“Genius teen uses omniscient search app to solve brother's disappearance, uncovering global smartphone conspiracy.”
Super Smartphone
すごいスマホ
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Synopsis
Genius teen uses omniscient search app to solve brother's disappearance, uncovering global smartphone conspiracy.
Googugu is a mysterious new app that can search for information, but unlike other popular search engines, Googugu can search through all information that exists on Earth, including confidential government documents and even people's journal entries. With great power comes great limitations though, as Googugu can only be used on a tiny device known as a "super smartphone." First-year high school student Kyuu "Q" Sagurada happens to be an owner of one such device by chance. Though he is academically brilliant, Q strives to barely pass all of his courses by turning every test into a game, much to the ire of his childhood friend Yuika Noumaru. His behavior stems back to an incident seven years prior, when his younger brother, Shuu, disappeared without a trace. Despite the police's best efforts, they were never able to solve the case. Realizing that his new smartphone has the potential to crack his younger brother's cold case, he attempts to search for it, only to see that any relevant information is locked. Now, Q must utilize the super smartphone more and collect "Googugu Points" in order to access the information. But as he continues to use the device, he realizes that he may not be the only super smartphone user out there, and the others could be manipulating the world as he knows it.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 readers settled on.
Strong agreement
σ 1.10 · scores cluster tight
3.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 4.0
↓ 1.00
Running avg · May 2022 → Jul 2023
- 7 “A new death note caliber manga? I don't think so. Despite it only has 2 chapters up until now and has similar idea of a story with the magical thing that the protagonist owned, I don't think it...”
- 7 “TLDR: Death Note 2.0 ?!?!!!, lots of potential, fairly interesting - keep an eye on it Another review said "The protagonist feels like he was made specifically to rake in pseudo-intellectuals who...”
- 6 “When Super Smartphone began I was interested, but not hooked. I only kept up for a month or two and then dropped it. The premise sounded cool, but wasn't used in a way that kept me reading weekly....”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 24 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 12m approx
- Published May 2022 – Oct 2022
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M62585 catalog