“Streamer Miko enters a deadly VR beta to save her comatose friend, battling cosmic horrors for a wish and humanity's survival.”
Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show
ネクロノミ子のコズミックホラーショウ
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Synopsis
Streamer Miko enters a deadly VR beta to save her comatose friend, battling cosmic horrors for a wish and humanity's survival.
Miko Kurono, a small-time streamer known as “Necronomico,” ekes out a living broadcasting games to a modest audience. When her best friend and fellow streamer Mayu Mayusaka suddenly falls into an unexplained coma—one of several popular creators afflicted—Miko quietly shoulders the mounting hospital bills. An offer arrives: take part in a hush-hush beta for an experimental VR title with a payout big enough to erase her debts. Miko logs in, expecting a routine gig, only to find herself and six other streamers trapped inside a lavishly rendered nightmare. The program’s architects are ancient, malevolent entities that call themselves the Old Ones, and they’ve turned the simulation into a lethal spectacle where every cleared stage tightens their grip on the real world. Armed with her wits, a growing subscriber count, and the hope of rescuing Mayu, Miko must survive round after round of cosmic horrors. Each victory inches her closer to a promised reward—one wish, no limits—but failure carries a price measured in more than just lost lives. The stream is live, the audience is watching, and the countdown to humanity’s final curtain has already begun.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.17 · some divergence
3.2 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.8
↑ 0.56
Running avg · Jul 2025 → Mar 2026
- 7 “My personal criteria goes as such: brush and easy to anger girl protagonist, check. Majorly female main cast, check. Loads of nasty examples of human character which anger me to no end but also...”
- 4 “This is an ongoing show that I dropped. The plot is very unrealistic. But this is an anime . So even if I suspend my disbelief and accept this VR game for what it is, I am put-off by other things....”
- 4 “So it's another game oriented anime this season! And i watched most of these last year. Comparing it to simmilar recent titles like "Liar Liar" and "Kami wa game" it's also has this same...”
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- Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2025 – Sep 2025 Summer 2025
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-27700 catalog
Produced by
- Tokyo MX Producer
- Miracle Bus Producer
- Kansai Telecasting Producer
- U-NEXT Producer
- Cygames Producer
- BS NTV Producer
- dugout Producer
- arma bianca Producer
- Daito Giken Producer
- Happinet Media Marketing Producer