Details
- Episodes:12
- Format:TV
- Average Score:50
- Popularity:2531
- Status:Finished Airing
- Season:Fall 2017
- Duration:23 min. per ep. minutes
- Genre:School, Psychological
- Country:CN
Severe internet addiction has become an epidemic infecting the nation's youth, ultimately resulting in their extreme dependence on the world wide web. Those who are too far gone are enrolled at Elite Reeducation Academy in order to help them grow into successful adults. Hibiki is one such teenager who awakens in the facility unaware of how he came to be there. He learns from the head instructor that he was knocked out and brought to the school at his mother's behest, concerned with how belligerent her son was becoming as a result of his internet addiction. Stuck in a place more akin to a prison than an academy, and with no escape from the abuses of the instructors, Hibiki decides to end his life by jumping from the roof. But as fate would have it, he meets a mysterious man named Shin who promises to give his life meaning... [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Episodes
1. Standing on the Edge of Despair
The young man Hibiki, who suffers from severe internet addiction, is forcibly enrolled by his mother in Elite Reeducation Academy. After suffering terrible treatment at the hands of the instructors there, Hibiki heads for the school roof to commit suicide. But he`s stopped by a mysterious stranger, who makes him a proposition... Source: crunchyroll
2. Between Cruelty and Kindness
Shin and Hibiki witness discipline officer Wudo attacking a female student named Jun over a contraband cell phone. When Shiori intervenes, Hibiki attempts to aid her, but gets beaten for his troubles. Later, Jun and Shiori both vie for the cell phone, but Shin will only hand it over to the woman who agrees to his proposal... Source: crunchyroll
3. Short-Sighted Justice
Hibiki refuses to become Shin`s dog, then eads to his dorm room. He receives a warm welcome there from the dorm head and his roommates. But the minute they realize Hibiki isn`t connected to Shin, their attitudes change... Source: crunchyroll
4. Walking a Thorny Path
In order to help his roommates, Hibiki resists Head Instructor Shian, but Shiori tells him to apologize. When Hibiki throws her off, the cell phone she`s been hiding falls out of her pocket. Hibiki then learns that everyone in his class is to be punished for his actions, and he finally makes up his mind to act... Source: crunchyroll
5. Their Parting of the Ways
When Wudo is thrown into solitary confinement, Instructor Ryo grills him over the location of Jun's cell phone, then goes to see Shin. Meanwhile, Shiori meets the sisters Akane and Hoku. And Hibiki seeks the help of his classmates for Shin's next target...
6. Further Into Darkness
Seeking the cell phones that Wudo was smuggling, Akane and her team threaten Hibiki, the one who caused his downfall. Shin appears, then runs with Hibiki to the boys` bathroom. And when the girls follow... Source: crunchyroll
7. A Decision at Rock Bottom
As a former narcotics invesgitator, Shian once watched his entire team die as the result of his cowardice. As the sole survivor, Shian took it upon himself to help the wife and children of his old partner Kai, but what he found instead was a broken family. Meanwhile, Hibiki is locked away in solitary confinement... Source: crunchyroll
8. Budding
Hibiki, having been released from solitary confinement, returns to the school with a new mission. He proposes a way to work with the Hoku, Shiori, and Akane, and soon, the girls` class is challenging the newcomer boys to a sparring match... Source: crunchyroll
9. Evil Descending
To cement Shian`s trust and his leadership over class four, Hibiki issues a challenge to Yoh. Source: crunchyroll
10. Secrets to Be Hidden
Hibiki is curious about why Shin isn`t coming after him, following his defeat of Yoh. Shiori, also wondering why they haven`t seen Shin for a while, asks Akane and Hoku about it. Meanwhile, mystery man Hyo arrives at the school on the order of Shin`s older brother, beats up Shian, and declares that he`ll be supervising the students in his place. Source: crunchyroll
11. The Icy Wall of Despair
After her mother and father died, Shiori and her little brother Shu were taken in by their uncle. Soon after, Shu was hospitalized with a hereditary disease, and Shiori was sent to the school as punishment for fighting back against her uncle`s abuse. Meanwhile, Hibiki has taken over leadership of class four, and Hyo appears before him, to make him an offer he cannot refuse. Source: crunchyroll
12. Evil or Live
Shin asked his father to let him attend the school his brother finances so that he could take revenge on his brother and Hyo, who murdered his mother with a drug overdose. At the school, having earned Hyo`s trust, Hibiki becomes the new student council president, and gets the abused students on his side. Soon after, reporters who have learned about the school from Internet news postings come there to ask questions. It turns out Akane, who escaped from the school with Moku, Hoku, and Shiori, managed to upload the truth about the school... Source: crunchyroll
