watch the supernatural genre and as an anime only I have no idea of the original source material and already I feel as though I've seen this exact premise done a million times better a million times before. Putting aside the obvious Bleach comparisons, even I think the usage of social media is cool, we've seen this premise, this protagonist and this sort of supernatural battles done better before.

The MC is likable enough and the ending, while familiar, does really feel emotionally nice but the lackluster production quality isn't doing this show any favors. I may keep watching but I suspect I'll drop this. No offense to the production team.

If we think about it, the premise of this title is quite accurate. A lot of us, including myself, are glued to our phones these days. Whenever I glance around when riding a bus or train, I can safely say at least 70% of commuters are looking at their phones.

Phones are definitely an object humans have grown far too attached to.

He could be the new tank of their group, he can use his rage bait powers to aggro the enemy towards him.

Since the invention of smartphones I've been collecting shit on different accounts, I still have my original google, yahoo and hotmail (now outlook) accounts used as basically online storage to their cloud services.

I often think what would happen to the stuff, some time ago watched some anime that had MC asking the deity talking to him about reincarnating or something to do something about his "stuff" at home lol. Google has some "no activity" switch or something that would delete the account, supposedly.

Watching this anime I couldn't help to wonder what the "monster" from my phone could be lol. I just hope that when the day comes I can have the chance to delete my shit.

Came here expecting a show about some internet troll making rage bait videos, and instead got Blue Exorcist 2! Lol.

Blue hair with headband + can see ghost?


Yes, I can recognise Toritsuka Reita even in other anime.

A bit generic shonen but I will stick with it for now, hope it will disappoint like Tougen Anki.

So, the rise of smartphones and technology in general has led to ghosts becoming attached to them? This is really creative.

I was about to call the protagonist a psychopath, but I believe he might find redemption while in this academy.

The other characters seem quirky and interesting; this show has hooked me, I intend to continue watching

Sadly, we're in an era where people will watch the first episode of battle shonen, compare it to some big names (even if it is only partially similar) and then be like "I've seen and know exactly where this is going" so if battle shonen doesn't bombard the viewers with a sakuga fes in the first episode or two, the chance of catching huge viewership would be abysmally low.

The concept of smartphones being a lingering place for ghosts in this era is pretty cool tho and MC's power being a fire because he's a flamebaiter kick streamer is kinda funny, I guess the black hair guy is a group admin or something because he uses a ban hammer?

I'll keep an eye on this for now.

Where is this streaming?

Well, pretty nice adaptation of first chapter with nice direction. By studio alone I knew we will get just normal animation but I'm fine with it. Dead Account is a small Weekly Shounen Magazine series not gigantic WSJ battle manga that is read by millions so of course it's like that. Still this short fight looked nice. Seeing as MAR was great adaptation I won't be worrying about it. Opening and ending are pretty cool. Beside that amazing cast of seiyuu and it's great to hear Okamoto as an MC again, it's been a year since last Blue Exorcist season\^\^ Like always amazing work and him sounding like Rin fits here. Souji has a bit similar personality :D

Anyway as if you will like it or not. I can't say much beside that after a bit I couldn't stop reading. I would as well not call it generic.

Jujutsu kaisen Episode 1 copy paste
- dead relative
- dude same age showing up on mission
- failing spectacularly making basic mistakes
- awakening power
- now gotta attend school

I like Real Account better than this one (doesn't have an anime yet)

Random Thoughts

First off, I got to say the idea that "dead accounts" can somehow spawn digital ghosts is pretty brilliant.

I just kind of wish it was being used in a more conventional spooky/horror anime. Because the rest of it sort of feels like a generic exorcism-flavored battle shonen. with some err cringy lines. Banhammer? lol.

I'll give it a few more episodes and see if it's able to exploit the horror angle more or not.

Oooof I got bored so bad , I had expectations.

I'm an anime only on this one, but I just gotta say I'd really fuck with this pitch if it was for a horror anime, though I can tell this show's probably not gonna lean into that. I'll give it a couple more episodes to see where it goes, though.

Heartbreaking but very classic old school bleach type..power awakens in modern word..no isekai or fantasy world here it looks

OK this is a unique take on modern supernatural entity.

Did anyone else think the episode was kind of sad? Like, I really felt for the MC when I saw how bad his sister's death had affected his mentality. I mean, it was to the point he genuinely believed he was speaking with her and was even reluctant to let the other guy finish off the ghost of his sister.

Thought this was gonna be about him going to haunted spots and beating up ghosts on stream and now I'm pretty disappointed.

Sister dying right away also removes any stakes it could've had.

