Netflix’s New 12-Part Sci-Fi Mystery Already Feels Like a Masterpiece Just 3 Episodes In

Netflix’s anime *Fool Night* imagines a world where the sun has disappeared and oxygen is running short. Its unsettling premise follows humanity’s response: terminally ill volunteers are transformed into plants, raising questions about survival and the cost of adapting to catastrophe.

The 12-episode series is based on Kasumi Yasuda’s manga and directed by Atsuyuki Yukawa, in a collaboration between Sunrise and Shaft. The reviewer saw only the first three episodes, which build the world through intimate character stories and striking images of “spiritflor”: people whose bodies grow into oxygen-producing plants over two years after a seed is implanted in exchange for 10 million yen.