Netflix Reveals Fool Night Teaser From Sunrise and SHAFT
Netflix has unveiled the teaser for Fool Night, an anime adaptation of Kasumi Yasuda’s dystopian manga, arriving in 2026.
Announced during Netflix’s Anime Studio Focus at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the series is the first collaborative anime project from Sunrise and SHAFT—bringing together two of Japan’s celebrated studios for Yasuda’s story of survival in a world without sunlight.
A Future Built on Desperation
Set a century after thick clouds have blotted out the sun, Fool Night imagines an Earth locked in permanent winter and darkness. As plant life dies off and oxygen becomes scarce, humanity turns to “Transfloration,” a procedure that implants seeds in people close to death and transforms them into plants capable of producing the air society now depends on.
At the center is Toshiro Kamiya, a young man struggling through poverty while supporting his mother and paying for her medication. With his life becoming harder to sustain, Toshiro chooses to undergo the procedure himself, becoming one of the human-turned plants known as Spiriflora. The decision pulls him into a strange new existence, with questions of dignity, survival, and what makes a life worth living at its center.
The teaser introduces a bleak, overcast world, alongside its blend of decaying urban spaces, scientific infrastructure, and fragile botanical life. Koki Uchiyama voices Toshiro, while Minako Kotobuki joins him as Yomiko Horai, his childhood friend and a worker at the Transflora Medical.
Atsushi Yukawa directs Fool Night, with Jin Tanaka handling series composition, Robert Sato on character designs, Yota Tsuruoka as sound director, and Tatsuya Kato composing the music. The manga remains serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior, with VIZ Media publishing it in English.
Netflix has not announced a premiere date, but Fool Night is set to stream exclusively on the platform later this year.