Ok his sister dying was what I thought happened the moment they said he quit a month ago even before he eyed over at what looked like a covered shrine, but then he got the text and I thought the shrine was for like their parents they never met or some shit. But that makes sense, he's delusional... or supernaturally haunted?, considering the opening of the show?

Bro why was she bleeding out of her eyes. More importantly why would they let him see the bloody cloth covering her face like that, that's standard stuff as a doctor/hospital worker to not make things unnecessarily traumatic for family members?

> Banhammer of Civility

Pffft

Lmfao did he shout Political Lynch

Yea that's definitely a 'don't think those words actually mean what you think they mean, JP-speaking author' moment

> You're not the only one going through this

That's sometimes a good point to make but he never claimed or acted like he was the only one suffering from losing a family member bro

RIP cute sister

That smartphone doing its Nokia ancestors proud by taking a full sledgehammer blow though (even if it needed a dead sister haunting it to do it)

I thought this was going to follow the same premise as that korean street fighter who also live streams his fights to earn money for his mom's hospital fees, wasn't expecting the supernatural turn, anyways I'm interested with the concept of fighting digital ghosts.

Decent first episode, think I’ll stick with this for now!

Is this actually a good interesting show or is it a generic shounen battle anime?

I have to honest here, as someone who hates nuisance streamers and ragebaiting content creators, I already don't like Soji. I don't care that he was making videos to pay for his sister's medical bills, that doesn't make it okay for him to be a public/social media nuisance, and his dying sister would hardly garner sympathy from me.

He said that he was doing it for his sister, but I highly doubt that she would've been okay if she found out that her brother was going around being a online nuisance, while claiming that it's for her sake.

On a related-note, apparently MyuTube has very lenient Community Guidelines and ToS. Not only was Soji still monetized, he didn't get his account removed.

I think it's a good show with new type of concept

The description says this is a show where they try to get you to sympathize with rage baiters?

Typical start for battle shonens where our protagonist got his power, a basic introduction to the world and the settings, the protagonist then joins some kind of "org" or "school" (either willingly or forced) and we go from here, nothing out of the usual, and its the subsequent development and expanding the story that will determine how good this will be

Super cheesy. Will this be a battle anime with an internet troll mc, fighting digital ghosts. For a moment there I thought they'd copy Nezuko from demon slayer with the sister becoming a friendly ghost but nope. I'll give this a few more episodes to see if it has promise beyond the legion of tropes we just watched.

No wonder the intro monologue felt so much like Hanako-kun was narrating about Seven Wonders again, [Megumi Ogata is credited in the credits.](https://i.imgur.com/g9GqXxy.png)

Anime-only here, maybe it's just a small one-off role that no anime site like MAL or AL have her listed as cast.

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Yea it had a pretty typical exorcism battle shounen first episode, but I think this premise has the potential to explore some pretty interesting themes about how much of our lives are attached to or even reliant on social media and the like. Basically, this could be battle shounen Black Mirror! /j

Well, I'll give it a few episodes from here to see if it actually takes advantage of its premise

That was just bleach and I’m ok with that

The new Tougen Anki

Is this Bleach with a nuisance streamer as the MC?

A lot of the usual shounen tropes and gimmicks make this seem generic, even if I like the premise. Feels like they could be doing something more unique with this.

Ao no Exorcist but using Smartphone to exorcise digital ghosts

Kind of disturbing but an interesting premise. I did wonder though why Aoringo felt he had to exorcise his sister. There probably is a reason that she might end up being dangerous and its better to go to the land of the dead but I don't think most people would do that with a loved one, especially if they didn't understand exactly what was going on.

God that was really sad. 

We have Johnny Somali joining a modern day Demon Slayer Corps/Soul Society here

I want an explanation from who is administrating servers, like you see accounts active with no ip traces and you do nothing? Also on this anime the protagonist doesn't have any computer knowledge at all....

It's obvious the author needed a gimmick for his generic shounen and went with online streamer.

Knowing nothing going in this show took a HARD left turn to dark mid way through. good episode though.

I like the concept of dead accounts spawning supernatural entities. Reminds me of the VTuber arc in *Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi*. Hoping the story will lean into the title and explore the various backstories of dead accounts and the entities that spawn.

Wow that got way darker than I expected! I really love MC and black haired exorcist already. I think this anime may already kind of hit home for some people. The dead accounts are spirits of course. We basically do already have people in real life who are using AI to act like people recently died though. I remember an ad for a company doing a service like that recently, and I can imagine some people may go kind of crazy like MC did here

I like this but I'm kinda tired of every shonen MC having fire as power...

Tougen anki had 8 elements and they gave Shiki fire as well, this one is also fire, most anime love using fire as the most badass...

Can't we have like earth, wind, ice, thunder, light or whatever being the choice?

Anyway, this feels like it could be fun

Episode starts with MC gloating at the views and raging generated by his youtube video of him ambushing and beating the living crap out of an innocent person. It ends with him re-killing his poor undead sister. Yeah, I don't think I'll keep watching.

To be brutally honest, I can see how this show might slip under the radar for most people as the mere synopsis alone has a similar premise to Jujutsu Kaisen, which just so happens to be a massively popular show that is airing in the same season. In fact, I even found myself drawing similarities while I was watching this episode. However, while I do think that comparing the two series is somewhat inevitable, I don't think that it necessarily makes Dead Account redundant.

Based on first impressions alone, Dead Account seems to be a series that places a little more emphasis on the reasons as to why each digitized ghost exists and what each digitized ghost wants to accomplish. Akari's digitized ghost manifested due to Souji's reluctance to accept her death, which bound her to this world. That is the why. Because she was always worried about Souji's inability to lead a healthy lifestyle and wanted to keep looking after him, it led her to take a warped approach by wanting to kill him, thereby being together even in death. That is the what. The approach of having personalized backstories and character motivation for every digitized ghost that appears in the story is something that is unique from Jujutsu Kaisen.

This is the same concept as vengeful cursed spirits in Jujutsu Kaisen, but most cursed spirits in the series aren't vengeful cursed sprits. They simply exist and will continue to exist as a result of humanity's collective negative emotions. As such, we already know why cursed spirits exist. What each cursed spirit wants to accomplish is something that differs depending on their personality and beliefs, especially so for the major named cursed spirits, but it can be broadly summed up to "destroying humanity" or "replacing humanity" or "protecting ourselves from humanity". In other words, they are most definitely against the existence of humanity. As a result, when sorcerers exorcise cursed spirits, it does not invoke sadness nor remorse as we have categorized cursed spirits as clear entities that are evil and need to be eliminated in the story.

In retrospect, I can see the exorcism of every digitized ghost that appears in the story to be something personal and emotional. Now I could be spit balling here, and it can still turn out to be something incredibly cliche, but as it stands, these are just my two cents based off of first impressions. After all, it's much better to keep a positive mindset for choosing to spend our time watching a show, and if it isn't something that quite meets our expectation, then we can simply drop it.

The idea of exorcising "digitized ghosts" using spiritual power via smartphones is quite an interesting twist. It's a simple change no doubt, but I have to acknowledge the creator's effort to at least offer something new to the genre and it does pique my interest in how this entire phenomenon actually works in the story. My only question is what happens if the smartphone of an awakened gets damaged or lost? Do they lose the ability to use their spiritual power?

So uhh it was kinda wierd that he just randomly decided to exorcise his own sister? Like what the other guy told him was like some basic bitch cheer up words.

Specially since he does NOT leave anyone behind, he literally said his sister was his only family, and he didn't have friends.

I don't see why he changes tone and decided not to die with his sister.

Honestly, an interesting premise. Dead accounts ending up something that harbor ghosts and there are people who can exorcise them by summoning digital exorcism tools.. wow!

I really thought Akari would get to live after everything that Souji did.. 💔

Animation was not bad but could do better to make the source material shine.

Hey guys, I just finished watchinig ep. 1 but I cried watching it. I am wondering if that is really going to happen to our loved ones if we keep denying their death? I have been denying too. Man...Is this normal?

Oh, hi, Hanako-kun, when it's the next anime season?

Even though this is about digital ghosts or spirits, it's still quite scary (also made me wonder if there's one around me), especially if you watch it at midnight, and everything is dark except for the light from your laptop.

Ahem, so... this is something like Dark Gathering and Mieruko-chan, huh? Well, I'll surely like it since we got Asta here, and also Kyoujuro, or more like Enjin-san 😂 The other characters, I can't think of any other similar characters to their looks at the moment, my brain cannot think of one for now. Maybe later.

Anyway, looking forward to the next episode!

Damn. Very 1st episode was a tear-jerker.
I mean 1st spirit/ghost he has to purge is that if his sister. I mean damn, that is hitting below the belt there.
It is extremely obvious he cared for her immensely.

I felt like I was watching a rendition of bleach

ExCUSE me why did they have to go and do that to my heart???? I was fully prepared for his sister to get better not be FUCKING DEAD. this show surprised me. Im very much intrigued by the concept. I really enjoy most exorcist type shows and love the idea of an updated version. Makes so much sense. Also love the heavy line art.

Okamoto Nobuhiko voicing another character with blue flames lol. The concept of this is interesting but this wasn't as entertaining as I thought it'd be. It's only the first episode so I hope it'll become more interesting.

The exorcism was sad, I'm glad Souji's last memory of Akari was more of herself than the ghost.

The ED made me think of Tougen Anki's ED lol.